The World's First Conference on the Future of Distributed Work

October 4th, 2010 // St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco

The Event

We bring together researchers, CEOs, technologists, outsourcing experts, legal scholars, and artists to discuss the rapidly democratizing and flattening of the global labor market.

The event includes a series of peer-reviewed presentation tracks, posters, technology demonstrations as well as invited keynote addresses from leaders in crowdsourcing.

The Future of Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is the act of engaging distributed groups of people to complete microtasks or generate information. It represents an expanding sphere of innovation, organization, data collection, and creativity.

Crowdsourcing raises complex questions about the future of work; the technical and organizational infrastructure used to complete large-scale tasks; and the relationships between computers, people, and the networks that connect us.

Topics

• Past, present, and future of crowdsourcing
• Quality assurance and metrics
• Social and economic implications of crowdsourcing
• Task design/Worker incentives
• Innovative projects, experiments, and applications

Confirmed Speakers

• Jason Aiken
  Community Director
  99designs
• Lukas Biewald
  Founder and CEO
  CrowdFlower
• Sharon Chiarella
  Vice President
  Amazon Mechanical Turk
• Tim Ferriss
  Author
  The 4-Hour Work Week
• Heather Gold
  TummelVision.tv
  
  
• David Alan Grier
  Author
  When Computers Were Human
  Professor
  

  George Washington University

• Jeff Howe
  Contributing Editor
  Wired
  
• Leila Chirayath Janah
  Founder and CEO
  Samasource
  
• Keith Kegley
  Vice President
  X PRIZE Foundation
  
• Saad Khan
  Partner
  CMEA Capital
  
• Wolfgang Kitza
  CEO
  clickworker.com
  
• Shelley Kuipers
  President and CEO
  Chaordix
  
• Ethan Kurzweil
  Vice President
  Bessemer Venture Partners
  
• Martijn Lampert
  Research Director
  Motivaction International
  
• Kevin Marks
  TummelVision.tv
  
  
• Patrick McKenna
  Founder and CEO
  Keniks
  
• Ville Miettinen
  CEO
  Microtask
• Wyatt Nordstrom
  Co-Founder and CEO
  Maven Research
• Barney Pell
  Partner, Strategist, and Evangelist
  Microsoft
• Doron Reuveni
  CEO
  uTest
• Fabio Rosati
  President and CEO
  Elance
• Dan Scholnick
  Principal
  Trinity Ventures
• Deborah Schultz
  TummelVision.tv
  
  
• Gary Swart
  CEO
  oDesk
• Maynard Webb
  CEO
  LiveOps
• John Winsor
  CEO
  Victors & Spoils
• Jonathan Zittrain
  Author
  The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It

  Professor
  Harvard

  
  

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