CrowdConf: 1st Annual Conference on the Future of Distributed Work
Oct. 4, 2010, San Francisco, Calif. at the St. Regis Hotel
Oct. 4, 2010, San Francisco, Calif. at the St. Regis Hotel
We bring together researchers, 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.
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The Event:
CrowdConf brings together researchers, 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.
Confirmed Speakers:
- Sharon Chirella, VP, Amazon Mechanical Turk
- Tim Ferriss , Author, The 4-Hour Work Week
- David Alan Grier , Author, When Computers Were Human
- Barney Pell , Partner, Strategist and Evangelist, Microsoft
- Maynard Webb, CEO, LiveOps
- Jonathan Zittrain , Professor, Harvard
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
We are inviting submissions on all topics regarding crowdsourcing, including:
- 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
Contacts:
Sponsorships/Registration:
Mollie Allick
events@crowdflower.com
Media/PR:
Julie Crabill
press@crowdflower.com
Speaker/Program Ideas:
Aaron Shaw
papers@crowdflower.com
