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Program

Day One

June 15, 2017

8:30 AM — 9:00 AM

Refreshments and Registration

9:00 AM — 9:10 AM

Introductory Remarks

9:10 AM — 10:00 AM

In Conversation With Geoff Mulgan

Geoff Mulgan, Chief Executive Officer, NESTA

10:00 AM — 11:00 AM

Plenary Talks: Citizen / Public Innovation

Darlene Cavalier, Founder, SciStarter

Tom Kalil, Eric and Wendy Schmidt Group

Dana Lewis, Founder, #OpenAPS

11:00 AM — 11:30 AM

Networking and Coffee Break

11:30 AM — 1:00 PM

Parallel Session 1

Extended abstracts of these talks are available

  • Eoin Cullina, Driving Entrepreneurship Through Crowdsourcing in Scientific Research Funding Agencies
  • Thomas Malone, Using Contest Webs to Address the Problem of Global Climate Change
  • Chris Welty, Crowdsourcing Ambiguity-Aware Ground Truth
  • Mark Whiting, Designing A Constitution for a Self-Governing Crowdsourcing Marketplace
  • Andrew Young, Leveraging Corporate Data and Collective Intelligence to Solve Public Problems: Data Collaboratives as Prize-Backed Challenges

Parallel Session 2

1:00 PM — 2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00 PM — 3:00 PM

Plenary Talks: Organizing and Organizations

Mark Ackerman, George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Noshir Contractor, Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University

Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Assistant Professor, NYU Stern School of Business

3:00 PM — 4:00 PM

Poster Session 1

4:00 PM — 5:00 PM

Keynote: R. Luke Dubois and Lauren McCarthy

R. Luke Dubois, Co-Director and Associate Professor of Integrated Digital Media, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Lauren McCarthy, Assistant Professor, UCLA Design Media Arts

Day Two

June 16, 2017

8:30 AM — 9:00 AM

Refreshments and Registration

9:00 AM — 10:30 AM

Plenary Talks: Modeling Intelligence

Bernardo Huberan, Stanford University

Ece Kamar, Researcher, Microsoft Research

Nick Ouellette, Associate Professor, Stanford University

Daniel Weld, Thomas J. Cable / WRF Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellow, University of Washington

10:30 AM — 11:00 AM

Networking and Coffee Break

11:00 AM — 12:30 PM

Parallel Session 3

Extended abstracts of these talks are available

  • Young Ji Kim, More Evidence for a General Collective Intelligence Factor in Human Groups: A Meta-Analysis
  • Pantelis Pipergias Analytis, Diversity of preference can increase collective welfare in sequential exploration problems
  • Emile Servan-Schreiber, Debunking Three Myths About Crowd-Based Forecasting
  • Taranjit Singh, Markets and Media: A Case Study of Crowdsourcing During Election Night

Parallel Session 4

12:30 PM — 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM — 3:00 PM

Parallel Session 5

Extended abstracts of these talks are available

  • Jiye Baek, Using cohort size to promote content contribution: a field experiment on a discussion forum
  • Giuseppe Carbone, Emergence of Collective Intelligence in Human Groups
  • Pamela Hinds, Co-creating innovation: how feedback exchange processes impact upon innovation in a crowdsourcing platform
  • Thomas Malone, Analyzing Group Interactions Using a Technique Developed for Measuring Consciousness
  • Yuko Sakurai, Toward Crowdsourced Mechanism Design

Parallel Session 6

3:00 PM — 4:00 PM

Poster Session 2

4:00 PM — 5:30 PM

Plenary Talks: Government Use of Public / Crowd Participation

Eric Gordon, Professor , Emerson College

Karen Levy, Assistant Professor, Cornell University

Kate Starbird, Assistant Professor, University of Washington

Erin Simpson, Director of Programs, Civic Hall Labs

5:30 PM — 5:45 PM

Closing Remarks