Wednesday November 2nd
8:30 - 8:55
Registration
9:00 - 9:10
David Alan Grier: Author & Professor, George Washington University
9:15 - 9:25
Lukas Biewald: Founder & Chairman, CrowdFlower
9:30 - 9:45
Philip Rosedale: Founder, Second Life & LoveMachine
9:50 - 10:00
Jeff Howe: Author & Professor, Father of Crowdsourcing
Panel: Cloud Labor
10:05 - 10:25
Mike Morris: Senior Vice President, TopCoder
Leah Busque: Founder & Chief Product Officer, TaskRabbit
Lane Becker: Founder & President, Get Satisfaction
Ariel Seidman: CEO & Founder, Gigwalk
Rafe Needleman: Editor, CNET
Solo Talk
10:30 - 10:40
Carl Esposti: Founder, crowdsourcing.org
Morning Break
10:45 - 11:00
Morning Break
Solo Talk
11:05 - 11:15
Mark Gerson: Chairman, Gerson Lehrman Group
Plenary: Investing
11:20 - 11:30
Sharon Wienbar: Managing Director, Scale Venture Partners
Steve Ogunro: Managing Director, Capital Mergers & Acquisitions
Panel: Collective Creativity
11:35 - 12:00
Jason Aiken: Community Director, 99 Designs
Karl Jacob: CEO & Founder, Coveroo
Arpi Mardirossian: Director of Product Development, Tagasauris
Sean O'Connell: CEO, Creative Allies
Mark Schoneveld: Director of Community, Poptent
Solo Talks
12:05 - 12:15
Gio La Vecchia: Founder & CEO, CrowdEngineering
Plenary: Funding
12:35 - 12:45
Chris Larsen: CEO, Prosper
Erica Labovitz: Director of Marketing, Indie GoGo
Lunch Break
12:45 - 1:30
Lunch: Fisher Banquet Room
Solo Talks
1:30 - 1:45
Charlie Cheever: Founder, Quora
1:50 - 2:05
Thomas Hessler CEO,Heiko Rauch CFO, Jens Hewald CTO, UFOstart
Panel: Industry Champions
2:10 - 2:35
Martin Giles: US Technology Correspondent, The Economist
Sharon Chiarella: Vice President, Amazon Mechanical Turk
Matt Fisher: Executive Vice President of Sales, LiveOps
Matt Johnston: Chief Marketing Officer, uTest
Niel Robertson: CEO, Trada
Solo Talks
2:40 - 2:50
Roy Brackett: Director, Strategic Development, DST Technologies
2:55 - 3:10
Mark Allen: VP Marketing & Sales, Clickworker
Afternoon Break
3:15 - 3:30
Afternoon break
Solo Talks
3:35 - 3:45
Charlie Festa: Community Manager, Threadless
3:50 - 4:00
Benjamin Sywulka: Director of Software, IXL Center
Panel: Philanthropy
4:00 - 4:25
Jeannie Stamberger: Associate Director, CMUSV Disaster Management Initiative
Rob Munro: CTO, Global Viral Forecasting Initiative
Leila Chirayath Janah: Founder & CEO, Samasource
Patrick Meier: Director of Crisis Mapping, Ushahidi
Vijay Pande: Associate Professor, Stanford University
Solo Talk
4:30 - 4:40
Fred Benenson: Research & Development, Kickstarter
Poster Spotlights
4:40 - 5:00
Academic Poster Spotlights
Contest Winner Announcements
5:05 - 5:20
Hackathon, Crowdsortium, Lingotek
Closing Remarks
5:25 - 5:30
Lukas Biewald: Founder & Chairman, CrowdFlower
5:30 - 6:30 Poster Reception
5:30 - 6:30
Poster Networking Reception: Fisher Banquet Room
