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social computing

crowdsourcing

crowdfunding

wisdom of crowds (e.g., prediction markets)

group memory and extended cognition

collective decision making and problem-solving

participatory and deliberative democracy

animal collective behavior

organizational design and strategy

public policy design (e.g., regulatory reform)

ethics of collective intelligence (e.g., "digital sweatshops")

computational models of group search and optimization

emergence and evolution of intelligence

new technologies for making groups smarter

Check out the Tentative Program here.

Conference Chair

Natalia Levina (NYU Stern School of Business)

Confirmed speakers include:

Michael Bernstein (Stanford University)

Bo Cowgill (Columbia University)

Gonzalo de Polavieja (Champalimaud Neuroscience)

Anne-Laure Fayard (New York University)

Liz Gerber (Northwestern University)

Anindya Ghose (New York University)

John Horton (New York University)

Panos Ipeirotis (New York University)

Erin Krupka (University of Michigan)

Karim Lakhani (Harvard University)

Scott Page (University of Michigan)

David Parkes (Harvard University)

Arun Sundararajan (New York University)

Sid Suri (Microsoft Research)

Eric von Hippel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Conference Chair 

Natalia Levina (NYU Stern School of Business)

Program Chairs  

Karim Lakhani (Harvard Business School)

Paul Resnick (University of Michigan)

Program Committee Members and Session Facilitators

Anita Woolley (Carnegie Mellon University)

Siobhan O'Mahony (Boston University)

Walter Lasecki (University of Michigan)

Yiling Chen (Harvard University)

Emmanouil Gkeredakis (Warwick Business School)

Sinan Aral (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Lada Adamic (Facebook)

Christopher Chabris (Union College)

Iain Couzin (Princeton University)