CrowdFlower announces the first round of speakers participating at CrowdConf 2012, the world’s largest crowdsourcing conference, taking place in San Francisco on October 23. Among the 500 attendees, CrowdCond will attract Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs, crowdsourcing experts, academics, investors and media. The conference will include a morning keynote, case studies, panel debates, fireside chats, and “ask the expert” sessions.

To best match attendees with topics relevant to their business needs, this year’s program is built on three separate tracks, each with a unique focus. Track A will focus on microtasking and will present case studies, learning lessons, and best practices from customers, including eBay and Twitter, who have successfully implemented microtasking solutions. Track B will focus on broader industry issues such as policy regulation, how to aggregate, motivate and manage the crowd, the promise venture capitalists see in crowdsourcing, and research innovations in crowdsourcing. Track C will teach smaller businesses and entrepreneurs how to use crowdsourcing “From Ideation to Exit” including how to name and brand your new app or business; raise funds to launch; source the skilled labor to get it all done; make your big data bite-sized; and market and sell your solution.

First Round of Confirmed Speakers Include:

• Omar Alonso, Technical Lead, Microsoft
• Michael Bernstein, Assistant Professor, Stanford University
• Patrick Booher, Director of Enterprise Data Management, Autodesk
• Sharon Chiarella, Vice President, Amazon Mechanical Turk
• Luan Cox, CEO of Crowdnetic
• Ross Dawson, Author, Getting Results From Crowds
• Seth Duncan, Analytics Director, WCG
• Jim Fowler, Founder and CEO, InfoArmy
• Laura Gomez, International Manager Localization, Twitter
• Candace Klein, Founder and CEO, SoMoLend
• Ethan Kurzweil, Bessemer Venture Partners
• Stephanie Leffler, CEO, Crowdsource.com
• Israel Mirsky, Global Head, Omnicom
• Hector Garcia-Molina, Crowdsourcing Research, Stanford InfoLab
• Vince Molinari, CEO, Gate Technologies
• Robert Munro, Computational Linguist and Data Scientist
• Conrad Oldcorn, Community Project Manager, Twitter
• Praveen Paritosh, Software Engineer, Google
• DJ Paul, Chief Strategy Officer, Crowdfunder
• James Rubinstein, PM-Search Metrics, Ebay
• Joyce Noah-Vanhouke, Data Scientist, Kaggle
• Lena Zuniga, Localization Project Manager, Twitter

As well as speaker representatives from:

• AngelList
• Coffee & Power
• Fiverr
• IndieGogo
• oDesk
• PopTent

Event Details

Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Location: Mission Bay Conference Center

1675 Owens St., San Francisco, CA

Website: http://www.crowdconf.com

Tickets: On sale now at CrowdConf2012.eventbrite.com

About CrowdConf

CrowdConf is the world’s largest crowdsourcing conference. Founded in 2010 and hosted by CrowdFlower, the conference brings together more than 500 attendees from across the world including customers, executives, policy makers, scholars and technologists for a day of learning, conversation, and networking. CrowdConf is the one and only event that brings together everyone connected to crowdsourcing to discuss the current and future issues the industry faces as one of the fastest growing spaces in technology.

About CrowdFlower

CrowdFlower is the leader in enterprise crowdsourcing. CrowdFlower's technology platform offers quality-ensured business process crowdsourcing at massive scale. The company solves problems ranging from product categorization to business lead verification to content creation. Clients enjoy increased flexibility, turnaround time, and cost savings for their information and data needs. For more information, visit CrowdFlower and CrowdFlower's blog.