Wednesday, September 02, 2009 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (ET)
Tap the Collective is a venue to discuss how collective intelligence – efficiently drawing upon diverse and distributed knowledge – can be used to help address government problems.
Doors open at 6 PM. Panel begins at 7 PM.
Speakers:
Don Burke, Intellipedia, Central Intelligence Agency
Ryan Hahn, The World Bank
Robin Hanson, George Mason University, Chief Scientist of ConsensusPoint
Shyam Sankar, Palantir Technologies
David Resseguie, Sensorpedia, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Emma Antunes, Spacebook, NASA
Hosts:
Adam Siegel, Founder, Inkling Markets
Melody Hildebrandt, Founder, Transcapitalist
More About Our Speakers:
Don Burke, Intellipedia, Central Intelligence Agency
Don Burke is a leading proponent of the Enterprise 2.0 ethos within the Intelligence Community and is currently the "Intellipedia Doyen", which is a role he has held since the spring of 2006. In this role he is partnered with other early adopters in an effort to demonstrate the value of social software tools, educate the Community on how to use these tools, and advocate for improvements to the environment with the goal of improving our ability to capture our knowledge and expertise. Mr. Burke is currently employed by the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology and has a diverse 19+ year background in the Federal Government working a wide range of technical and analytical issues including collection, technical analysis, congressionally directed actions, direct support to operations, project management, advanced visualization technologies, software development, budgeting, and management. Mr. Burke has been quoted extensively in the media, most prominently from the Intellipedia presentation "From the Bottom-Up: Building the 21st Century Intelligence Community" at the 2008 Enterprise 2.0 conference. Mr. Burke is a finalist in the 2009 Service to America Medals (winners will be announced Sept 23) in the category of Homeland Security for his work on Intellipedia.
Ryan Hahn, World Bank
Ryan Hahn is a consultant for the Financial and Private Sector Development Vice Presidency of the World Bank Group. He manages a number of initiatives that fall under the umbrella of "Development 2.0" - the application of Web2.0 technologies to the field of international development. Among these are the Private Sector Development and Crisis Talk blogs, multiple collaboration platforms, and the Financial Crisis Predictions Market. Ryan holds a masters degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Robin Hanson, George Mason University, Chief Scientist of Consensus Point
Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University, a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University, and chief scientist at Consensus Point. After receiving his Ph.D. in social science from the California Institute of Technology in 1997, Robin was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation health policy scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1984, Robin received a masters in physics and a masters in the philosophy of science from the University of Chicago, and afterward spent nine years researching artificial intelligence, Bayesian statistics, and hypertext publishing at Lockheed, NASA, and independently.Robin has pioneered prediction markets, also known as information markets or idea futures, since 1988.
Shyam Sankar, Palantir Technologies
Shyam Sankar is the director of business development at Palantir Technologies. Prior to working at Palantir, Shyam was the director of business development at Xoom Corporation, an online international money transfer service. At Xoom, Shyam developed an global network of financial institutions that provided low cost remittance services for immigrant communities around the world. Shyam earned his B.S. degree at Cornell University in electrical and computer engineering and received his M.S. in management science and engineering at Stanford University. Shyam has a keen interest in developmental economics and in the theory and practice of life extension.
David Resseguie, Sensorpedia, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
David Resseguie is a member of the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Mr. Resseguie has worked with ORNL since 2000 designing and implementing multiple large-scale computer systems for the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Department of Defense. Mr. Resseguie's current focus is on Sensorpedia, applying Web 2.0 and social networking principles to sensor data sharing. Other recent professional activity includes human-computer interaction design and consulting for the ORNL High Flux Isotope Reactor emergency management software, technical lead for ORNL "Tracking 2.0" projects, and serving as the ORNL representative to the Open Geospatial Consortium's Web Feature Service (WFS) and Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) working groups. His major research interests include social networking and collaborative software interfaces, sketch- and touch-based computing, human-machine interaction, and standardized data formats for wide-area sensor network visualization. Outside the lab, Mr. Resseguie has served as an instructor for ITT Technical Institute and coaches a local FIRST LEGO League robot competition team for middle school aged children.
Emma Antunes, Spacebook, NASA
Emma Kolstad Antunes is an IT Specialist for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Office of the Chief Information Officer. An early adopter, she has been the Center's Web Manager since 1995, and also serves as the lead for NASA”s Web Managers group. In this role, she is responsible for technology expertise, web policy and governance, and community leadership. Emma has pushed for the web to be seen not simply as a communications medium, but as a powerful tool for business transformation. Her passion is information management and collaboration. To this end, Emma is currently the project manager in charge of building a social network for Goddard, codenamed “Spacebook.” Spacebook is an enhanced Intranet designed around user profiles, forums, groups, and social tagging. Each employee will have his or her own home page, where they can publish their own status, share files, connect with others and be able to follow others’ activity, and join communities of interest. The goal of the project is to use social media to help NASA be more competitive and innovative, encourage collaboration and information sharing, and take better advantage of the information & resources we already have.
Adam Siegel, Founder, Inkling Markets
Adam is the co-founder of Inkling Markets, a leading provider of collective intelligence solutions for business and Government. Before founding Inkling, Adam worked at Accenture, a global consulting firm where he served over a dozen clients across multiple industries for over a decade. At Accenture, Adam also directed a research initiative in next generation user experiences and ran a small internal venture fund to seed innovative ideas. In addition to his daily chores at Inkling, Adam spends his time being a political junky, reading short stories by Flannery O'Connor, Alice Munro, Bernard Malamud and the like, loves the radio show "This American Life," and "The Moth" podcasts, has a dog, and first used a computer made of pine wood and metal when he was 4: the PLATO system at the University of Illinois in Champaign. Adam holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Indiana University.
Melody Hildebrandt, Founder, Transcapitalist
Melody is the founder and editor of Transcapitalist. She writes about the intersection of free market capitalism and the web. Melody is a government consultant who is intrigued by how collective intelligence platforms can help solve government and corporate problems. She is also a dedicated social lender across a variety of platforms. Melody is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate in Economics and International Relations from Tufts University.
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More Information About the Evening:
In organizations where knowledge and know-how is trapped within agencies, teams, and hierarchies, collective intelligence solutions enable decision-makers to efficiently gather actionable information without the political overhead that usually accompanies meetings, status reports, emails, and other standard communication methods.
Through the experiences of our speakers, we’ll explore themes such as:
You’ll hear about successful CI initiatives – such as prediction markets, community-based knowledge forums, and collaborative information analysis platforms – in the intelligence community, Department of Defense, and World Bank as well as ideas for applying these types of tools to other areas. Afterwards, we'll open the floor to questions and a discussion about the future of collective intelligence in government.
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Transcapitalist is a popular blog exploring how technology can further open and free markets. http://transcapitalist.com/
Inkling Markets helps organizations utilize the collective intelligence of their employees, partners, and customers through the use of prediction markets. http://inklingmarkets.com
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