Double Blind

The presentation on Prediction Markets – Putting Money Where the Future Is can be found here (250kB Powerpoint). Please note that these slides are very rough, as I intended most of the delivery payload (other than the charts) to be delivered by voice. The entry on Wikipedia on prediction markets also adds some perspective.

(August 28, 2006: A note on the powerpoint presentation: It turns out that Grey’s Anatomy, which the prediction markets had priced to win the Emmy at 67% didn’t actually win. It was the show “24″ which won the Emmy, and they were at around 17%.)

I presented in the 10:30am time slot. Thank you for participating! It’s always significantly more uplifting when you see the seats filled in front of you. If you have any further questions about my presentation, I can be easily reached.

I would like to extend my thanks to the many organizers (scroll down half-way) that made this event possible. It was well organized, well executed, and well attended by a right mix of people with different interests. Also a specific thanks to John Ounpuu – he presented before I did, and he let me borrow his laptop for my presentation.

I finally got to meet Richard, who’s weblog I’ve been reading for ages, and also a variety of other individuals that I may have casually read about over the past couple years. It’s cool and kind of surreal since I still remember the times (10 years ago) where you were really weird to meet people you’ve corresponded with via electronic communications.

Being in a narcissistic mood, I looked for some pictures that some photographers took. When entering the building on Friday, I noticed that Roland was taking some pictures. One of those pictures was myself. Also he has an opening video on his weblog of Friday’s official opening, which is quite handy in remembering who you talked to.

On Saturday, Cathy took a photograph of myself before I went on to deliver the presentation. Thanks to both photographers with their awesome-looking SLR cameras.

On Saturday, Bryan Zug took videos of various presentations, and he managed to catch the second half of mine. If you’re going to download it, please use the attachment here (54MB Quicktime Video) and save the guy some bandwidth.

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