Selected Talks

Most recent research talks

* ” Strategic Crowdsourcing:  Bridging across knowledge silos for competitive advantage “

MIT Sloan School of Management, Center for Information Systems Research.  January 25, 2012.  Cambridge, USA.

 * ” A Comparative Study of Motivations and Work Performance in Crowdsourcing Initiatives: Amazon Mechanical Turk, Facebook Translations, and Project Gutenberg “

MIT Sloan School of Management, Center for Collective Intelligence.  June 14, 2011.  Cambridge, USA.

Keynote Speaker

* “ Online Distributed Organization:  The challenge of crowdsourcing ”.  Innovation Session keynote.

European Foundation for Management Development ( EFMD ) Meeting for Deans and Directors General, Lyon, France, January 27, 2011.

* “Strategic Crowdsourcing: Motivating firm-sponsored online collective work”. Service Innovation Workshop keynote.

Peter Pribilla Foundation 5th Network Meeting, Tunis, Tunisia, April 12, 2010.

* “Strategic Crowdsourcing:  Online collective models of organization”.  Academic keynote.

Carnegie Mellon – Portugal 2010 Program Inauguration, Lisbon, Portugal, January 15, 2010.

Invited Speaker

* “ Crowdsourcing:  Towards a framework”.  MIT Innovation Lab Meeting.

Google Headquarters.  Mountain View, USA.  May 25, 2010.

* “ Strategic Crowdsourcing: Motivating firm-sponsored online collective work ”.

University of Pennsylvania.  Organizational Dynamics.  Dinner Lecture Series. Philadelphia, USA.  March 5, 2009.

* “ Open Innovation:  Creating more together ”.  Presentation to the CEO and top executives of Orange Communications.

Orange Communications Headquarters, Biel, Switzerland. January 22, 2007.