Venue:
Microsoft Redmond
14820 NE 36th St, 99/1919
Redmond, WA 98052
Recommended Hotel for Stay: Courtyard Marriott Redmond, WA 98052
Registration: Registration is now closed.
This is an invite only event. For more information please email Jacob LaRiviere.
Contact us: If you have any questions regarding this event please send email to DigitalEcon2017@microsoft.com
Digital Economics is an annual day-and-a-half long conference hosted by Microsoft Research. This year’s theme is “Economists as Engineers: Applied Economics in Tech Firms”. We invite both internal and external economists, researchers and data scientists from both the private sector and academia to discuss advances using the novel problems and data sets found in the tech sector. We especially look forward to papers focused on important applications which use novel econometric and machine learning techniques with unique tech sector data. The conference will be held over one and a half days on October 19th-20th, 2017. Continental breakfast and lunch will be served, as well as coffee as appropriate to timing on both days.
Keynotes
There will be two keynote addresses:
- Preston McAfee, CVP and Chief Economist for Microsoft. Preston McAfee has had a distinguished career in academics including being on faculty at Cal Tech and editing the AER. Since the late 2000s has worked as an VP or senior economist at Yahoo! Research, Google and now Microsoft.
- Steve Tadelis, VP of Economics and Market Design for Amazon. Steve Tadelis is a chaired professor in the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He worked as a Senior Director and Distinguished Economist at eBay Research Labs between 2011-2013 before returning to Haas and then arriving at Amazon.
Organizing committee
Jacob LaRiviere, Greg Lewis, and Matt Taddy
Hospitality Notice for University and Government Employees: Microsoft Research will be providing hospitality at this event. Please consult with your institution to determine whether you can accept meals and other hospitality under your institution’s ethics rules and any other laws that might apply.