NEXTPredict NYC - October 22-23, 2026 New York


NEXTPREDICT NYC: NEXT.IO PREDICTS BIG THINGS IN THE BIG APPLE


NEXT.io has launched NEXTPredict.io, a standalone media brand dedicated to the prediction markets sector, alongside the inaugural NEXTPredict Summit NYC, taking place October 22- 23 at Convene Hudson Yards in Manhattan, just two weeks before the 2026 US Midterm elections. For co-founder and Managing Director Pierre Lindh, the expansion is about more than adding another conference to the calendar. It is a strategic attempt to position NEXT at the centre of what he believes is becoming an entirely new global industry.


Prediction markets have spent the last two years moving rapidly from niche discussion points within gambling and crypto circles into a much broader mainstream conversation involving institutional finance, politics, media and regulation. Companies such as Kalshi and Polymarket have generated enormous attention around election contracts, sports-event trading and the wider idea that markets can increasingly be used to forecast future outcomes. Speaking to G3 shortly after the reveal of NEXTPredict.io, Lindh states that the most important development is not the publicity surrounding the sector, but the fact that prediction markets are beginning to break away from gambling entirely in how they are perceived, discussed and commercially positioned.


“I would frame it differently,” he says. “Prediction markets is not a subdivision of gambling anymore. It’s its own industry.” NEXT’s decision to create an entirely separate media and conference identity emerged from that belief. Internally, Lindh says there were lengthy conversations about whether prediction markets naturally belonged within NEXT’s existing gambling portfolio, but the conclusion was that the sector required its own language, editorial framing and audience positioning if the company wanted to establish real authority in the space. “We thought about it a lot internally,” he explains. “Prediction markets needs a different tone of voice, different terminology and a different ecosystem. NEXT.io is gambling. NEXTPredict is prediction markets.”


In conversation, Lindh repeatedly returns to the idea that 130


prediction markets are evolving into something far broader than sports-event speculation. Personally fascinated by geopolitics, macroeconomics and forecasting, he describes being drawn toward the “wisdom of the crowd” concept that underpins his events organising philosophy. In his view, prediction markets function less like traditional gambling products and more like information systems, aggregating incentives and opinions in ways that can sometimes provide clearer signals than heavily filtered media narratives or polarised expert commentary. “In today’s world, everyone online is trying to push you in one direction or another,” he says. “Prediction markets become an interesting antidote to that because money is attached to those opinions.”


Intellectual curiosity clearly plays a role in NEXT’s expansion into the sector, but practical business considerations were equally important. Lindh openly admits timing became critical because prediction markets represent what he sees as a rare first-mover opportunity within the events industry.


Conference ecosystems tend to consolidate quickly around a handful of flagship brands, he argues, and once those positions become established, they are notoriously difficult to disrupt. “In events, there is absolutely first-mover advantage,” he says. “If you establish yourself early as the flagship event in a new industry, it becomes very difficult for others to disrupt that position later.”


Ordinarily, Lindh explains, a conference of this scale would


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