Serious Virtual Worlds 2007, Coventry
Back from a couple of days at the Serious Virtual Worlds conference in Coventry. The speakers and their topics were:
Thursday 13th September
- David Wortley, Serious Games Institute – introduction
- Christian Renaud, Cisco – Getting serious about virtual worlds
- Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO Giunti Labs, chair European Learning Industries – Innovating learning in a flat, virtual world
- Jim Purbrick / Babbage Linden – Serious Second Life (remotely, via SL)
- Mary Matthews, TruSim (a division of Blitz Games) – Emotion and Fidelity
- John Burwell, Forterra – Virtual World Evolutions
- Ron Edwards, Ambient Performance – Serious Virtual Worlds Implementation Ecosystem
- Simon Stevens, Wheelies – Second Life and disability: a review of the issues
- Kevin Corti, CEO PIXELearning – Flash-based immersive learning simulators
- Chris Branigan, MD Caspian Learning – user managed immersive worlds
Friday 14th September
- Tim Foresman – Digitial Earth and Virtual Worlds
- Lizbeth Goodman, SMARTlab – Virtual worlds community applications
- LeRoy Heinrichs – Serious worlds for biology and medicine
- Richard Smithies, TruSim – Creating a medical training game
- Claus Nehmzow, PA Consulting – doing business in virtual worlds
- Roo Reynolds (um, that’s me)- virtual worlds for corporate collaboration
- Dave Taylor, NPL – VWs for informal education and knowledge transfer
- Majid Al-Kader – Logicity: a real-time climate change game
- Jim Piggot, CEO TPLD – Applying serious games to curriculum for excellence
It was great to catch up with Christian, Dave, Ren and Tish in person, as well as a chance to meet lots of other interesting people.
The presentations and video archive is being made available on Wednesday from http://seriousgames.org.uk/. For now there were a bunch of of at the conference taking photos and Andy Powell grabbed some great screenshots of the Second Life portion of the event. My presentation “virtual worlds for corporate collaboration“, complete with audio, is already online too.
Visit the slideshow itself to see a brief text overview of each slide, or see more background on my own blog.
Other events on the radar for Ian and me later this year:
- October 10th – 11th, Virtual Worlds Fall, San Jose (Ian is speaking on the 10th)
- October 23rd – 26th, Virtual Worlds Forum, London (Ian’s on a panel on the 25th)
- November 8th, IET Mountbatten Lecture, London (I’m delivering this lecture)
- December 4th – 6th Online Information 2007, London (I’m speaking on the 5th)
September 19th, 2007 at 05:02
[...] I was fortunate enough to be there for the whole of this superlative event. But if you weren’t the video archive is being made available on Wednesday from http://seriousgames.org.uk/ Don’t miss this ground breaking event! You will also find notes on all the presentations for Day 1 and Day 2 posted on Roo Reynolds – What’s Next? and see Eightbar. And, as Roo notes, there were a bunch of people conference taking photos. Andy Powell grabbed some great screenshots (e.g., picture above) of the Second Life portion of the event when Coventry University cut the ribbon on their Second Life island. [...]
September 21st, 2007 at 07:39
[...] Last week the Serious Virtual Worlds Conference 07 was held at the Serious Games Institute in Coventry, UK. While one or two decent announcements were made, there wasn’t much reported at the ground level. For those unable to attend the conference, a critical learning opportunity was being missed. [...]