VW Forum Europe 2007 - Its very very soon
Now that the jet lag of San Jose is passing it is time to tell you all about the next conference coming up next week. The VW Forum Europe 2007 is taking place in London Tuesday 23rd-Friday 26th
IBM is a founding sponsor along with Rivers Run Red and There.com
Yes we will be there a whole bunch of the original UK eightbar crew.
On Tuesday 23rd Roo will be presenting at the optional pre-event on building communities in enterprise scale virtual environments. The story of eightbar.
On Thursday 24th I will be on a panel
Panel: Harnessing the power of virtual worlds for corporate collaboration
* Virtual offices
* Management of distributed teams
* New development models
* Fast prototyping
* R&D
Greg Nuyens, CEO, Qwaq
Steve Prentice, Group Vice President and Chief of Research, Gartner
Ian Hughes , Metaverse Evangelist, IBM
Moderator: Mike Butcher, Editor, TechCrunch UK
We will of course have an IBM booth that anyone can come along and meet us and talk about all of this. With some of the wider team coming over from the US too.
Paul Ledak will be over for the event and givin a Keynote on Thursday too
Keynote: Cross-world, cross-platform; how close are we to a multi-world integrated framework?
* Do virtual worlds drive real business value?
* What is the requirement for a new set of standards?
* What is the impact of the increasing number of worlds?
* What business requirements are emerging?
Paul Ledak , VP, Development, IBM Research
The full conference programme is here
There are a lot of good sessions and a glittering body of metarati with lots to say and share on the subject. As much as I like California, this is our home turf and only 60 miles from Hursley where we are proud to say out involvment in all this started back in April 2006. The time has flown, there is still much to do but gatherings like this is where the magic happens.
October 16th, 2007 at 1:03 am
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Virtual worlds offer tremendous value to business people who wish to operate from home. Our virtual secretary for example enables people to have a corporate front in a proper business centre while they take advantage of all the benefits of working from home.
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