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Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo helps businesses harness the power of virtual worlds to engage with their customers, partners and employees.

Featured Speakers:

Joakim Achren, Chief Executive Officer, Ironstar Helsinki
Kevin Alderman (aka Stroker Serpentine), CEO, EROS, LLC
Motty Alon, CEO, Memex Technologies
Brent Arslaner, VP of Marketing, Unisfair
Linda Ban, Client and Program Strategy Executive, 3DInternet and Digital
Convergence, IBM Research
Jeff Barr, Senior Web Services Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
John Bates, Evangelist, Entropia Universe
Michael Bellavia, Managing Director, Animax Entertainment
Betsy Book, Director of Product Management, Makena Technologies
Ken Brady, Director, International Strategies, Centric Agency of Change
Erik Bethke, CEO, GoPets
Matt Bostwick, SVP, Franchise Development, MTV Music Group
Dr. James Bower, CEO, Numedeon Inc / Whyville.net
Corey Bridges, Co-founder, Executive Producer, & Marketing Director,
The Multiverse Network
Ron Burns, President, ProtonMedia
Yuanzhe (Michael) Cai, Director, Broadband & Gaming, Parks Associates
Chris Carella, Creative Director, The Electric Sheep Company
Dorcas Casey, VP of Project Strategy & Development, FunWebProduct
Edward Castronova, Associate Professor, Indiana University
Rafhael Cedeno, CTO and co-founder, Multiverse
Beth Coleman, Professor of New Media, MIT
Jonathan Collins, Executive Producer, The Electric Sheep Company
Giff Constable, GM, ESC Software, The Electric Sheep Company
Susan Lucas-Conwell, CEO, SDForum
Aaron Delwiche, Co-founder, Metaversatility, Inc.
Mike Dowdle, Vice President of Business Development, Kaneva
Jeska Dzwigalski, Product and Community Wrangler, Linden Lab
Nevin Fouts, Associate Dean for Information Technology, Duke University?s
Fuqua School of Business
David Gardner, Executive Vice President, Icarus Studios
Robert Gehorsam, President, Forterra Systems
Rick Giolito, President, Trilogy Studios
Ben Goertzel, CEO, Novamente LLC
Mary Ellen Gordon, Owner, Market Truths Limited
Guntram Graef, Co-Founder, Anshe Chung Studios, Ltd., China
Joel Greenberg, VP, Marketing Innovation, The Electric Sheep Company
T. J. Gentle, President, SmartFurniture.com
Karl Haberl, Director, Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Adrienne Haik, Co-Founder, Metaversatility, Inc.
Robin Harper, Vice President, Marketing & Community Development, Linden Lab
Erik Hauser, Founder/Executive Creative Director, Swivel Media
Ian Hughes, Metaverse Evangelist, IBM
Teemu Huuhtanen, President, N.A. & EVP Bus. Dev., Sulake Corp. Ltd.
Nabeel Hyatt, Founder & CEO, Conduit Labs
Joe Hyrkin, Vice President, Sales & Business Development, Gaia Online
John Jainschigg, Director, Online Technology and New Business,
CMP Technology, LLC
Ben James, Communications Strategy Director, Rivers Run Red
Daniel James, CEO, Three Rings
Greg Johnson, Chief Marketing Officer, GGL Global Gaming
Sean Kane, Attorney, Drakeford & Kane LLC
Sampo Karjalainen, Chief Creative Officer, Sulake Corporation
Darius Kazemi, President, Orbus Gameworks
Bob Ketner, Creative Director, Studio SFO
Sandy Kearney, IBM Global Director, IBM 3D Internet and Virtual Business
Rita J. King, CEO and Creative Director, Dancing Ink Productions LLC
Christopher Klaus, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Kaneva
Raph Koster, President, Areae, Inc.
Stephen Lawler, General Manager of Virtual Earth, Microsoft
Christian Lassonde, President, Millions of Us Inc.
????Chi Tai Robert Lai), Chief Scientist, Beijing China Recreation District
Blake Lewin, Vice President Product Development, Turner Broadcasting Inc.
Brad Lineberger, CTO, Icarus Studios
Peter Marx, Managing Partner, Analog Protocol
Steve Metzger, CEO, VT&T
Jean-Ann Mills, Events Producer, The Electric Sheep Company
Mattias Miksche, CEO, Stardoll
Nic Mitham, Managing Director, K Zero
Mike Monello, Partner / Creative Director, Campfire
Randal Moss, Manager of Futuring and Innovation Center, American Cancer
Society
Paco Nathan, Technical Director, HeadCase Humanufacturing, Inc.
Greg Nuyens, CEO, Qwaq
Ryan Olson, Marketing Coordinator, Outspark
Bryan O’Sullivan, Hacker, Linden Lab
Tony O?Driscoll, Professor of the Practice in the College of Management,
North Carolina State University
Jerry Paffendorf, CEO, Wello Horld
David Peck, New Media Consultant, Britney Mason Productions
Peter Phillips, Technical Director, Millions of Us
Jeffrey Pope, Senior Manager, Far East Region, Sun Microsystems
Scott Raney, Venture Capitalist, Redpoint Ventures
Christian Renaud, Chief Architect, Networked Virtual Environments, Cisco
Kyra E. Reppen, Senior Vice President & General Manager, NeoPets
Ben Richardson, VP Business Development, Makena Technologies
Eric Rice, Executive Producer, Slackstreet Entertainment
Ren Reynolds, writer, philosopher and consultant
Jason Root, Senior Vice President, Digital, Nick.com and Nickatnite.com
Yuki Saeki, International Coordinator, Centric – Agency of Change
Daniel Schiappa, GM, Strategy Entertainment and Devices Division, Microsoft
Stefanie Schwartz, Vice President of Marking and Operations, NeoPets
Joey Seiler, Reporter, VirtualWorldsNews.com
Christopher V. Sherman, Executive Director, Virtual Worlds Management
Craig Sherman, CEO, Gaia Online
Naoyoshi Shimaya, CEO, Metabirds
Art Sindlinger, VP, Activation Director – Social Media & Gaming, Starcom
Yesha Sivan, EIR – Metaverse, JVP Studio Ventures
Trevor F. Smith, Founder, Transmutable
Timo Soininen, Chief Executive Officer, Sulake Corporation
Michael Solomon, Professor, Saint Joseph’s University
Paul Steinberg, Intel Software Network, Intel Software Solutions Group
Tim Stevens, President & CEO, Doppelganger
Reuben Steiger, CEO, Millions of Us
Matthew Sunkin, Network Engineer, Intel Corporation
John Swords, The Electric Sheep Company
Jodi Turton, Community Manager, Makena Technologies
Sibley Verbeck, CEO, The Electric Sheep Company
Mark Wallace, blogger, 3pointD.com
Rich Weil, Commuity Relations Director, Cartoon Network
Sharon Weinbar, Managing Director, Scale Venture Partners
Valerie Williamson, VP of Marketing and Business Development,
The Electric Sheep Company
Michael Wilson, CEO, Makena Technologies
Susan Wu, Principal , Charles River Ventures
Hui Xu, Founder & CEO, HiPiHi Co., Ltd
Paul Yanover, Executive Vice President & Managing Director, Disney Online
John Zdanowski, Chief Financial Officer, Linden Lab
Mark Zohar, Founder and Senior Vice Presiden, SceneCaster

Fortune 500 companies
Brand owners and advertisers
Virtual world platform companies
Virtual world developers
Web 2.0 companies
Digital agencies
Manufactures
Entertainment franchise owners
Media companies
Consumer goods companies
IT Service providers
Interactive entertainment Cos.
Device manufacturers
Telecommunication companies
Not-for-profit organizations
Government agencies
Educators
Startups
Toy companies
Small business owners
Investors and venture capitalists

Keynotes Speakers
Anthony E. Zuiker
Creator
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY

Christian Renaud
Chief Architect, Networked Virtual Environments
Cisco Technology Center

Paul Yanover Executive Vice President & Managing Director

booth # Exhibitor

216 ActiveWorlds
215 Avatar Island
213 Daz 3D
405 e frontier
409 Forterra Systems Inc.
113 IBM
300 Icarus Studios
101 Makena Technologies
407 Metaversatility
105 Millions of Us
312 Multiverse
413 Parature
317 Planet 9 Studios
313 Proton Media, LLC
417 SDForum
401 Second Life News Network
415 Skill Gaming Technologies
412 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
416 TAATU
109 The Electric Sheep Company
214 The Wishfarmers
403 View22 Technology, Inc.
117 VT&T

Multiverse Oct. 11, 2006

This “pilot” event was part of the Emerging Technology SIG.

The future of virtual worlds

Presentation Overview
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) are the fastest-growing segment of the video game industry. Industry-leader World of Warcraft brings in around $1 billion a year in recurring revenue–for just that one game. Even non-game virtual worlds like Second Life and There.com are receiving huge mainstream attention. Unfortunately, with development costs of $10 million to $80 million, only a handful of companies can afford to build these worlds. Independent developers–whose innovative ideas lie untapped–can’t even afford to experiment in this space.

To solve this, Multiverse is creating the world’s first network of MMOGs and other 3D virtual worlds. Multiverse’s technology platform is available at no upfront cost, and changes the economics of virtual world development. For the first time, independent developers, even from outside the game industry, can create high-quality virtual worlds. In this talk, you’ll learn how to use Multiverse’s complete development and distribution platform to quickly build a virtual world for free. You’ll also get a sneak peak at some of the virtual worlds that are being built right now, and see how they’ll change gaming, education, and other industries.

Next Virtual World SIG on Oct. 22 – panel

Oct. 22 we will have a panel discussion with a set of topics tba.  To be on the panel or to participate please contact me at orange[at]studiosfo.net

Conference..Oct. 17-19, 2007 San Francisco, CA

The 2007 Web 2.0 Summit has sold out. We are no longer able to accept requests for invitations and registration is now closed. However, you may sign up to get information about our 2008 Web 2.0 Summit here

The Business & Technology of Facebook conference will be held in San Jose, CA from October 7th-9th.

Monday 10/8 and Tuesday 10/9

SIGNATURE EVENT GROUP

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KickApps

CrowdVine

GoingOn

CollectiveX

Me.com

PeopleAggregator

Haystack

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Contact Email: info@techcrunch20.com

On June 25, 2007 at Pillsbury Winthrop in Palo Alto, SDForum’s Virtual Worlds SIG hosted Forterra Studios’ Laura Kusumoto and Evan Driscoll presented “Behind the Firewall: Creating Private, Secure, Commercial Virtual Worlds”.

Laura Kusumoto earned a MS in computer science at Santa Clara University and has worked in every conceivable facet of high technology and virtual reality. Her resume includes Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, PWC, LEGO and IDO. She is using all this experience at Forterra.

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