SATURDAY 9/15

8:00 - 9:00 AM SLT

NETWORKING BREAKFAST (beach club) - No, avatars don't eat, but their drivers do. So grab a cup of coffee and join us at the Godel, Escher Beach Club. Meet presenters, fellow attendees, and get caffeine'd up for an exciting day at Life 2.0 Summit Fall!

LSL UNIVERSITY - DAY 1 (amphitheatre)

9:00 - 10:00 AM SLT

HELLO, AVATAR! - Basics of LSL - MikeG1 Schumann

10:00 - 11:00 AM SLT

Program Structure and States - Vyrnox Ming

11:00 AM - NOON SLT

Data Types, Lists, Memory - MikeG1 Schumann

ORIENTATION AFTERNOON

NOON - 3PM SLT

SHOW FLOORS OPEN

1 PM - 3PM SLT

SL ORIENTATION ( amphitheatre) - Rissa Maidstone and John Zhaoying. New to Second Life? Welcome! Come on down to the amphitheatre for open Q&A, hints, tips, landmarks, wisdom and freebies from the Life 2.0 staff. This may be the last time you see them sitting down for a week or so.

SUNDAY 9/16

8:00 - 9:00 AM SLT

NETWORKING BREAKFAST (beach club)

LSL UNIVERSITY - DAY 2 (amphitheatre)

9:00 - 10:00 AM SLT

I/O and Object Communications - Bradford Russell

10:00 - 11:00 AM SLT

Physics, Movement and Rezzing

11:00 AM - NOON SLT

LSL and the Web

SCULPTY DAY - MINI-SUMMIT (convention center)

NOON - 1:30PM SLT

Anjin Meili - One of SL's most innovative developers demonstrates tools and techniques for inworld and RL sculpted-prim generation.

1:30 - 2:00 PM SLT

Cel Edman - The creator of SculptyPaint, a favored tool for artists and builders, will show us how to use it even better.

2:00 - 2:30 PM SLT

Aminom Marvin - The owner of Agrippa Skytown will discuss the theory and practice of sculpted prim use in the creation of furniture and concrete forms.

2:30 - 3:00 PM SLT

TheBlack Box - The creator of Sculpt Studio offers tips.

3:30 - 4:00 PM SLT

Yuzuru Jewell - Live from Japan, the developer of Rokuro will demo his new tool, which lets you create coiled and similar countour-overlaid sculpts.

MONDAY 9/17 (in amphitheatre except as noted)

8:00 - 9:00 AM SLT

NETWORKING BREAKFAST (beach club)

KEYNOTE

9:00 - 10:00 AM SLT

Wade Roush, Chief Correspondent, Xconomy - Well-known in metaverse circles as the author of Second Earth, a groundbreaking cover-story in the July/August issue of MIT Technology Review postulating the eventual fusion of buildable virtual worlds like Second Life with geoverses like Google Earth, Wade will share aspects of his evolving vision for complementary evolution among diverse metaverse platforms and applications.

THE OPENSOURCE GRID

10:00 - 11:00 AM SLT

Jerry Paffendorf, Acceleration Studies Foundation - The entrepreneur and futurist discusses implications of the recently-released Metaverse Roadmap (MVR) 1.0.

MIRROR WORLDS - THE EXTENDED METAVERSE

11:00 AM - NOON SLT

Chris Badger, Forterra Systems - Forterra's VP marketing discusses OLIVE -- a unique and powerful proprietary 3D platform now being widely adopted by military, police, emergency and other demanding clients for use in mission-critical simulation and training.

WEB 3.0 TO WORKPLACE

NOON - 1:00 PM SLT

PANEL: Felix Wakmann (SLBrowser), Navillus Batra (Gridocity), TBA (Linden Lab), TBA (Electric Sheep Company), John Zhaoying (CMP Metaverse) - Diverse perspectives on virtual search -- strategies, technology backbones and business models.

METAVERSE METRICS AND ANALYTICS

1:00 - 2:00 PM SLT

Jared Freedman, Code4 Software - The principal of Code4 discusses his metaverse metrics platform.

AFTERNOON

2:00 - 5:30PM SLT

SHOW FLOORS OPEN

EVENING PROGRAM

5:30 - 7:30 PM SLT

Life 2.0 Sponsors' Reception (beach club) - Join sponsors, speakers and fellow attendees for dancing and live entertainment by the incomparable Starr Singer.

TUESDAY 9/18 (in amphitheatre except as noted)

8:00 - 9:00 AM SLT

NETWORKING BREAKFAST (beach club)

KEYNOTE

9:00 - 10:00 AM SLT

Chris Melissinos, Chief Gaming Officer, Sun Microsystems - Sun's complex and powerful vision of the business, social and entertainment metaverse is detailed by one of its chief architects.

THE OPENSOURCE GRID

10:00 - 11:00 AM SLT

Keystone Bouchard, Clear Ink - Opensource Architecture: The creator of Virtual Capitol Hill and the SL extension of the famous TED conference discusses a unique project aimed at creating an SL 'Wiki' for disciplined opensourcing and collaborative creation of virtual and RL architectural components and structures.

MIRROR WORLDS - THE EXTENDED METAVERSE

11:00 - NOON SLT

Rupert Key, Sun Microsystems - MPK20, Sun's private virtual workplace, is a collaborative metaverse platform in Java, erected on Sun's Project Wonderland opensource 3D collaborative client system and the Project Darkstar game server platform.

WEB 3.0 TO WORKPLACE

NOON - 1:00 PM SLT

aEoLuS Waves - One of Second Life's most creative builders of information appliances explores the capabilities and business case for 'virtual PCs.'[POSTPONED]

METAVERSE METRICS AND ANALYTICS

1:00 - 2:00 PM SLT

PANEL: Hiro Pendragon (RL: Ron Blechman, Involve), Joel Greenburg (ESC), Jared Freedman (Code4), Spin Martin, Aimee Weber (AWA) - Engagement Metrics: Simple numbers aren't enough to judge ROI on metaverse investments. A new, and infinitely-arguable field of heuristic metrics, interpreted as quanta for engagement, is emerging in response.

SUN MINI-SUMMIT

3:00 - 4:00PM SLT

Sun's Chris Melissinos, Dr. Joseph Bianco, and Rupert Key interviewed by John Zhaoying (CMP Metaverse/Dr. Dobb's)

4:00 - 5:00PM SLT

TOUR: Sun Island - Join us for a tour of one of the most innovative and extensive developer-services builds in Second Life.

5:00 - ???PM SLT

Sun Reception - Adrienne Arliss spins 50s-90s Rock and Request at Sun Island's brand new nightclub!

WEDNESDAY 9/19

ALL DAY

SL Update Day followed by rolling restarts in the afternoon. No show today, but a big party tonight!

ROLLING RESTART BALL II (cathedral)

6:00 - 9:00 PM SLT

Join sponsors, speakers and fellow attendees -- along with a cadre of vampires, some dragons, ogres, and elves -- for 2007's second Rolling Restart Ball in the Cathedral. Costumes? Absolutely. DJ Adrienne Arliss is spinning the bits.

THURSDAY 9/20 (in amphitheatre except as noted)

8:00 - 9:00 AM SLT

Matt Ganis, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM - Agile development methodologies, and their application to virtual worlds.

KEYNOTE

9:00 - 10:00 AM SLT

Scott Ambler, Practice Leader, Agile Development, IBM Rational - Agile programming guru Scott Ambler delivers his keynote live (or nearly so) from the floor of SD Best Practices in Boston. His topic: the challenges of Geographically Distributed Development (GDD) and possible solutions in immersive collaboration platforms.

THE OPENSOURCE GRID

10:00 - 11:00 AM SLT

PANEL: Eddy Stryker, otakup0pe Neumann (libsecondlife), John Zhaoying (CMP Metaverse), (and a couple bots with attitude) - BOTS! BOTS! BOTS! Client-driven, increasingly intelligent bots are becoming a backbone enabling technology for a host of metaverse apps and services, from enhanced asset-creation, to remote-management, leveraged social networking, search and more.

MIRROR WORLDS - THE EXTENDED METAVERSE

11:00 - NOON SLT

Julian Lombardi, Croquet Consortium - Croquet is an astonishing opensource metaverse platform, offering features arguably a generation or two beyond current commercially-available/accessible alternatives. One of six key architects of Croquet -- now also Chairman of the Board of the Croquet Consortium (as well as Assistant VP of Academic Services and Technology Support, and a Senior Research Scholar with Duke's Information Science/Studies program), professor Lombardi will give us the lowdown on this powerful and increasingly accessible tool, and the culture growing up around it.

WEB 3.0 TO WORKPLACE

NOON - 1:00 PM SLT

EOLUS McMillan - EOLUS island is the most advanced experiment in SL-to-RL integration yet, comprising a 3D user interface to environmental control, ERP, v-commerce and other applications. Hear its chief architect describe the technologies and techniques, and join us later at 3:30 PM for a guided tour of EOLUS Island.

METAVERSE METRICS AND ANALYTICS

1:00 - 2:00 PM SLT

Hackshaven Harford (MayaRealities) - As head of NOAA's metaverse efforts, and prime mover behind a cross-disciplinary cooperative of government science and educational organizations in Second Life, Hackshaven Harford is a sophisticated consumer of metrics data. Now, as principal of MayaRealities, he's a metrics service provider as well.

2:00 - 2:30 PM SLT

Jay Clarke, IBM - One of the chief architects of IBM CodeStation shares some of what he's learned about creating developer communities in the metaverse.

TOURS (meet in amphitheatre)

2:30 - 3:30 PM SLT

TOUR: IBM - We'll visit CodeStation and other developer resources across the IBM archipelago

3:30 - 4:30 PM SLT

TOUR: EOLUS Island - A sim-sized, dynamic experiment in 3D user interface engineering and enterprise-scale application integration

4:30 - 5:30 PM SLT

TOUR: Weather Channel - One of the most ambitious web-interactive builds in SL, TWC is earning rave reviews from tourists and technologists alike!

EVENING PROGRAM

5:30 - 7:30 PM SLT

Party on with DJ Adrienne Arliss at the Dr Dobbs Island beach club!

FRIDAY 9/21 (in amphitheatre except as noted)

SPECIAL KEYNOTE (amphitheatre)

8:00 - 9:00 AM SLT

Tateru Nino - "Diverse Ruminations on Human Factors in Virtual World Experiences, not Limited to the Unexpected Value of Misconceptions" - The internet engineer, metaverse metrics expert and software veteran will discuss how Novelty, Satisfaction, Friction, and Misconception interact in human experience, and why 'engineers of experience' can't afford to ignore their interplay

KEYNOTE

9:30 - 10:30 AM SLT
(NOTE TIME-CHANGE!)

David Intersimone, Senior VP Developer Relations, Borland Codegear - Programming guru David I. is one of the best-loved and most widely-respected figures in software development and programming best-practice. In this, his first-ever appearance in Second Life, David will discuss the potential of virtual worlds as collaborative environments for coders. Note: this keynote will be simulcast to SD Best Practices in Boston, MA.

MIRROR WORLDS - THE EXTENDED METAVERSE

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM SLT

Corey Bridges (CMO, Multiverse) and Rafhael Cedeno (CTO, Multiverse) - Key movers behind the innovative Multiverse opensource metaverse creation platform and its community describe the system, the business model, and the creative role users play in extending the system and the network of worlds built upon it.

WEB 3.0 TO WORKPLACE

12:30 - 1:30 PM SLT

Cherub Spectre, PixelTrix - This inworld creator of stand-alone business tools discusses the SL office, and the fast-evolving state of the art in business applications and "bringing the desktop inworld."

METAVERSE METRICS AND ANALYTICS

1:30 - 2:30 PM SLT

David Orban, Questar - David describes experiments based on genetic algorithms, pointing towards a completely new approach in creating self-performance-measuring and self-optimizing infrastructure for SL commerce, interaction and metrics.

TOURS (meet in amphitheatre)

2:30 - 3:30 PM SLT

TOUR: Intel - Perhaps the ultimate SL destination for hardware engineers

3:30 - 4:30 PM SLT

TOUR: Cisco - We'll tour their newly-upgraded island, including resources for building the next generation of high-reliability and high-capacity metaverse applications

EVENING PROGRAM - UNTIL NEXT TIME!

5:30 - 7:30 PM SLT

Join us for a farewell party at the Beach Club, with country/R&B singer Kim Seifert.