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LIFE 2.0 SUMMIT
FALL PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE
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!
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.
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.
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.
Jerry Paffendorf, Acceleration
Studies Foundation - The entrepreneur and futurist
discusses implications of the recently-released Metaverse Roadmap (MVR) 1.0.
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.
Life 2.0 Sponsors' Reception (beach club) - Join sponsors, speakers and fellow attendees for
dancing and live entertainment by the incomparable Starr Singer.
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.
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.
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.
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 Reception - Adrienne Arliss spins
50s-90s Rock and Request at SunIsland'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.
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.
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.
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.
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 EOLUSIsland.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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."
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.
TOUR: Cisco - We'll tour their newly-upgraded
island, including resources for building the next generation of
high-reliability and high-capacity metaverse applications
