Europe’s first pan-European virtual worlds conference will create a genuine meeting place for brands and corporations, virtual worlds and the converging games, entertainment and business spaces. This two day conference and exhibition covers both public and private virtual worlds. The conversation wi…
Virtual Worlds Forum Europe 2007
Huw Leslie speaks to Nic Mitham, CEO of K Zero, a virtual worlds consultancy.
Sasha Frieze and Stuart Dredge report on The Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Features Thomas Bidaux, Director of Product Development, NCSoft Europe; Frank Campbell, Chief Business Officer, MindArk PE AB; Raph Koster, President, AreaE; Ginsu Yoon, SVP International, Linden Lab; Ben Richardson, VP Business Development, Makena Technologies. Moderator: Corey Bridges, Co-founder, The Multiverse Network.
Cross-world, cross-platform; how close are we to a multi-world integrated framework? With Paul Ledak, VP, Development, IBM Research.
Evangelising Virtual Worlds within the corporation with Joe Little, Digital Communications & Technology - Chief Technology Officer, BP.
Paul Jackson is an analyst with Forrester Research. Topics include: Virtual worlds, MMOs, ARGs – what’s the difference? Trends, numbers, metrics, audience. Who is the real target audience?
Jess Mulligan is Executive Director of Player Relations, Cyber Sports Ltd. Topics include: Current worldwide market for virtual worlds; Games and social spaces – what’s the difference? Who is partaking? What are the barriers to entry and acceptance; What does the future hold?
Is the future virtual? Recorded on 24th October 2007 at the Virtual Worlds Forum, featuring Lord Triesman of Tottenham, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
Virtual worlds – media, entertainment, narrative: a radical shift from passive to interactive? Recorded on 24th October 2007 at the Virtual Worlds Forum.
Aleks Krotoski talks about social interactions in virtual worlds, and she should know as that's what her phd is about.
Michael Rowe from IBM talks about his love of Ultravox....and virtual worlds.
Douglas Rushkoff talks about some of his concerns in new Virtual Worlds.
Joe Little from the Chief Technology Office of BP talks about how business are using virtual communities.
Corey Bridges, co-founder of Multiverse talks about how the creation of virtual worlds is now accessible to us all.
See Richard Dawkins, author of 'The God Delusion', speaking about Second Life and other virtual worlds
Jonathan Freedland talks to MUD creator Richard Bartle about issues of identity in the virtual worlds.