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21 August 2008
VWF2008 6 October 2008 – 7 October 2008
Conference
Enertainment, Enterprise and Education.
Programme highlights
- Geoff Iddison will be presenting plenary - keynote address on 7 October
- Craig Sherman will be presenting plenary - keynote address on 7 October
Location information
Back in London for the second fabulous year, the “bigger and better” Virtual Worlds Forum Europe 2008 will be held at The Bridge London SE1. The setting: a series of historic arches. The conversation: the future of enterprise, entertainment, education and virtual worlds.
Keynote speakers
Geoff Iddison
Chief Executive Officer, Jagex
Mel Guymon
Head of 3D Operations and Product Manager for Google's Lively
Craig Sherman
CEO, Gaia Online
Luba Cherbakov
Director, Technology and Innovation, CIO Office, IBM
Over 80 speakers including:
Patrice Chazerand
Secretary General, Interactive Software Federation of Europe (ISFE)
Rupert Goodwins
Editor, ZDNet UK
Wang Wei
Product Director, Beijing Cyber Recreation Development Corp.
Kevin Corti
CEO and Chief Learning Archirect, PIXELearning Limited
Giff Constable
VP of Products and Strategy, The Electric Sheep Company
Ed Bartlett
Vice President, Publisher Relations Europe and Co-Founder, IGA Worldwide
Marc Goodchild
Head of Interactive and On-Demand, BBC Children's Interactive
David Gettman
Consultant, McKinsey & Company
Workshops
We're developing some great optional hands-on workshop for Wednesday 8 October. Watch this space.
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9.00am–12.30am
Planning and rolling out enterprise virtual worlds applications
Christian Renaud
CEO, Technology Intelligence Group
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9.00am–12.30pm
Establishing metrics – key performance measurement for virtual worlds and MMO
Nic Mitham
CEO, K Zero
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9.00am–12.30pm
Legal and tax update for virtual worlds
Alex Chapman
Partner, Campbell Hooper Solicitors LLP
Expo
This year’s expo is bigger and better - more booths and a dedicated keynote/demo theatre on the show floor. We’ll be creating the same business-enabling environment our clients come back for; social spaces and networking.
Speakers include:
Lead sponsors
Premier sponsors
Sponsors
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You did a truly fabulous job pulling the Forum together. It had the right programmatic mix and a great physical environment. And your staff is wonderful; helpful, attentive, proactive. The whole event was just what the industry needed...not another cookie-cutter conference/convention.
Hotels
The Virtual Worlds Forum team have joined forces with Event Express to give you access to discounted prices at hotels within close proximity to the venue.
