Agenda is live!
We are just about one week out on the conference and happy to report that things are coming together nicely. Being on the downslope of another hype curve we wanted to highlight what will feel is the most vibrant part of our space: The open parts of our virtual ecosystem. So our goal was to be bringing together some key people at the intersection of virtual worlds and open source. We feel that has worked out. As of writing nearly every spot on the Agenda has been filled so I wanted to give you a brief overview of what you will find on there.
We have a good selection of the open platforms represented. Some key speakers from this space are:
- Paul Byrne, Project Wonderland
- Crista Lopes, Opensim
- Ryan McDougall, RealXtend
- Ewen Cheslack-Postava & Daniel Horn, Sirikata
Other technologist that bears mentioning here are John Hurliman, Intel as well as Damon H, Web3D. We are in last minute talks with two other platform providers so keep your fingers crossed for further announcements. (Update: Just confirmed a talk from the team behind Google's O3D. as well as creater of COLLADA Remi Arnaud)
We strongly feel that the core technologies represent on side of the equation. The other half is the content side: The use cases and insights that serves to answer the question of why the technology matter. Some talks to look for are:
- Mic Bowman, Tom Murphy & Charlie Peck, ScienceSim
- Sheldon Brown, UCSD
- Victoria Coleman, Virtual World Roadmap
- Henry Lowood & Jeffrey Schnapp, Stanford University
- Sisse Siggaard Jensen, RUC
- Robert Hamilton & Juan-Pablo Caceres, Stanford
- Kyle Machulis, Nonpolynomial Labs
All in all we feel that this group of people should give a good sense of where the technologies are and maybe more importantly headed. So feel very free to join us.