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A
rare opportunity to learn about the features and vision of Project Wonderland,
the open-source toolkit for building 3D virtual worlds for business and education
collaboration. Nicole Yankelovich is the Principal Investigator of the Collaborative
Environments Project at Sun Microsystems Laboratories. August 28, 2008.
Click here
to listen to the audio recording. 
Jon
Brouchoud (aka Keystone Bouchard) is both a real and a virtual architect who,
along with an international group of colleagues, has been pioneering the use of
3D virtual space for collaborative design. Jon will talk about virtual architecture,
and about the collaborative tools and processes Studio Wikitecture employs in
its projects. As a special bonus, he'll also take us for a tour of the Architecture
Island collaborative environment.
August
21, 2008. Click here
to listen to the audio recording. Click here
to view the video recording. 
Christian
Renaud recently left his position as chief architect of networked Virtual Environments
for Cisco. He will talk about his past work with Cisco and the future of virtual
worlds for the enterprise. Learn how Cisco leveraged virtual worlds for customer
training, customer feedback, and mixed reality events for employees and customers.
And ask your questions to one of the community’s leading visionaries about
his predictions of the future of learning and communications in the world of Web
3-D!. August 14, 2008. Click here
to listen to the audio recording. 
Joe
Miller, aka “Joe Linden,” VP of Platform & Technology Development at Linden Lab,
talks about the future of virtual worlds in the enterprise. In the wake of the
first avatar teleport between Second Life and an OpenSim region, Miller will talk
about the major developments of the past year and a look ahead as it relates to
how the Second Life platform can better support corporate learning, collaboration,
and communication. August
7, 2008. Click here
to listen to the audio recording. 
Google
just announced the launch of “Lively,” its much anticipated entry into the virtual
worlds space. Education technologist Sandra Andrews at ASU has been working with
the browser-based Lively platform under NDA for nearly a year. She discusses strengths
and weaknesses of Lively as teaching and learning tool. July
31, 2008. Click here
to listen to the audio recording. Click here
to view the video recording. 
Dr.
Tony O’Driscoll, a former member of IBM’s On Demand Learning leadership team and
currently professor at Fuqua School of Business, Duke University talks about his
vision of the avatar-mediated “i-web singularity.” Tony is the a co-author of
the May 2008 cover article in of Harvard Business Review about how leadership
skills are honed in multiplayer online games.
July 24, 2008. Click here
to listen to the audio recording. 
Steve
Mahaley, aka Cotton Thorne and Ace Carson, will describe the preparations for
the event. More than a live music extravaganza, the event will also feature organized
panel discussions to educate attendees on a variety of topics related to global
peace-making efforts, featuring speakers from around the world. July
17, 2008. Click here
to listen to the audio recording. 
Comedy
hour by Fleche Xeno, who won a million dollar Linden prize in an OSRAM competition.
July
10, 2008. Click here
to listen to the audio recording.
As
part of our speaker series of virtual world platforms, Chris Badger, Forterra's
VP of Marketing, will talk about the capabilities in their OLIVE (On-Line Interactive
Virtual Environment) software platform to integrate SCORM content into scenario
based 3D learning with informal, ad hoc means of knowledge sharing and collaboration.
June
26, 2008. Click here
to listen to the audio recording.
In
our series of alternative virtual worlds platforms, Bruce Joy will talk about
VastPark and how it empowers more people to create their own highly interactive
virtual worlds and applications which can be single or multiuser as well as the
vision of independent virtual spaces built on open specifications. Click
here to listen to the audio recording.
Jeff
Corbin will take us through the nuclear reactor in Second Life. Jeff is a research
associate at University of Denver and one of the co-founders of SciLands. Backed
by a quarter million dollar federal grant, he is part of an effort to train the
next generation of engineers in how to handle toxic waste and to inform the public
about the potential of nuclear power through Second Life. June 5, 2008.
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here to listen to the audio recording.
Chuck Hamilton, the Learning and New Media Leader for IBM's 3D Internet
team, will take us on a tour through IBM's vast Second Life archipelago where
some 20,000 IBM employees are expected to hang out by year end, and describe IBM's
experience with virtual worlds for learning. Hamilton is widely published in Fast
Company, Talent Management Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and more. May 29,
2008. Click here
to listen to the audio recording.
Jani
Pirkola, aka Yani Pinion, program manager at realXtend will discuss how open source
virtual worlds, like realXtend, can offer companies a secure intranet-based virtual
world with all the SL capabilities and more. May
22, 2008. Click here
to listen to the audio recording.
John Swords from
the Electronic Sheep Company has given an insightful “platform shootout”
presentation at the last two Virtual Worlds conference to standing room crowds
May 15, 2008. Click
here
to listen to the audio recording.
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