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Written by Administrator
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Sunday, 03 June 2007 |
Virtual Worlds Forum Europe 2007 (Sun Oct 28) 450+ attendees from 23 countries, including 80 speakers, joined us at Canvas for four days of workshops, conference and expo. Check out the press coverage here, and podcasts from day one keynotes from Lord Puttnam and Lord Triesman, opening presentations from Jess Mulligan and Paul Jackson, day two keynotes and business model panels. Also, watch our blog for ongoing conversation. Our pan-European virtual worlds confex connected brands, major corporations, digital and virtual worlds agencies, media and entertainment players and games companies, technology suppliers, analysts and commentators, lawyers, regulators and venture capitalists and all those harnessing the power of virtual worlds to engage with clients, suppliers or customers. A serious amount of business got done. Watch this space for future events from the Virtual Economic Forum. | 
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Your programme at a glance
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 28 October 2007 )
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Our speakers include |
| Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com ) is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to Wired, Popular Science, Make, the New York Times, and many other newspapers, magazines and websites. He was formerly Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. Presently, he serves as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.
His novels are published by Tor Books and simultaneously released on the Internet under Creative Commons licenses that encourage their re-use and sharing, a move that increases his sales by enlisting his readers to help promote his work. He has won the Locus and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards.His latest novel is Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town and his latest short story collection is Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present.
He co-founded the open source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola, sold to OpenText, Inc in 2003, and presently serves on the boards and advisory boards of the Participatory Culture Foundation, the MetaBrainz Foundation, Technorati, Inc, Stikkit, Annenberg Center for the Study of Online Communities, SiteShuffle, and Onion Networks, Inc. In 2007, Entertainment Weekly called him, "The William Gibson of his generation."
He was also named one of Forbes Magazine's 2007 Web Celebrities, and one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders for 2007. |
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| Guy Bendov
Guy Bendov, co founder and CEO, Journeys Ltd
Guy Bendov has more then 16 years of experience as the founder, president and CEO of hi-tech companies in the interactive entertainment market. In his current position as co founder and CEO of Journeys, Guy is nurturing the creation of a new social, casual online game. Prior to Journeys, Guy co founded and lead the business activities of DoubleFusion, Cellular Magic and Click! Online as well as the Israeli game association, GameIS. |
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| David Orban
David Orban is the CEO of Questar and has worked in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Reality in the '80s, and went on to follow the development of software solutions for Personal Computers in the '90s founding Questar, which became a prominent player as a virtual subsidiary in the field of sofware solutions in Europe, and is now poised to add value to its partners' activities in the emerging field of Online Worlds. His interests cover technology development (he is a member of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence), sustainability (on the Scientific Board of Advisors of the Lifeboat Foundation), nanotechnology, and quantum computing. |
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