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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 |
| Mark William Hansen
Mark Hansen over the past eight years worked at LEGO creating new business strategy and play concepts based on consumer generated products and content, He is the original architect of LEGO Factory and project lead in the development of the LEGO Universe platform for the 21st century of play. |
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| Paul Hemp
Paul Hemp is a senior editor at Harvard Business Review, where he edits and writes articles on a variety of topics. He is the author of “My Week as a Room Service Waiter at the Ritz” (HBR June 2002), “Presenteeism: At Work – But Out of It” (HBR October 2004), “Avatar-Based Marketing” (HBR June 2006), and “Are You Ready for E-tailing 2.0?” (HBR October 2006). He has appeared as a commentator on CNN, CNBC, and the BBC and as a panelist at such conferences as the Yale CEO Leadership Summit and the SXSW Interactive Festival. Previously, Mr. Hemp was the director of publications at Mercer Management Consulting in Boston, a writer and editor at The Boston Globe,and a reporter at The Wall Street Journal in London and Brussels. He is a graduate of Whitman College and Harvard Law School. | |
| Giff Constable
Giff Constable blogs.electricsheepcompany.com/giff currently leads The Electric Sheep Company's software business unit creating information services for the metaverse. In 2006, he served as ESC's VP of Business Development, working with Fortune 500 companies and major ad/PR agencies to help them conceptualize and implement projects within Second Life. He is a repeat entrepreneur in the software and Internet industry, and also spent time as an investment banker at Jeffries Broadview providing M&A and IPO advisory services to software and IT services companies. He blogs about virtual worlds at blogs.electricsheepcompany.com/giff |
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