Virtual Worlds Forum Europe

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Monday, 01 October 2007

Joakim Achren
In 2005, Joakim Achrén founded Ironstar Helsinki to bring a 2D virtual world experience into mobile phones. MoiPal, the virtual world for Java handsets has now been launched. MoiPal's innovation is that your virtual world avatar can do things in the MoiPal world whilst you are not there. This has created a metaverse inside the mobile phone. The challenge has been to take into consideration all the handset limitations, but to be able to create new ways for social interaction in a world that runs 24/7. Joakim is a advisory board member of the IGDA Finland chapter and has been a member of IGDA himself since 2003. Please visit www.ironstarhelsinki.comand www.moipal.com.

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Monday, 13 August 2007

Delé Atanda
Delé Atanda leads Diageo Plc's Global Digital Marketing activities, leading the development of initiatives within Diageo to develop 3D facilities enabling collaboration and teamwork for geographically dispersed teams. Delé Atanda began his digital marketing career as a Senior Producer with the UK's Central Office of Information, leading the delivery of award winning digital media projects for government departments including the Royal Air Force and Cabinet Office. He has also worked as Director of Projects at RCA Marketing Agency where his clients included Brandt, De Dietrich, eBay and Agilent, Senior Project manager for eMC Saatchi where he programme managed projects for the MG Rover Group, and as Director of PR and Marketing for Panoz Auto Development in the USA, the luxury vehicle manufacturing arm of the industry leading, Panoz Motorsport Group. Delé also helped establish the digital marketing agency, Ark Agent, and led expansion from its Atlanta base to include a New York office. He led the development of national digital and urban marketing initiatives for Pirelli Tires North America, Saleen Auto, McDonalds, General Motors, Mazda USA, BP Castrol and international activities for Saleen Auto, the American Le Mans Series, Formula Drift and others. Delé is a self professed cyber revolutionary and a passionate advocate of a new digital paradigm.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 22 August 2007 )

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Monday, 17 September 2007

Ed Bartlett
Ed Bartlett
VP Publisher Relations Europe and Co-Founder IGA Worldwide, Inc.
Ed Bartlett, Vice President Publisher Relations Europe and Co-Founder of IGA Worldwide is one of a new generation of multi-discipline industry visionaries, combining 14 years of videogame sector knowledge and experience with astute business acumen and proven advertising and media expertise.Having fulfilled senior creative and production roles on key game releases for publishers including Sega, Virgin Interactive, BMG Interactive, Acclaim and Hasbro Interactive, Bartlett went on to found dedicated in-game advertising agency Hive Partners ahead of the curve in 2003, with clients such as Red Bull.In 2005 Bartlett negotiated the acquisition of Hive Partners by IGA Worldwide before helping to raise its $17 million Series A VC round. He has since been responsible for building the foundations of its industry-leading proprietary Radial Network, securing landmark global deals with the likes of Electronic Arts, Valve, Atari and Codemasters.

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Monday, 02 July 2007

Richard Bartle
Dr Richard Bartle co-wrote the first virtual world, MUD ("Multi-User Dungeon") in 1978, and has thus been at the forefront of the online games industry from its very inception. A former lecturer in Artificial Intelligence and current Visiting Professor in Computer Game Design (both at the University of Essex, U.K.), he is an influential writer on all aspects of virtual world design, development, and management. As an independent consultant, he has worked with most of the major online game companies in the U.K. and the U.S. over the past 20 years. His 2003 book, Designing Virtual Worlds, has already established itself as a foundation text for researchers and developers of virtual worlds alike.

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Tuesday, 16 October 2007

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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Wednesday, 04 July 2007

Thomas Bidaux
Thomas Bidaux – Director of Product Development (NCsoft Europe)
Widely recognised as one Europe’s leading figures in the development and execution of online games from his time at Wanadoo, Bidaux was a leading member of the team that launched highly successful Dark Age of Camelot franchise. His talents were employed by the fledgling NCsoft Europe in September 2004, as one of the original core members. Over two years later, the Brighton UK office has massively increased from the original four members to a staff of more than 120 peoples. Thomas’ role at NCsoft is to manage the product development teams as well as researching and acquiring new titles.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 22 August 2007 )

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Monday, 30 July 2007

Johann Brenner
Johan Brenner, General Partner, Balderton Capital Prior to joining Benchmark, Johan was the Founder and Chairman of TIME Vision, a privately owned Nordic-based investment company focusing on early stage communication and information technology companies. As an entrepreneur, investor and board member, Johan built a number of successful companies, including Jobline, E*Trade Nordic, DebiTech and Tradera. Before founding TIME Vision, Johan held various executive positions with the Kinnevik Group, including COO of Modern Times Group, Executive Vice President of the Kinnevik Group and President of 3C Communications in Luxembourg. Prior to the Kinnevik Group, Johan spent close to 10 years working for the ABB Group in various executive positions in the financial services and power generation industries. Johann bas boardÝseats onÝCas Services, Dropshop, Gourmondo, Igglo, Pageflakes, Rawflow, Rebtel, Sulake, Zopa Johann has anÝMBA from Stockholm School of Economics; Graduate education at The Stern School of Business at New York University and The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and Executive education at Stanford Business School.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 22 August 2007 )

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Monday, 17 September 2007

Corey Bridges
Corey Bridges, Multiverse
Co-Founder, Executive Producer and Marketing Director
Corey is helping build the world's leading network of Massively Multiplayer Online Games and 3D virtual worlds. Responsible for business development and strategic marketing, he brings experience from some of the most influential companies in the high-tech and entertainment industries to Multiverse, including Netflix, Netscape, Zone Labs, Borland and The Discovery Channel.

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Tuesday, 03 July 2007

Justin Bovington
Justin Bovington, CEO of London based virtual world agency Rivers Run Red, has been instrumental in developing some of worlds major virtual launches: adidas, Reebok, Vodafone, Heineken, Sky News, ING Renault F1 and Penguin... to name a few. His company has been present in Second Life since January 2003, and in that time, they've helped develop and form the virtual world immersion market. He is one of the leading creative directors in the media and virtual creative sector.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 22 August 2007 )

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Wednesday, 04 July 2007

Betsy Book
Betsy Book, Director of Product Management, Makena Technologies
Betsy Book has participated in, managed, and developed a wide range of community focused products over the past decade, from text-based message boards and chat rooms to 3D virtual worlds.
Over the course of her career, Book developed co-branded web sites for iVillage, served as VP of Product Development at the ecommerce site Flooz.com, and managed large-scale moderation and reporting programs for entertainment industry clients such as AOL, MTV, The-N, Showtime, Country Music Television, and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.
In 2003, Betsy launched Virtual Worlds Review, a web-based guide to social virtual worlds.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 22 August 2007 )

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Tuesday, 03 July 2007

Mark Boyd
Mark Boyd is Creative Director and Head of Content at advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty, where he is responsible for developing new branded content opportunities for advertisers. Projects include branded TV programming, theatrical film releases, contract publishing, radio, mobile and gaming. Previously, Mark was Director of Content and Stream MSI/TBWA, having joined from Hutchison 3g (now 3) where he was Head of Young Adult Markets. Before this, Mark worked at Drum PHD on a number of advertiser funded projects in different media. He joined from Virgin Media, his first media role after a brief detour via the civil service. Mark has always worked to find new roles for brands beyond traditional advertising, working for all of the key stakeholders: agency, media owner and client side. Mark is also and founder and the Chairman of the Branded Content Marketing Association (BCMA), bringing together people interested in branded content from film, music, TV, mobile and gaming industries.

Last Updated ( Monday, 09 July 2007 )

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Wednesday, 04 July 2007

Nic Brisbourne
Nic Brisbourne has over seven years experience in venture capital, working in London, Europe and Silicon Valley. His main areas of focus have been software and media. Prior to Esprit he was with Reuters Venture Capital.Nic has been involved in a number of investments including UltraDNS (acquired Neustar - NYSE NSR), Zeus Technology and Perfiliate (trading as Buy.at). He manages Esprit's investments in Buy.at, Zeus Technology, Axiom Systems, SRC, Cityspace and Tribold.Prior to joining Reuters Nic worked for Operis, a software and services start-up, and Cap Gemini.Nic also authors a blog commenting on the European technology and venture capital markets. Please see www.theequitykicker.com

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Monday, 13 August 2007

Frank Campbell
Frank Campbell is Chief Business Officer at MindArk PE AB, Swedish creators of the Entropia Universe, the first virtual universe to utilize a Real Cash Economy. Frank's background in language studies allowed him to join MindArk and focus on external/internal communication, community management and collaboration with computer entertainment media. He has also been closely involved with online activities and development of the Entropia Universe. As virtual worlds reach beyond gamers and into corporate and public spheres, Frank is now focused on business development and the introduction of Entropia into new international markets and the presentation of the virtual universe to new strategic partners.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 14 August 2007 )

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Monday, 01 October 2007

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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Monday, 10 September 2007

Stefano Crosta
Stefano Crosta is the technical leader for the Networked Virtual Environments for the Cisco Technology Center. Technology Center acts as 'intrapreneurs' for the efforts of Cisco's Corporate Development organization, providing business rationale and market insight for determining future Cisco emerging technologies. The Technology Center is Cisco's corporate incubator chartered with identifying emerging markets and technologies and developing them into new revenue streams for the company.

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Monday, 10 September 2007

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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Monday, 13 August 2007

Peter Edward
Peter Edward is Director of the Home Platform Group at Sony Computer Entertainment . Peter left a suspiciously lucrative pharmaceutical career to work in games. He joined SCE as a producer in 2000, with a softography that includes Dropship: United Peace Force (2002), SCEE's first online multiplayer game, Hardware: Online Arena (2003), The Getaway: Black Monday (2004), and Eight Days (in production). As Director of the Home platform, Peter has responsibility for the development of the Home end-user experience, for the global presence of both game and non-game brands inside the Home world, and for the coordination of the global activity within the platform. Peter no longer lives in London, but does not yet have a dog.

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Wednesday, 01 August 2007

Robert Gehorsam
Robert Gehorsam is President at Forterra Systems Inc and has more than 20 years of management experience in the online games and entertainment world. In recent years, he has applied that experience to leveraging commercial game technology for national security applications, and has participated in several government studies on this subject. Before joining Forterra Systems he served as SVP, Programming and Production at Viacom's CBS Internet Group, where he was responsible for content, creative, production and operations for CBS.com, CBSnews.com among others. Prior to this, he was SVP for Programming and Production at Sony Online Entertainment (SOE). In addition to business planning for SOE, he was directly responsible for all operations, product acquisition and development, and technology for The This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , one of the world's most popular game destinations on the Internet. He oversaw the creation of a robust, highly scalable game platform that supports millions of customers of dozens of online games including, Everquest, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! Online. From 1985-1992 Gehorsam founded and led Prodigy's games and educational divisions, launching the first large-scale subscription- based sports simulations and nearly two dozen other online titles. He held management positions at Scholastic Inc. and consulted to Microsoft, AOL, CNET, Ziff-Davis and Children's Television Workshop. Earlier in his career he was an editor at Simon & Schuster, where he helped found its Electronic Publishing Division and published some of the first consumer applications for Macintosh.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 22 August 2007 )

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Tuesday, 03 July 2007

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.

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Monday, 13 August 2007

Ian Hughes
Ian Hughes (epredator potato in Second Life) is an IBM Consulting IT Specialist who has worked on leading edge emerging technologies for the past 17 years, a programmer since he was 14. As a gamer he has seen a massive increase in the capability and design ethics within games and the rise of online gaming. At IBM he has seen and been part of the Web 2.0 revolution has a top rated blog inside IBM and jointly writes http://www.eightbar.com outside. As a digital native his epredator persona spans many places, blogs, Eve Online, Xbox Live, Twitter, Flickr etc.. He is now officially an IBM Metaverse Evangelist having led in band of colleagues into Second Life for the past 17 months with a view to understanding what the social, business and technical implications are of virtual world technology used with a web 2.0 mentality and user generated content.

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Monday, 13 August 2007

Michael Hulme
Michael Hulme is Professor and Associate Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Lancaster University. Michael is Director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Technology and Culture, a social insight consultancy specialising in understanding Consumer Behaviour and Culture in the context of, Media and Technology. He is currently engaged in a series of research projects examining behaviour in Virtual Worlds and Social Networks. He advises many leading International Broadcasters, Content Creators, Technology Companies and Mobile and Fixed Service Providers at Board and Senior Levels.

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Tuesday, 16 October 2007

Marc Goodchild
Marc Goodchild
After winning a Bafta for Walking With Beasts interactive, he set up the BBC’s nascent iTV unit, became the first true 360 exec on projects like How To Sleep Better and the Climate Change Experiment and continues to play a key role in the Knowledge Building initiatives outlined in the BBC's Creative Futures work.
At the beginning of April, Marc joined the BBC's Children's department to head up Interactive and On-demand production and continues to play an active role forging links across the factual community for audiences young and old.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 16 October 2007 )

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Monday, 13 August 2007

Paul Jackson
Paul Jackson is Principal Analyst at Forrester, and primarily contributes to Forrester's offerings for the Strategy professional and is a frequent contributor to the eBusiness, Channel, & Product Management professional. As one of Forrester's leading analysts on consumer technology adoption and usage, his research and client engagements focus on how companies can build strategies to bring new consumer technology to market or successfully exploit new technology and services developed by other firms. During his seven years at Forrester, Paul has driven both short-term immediate research needs, using Forrester's Consumer TechnographicsÆ data, and long-term strategic research around big ideas like the digital home, the tipping point online, and the evolution of the home PC.His current research agenda includes topics like home networking, virtual worlds, videogaming, and device convergence as well as general technology adoption and usage trends in Europe.

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Tuesday, 16 October 2007

Wagner James
Wagner James Au
James is author of New World Notes (nwn.blogs.com), the longest-running Second Life blog, launched during his stint as an "embedded journalist" with Linden Lab, continuing in 2006 as an independent site with Federated Media. He's also the game/online world editor for GigaOM.com, and author of the upcoming book “The Making of Second Life: Notes from the New World” from HarperCollins, set for a March 2008 publication.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 16 October 2007 )

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Tuesday, 16 October 2007

Daan Josephus
Since 2006, Daan Josephus Jitta is responsible for Direct Channels and
Innovation for commercial clients at ABN AMRO Netherlands. He was also
responsible for ABN AMRO's launch of a virtual branch in Second Life, the
first bank in Europe to open such a branch. Daan Josephus Jitta (1964)
studied Physics at the University of Amsterdam and has had various business
assignments for ABN AMRO in the last 8 years. Before 1999, he worked for 14
years for Pink Elephant in the Netherlands, a Dutch ICT services company."

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Wednesday, 04 July 2007

Raph Koster
Raph Koster is President at AreaE. Raph got started in virtual worlds back in the days of the text MUDs in the early 90s, working on LegendMUD. He was creative lead on the original Ultima Online and lead designer for UO Live and Ultima Online: The Second Age while working for ORIGIN and Electronic Arts. He then went on to be creative director on Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided, for Sony Online Entertainment. From 2003 to 2006 he served as Chief Creative Officer at Sony Online. He’s also the author of the acclaimed book A Theory of Fun for Game Design, and somehow finds the time to write constantly on his popular blog.

Last Updated ( Friday, 27 July 2007 )

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Tuesday, 03 July 2007

Aleks Krotoski
Aleks Krotoski is a columnist for The Guardian's Technology section and for Guardian Unlimited, where she writes about the social dimensions of interactive entertainment, emerging community experiences in virtual worlds and other aspects of social software. She is currently working towards a PhD in social psychology examining the social networks of Second Life. In particular, she is interested in understanding online social influence, and how information diffuses through online populations.

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Tuesday, 16 October 2007

Robert Lai
Robert Lai is the Chief Scientist for the Beijing China Recreation District (CRD), the China government’s largest digital media initiative, and the world’s most ambitious Virtual Worlds project. China is preparing for the future today by reengineering its infrastructure for business operations to include virtual world technologies , we envision being able to use virtual world technologies to simulate business operations, environments, communities, as well as social interactions and collaborative education. The CRD project is looking for partners from all over the world, for infrastructure development, network connection, IDC, billing, settlement, CRM, banking services, and game platforms, as well as offering outsourcing services, e.g. graphic, localization, CRM, etc. CRD also use this infrastructure to offer virtual world products and services from China to the rest of world through the ‘Dotman’ virtual worlds platform.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 16 October 2007 )

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Monday, 24 September 2007

Paul Ledak
Paul Ledak serves as the vice president of Development for IBM's Emerging Business Opportunity in Digital Convergence. In this role, Mr. Ledak has responsible for IBM's efforts in media and 3D convergence, including IBM's efforts in Virtual Worlds. Mr. Ledak's prior responsibilities have included the creation of the IBM E&TS division, a former Emerging Business Opportunity which has grown to over $1B in signings. Among his accomplishments was the creation of a consumer electronics industry focus which led to winning the processor development effort for all 3 major gaming consoles. Mr. Ledak holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Much of Ledak's more than 20-year career at IBM has been spent in microprocessor development, where he played a key role in the early development of IBM PowerPC technology and its growth as the industry-leading technology it is today.

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Tuesday, 16 October 2007

Bjorn Lee
Bjorn Lee is Manager of International Operations at Beijing-based startup
Hipihi, where he will facilitate the interactions of community and
corporate partners with Hipihi's user population. Prior to Hipihi, Bjorn had
worked in Silicon Valley, Singapore and Vietnam. An occasional blogger,
he writes about consumer internet, space exploration and other worthy
snippets from his life as a digital nomad

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Wednesday, 04 July 2007

Joe Little
Joe Little works in the Chief Technology Office of the BP Group, looking at new and emerging technologies for real business value. His specialisation is in collaboration and social networking focussing on the adoption of blogs, wikis and podcasting initiatives in the group as well as a more recent ground breaking social networking project aimed at the 18-27 year old passionate car driver (www.motoraddicts.com) and tools to connect problem seekers with problem solvers. Joe also specialises in Rich Internet Applications and has more recently focussed on researching potential technology transfers from the Games Industry including marketing in games (resulting in the partnership between the Castrol Edge and Microsoft racing game brands such as Forza and PGR), learning through games and new approaches to simulation, modelling and visualisation through games and virtual worlds. In 2007 the team is looking at the emergence of Location Aware technologies and their impact on the enterprise.Joe’s previous roles include Project Manager of large scale ERP deployments across the globe, the Business Information Manager for the Company Secretary, Group Marketing and Communications and External Affairs functions in BP. He is recently married and also writes a blog http://joelittle.typepad.com/dinosaur_thing/

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Tuesday, 16 October 2007

Mattias Miksche
Mattias Miksche is the CEO and co-founder of Stardoll, an international entertainment community for teen and tween girls. Prior to Stardoll, he founded online DVD rental company Boxman merging with Lovefilm in 2005 to form Europe's largest DVD rental and movie download company. Mattias was one of the original European founders of E*TRADE Financial and holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics and attended The Anderson School of Management at UCLA.

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Monday, 30 July 2007

Jess Mulligan
Jessica Mulligan is Executive Producer for Online Games at Sunflowers GmbH in Germany , and is an online game professional with over twenty years of industry experience at all levels of management. Currently Executive Producer for Online Games at Sunflowers GmbH in Germany, she was recently a consultant to the Board of Directors for Nevrax and Executive Producer of Saga of Ryzom for Nevrax - Paris. Her past positions include Executive Producer and Creative Director at Turbine Entertainment Software on the Asheron's Call franchise, the Director handling in-game events and story in Ultima Online for Electronic Arts, Director of Operations for MM3D Inc on the Middle Earth Online game and positions with AOL, National Videotex and Interplay Productions, among others, in various executive and management roles. A respected author and commentator on online games, Jessica is the co-author of "Developing Online Games: An Insider's Guide" with Bridgette Patrovsky, which was published worldwide in 2003 in several languages, including Chinese and Korean and is widely considered the ëbibleí of online game development. She was also the author of the influential bi-weekly industry opinion column, Biting the Hand (www.skotos.net/articles), between 1997 and 2003. Jessica has served on the Board of Advisors for the Austin Game Developers Conference for three years.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 22 August 2007 )

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Wednesday, 01 August 2007

David Naylor
David Naylor is a partner in the Technology Law Group at Field Fisher Waterhouse. He focuses on working with new media, internet, technology, communications and IP-focused businesses and investors. He advises clients at every stage of development, from entrepreneurial new ventures to some of the world's best-known multinationals. David led the project to make his firm the world's first major law firm with offices in Second Life, and he is currently advising several clients on a range of virtual worlds legal projects and matters. He is also the co-author of the chapter on Mass Market Online and Technology Contracting in the 6th Edition of OUP's Computer Law text book, the founder of the Communications Group, a technology, media and communications networking forum, and on the editorial board of silicon.com. He is acknowledged as a leading lawyer in publications including Legal 500, PLCís "Which Lawyer?" and "Who's Who Legal", and has an MBA from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 02 August 2007 )

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Wednesday, 04 July 2007

Greg Nuyens
Greg Nuyens. CEO, Qwaq
Greg Nuyens has more than twenty years experience as a high tech entrepreneur, including founding and executive roles at both private and public companies.
Most recently, he was CEO of Devicescape whose venture backers include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and August Capital. Previously, Greg served as CTO of Neomar, a provider of wireless infrastructure software to Fortune 1000 enterprises, and chief technologist at Inktomi. Earlier, he served as co-founder at Ilog, director at Sun Microsystems and researcher at Xerox PARC and Xerox AI Systems. Greg holds a MS in Computer Science from Stanford University and a BS in Computer Science from Carleton University.

Last Updated ( Monday, 09 July 2007 )

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Wednesday, 01 August 2007

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.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 02 August 2007 )

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Monday, 30 July 2007

Michael Parsons
Michael Parsons is the Site Director for CNET.co.uk and also writes a weekly column for the Times Online technology section. He has been worrying about technology for the last 15 years. He spent six years in Silicon Valley during the Internet boom, as news editor at Infoworld and deputy editor of the Industry Standard magazine, and then came back to London as editorial director of the Industry Standard Europe. He remembers buying a Texas Instruments calculator with red LEDs and thinking it was pretty hot stuff.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 01 August 2007 )

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Monday, 30 July 2007

Adam Pasick
Adam Pasick, 31, is the Reuters bureau chief in the virtual world of Second Life. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, he is a veteran technology and media writer. His coverage, including scoops on FBI investigations and Congressional inquiries into Second Life, has been picked up by dozens of real-world media outlets, and he has been nominated as UK business reporter of the year. He is married and lives in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.

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Monday, 17 September 2007

Dominic Peachey
Dominic Peachey worked in the Corporate Finance Division of merchant bankers Kleinwort Benson for 20 years until 1996. Thereafter, his career has taken him through the National Audit Office and the Building Societies Commission to the Financial Services Authority where, since 2000, he had been Policy Adviser in the Wholesale and Prudential Policy Division. Dominic's policy resonsibilities have included electronic money, payment systems, e-banking, and Operational Risk, Systems and Controls.

Last Updated ( Friday, 12 October 2007 )

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Monday, 30 July 2007

Jerry Paffendorf
Jerry Paffendorf is Co-Founder at Wello Horld and Co-Author, Metaverse Roadmap. Jerry is an artist, futurist, and entrepreneur at the intersection of the web, video games, virtual worlds, and the real world. He is co-founder of Wello Horld, a startup whose mission is to transform the World Wide Web into the World Wide World. Previously he was Resident Futurist with The Electric Sheep Company where he provided strategy insights, a public face, and R&D direction as the company grew from 3 to more than 60 employees and opened up the platform virtual world development space. Jerry often organizes and speaks at conferences and is co-author of the Metaverse Roadmap cross-industry foresight report with the Acceleration Studies Foundation, where he also worked previously as a community and research director. He has an MS in Studies of the Future, a BFA in video and multi-media, a GED, and lives in Brooklyn, New York (AKA "Silicon Ghetto"), the emerging world metaverse capital. Jerry is turtles all the way down.

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Wednesday, 04 July 2007

Meg Pickard
Meg Pickard recently joined The Guardian as Head of Communities and User Experience for Guardian Unlimited. Although she originally trained as an anthropologist, conducting ethnographic research within online communities, she succumbed to the Internet industry’s bright lights over a decade ago. She joined AOL UK in 1998 where she conceived and developed bespoke editorial-commercial projects, before taking on a wider role with AOL Europe in 2005, becoming Consumer Experience Lead for Social Media products & initiatives. Meg is also one of the longest-running bloggers in the UK, as well as being a passionate photographer, writer and geek.

Last Updated ( Monday, 09 July 2007 )

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Tuesday, 03 July 2007

Steve Prentice
Steve Prentice is Group Vice President and Chief of Research at Gartner and takes a particular interest in the longer term (5-10 year) scenario for the development of IT infrastructure, its evolving role in enabling new business models and the impact of new technologies and consumer market trends. Steve joined Gartner in 997 from GPT Limited, where he was Director of Marketing with their Payphones group. Prior to GPT he held a variety of marketing oriented roles with both software and hardware vendors, including seven years with Logica Limited, undertaking a wide range of projects in the IT and telecommunications sectors. Steve holds a B.Sc. Hons. degree in marine biology from the University of Liverpool, a postgraduate diploma in technological economics from the University of Stirling and a postgraduate certificate in business management from Coventry University.

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Wednesday, 01 August 2007

David Puttnam
Lord Puttnam of Queensgate, CBE President Of Unicef UK
David Puttnam was educated in London at Minchenden Grammar School, and completed his education through evening classes at City and Guilds, London. After ten years in the advertising industry, he spent thirty years as an independent film producer. His many award winning films include The Mission, the Killing Fields, Local Hero, Chariots of Fire, Midnight Express, Bugsy Malone, and The Memphis Belle. He was Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Columbia Pictures from 1986 to 1988 - the only non-American ever to run a Hollywood Studio. David retired from film production in 1998 to focus on his work in education. He was Chancellor of the University of Sunderland from 1998 to July this year, and recently became Chancellor of the Open University. He was the founder (in 1998) and is Chair of Trustees of the National Teaching Awards. In addition to having served as the first Chair of the General Teaching Council for England (2000-2002), he has also served on a variety of other public bodies. He was founding Chair of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, and for ten years chaired the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television. He was also Vice President and Chair of Trustees at BAFTA from 1994 to 2004, and was awarded a BAFTA Fellowship in 2006. In February 2006 he became Deputy Chairman of Channel Four, in April 2006 Chairman of Futurelab and in April 2007, Chairman of Profero. Also in April 2007 he was appointed Chairman of the Climate Change Bill’s Joint-Parliamentary Scrutiny Committee. His most recent appointment is as Chairman of the North Music Trust Board at The Sage Gateshead. In July 2002, David was appointed President of UNICEF UK, and has played a key role in promoting UNICEF’s advocacy, awareness and fundraising objectives. In the UK he has been instrumental in helping to forge new fundraising partnerships within the film, music and property industries, and has spoken at numerous events. David was awarded a CBE in 1982, received a Knighthood in 1995 and was appointed to the House of Lords in 1997. In France he has been honoured as a Chevalier (‘85), Officer (’92) and, most recently (2006) Commander of Arts and Letters.

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Ren Reynolds
Ren Reynolds is a consultant, philosopher and writer based in the UK and numerous virtual worlds. Academically Ren writes about the philosophy / ethics of technology, computer games and virtual worlds. As global head of strategy for Internet, Mobile & Applications for Cable & Wireless, Ren developed a Digital Media service portfolio. Ren has also consulted in marketing and product strategy / development for British Airways, BBC, Sky, Publicis and the UK Government; and has written extensively for IBM on the business application of emerging technologies for strategic advantage. Ren has numerous media credits including MTV, G4 TV, BBC World Service, NY Public Radio, Radio Sweden, and has been interviewed by New Scientist, Popular Science, The Guardian and many others.

Last Updated ( Monday, 09 July 2007 )

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Monday, 24 September 2007

Ben Richardson
Ben Richardson leads strategic partnership activities for Makena Technologies involving interactive advertising, product and content integration and custom worlds development. He is also a company spokesperson and has been quoted in a variety of consumer and industry publications regarding virtual worlds. Prior to Makena, Mr. Richardson spent five years as a management consultant in the financial, news media and wine industries, assisting in funding and business planning. Prior to consulting, Mr. Richardson served as General Manager of Onvia, a business-to-business ecommerce and services provider that he helped found and lead to $150M in revenue and a $240M IPO.

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Tuesday, 16 October 2007

Sean Seton-Rogers
Sean Seton-Rogers
Sean joined Benchmark from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His experience includes working in sales at BEA Systems. Prior to BEA and Wharton, Sean spent four years with Commonwealth Capital Ventures, an early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Boston. While at Commonwealth, Sean drove pilot investments in EDA software, Internet infrastructure, and enterprise software. Before that, Sean worked as a consultant in London for Bain & Company.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 16 October 2007 )

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Monday, 01 October 2007

Rob Seaver
Rob Seaver, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Rob Seaver brings extensive experience in communications and online services to Vivox. Before joining industry pioneer Jeff Pulver in launching Vivox, Seaver was head of strategy, chief financial officer, and a member of the management board of Einsteinet AG, where he helped build the company from start-up to Euro 65 million in revenue and 440 employees. As managing director of Madrid-based Jazzya Investments, he planned and executed the launch of new communication and media ventures. Prior to that, he held positions in investment banking at Goldman Sachs International and as an attorney with Sullivan & Cromwell in London. Seaver holds a JD from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB degree from Harvard College.

Last Updated ( Monday, 01 October 2007 )

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Tuesday, 16 October 2007

Mat Small
Mat Small
Media Strategy Director, Millions of Us
Mat Small determines media strategy for fast-growing Millions of Us, an agency specializing in virtual worlds. Small joined Millions of Us in May 2007 from Bite Communications, where he helped to launch Sun Microsystems in Second Life and played a key role on the Gaia Online account.With nine years of experience in corporate communications, Small's experience includes work with old and new media outlets ranging from Geek Entertainment Television to The Economist. Small holds a B.A. from McGill University and an M.A. from the University of Southern California.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 16 October 2007 )

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Wednesday, 04 July 2007

Timo Soininen
Timo Soininen, CEO, Sulake Corporation Ltd. Timo Soininen is the CEO of Sulake Corporation, an interactive entertainment company based in Helsinki, Finland. Sulake (employing around 300 people and operateing in 19 countries) is a community based entertainment company focused on online communities, casual multiplayer games and social media. Sulake’s main product is Habbo, a new type of youth brand, which is based on one of the world’s fastest growing online communities for teenagers. Timo was appointed CEO of Sulake in 2001. Previously he worked for online recruitment company StepStone as Marketing Director for Finland and Sweden, and has over ten years’ experience from senior posts in consumer and B2B marketing functions for international brand companies. Timo holds an M.Sc. (Econ.) degree in Marketing from Helsinki School of Economics.

Last Updated ( Monday, 30 July 2007 )

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Monday, 17 September 2007

Michael Smith
Michael is CEO and founder of interactive entertainment specialists, Mind Candy. The company recently launched Moshi Monsters, a new virtual world and online game aimed at children (7-12 year-olds).
Kids adopt a unique, animated Monster from the world of Monstro City, and then nurture it by interacting with other Monsters and solving the daily puzzle games it sends them. Mind Candy's first project was Perplex City, an Alternate Reality Game played by thousands of people around the world across many different types of media including mobile phones, email, billboard advertising, actors at live events and skywriting. Prior to Mind Candy, Michael co-founded Firebox.com (online retailer of
gadgets, games and gifts) and Second Chance Tuesday (events to connect technology investors with entrepreneurs).

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Monday, 30 July 2007

Reuben Steiger
Reuben Steiger is CEO and Founder of Millions of Us
Previously, Steiger was the Evangelist for Linden Lab, creators of the 3-D virtual world Second Life, where he was responsible for business development and bringing the first wave of corporations and commercial developers into Second Life.
Prior to Linden Lab, he worked for Las Vegas mogul Steve Wynn as VP of Interactive Services, leading efforts to translate the vision of the still unfinished $2.8 billion casino to the web. Until 2002, he was Chief Development Officer at OVEN Digital, where he helped build that company into the world's largest privately-owned Internet consultancy with 11 offices and 350 employees worldwide. At OVEN, Steiger headed efforts to build the world's most advanced broadband services firm, creating OneCosmos.net, a 3-D model of the known physical universe as well as a host of next generation broadband services for WINFirst, a $900 million Fiber-to-the-Home company.
Steiger holds a BA in English Literature from Brown University and lives in Marin County with his wife and two young children.

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Tuesday, 16 October 2007

Jason Stodard
Jason Stoddard is the founder and Managing Partner/Interactive for
Centric, Agency of Change. For 13 years, Jason has helped clients stay ahead of accelerating change in marketing strategies and tactics — from the first websites in 1994 to social media and virtual marketing today. Jason is also a professional science fiction writer, with publications in Interzone, Sci Fiction, Strange Horizons, and other venues, and is a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and Sidewise Award.

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Tuesday, 03 July 2007

Alice Taylor
Alice Taylor is Commissioning Editor, Education, Channge 4 TV.

Alice Taylor has over a decade of experience working in new media, from developing Channel 4’s first website (www.channel4.com) in early ‘96 to more recently, Vice President of Digital Media for BBC Worldwide in Hollywood. Alice specializes in cross-media entertainment, videogames and interactive entertainment and was recently a judge for the 2006 Machinima awards, the 2007 Independent Games Festival and Edge Magazine Awards. Alice founded the gamecentric blog Wonderland (www.wonderlandblog.com) and has written about gaming for sites and magazines, including BBC News, The Guardian, Paste magazine, the New Statesman, and Kotaku. Wonderland was recently nominated for Best Non-Commercial Website or Blog in the MCV Games Media Awards.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 25 September 2007 )

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Monday, 01 October 2007

David Triesman
David Triesman, Lord Triesman of Tottenham
has been appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (PUSS) in the newly created Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills with responsibility for the UK’s Intellectual Property Office among many others. Prior to this post, Lord Triesman was PUSS at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with responsibility for relations with Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Overseas Territories and the Commonwealth.

David’s background is in epidemiology at the Institute of Psychiatry, London University, and had a visiting professorship in the United States in Econometrics and become a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. He is currently Visiting Fellow in Economics at the University of Cambridge and Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College.

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Wednesday, 04 July 2007

Marco van Veen
Marco van Veen joined Heineken International as Manager of Web & Innovation Centre in 2006 , having worked in the the online industry for eight years. In 1997 he was one of the founders of BP's Dutch loyalty scheme Freebees. He has also worked as a Client Manager for the Netherlands based web agency Lost Boys , s part of the LBICON network and listed at Amsterdam and Swedish stock exchange.
Within Heineken International Marco is responsible for the strategy, development and roll out of all global online programs including Heineken.com, UEFA Champions League sponsorship and Rugby Worldcup sponsorship etc..

Last Updated ( Monday, 09 July 2007 )

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Monday, 30 July 2007

Susan Wu
Susan joins CRV with 12 years of operating experience working with early stage technology ventures. Susan is a member and the former CMO of the Apache Software Foundation, one of the world's most influential open source software organizations. Susan's roots in the open source community stems from her long-abiding interest in how technology catalyzes social and economic change. She began her career as the chief architect of an early massively multiplayer online game and has remained active in online gaming. She was the Executive Producer of GXMod, a widely popular, award winning Quake 2 enhancement. Susan also contributed to components of the open source Nebula 3D graphics and game engine. Prior to her work at Apache, Susan was the VP of Strategic Alliances for Predictive Systems, a NASDAQ-listed security services firm that was acquired by International Network Services (INS) in 2003. Susan also served as the VP of Strategic Development for Opus360, a provider of on demand human resources and project management solutions. Susan co-authored Opus360's business plan, led business development activities, and helped steer the company to a public offering in 2000. Prior to Opus360, Susan was the Director of Development at USWeb/CKS, where she led the development and design of some of the world's first community-centric consumer Internet businesses. Susan received her BA from Tufts University and an MBA with distinction from Cornell University, where she was a Park Fellow and a Bristol Myers Squibb Fellow. She maintains a popular blog at www.reality.org.

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Monday, 13 August 2007

Gene Yoon
Ginsu Yoon is Vice President, Business Affairs at Linden Lab. Gene handles a variety of business matters for Linden Lab, including international market development, corporate and business development, and external developer programs. He was also previously the company's general counsel and provided interim leadership for finance. Prior to Linden Lab, he was general counsel and corporate secretary at Airespace, a wireless LAN equipment company, where he negotiated key strategic relationships, including the sale of the company to Cisco Systems. Before joining Airespace, Gene was a principal at KTB Ventures, leading the firm's investments in wireless communications, networking equipment and semiconductors. He worked with the Airespace founders prior to joining KTB, while consulting with portfolio companies of Storm Ventures. He practiced law at Venture Law Group, advising many technology startups and venture capital firms, and at Kirkland & Ellis in New York, where his practice focused on leveraged buyouts and other complex corporate transactions. Gene received an A.B. degree from Princeton University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 14 August 2007 )