FountainBlue's Annual Virtual Worlds Conference September 25, 2009

FountainBlue's Virtual Worlds Annual Conference
Topic: Virtual Worlds: Where We Were, Where We're Going, What Does It Mean to YOU?
Date & time: Friday, September 25, 2009, from 8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Location: Sun Microsystems, 4030 George Sellon Circle, Santa Clara

Annual Event Cost:
Register by September 24 at noon: $50 members, $55 partners, $60 general
THERE WILL BE NO LATE OR ON-SITE REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT.
Registration: We will plant a tree for everyone who pre-registers by noon on 9/24 using the PayPal link at http://www.svvirtualworlds.com.
Audience: Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs and Investors only. No service providers please.

Virtual Worlds: Where We Were, Where We're Going, What Does It Mean to YOU?
FountainBlue's Virtual World Program Team invites interested entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and investors to join us for FountainBlue's Annual Virtual World Conference. This annual conference will showcase where we've been and where we're going in virtual worlds, featuring key stakeholders, including entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and investors in this space. Our virtual world program team will also invite six entrepreneurs to present their pitches to the panel, and to the audience.

Agenda
8:00 Registration and Networking
8:30 Welcomes and Thank Yous
• Michael Gialis, New Business Development for Sun Microsystem’s Lab and Chief Technology Office
• Barry Holroyd, CTO, Masher Media
8:45 Presentation on Virtual Worlds – What is it, Where Has it Been?
• Benjamin Duranske, Associate, Pillsbury Winthrop
9:15 First Panel Discussion: Virtual World Business Trends
• Moderator Sibley Verbeck, CEO, The Electric Sheep Company
• Panelist Joshua Bell, Director, Technology Integration, Linden Lab
• Panelist Tim Chang, Principal, Norwest Venture Partners
• Panelist Benjamin Duranske, Associate, Pillsbury Winthrop
• Panelist Michael Gold, CEO, Electrotank
10:15 Morning Break, with Corporate Exhibits
10:30 Second Panel Discussion: Virtual World Case Studies
• Moderator Jeffrey Pope, Founder of Virtual Worlds Roadmap Group, Former Virtual Worlds VC and Virtual Worlds Entrepreneur
• Panelist Jack Buser, Director of Sony Playstation Home
• Panelist David Helgason, CEO, Unity
• Panelist Greg Nuyens, CEO, Qwaq
• Panelist Reuben Steiger, Chairman of the Board, Virtual Greats
11:30 Lunch Break, with Corporate Presentations
• Chris Platz, Creative Director, Sirikata, Stanford Humanities Lab and Computer Science, projects: Virtual Museum and Virtual Live Music Performance
• Nicole Yankelovich, Principal Investigator, Collaborative Environments program including Wonderland v0.5, Sun Labs will demo the new features / functionality and capability of our re-architected platform.
12:30 Entrepreneur Presentations
• In the Consumer, Six to Twelve Category:
o Sherry Gunther, CEO, Masher Media
• In the Consumer, Teenagers to Adult Category:
o Troy Hipolito, CTO and Owner, ISO Interactive
• In the Enterprise, Virtual Events and Tradeshows etc. Category:
o Terry Thorpe, Chairman, KohdSpace
• In the Enterprise, Virtual Meetings Category:
o Dustin Clingman, Immediate Mode Interactive LLC
• In the Enterprise, Other Category (Collaboration in Health Care):
o Brian Bauer, OnTrack Health
• In the Enterprise, Other Category (Virtual Real Estate and Office Tools):
o Stevan Lieberman, CEO, SpotON3D
• Other, non-presenting entrepreneurs with demos on display include:
o Andrew Filev, CloudMach
o Greg Howes, IdeaBuilder
2:30 Adjourn and Further Networking until 3:00; Exhibits will stay open until 3:30 p.m.

Resources:
• Linden Lab: Second Life enters the realm of the enterprise
Joe Miller, VP of Platforms and Technology Development, at Linden Lab talks to CNET’s Dan Farber about the challenges in developing dynamic and reliable backend operations for the 3D virtual world of Second Life. Miller also discusses how they’re incorporating new hi-tech conferencing tools for business users such as VoIP solutions and video streaming technologies. http://video.zdnet.com/CIOSessions/?p=310
• Linden Lab’s Blog on the Economy https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2009/04/16/the-second-life-economy--first-quarter-2009-in-detail
• Second Life Starts To Grow Again, Wagner James Au, Wednesday, April 15, 2009 http://gigaom.com/2009/04/15/exclusive-internal-second-life-data-shows-returning-growth/

For more information and to register, visit http://www.svvirtualworlds.com.

Official Website: http://www.svvirtualworlds.com