The Life 2.0 Summit, produced by CMP Technology/Dr. Dobb's Journal, is a quarterly conference on metaverse technology and best-practice for software developers and business stakeholders seeking to understand and use Second Life and other metaverse environments for customer engagement, commerce, collaboration, education, simulation and research.
The summit is on now and running until Friday. Below the fold, you'll find a roundup of today's schedule.
8:00 - 9:00 AM SLT
NETWORKING BREAKFAST (beach club)
KEYNOTE
9:00 - 10:00 AM SLT
Chris Melissinos, Chief Gaming Officer, Sun Microsystems - Sun's complex and powerful vision of the business, social and entertainment metaverse is detailed by one of its chief architects.
THE OPENSOURCE GRID
10:00 - 11:00 AM SLT
Keystone Bouchard, Clear Ink - Opensource Architecture: The creator of Virtual Capitol Hill and the SL extension of the famous TED conference discusses a unique project aimed at creating an SL 'Wiki' for disciplined opensourcing and collaborative creation of virtual and RL architectural components and structures.
MIRROR WORLDS - THE EXTENDED METAVERSE
11:00 - NOON SLT
Rupert Key, Sun Microsystems - MPK20, Sun's private virtual workplace, is a collaborative metaverse platform in Java, erected on Sun's Project Wonderland opensource 3D collaborative client system and the Project Darkstar game server platform.
WEB 3.0 TO WORKPLACE
NOON - 1:00 PM SLT
aEoLuS Waves - One of Second Life's most creative builders of information appliances explores the capabilities and business case for 'virtual PCs.'
METAVERSE METRICS AND ANALYTICS
1:00 - 2:00 PM SLT
PANEL: Hiro Pendragon (RL: Ron Blechman, Involve), Joel Greenburg (ESC), Jared Freedman (Code4), Spin Martin, Aimee Weber (AWA) - Engagement Metrics: Simple numbers aren't enough to judge ROI on metaverse investments. A new, and infinitely-arguable field of heuristic metrics, interpreted as quanta for engagement, is emerging in response.
[This promises to be a good one. Numbers definitely don't tell nearly the whole story]
SUN MINI-SUMMIT
2:30 - 3:30PM SLT
Sun's Chris Melissinos and Dr. Joseph Bianco, interviewed by Dobbs Fredriksson (Dr. Dobb's) and John Zhaoying (CMP Metaverse)
3:30 - 4:30PM SLT
TOUR: Sun Island - Join us for a tour of one of the most innovative and extensive developer-services builds in Second Life.
4:30 - ???PM SLT
Sun Reception - Adrienne Arlis spins 50s-90s Rock and Request at Sun Island's brand new nightclub!
