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
Scott Ambler, Practice Leader, Agile Development, IBM Rational - Agile programming guru Scott Ambler delivers his keynote live (or nearly so) from the floor of SD Best Practices in Boston. His topic: the challenges of Geographically Distributed Development (GDD) and possible solutions in immersive collaboration platforms.
THE OPENSOURCE GRID
10:00 - 11:00 AM SLT
PANEL: Eddy Stryker, otakup0pe Neumann (libsecondlife), John Zhaoying (CMP Metaverse), (and a couple bots with attitude) - BOTS! BOTS! BOTS! Client-driven, increasingly intelligent bots are becoming a backbone enabling technology for a host of metaverse apps and services, from enhanced asset-creation, to remote-management, leveraged social networking, search and more.
MIRROR WORLDS - THE EXTENDED METAVERSE
11:00 - NOON SLT
Julian Lombardi, Croquet Consortium - Croquet is an astonishing opensource metaverse platform, offering features arguably a generation or two beyond current commercially-available/accessible alternatives. One of six key architects of Croquet -- now also Chairman of the Board of the Croquet Consortium (as well as Assistant VP of Academic Services and Technology Support, and a Senior Research Scholar with Duke's Information Science/Studies program), professor Lombardi will give us the lowdown on this powerful and increasingly accessible tool, and the culture growing up around it.
WEB 3.0 TO WORKPLACE
NOON - 1:00 PM SLT
EOLUS McMillan - EOLUS island is the most advanced experiment in SL-to-RL integration yet, comprising a 3D user interface to environmental control, ERP, v-commerce and other applications. Hear its chief architect describe the technologies and techniques, and join us later at 3:30 PM for a guided tour of EOLUS Island.
METAVERSE METRICS AND ANALYTICS
1:00 - 2:00 PM SLT
Hackshaven Harford (MayaRealities) - As head of NOAA's metaverse efforts, and prime mover behind a cross-disciplinary cooperative of government science and educational organizations in Second Life, Hackshaven Harford is a sophisticated consumer of metrics data. Now, as principal of MayaRealities, he's a metrics service provider as well.
2:00 - 2:30 PM SLT
Jay Clarke, IBM - One of the chief architects of IBM CodeStation shares some of what he's learned about creating developer communities in the metaverse.
TOURS (meet in amphitheatre)
2:30 - 3:30 PM SLT
TOUR: IBM - We'll visit CodeStation and other developer resources across the IBM archipelago
3:30 - 4:30 PM SLT
TOUR: EOLUS Island - A sim-sized, dynamic experiment in 3D user interface engineering and enterprise-scale application integration
4:30 - 5:30 PM SLT
TOUR: Weather Channel - One of the most ambitious web-interactive builds in SL, TWC is earning rave reviews from tourists and technologists alike!
EVENING PROGRAM
5:30 - 7:30 PM SLT
Party on with DJ Adrienne Arliss at the Dr Dobbs Island beach club!
