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's final day is today. If you were waiting until the last minute, well, this is it. Below the fold, you'll find a roundup of today's schedule.
SPECIAL KEYNOTE (amphitheatre)
8:00 - 9:00 AM SLT
Tateru Nino - "Diverse Ruminations on Human Factors in Virtual World Experiences, not Limited to the Unexpected Value of Misconceptions" - The internet engineer, metaverse metrics expert and software veteran will discuss how Novelty, Satisfaction, Friction, and Misconception interact in human experience, and why 'engineers of experience' can't afford to ignore their interplay.
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KEYNOTE
9:30 - 10:30 AM SLT
David Intersimone, Senior VP Developer Relations, Borland Codegear - Programming guru David I. is one of the best-loved and most widely-respected figures in software development and programming best-practice. In this, his first-ever appearance in Second Life, David will discuss the potential of virtual worlds as collaborative environments for coders. Note: this keynote will be simulcast to SD Best Practices in Boston, MA.
MIRROR WORLDS - THE EXTENDED METAVERSE
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM SLT
Corey Bridges (CMO, Multiverse) and Rafhael Cedeno (CTO, Multiverse) - Key movers behind the innovative Multiverse opensource metaverse creation platform and its community describe the system, the business model, and the creative role users play in extending the system and the network of worlds built upon it.
WEB 3.0 TO WORKPLACE
12:30 - 1:30 PM SLT
Cherub Spectre, PixelTrix - This inworld creator of stand-alone business tools discusses the SL office, and the fast-evolving state of the art in business applications and "bringing the desktop inworld."
METAVERSE METRICS AND ANALYTICS
1:30 - 2:30 PM SLT
David Orban, Questar - David describes experiments based on genetic algorithms, pointing towards a completely new approach in creating self-performance-measuring and self-optimizing infrastructure for SL commerce, interaction and metrics.
TOURS (meet in amphitheatre)
2:30 - 3:30 PM SLT
TOUR: Intel - Perhaps the ultimate SL destination for hardware engineers
3:30 - 4:30 PM SLT
TOUR: Cisco - We'll tour their newly-upgraded island, including resources for building the next generation of high-reliability and high-capacity metaverse applications
4:30 - 5:30 PM SLT
TOUR: Amazon - Home to the Amazon web services community in Second Life (and beautiful besides).
EVENING PROGRAM - UNTIL NEXT TIME!
5:30 - 7:30 PM SLT
Join us for a farewell party at the Beach Club, with country/R&B singer Kim Seifert.
