Over the next two months, I will be doing a fair bit of speaking regarding the future of the virtual workforce and workspaces, which will coincide with the release of Technology Intelligence Group's Industry Outlook 2008-2009.
Tomorrow, I am virtually participating on the "Future of Virtual Worlds" panel as part of the vBusinessExpo in Forterra OLIVE, organized by Clever Zebra. I will be joining Bruce Joy of VastPark, Nicole Yankelovich of Sun's Project Wonderland, Darius Lahoutifard of 3DXplorer, Corey Bridges of Multiverse, and John Swords of the Electric Sheep Company. I guess I am the only non-platform person there. :-)
Next week, I am traveling to Los Angeles (and bringing my children to the House of Mouse) to speak on Rita Turkowski's panel at the Web3D conference attached to SIGGRAPH. The panel, on Sunday August 10th, is entitled "I see Web3D's Future in..." and will have panelists from diverse parts of industry so it should be an interesting cocktail.
Shortly thereafter, I return to the City of Angels (fulfilling the curse laid upon me when I moved from there in 1996 warning that people can never actually escape) to speak at the Virtual Worlds Expo 2008, where I will be participating on the September 3rd "Technical Visionaries Discuss and Debate The Future of Virtual World Technologies" panel with an august group of visionaries including John Swords, Ian Hughes (epredator), and Mark Wallace. This one should be fun to watch, and if it wasn't so early in the morning, I'd bring a bottle of Tequila to get things rolling properly.
To round out September, I will be returning to beautiful Coventry England to keynote the Serious Virtual Worlds conference held by David Wortley of the Coventry University Serious Games Institute. If you haven't followed the work they are doing there, and those that are working closely with SGI, you should take the time to do so.
The good news is that all of my other engagements during August and September are virtual in nature and will not be emitting the carbon of actual air travel. Now, I'm off to go plant a forest in my backyard to offset these trips.
Wow, that's a lot of panels! Safe travels. Pretty soon you're going to need your own PR representative...
LA rocks! (too soon?)
Posted by: Aaron Uhrmacher | July 30, 2008 at 12:49 PM