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Download: Notes from 27 June 2008 panel session in Second Life. (Second Life session was part of one-day meeting of VWW meeting at SRI International Headquarters in Menlo Park, California.)
Virtual Worlds @ Work Panel Session in vBus Expo
On 30 July 2008 at 11:00 a.m. PST, Eilif Trondsen, director of VWW, will chair a panel discussion on the use of virtual worlds for enterprise applications. Panelists include: John Boring, CEO of Accelerate L&D; Anders Gronstedt, CEO of Gronstedt Group; and Dan Gillette of Greeleaf Medical. For more information, see: http://www.cleverzebra.com.
Virtual Worlds and Innovation
A workshop will take place at Helsinki School of Economics on 27–29 August 2008, in Helsinki, Finland. One of the sessions will explore new directions and issues related to employee engagement, distributed organizations, and virtual worlds. Session participants will include Eilif Trondsen, director of VWW, and others from Nokia, VTT, Helsinki University of Technology, and Helsinki School of Economics.
Download the full workshop program.
Virtual Worlds @Work: Onboarding and Sales Training
On 4 September 2008 at 11:00 a.m., Eilif Trondsen will join two colleagues in this session of the Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo in Los Angeles. Our session will leverage and build on the one-day meeting we held on this topic at SRI on 28 April 2008. For more information on this conference, see http://www.virtualworldsexpo.com/schedule/enterprise.html.
Virtual Worlds Survey: Year in Review, Year Ahead
This survey was completed and discussed at our VWW meeting on 27 June 2008. The summary of the survey will be available shortly.
Virtual-Worlds Special Interest Group
This Special Interest Group (SIG) has regular events in Silicon Valley on various virtual worlds issues. Eilif Trondsen is a co-chair of this SIG. For more information on this SIG and upcoming events, please see: http://tinyurl.com/6h7tg7
Serious Virtual Worlds '08
This conference will be held at Coventry TechnoCentre, England during 11–12 September 2008. For more information, please see: http://www.seriousvirtualworlds.net/.
Virtual Worlds London
20–21 October 2008, London, UK. For more information, see http://www.VirtualWorldsLondon.com.

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Games for Health
This is the fourth annual conference on games for health—taking place on 8–9 May 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland—as part of the Serious Games series of conferences, and this year a pre-conference event will be on Virtual Worlds & Health and Game Accessibility. For more information, see: http://www.gamesforhealth.org/index3.html.
Virtual Worlds 2008 Conference
This is the second year of this conference—which held sessions in New York and San Jose in 2007—and this Spring's conference will take place in New York on 3–4 April 2008. For more information, see: http://www.virtualworlds2008.com.
Metaverse U Conference at Stanford University
This two-day, weekend conference will take place during 16–17 Februrary 2008 at Annenberg Auditorium at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. For more information, see: http://metaverseu.stanford.edu.
Virtual Worlds and New Realities in Commerce, Politics, and Society
The conference will take place at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia on 11 February 2008. For more information, see: http://tinyurl.com/3b4mqr.
MBA Leadership Conference
On 31 January 2008 Eilif Trondsen will be speaking at this Austin, Texas conference at a session on Strategic Use of Virtual Worlds for MBA Program Delivery. See: http://tinyurl.com/2fw6rb.
Metaverse Meetups at Stanford's Humanities Lab
On Thursday, 8 November 2007, Mike Liebhold from the Institute for the Future will speak on: 3D data for real world virtual worlds. The following Metaverse Meetup event will be on 29 November, when Jamais Cascio will speak about the Metaverse Roadmap. For information on this new Metaverse Meetup series, contact Eilif Trondsen.
New publications listed on VWC Website
See the full list of recently published VWC Viewpoints. We have also posted a report on the Serious Virtual Worlds conference in the UK, and will shortly post a report on the Virtual Worlds 2007 Fall conference, to be followed by a posting of a summary report of our October VWC meeting at SRI and the presentations made at the meeting.
Virtual Worlds Forum Europe
During 23–26 October 2007 in London, England, "Europe's first pan-European virtual worlds conference" will take place to explore the business possibilities of virtual worlds (see http://virtualworldsforum.com).
Virtual Worlds 2007 Fall
This conference will take place in San Jose, California, on 10–11 October 2007—the day after our first VWC meeting at SRI. For more information about the conference, see http://www.virtualworlds2007.com.
Serious Virtual Worlds
This conference will take place at the Serious Games Institute, Coventry, England, on 13–14 September 2007. For more information, see http://www.seriousvirtualworlds.net.
State of Play V in Singapore
This conference, State of Play V: Building the Global Metaverse, took place on 19–22 August 2007 in Singapore. For more information about the conference, see http://www.nyls.edu/pages/5057.asp.
Publication in eLearn Magazine
The article Another Life: Virtual Worlds as Tools for Learning, coauthored by Tony O'Driscoll of IBM, Jay Cross of Internet Time Group, and Eilif Trondsen of SRIC-BI, examines what virtual worlds may mean for the future of learning and training. You can find the article here: http://tinyurl.com/2mzp2v.
Seminars in Tokyo, Japan, and Seoul, South Korea
During the week of 29 May 2007, Eilif Trondsen gave two seminars in Tokyo (to representatives from more than a couple of dozen companies) and one in Seoul, plus three presentations at company facilities in Japan and Korea. He found strong interest in virtual worlds, but most attendees were less familiar with the use of virtual worlds for corporate applications than are companies in North America.
Participation in Statoil's Second Life exploration
Statoil is Norway's largest oil company and one of the world's top ten largest oil companies. We have been in discussion with several groups that are exploring how they can use virtual worlds, and on 26 July 2007 we saw and experienced what they have done so far in Second Life.
First VWC Viewpoints the week of 23 July 2007
The first monthly Viewpoints (VP) provides a high-level view of virtual worlds and some key issues and developments. Future VPs will address more focused and specific topics.