RL Event: Oct 11, Second Life: Open for Business? UC Irvine

The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology at UC Irvine has simply fantastic events - open to the public, stellar industry hosts, researchers and presenters on everything from telemedicine to gaming and virtual worlds.   Always great networking, wine and food too.

Well, this week on October 11 at 5:30 – 8:30 p.m., I am extremely privileged to be moderating a panel titled Second Life: Open for Business?  This particular event is being co-sponsored by UCI and Women In Technology International.  I invite you to come out in the O.C. and join us! 

Our panel covers a range of expertise and experience with the aim of giving us a broad and thoughtful perspective on Second Life as a business application/environment:

Crista Lopes of UC Irvine, co-inventor of Aspect Oriented Programming and creator of SLBrowser, will join the panel.  She is also using immersive environments to model and simulate a transportation system called SkyTran, according its real-world specifications.  Professor Lopes came to UCI from Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center.

Jeanette Gibson will join us from Second Life as a panelist.  She is the Director New Media & Corporate Communications at Cisco Systems.  Jeanette is responsible for extending Cisco's innovation with all types of new media. She will share Cisco’s insights related to their initiatives in researching 3D environments for enterprise applications.

A first mover in market research in virtual worlds, Mary Ellen Gordon, President of Market Truths is taking a detour on her way to Virtual Worlds 2007 to be with us to discuss her prolific and respected marketing research with avatars in immersive environments.

And on the virtual world development side, we have Ian Teapoot, Chief Creative Officer at Involve, Inc. In addition to his considerable experience in designing 3D environments, he also instructs game art, interactive media, animation and design at the Art Institute of California.

Get all the information - and register –at the WITI website here:  or at the Calit2 website under “Upcoming Events.” 

IM me if you have any questions - hope to see you there!

October 7, 2007