Real World and In-World Meet at the Same Place
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The slconference 2007 will take place from September 16 – 18, 2007 not only in Berlin – Alexanderplatz at the Park-Inn Hotel but also at newBERLIN in the virtual world Second Life. The Real Life conference includes a one-day workshop (Sunday) and a two-day conference. Expected are around 300 participants for the event, mainly coming from Europe, longing for inspiration for their own Second Life projects and wanting to get informed and introduced to Second Life.
Topics that will be covered during the conference are: Business & Marketing, Education, Art, Design & Scripting and Community & Citizenship. Among the newly-won speakers for the conference is Ideea's executive director Peter Brüggemann, who will talk about experiences ideea had during the development and what goals they have with their virtual island, that celebrated its grand opening in Second Life last week. Furthermore, Domenico Zungri from Italy will hold a session about “acquiring awareness of professional vocations using Second Life”. A speaker in the community track is Simon Künzler who will talk about “building a national community for users and enterprises” taking as an example the Swiss community.
Jan Northoff and Tobias Neiseke, founders of YOUseeMEin3D.com and newBERLIN, a true to scale reproduction of Berlin in Second Life, will host the conference In-World. It demonstrate even more the interfaces of real and virtual life and how these are connected. The two founders of YOUseeMEin3D.com, will also be present as speakers at the slconference 2007. Jan Northoff will explain exactly the “Interfaces - from Second Life to Real Life and vice versa” in a workshop on September 16. Tobias Neisecke will give a lecture on “newBERLIN, the city of Berlin scaled 1 to 1 in Second Life”.
The event is organised by cocoate.com, a management consultancy company, emphasizing on the integration of open source projects, coaching and teaching.
Further information and the registration form for the conference can be found on www.slconference.eu.
cocoate.com is a consultancy company, concentrating on consulting, coaching and teaching. Its emphasis lies in process optimization, project management and IT trainings. For more information visit www.cocoate.com
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Christine Graf
32 rue du Pla
11510 Fitou
France
slconference@cocoate.com
www.slconference.eu
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