Fascinating ...

The folks over at Clever Zebra have put together a very ambitious program called "vBusiness Expo" which is running 8 hours a day (from 7am to 3pm SLT) for four days, Thursday through Sunday. I attended two presentations yesterday and have been at two today. Last night at the Chicago Metaverse Meetup I spoke with Jeremy Hunsinger (one of the few who braved the rain) who is speaking on the program tomorrow (but I'm likely to be AFK at the time, so will be missing his presentation).



I've been in the meeting/conference business for a long time, and I'm impressed with what C.Z. has put together here, as much of the planning and logistics are the same as doing a "meatspace" conference, just minus the registration, travel, housing, etc. What I've found is very nice is that this allows one to "cherry pick" what presentations one wants to show up for ... like being at a conference but back at my desk for the stuff that I'm not immediately interested in!

Their main auditorium at C.Z. is on the juncture of four Second Life sims, which allows them to have a whole bunch of avatars around at once. If you click through on the pic to the full-size version you can see the light blue lines on the floor which indicates where the sim borders are ... the lay-out allowing them to pretty much have a quarter of the audience on each sim. In the pic here there was streaming media coming in from a real-world location, but the rest of the time they had the audio coming through on the music channel, which I guess is easier to make "seamless" across sim borders.

As you can probably tell, Eschatos (in the lower right corner here with the glowing steam wafting off of his coffee mug) is very envious of putting on such a great show!

More later ...