Free Virtual Worlds Session in Denver Feb 26

The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC.org) is hosting a "Networked Virtual Environments" Session on February 26 in Denver. See the Agenda below. No registration fee is required. (https://www.ncoic.org.... Please forward this message to anyone interested in Virtual Worlds.
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Networked Virtual Environments Agenda
February 26 Tuesday at NCOIC.org meeting in Grand Hyatt, Denver, CO.

The speakers are leading representatives of government applications, the Virtual Worlds Interoperability Forum (http://vwinterop.wiki...) and the Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds (http://www.ndu.edu/ir...) . The purpose of the Session is to discuss future government applications (e.g. training, collaboration, simulation) and interoperability standards for virtual environments.

Morning:

10:00 Forterra Systems (Mike Macedonia) - Dealing with Zillionics
(http://www.forterrain...)

11:00 Colorado Technical University (Prof. Cynthia Calongne) Research in Second Life
(http://www.slideshare...)

12:00 Microsoft (Representative of MS Simulation) ESP Platform
(http://www.microsoft....)

Afternoon:

2:00 Intel (Mic Bowman) Virtual Worlds: Intel's Perspective
(http://www.virtualwor...)

3:00 Cisco (Randy Sisk) How networked virtual environments are evolving the concept of "Place" (http://blogs.cisco.co...)

4:00 NOAA (Eric Hackathorn) Virtual Worlds and their Impact on Government Communications
(http://www.b-eye-netw...)

Reference links:

Intelligence agency applications of Virtual Worlds
http://www.govexec.co...

Chinese large investment in Virtual Worlds
http://www.virtualwor...

Bob, this sounds like a really great meeting. Will it be broadcast into SecondLife? I'd be happy to work with you to provide a place in world for avatars to gather and watch a videostream, and publicize the event so those of us not in Boulder could also hear this fine line up of speakers.