Oct 5 & 6: Online Conference Distributed Teams 2012 Agile Project Management

"Work better with your distributed teams"

Fri Oct 5 - 4 PM Pacific, 7 PM Eastern

Sat Oct 6 - 7 AM Pacific, 10 AM Eastern, 15:00 GMT / London

Let's walk the talk. We will meet in immersive environments to discuss distributed collaboration and agile teams. 100% online. Global Audience. No travel required.

Draft2 program now available: http://files.meetup.com/450839/AgileWorlds12ProgramDraft2.pdf

See the full schedule at http://agileworlds2012.sched.org/

Watch Live for free at http://www.livestream.com/metaversetvbusiness

Or you can pay the $45 program fee and try the environments hands on.

More Info (http://www.agiledimensions.com/blog/2012/09/distributed-agile-worlds-conference/)

Want to speak next year? Submit your abstract (http://bit.ly/daws12speak)

14 hours (7 hours each day) 11 presentations $0 travel cost Price for attendees and presenters is $45 USD. Price for Gold sponsors is $480 USDnote speaker Johanna Rothman has authored 6 books, served as program chair for the Agile Alliance and is the Technical editor for the Agile Journal. That is the easy part. The focus of her company is to attack difficult transitions: geographically distributed, large programs, too many projects, some part of the company is still in waterfall, etc.She specializes in unique and challenging situations.

She will speak to us on Saturday, Oct 6. Read about her initiatives at http://www.jrothman.com

The conference is for October 5th and 6th, 2012.

Day 1: 4pm San Francisco, 7pm New York, 9am Sat Sydney Day 2: 7am San Francisco, 10am New York, 3pm London No matter where you live, you are welcome to attend at any. Topics may address these subjects:

Agile Project Management Lightweight communication tools Spatial tools and methods Infrastructure tools (planning and collaboration tools): Human skills

Venue: We will use 3 platforms: VenueGen, Sococo , and 3dXplorer so we can accommodate 120 people simultaneously.

We will hold talks in times targeted for Eastern Asia, North and South America, and Europe (Greece / Ukraine / South Africa - GMT+2). This includes Friday Night US time, and Saturday. We will have 2 tracks and four timeslots. See the picture of our tentative schedule.

Part of of the proceeds will support VirtualAbility.org for people with disabilities.

Why a 'Spatial UI'?

Face to face is great when you can afford travel. Webinars are okay too but we want to try out what Bill calls 'spatial' environments that better facilitate communication - through backchat and spatial context.

Agile Worlds 2012 Schedule (http://agileworlds2012.sched.org/venues/)