Virtual Worlds Forum Europe 2007 Podcast

Huw Leslie speaks to Nic Mitham, CEO of K Zero, a virtual worlds consultancy.

Sasha Frieze and Stuart Dredge report on The Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

Evangelising Virtual Worlds within the corporation with Joe Little, Digital Communications & Technology - Chief Technology Officer, BP.

Cross-world, cross-platform; how close are we to a multi-world integrated framework? With Paul Ledak, VP, Development, IBM Research.

Features Thomas Bidaux, Director of Product Development, NCSoft Europe; Frank Campbell, Chief Business Officer, MindArk PE AB; Raph Koster, President, AreaE; Ginsu Yoon, SVP International, Linden Lab; Ben Richardson, VP Business Development, Makena Technologies. Moderator: Corey Bridges, Co-founder, The Multiverse Network.

Virtual worlds – media, entertainment, narrative: a radical shift from passive to interactive? Recorded on 24th October 2007 at the Virtual Worlds Forum.

Is the future virtual? Recorded on 24th October 2007 at the Virtual Worlds Forum, featuring Lord Triesman of Tottenham, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills

Jess Mulligan is Executive Director of Player Relations, Cyber Sports Ltd. Topics include: Current worldwide market for virtual worlds; Games and social spaces – what’s the difference? Who is partaking? What are the barriers to entry and acceptance; What does the future hold?

Paul Jackson is an analyst with Forrester Research. Topics include: Virtual worlds, MMOs, ARGs – what’s the difference? Trends, numbers, metrics, audience. Who is the real target audience?

Aleks Krotoski talks about social interactions in virtual worlds, and she should know as that's what her phd is about.

Michael Rowe from IBM talks about his love of Ultravox....and virtual worlds.

Douglas Rushkoff talks about some of his concerns in new Virtual Worlds.

Corey Bridges, co-founder of Multiverse talks about how the creation of virtual worlds is now accessible to us all.

Joe Little from the Chief Technology Office of BP talks about how business are using virtual communities.

Jonathan Freedland talks to MUD creator Richard Bartle about issues of identity in the virtual worlds.