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2008 Events

b.TWEEN 08 Conference 18-20 June, Manchester.

Ambient Performance will be sponsoring and speaking at b.tween '08.

Link: http://www.just-b.com/btween/pages/btween

Serious Virtual Worlds Conference 11,12 September, Coventry.

This Second annual conference is being produced by Ambient Performance in partnership with the Serious Games Institute.

SVW'08 will address the live issue of how virtual worlds will cross boundaries both between the real world and virtual worlds and between virtual worlds. As people spend increasing time in virtual worlds how will they interoperate between these virtual and real spaces? SVW'08 is the international event to attend to explore these leading edge issues and applications and addresses them in a compact 2 day event.

Link: http://www.seriousvirtualworlds.net (will be updated for 2008 soon)

Past events

Serious Virtual Worlds Conference 13th and 14th September, Coventry, UK

The Programme

The extraordinary success of virtual worlds such as ‘Second Life' as virtual social spaces for play leads to the question ‘What is the potential for the serious uses of these worlds?' The theme for this first Serious Virtual Worlds conference is ‘The Reality of the Virtual World' and takes a close look at how virtual worlds are now being used for serious professional purposes. Many organisations are now actively researching and deploying virtual worlds. Serious Virtual Worlds is your introduction to the serious uses of virtual worlds.

Who should attend?

Professionals with interests in using technology for communication and collaboration, for education and training, scenario planning and for commercial activities, from corporates, the media, multimedia development organisations, public sector organisations, consultancies, technology solution providers, researchers...

The Conference

Day 1 - Introducing Virtual Worlds: presentations and conversations introducing virtual worlds and the 3D web from Cisco, Linden Labs, TruSim, Forterra, Giunti Labs, Pixel Learning, Caspian, Ambient Performance and Daden, closing with the launch of the Serious Games Institute’s ‘Second Life’ Island with a Cocktail Reception followed by the Conference Dinner.

Day 2 - Serious Virtual Worlds: Action & Potential: live virtual world presentations and conversations from Digital Earth, SMARTLab, Stanford Medical School, PA Consulting, IBM, Forterra, NPL, and Logicom.

More information and Booking: http://www.seriousvirtualworlds.net/

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Seriously Mobile Summit 2007

Europe’s Premier Event for Mobile Learning was held 20th April.

The archive can be accessed here.

Mobile workshops are scheduled on demand. Please contact us for further information.

The Seriously Mobile Summit is Friday, 20th April, 2007
Location: Reuters Headquarters, South Colonnade, in Canary Wharf, London E14 5EP. Map

Discover the latest trends – see the latest solutions at the Seriously Mobile Summit 2007.
Seriously Mobile 2007 is a one-day thought-leadership seminar for learning professionals and managers to explore the business drivers and solutions to better address the learning and performance needs of increasingly mobile workers. 

2007 Theme: The Mobile Internet: Working in Real Time

Supporting Mobile Workforce Capability 
“Creativity is no longer about which companies have the most visionary executives, but which have the most compelling architecture of participation. That is, which companies make it easy, interesting and rewarding for a wide range of contributors to offer ideas, solve problems and improve products” - Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly Media  

We will explore:

• Trends - business, cultural, technologies and how people are increasingly mobile
  • Physically - Travelling to work, clients, suppliers, between offices, Hot Desking, and 'Smart Working' - blending home and office based work
  • Mentally - Between teams, colleagues, their networks, volunteer work, personal/family, education
• Individual needs
  • Instant access to context-based information and each other.
  • People want to stay informed, connected, capable and productive
• Organisational needs
  • Agility; the ability to sense what is happening or needs to happen and react effectively.
    • Technology helps organisations tap in to what their “front line” is hearing and experiencing. It enables instant communication and collaboration to build context and meaning from developments.
    • Technology based products are evolving so fast there is a need to keep people up-to-speed on the changes while providing the right amount of training and support that doesn’t inhibit employee productivity.
  • Building a culture of innovation
    • It is often the most experienced and best networked/connected that are the most mobile. How do you continuously engage them to contribute to innovation? • How do you engage people at all levels in an organisation to tap in to creativity and ideas for growth? • The term Architecture of Participation describes the combination of enabling tools (often referred to as social media or web 2.0), culture and practices of organisation
• Leading Edge Mobile Technologies and Implementation Strategies

Seriously Mobile Summit Speakers

Tom Glocer, CEO, Reuters
Charles Jennings, Global Head of Learning, Reuters
Reuters has launched a number of initiatives in compelling new ways of reaching people:

• Second Life, bringing the real world news to the virtual world and vice versa, enabling people wherever they are to discuss the news in virtual forums. Investigating how SL can be used for internal training and business to business education.
• Reuters Mobile, delivering breaking news videos to traders on mobiles with partners Vodafone
• Internally – exploring the role of mobiles to gather information and assess knowledge.
• Exploring the role of Blogging to better connect people
• Micro economy – delivering market news to Indian farmers via mobile technology

Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO, Giunti Labs “Personalised Ambient Learning”
Nigel Paine “21^st Century Learning”
Jay Cross “Informal Learning Goes Mobile”
Ron Edwards “Mobile Strategies” 

Case Studies:
Paul Landers, Strategic Product Manager, Ericsson “Taking Learning Mobile”
Hanif Sazen, CEO, Saffron Interactive
Stephen Clee, MD, Datmedia, Ltd. “Mobile IPTV” 
Sambit Mohapatra, VP Europe, NIIT, 'Mobile Sales Training & Induction'
Claus Nehmzow, Director, PA Consulting Group 'Second Life for Distributed Businesses'

Implementation Panel with Leading Experts including Mark Oehlert, Booz Allen Hamilton and Brent Shlenker, Hospice of the Valley and David Metcalf, PhD, University of Central Florida

Panel Topics:

• Old school ‘formal’ implementations may still be necessary for hardware, but not the new software of Web2.0 and beyond; however, many people call it the "if you build it they will come" approach and that isn't the case either…
• What can virtual worlds do better and what should they never do - for training.
• How to sell these efforts within your organisation

Target audience
Learning professionals and line managers/directors in medium and large enterprises that are interested in discovering more about mobile learning and about the latest ways to deliver learning and support directly into the mobile workplace. This is an international summit with speakers from at least five countries and international delegates are encouraged to attend. The venue is 15 minutes from City Airport for easy flight arrangements. 

Booking
The Seriously Mobile Summit is a one-day event running for up to 150 delegates, from 0930 to 1630, charged at £395 / €580 + VAT per person.

To book a place, send an email to seriouslymobile (at) ambientperformance.com and a booking form will be emailed to you. Or, call 0870 286 3812. 

Speaker biographies and abstracts will be added soon.

About the Seriously Mobile Series

The Seriously Mobile series is designed and organized by Ambient Performance. It is now in its second year and is anchored around a one-day thought-leadership summit, running annually with further hands-on workshops throughout the year.

Last year's archive is here.

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Hands-On Workshops, 2007

17 May, 2007 Mobile Performance Solutions - a mix of easy to implement mobile technologies showcased and positioned for which type of learning and performance need they address combined with experienced advice on how to get started with projects which will have impact. Cost £249.00 + VAT