35 New Speakers Added to Virtual Worlds Expo Roster

35 new speakers have been added to the Virtual Worlds Expo speaker roster. What can we say, we've been busy.  Virtual Worlds News is hosting the 2nd annual conference and expo on September 3-4, 2008 in Los Angeles.  New speakers represent big business, smart startups, entertainment, toys, advertising/marketing and the leading thinkers of virtual worlds today.  More still to come but right now we'd like to welcome these extremely smart individuals:

Cathy Arreguin, Instructor in Virtual Worlds for Education, San Diego State University
Mic Bowman, Principal Engineer, Intel
Ken Brady, CEO & Cofounder, Genkii
Yuanzhe (Michael) Cai, Director, Broadband & Gaming, Parks Associates
Chris Carella,Chief Creative Officer, The Electric Sheep Company
Tom Churchill, CEO, Earthscape
Justin Clark-Casey, OpenSim Developer, IBM
Giff Constable, VP of Products & Strategy, Electric Sheep Company
Erica Driver, Principal, ThinkBalm
Martin Dunsby, CEO, Vollee
Adam Frisby, Director, DeepThink (and OpenSim Developer)
Barry Gilbert, Vice President, Strategy Analytics
Anders Gronstedt, President, Gronstedt Group
Peter Haik, CEO & Cofounder, Metaversatility
Daniel James, CEO, Three Rings
Dan Jansen, CEO and Co-Founder, Virtual Greats
Barry Joseph, Online Leadership Director, Global Kids, Inc.
Jeff Kleiser, CEO, Synthespian Studios
Raph Koster, President, Areae
Jon Landau, Academy Award ® - winning Producer, Lightstorm Entertertainment, Inc., Advisor, Multiverse
Julie Livingston, Senior Director, Public Relations, Toy Industry Association, Inc.
Kenneth Locker, SVP Digital media, Cookie Jar Entertainment
Keith McCurdy, CEO, Vivaty
Peter Mills, Chief Health Officer, Cigna
Claus Nehmzow, VP, Virtual Worlds/Immersive Experiences Practice Group, Method
Greg Nuyens, CEO, Qwaq
Mitch Olson, Co-Founder, SmallWorlds
Jeremy Padawer, Vice President of Entertainment Brand Marketing, JAKKS Pacific
Matt Palmer, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Stardoll
NLTC Greg Pickell, Chief, Training Technologies Branch, Joint Education, Division, NGB J7
Steve Prentice, VP & Gartner fellow, Gartner
Jonathan Reichental, Director of IT Innovation, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Andrew (Roo) Reynolds, Metaverse Evangelist, IBM
Stefanie Schwartz, Vice President, Marketing and Operations, Neopets, Nickelodeon
Tish Shute, Writer/Virtual World Evangelist, Ugotrade.com
Eilif Trondsen, Director, SRI Consulting Business Intelligence
Valerie Williamson, VP of Marketing and Business Development, The Electric Sheep Company