Virtual Worlds London: 60 Days Out, First Round of Speakers Announced

Virtual Worlds London (20-21 Oct 2008) is 60 days out and shaping up nicely.  As with every show, we are always shooting for high quality here and I'd say it shows in our line-up of speakers, the first round of which we are announcing today. The companies represented include leaders in Internet, media, technology and of course virtual worlds. The highly polished conference (this will be our 5th VW conference) will include a two track schedule - consumer worlds and virtual worlds for business.  Expert speakers will join us from BBC Worldwide, Intel Corp, Samsung, Ambient Performance, Walt Disney, Linden Lab, Rivers Run Red, Sine Wave, DFJ Esprit LLP, Metaversum, Daden, Tribal DDB London, Rezzable, TAATU, K Zero, Google, Telefónica, Mind Candy, Near, The Electric Sheep Company and more.  The list is below the jump or here.

Virtual Worlds London Confirmed Speakers (so far)

Christian Ahlert, Owner, OpenBusiness.cc, MiniBar
Dave Anderson, Head of Interactive, BBC Worldwide
Justin Bovington, CEO, Rivers Run Red
Corey Bridges, Executive Producer, Multiverse
Nic Brisbourne, Partner, DFJ Esprit LLP
David Burden, Managing Director, Daden Limited
Mirko Caspar, Chief Marketing Officer, Metaversum GmbH
Bruno Cerboni, Virtual Italian Parks, Chief Executive Officer
Harvey Cohen, Founder and President, Strategy Analytics
Victoria Coleman, Vice President, Samsung Electronics
Guy de Beer, CEO, Playcast Media Systems Ltd.
Bruce Damer, Executive Director, Contact Consortium - Virtual Worlds Roadmap SIG
Francesco D'Orazio, Founder and CEO, Myrl LTD
Ron Edwards, Managing Director, Ambient Performance
Celia Francis, CEO, WeeWorld
Rohan Freeman, CEO, Sine Wave Company
John Hengeveld, Senior Business Strategist, Intel
Martin Herdina, CEO, Fatfoogoo AG
Adam Hildreth, Founder and President, Crisp
Jonathan Himoff, Founder and CEO, Rezzable Productions
Ian Hughes/epredator, Metaverse Evangelist, IBM
Mark Kingdon, Chief Executive Officer, Linden Lab
Jeroen Matser, Strategy Director, Tribal DDB London
Philippe Moitroux, CEO, TAATU
Nic Mitham, CEO, K Zero
Greg Nuyens, CEO, Qwaq
Jeffrey Pope, Executive Vice President, ngi Group Ventures / 3Di
Steve Prentice, VP & Gartner Fellow, Gartner
Andrew (Roo) Reynolds, Portfolio Executive for Social Media, BBC Vision
Dave Rolston, PhD, Chairman and CEO, Forterra, Inc.
Cindy H. Rose, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Walt Disney Internet Group EMEA
Joey Seiler, Editor, VirtualWorldsNews.com & Virtual Worlds Weekly
Christopher V. Sherman, Founder, Virtual Worlds Management
Carlos Domingo Soriano, Director for Internet and Multimedia, Telefónica R&D
Michael Acton Smith, CEO and Founder, Mind Candy
Sibley Verbeck, CEO, The Electric Sheep Company
Niniane Wang, Engineering Manager, Lively Engineering Lead, Google, Inc.
Alex Wrottesley, Co-Founder, Near