Diverse Topics and European Speakers Meet at the slconference 2007 in Berlin

The slconference 2007 will take place from September 16 – 18, 2007 in Berlin – Alexanderplatz at the Park-Inn Hotel as well as in newBERLIN in Second Life. The Real Life conference includes a one-day workshop (Sunday) and a two-day conference. Expected are around 300 participants for the event, mainly coming from Europe, longing for inspiration for their own Second Life projects and wanting to get informed and introduced to Second Life.

Philippe Kerremans, founder of MetaCon, The Metaverse Consulting Company, will present MetaCon and the implementation of the Second Earth concept by means of Bruges (Belgium) in Second Life. Having built a part of the historic city of Bruges in SL, he explores the option of tourism in a 3D environment and develops Geocaching in SL.

Another speaker at the slconference 2007 will be Andreas Mertens, CEO of SLTalk & Partner, an official full service provider of Linden Lab. The workshop deals with “Advanced LSL-Scripting with Interoperability to 3rd Party-Systems”, where Second Life LSL is coupled with programming languages including PHP, XML, Apache and MySQL. A. Mertens will also hold a presentation about “Performance Measurements in SL” addressing questions such as “How many avatars visited my SIM?” or “What interests visitors on my SIM?”.

To close the circle, lawyer Wilko Bauer, specialised on intellectual property and IT-rights at Paschke & Partner, will enlighten participants about “Legal Frameworks in Virtual Worlds”.

The event is organised by cocoate.com, a management consultancy company, emphasizing on the integration of open source projects, coaching and teaching.

Further information and the registration form for the conference can be found on www.slconference.eu.