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GAMEiS 2008: Israeli Games Coming Up Next Thursday - April 17, 2008

First 5 people that email me... will get free tickets.

GameIS Exhibition 2008, come out and play!
A full day event about interactive entertainment and the people who make it all happen.

REGISTER NOW!
17/4/2008, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzeliya

For the 3rd year in a row, we celebrate Israel's florurishing Games Market. Join the pro's and companies who develop remarkable games, tools, services and technologies for the worldwide interactive entertainment market.

GameIS 2008 will hold 10 lectures and panels focusing on the two main tracks; development and business. We will hear the successes, the difficulties and the lessons learned by top industry players.

Last year's event hosted more then 300 eager guests coming to explore the depths of succeeding in the Gaming industry. These very same guests are now returning with their own experiences and successful launch stories. This year we are expecting more than 400 guests. Don't miss this opportunity and register now at https://www.eventact.com/dna/gameis08/.

We have many interesting, experienced and notable speakers lined up to share their insights into this ever-growing industry. Among them will be Daniel O'ffner from NixonPibody, Guy Bendov representing, Codename, Journeys and GameIS, Oded Sharon from Corbomite Games (Developer of Zbang), and Itzik Ben-Bassat from Media Arcade and many more. For the full list of speakers visit our site www.gameis.org.il .

If you are interested to take this opportunity to expose your company please contact us to learn about the different sponsorship opportunities.

For further information on the:
Exhibition: http://gameis2008.wetpaint.com
Sponsorship: Sponsorship Details
Gaming Industry: www.gameis.org.il

If you have any other questions please contact:
Galia Reichenstein - [d&a]
[E] galia@dainfo.com
[P] +972-3-6130576
[F] +972-3-6121897

I will be a member of a panel that will cover Virtual Worlds.

Meet me at Virtual Worlds 2008, NYC Apr 3-4

This year seems to be a lot of new and old people in the big Apple.

The focus this is: The Future of Media, Marketing and Entertainment

Virtual Worlds 2008 is where leading media, consumer entertainment, youth brands and agencies come to understand how to monetize their intellectual property using virtual worlds.

Entertainment brands and youth-oriented companies are increasingly integrating virtual worlds into their product mix. Forward thinking brand advertisers and agencies are aligning themselves with high-quality virtual worlds franchises in order to further engage consumers.

“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” Thus wrote Marshall McLuhan, author
of “Understanding the Media." We can consider "Real Virtual Worlds" (AKA the Metaverse) as a new tool, a new medium, crawling and advancing, preparing to pounce on us in the next years. A medium combining entertainment, learning and work into one experience – that is its power and therein its danger.

Open University Event: Virtual Reality in Real World

The Israeli Open University will host half-day conference on real life usages of virtual virtual reality.

Details: http://www.openu.ac.il/Events/240108.html

Metanomics With Dr. Yesha Sivan (Monday 11:00am SL time)

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Metaversed/168/225

The interview will be done by head of Metanomis, Robert J. Bloomfield, Nicholas H. Noyes Professor of Management from Cornell Johnson Scool of Management

See note in the Metaversed site.
By Caleb Booker - Posted on December 15th, 2007

This coming Monday we will be joined by Dr. Yesha Sivan, founder of Metaverse Labs (MVL). A pioneer and leader of technologies for knowledge infrastructures, Dr. Sivan's professional experience is in the development of innovative workplaces. Currently he is teaching Metaverse related courses in Afeka College of engineering, Tel Aviv University School of Computer Sciences, and Bar-Ilan University Executive MBA Program.

Dr. Sivan has been very interested interoperability problems like being able to take avatar clothing from Second Life into There. He's also been looking into how virtual world simulations can interface with the real world. We'll be talking with him about defining what virtual worlds are, and how competing companies can develop common standards for virtual environments.

We'll be changing the venue this week, but the location of the event will be announced on Monday morning right here at Metaversed.com.

IsraeliGames 2007 - April 11 Kfar Hamacabia

Quick Facts:
Chair: Guy Ben-Dov
Date: April 11th, 2007
Place: Kfar HaMakabya, Tel Aviv, Israel
More Info: http://israeligames2007.wetpaint.com/
Registration: https://www.eventact.com/kelim/game07r/

2006 was a great year for the growing Israeli game market. We saw over $80 Million USD invested in Israeli game companies. This event, the first of its kind in Israel in terms of its focus on the game industry and international span, will feature keynotes from worldwide industry leaders, development and business presentations and a couple of round tables.

• Ofer Leidner, Co-Founder, Head of Business Development, Oberon Media
• Shaul Olmert, VP, Nickelodeon Networks
• Alexander L. Fernandez, CEO, Streamline Studios B.V.
• Jonathan Epstein, CEO, Double Fusion
• Jessica Tams, Managing Director : Casual Games Association
• Ilan Graicer, Creative Director, Funtactix
• Steve Weiss, Vice President, Legal and Business Affairs, Sony Online Entertainment
• Giuseppe Amato, Technical Director, Sales & Marketing EMEA, AMD

I will Moderate the Metaverse round table. See you all there.

Magniv 2007 Awards

On Thursday March 29, 2007 -- as part of the Israeli Search Afeka competion which I hosted -- I had the opputunity to give 5 unique awards. Magniv 2007. Magniv is Hebrew is "Stolen" -- it is used like cool, fun, unique, hot etc.

The Magniv 2007 awards were given to:
1. Brainpop -- where you can learn about anything.
2. Yedda -- where you tap into the mind of people.
3. Zlango -- a new visual langauge that make all smile.
4. The Robot -- that use CGAL to solve 3D puzzle in Second Life.
5. GeoSim -- where real cities can be viewed in the Metaverse.

Really cool stuff, all with Israeli roots. :-)

The 2nd Conference of the Israeli Software Industry

With the slogan "Individualism - Collaboration - Shared Growth", Amos Maggor is doing it again:

Software 07, The Second Business Summit of the Israeli Software Industry, will be held on March 28, at the Avenue Convention & Events Center, Airport City. Initiated last year This is the core event of the Israeli Software industry that has gained the reputation of the leading network place for entrepreneurs. The event attracted attendance of 1500 last year of leading executives from the industry.

IAESI (Israel Association of Electronics and Software Industries, People & Computers Group and a group of CEOs from the leading Israeli Software companies have joined forces to create Software 07, the biggest networking event of the local software industry. Summit discussions will primarily address issues that could promote both growth and profitability of Israeli software manufacturers.

I will give a short talk as part of a panel run by Yaron Polak of Genesis fund... I will try to connect the emerging Metaverse with current and new businesses (if you have tips send them to me). For details in Hebrew see here.

DLD Conference

I had the pleasure of attending the amzing DLD conference in Munich. DLD (Digital, Life, Design) is Europe's conference for the 21st century; covering digital innovation, gaming, arts and science and bringing together thought leaders from Europe, the Middle-East, America and Asia. The conference site is full of information see it http://www.dld-conference.com/.

Enterprise 2.0 -- People and Computers Conference -- Presentations

"People and Computers" Productions hosted a conference Enterprise 2.0.
The program was developed by Raz Hypherman of Bezeq (the largest Israeli Telco), Gadi Ariav (Tel Aviv University) and Yesha Sivan (Afeka College).

We got good feedback re the conference from many people. Thanks you.
I am adding the presentations here as I get them

Intro:
The Enterprise 2.0 (English)– Web 2.0 – Dr. Yesha Sivan, Afeka College
Why is this important – Ranit Zexer, CTO, Matrix
The VC point of view – Yaron Polak, Genesis Partners

Custumer point of view:
E-web 2.0 (Hebrew) – Raz Heiferman, Bezeq Corporate Computing
What is Web 2.0 at McKinsey (English) – David Chin, McKinsey
The CEO point of view – Erez Meltzer, CEO Africa-Israel Investment

Supplier Point of view:
How to do it – Prof. Gadi Ariav, Tel Aviv University, Business School
Supplier Mapping – Jimmy Schwarzkopf , STKI
What do we think? – Mor Sagmon, SAP

Enterprise 2.0 Keynote:
Presented by: Pini Burtman, IBM Global Technology Unit
David Boloker, CTO for emerging Internet Technology, IBM Software Group, Cambridge USA.
IBM Enterprise 2.0 strategy = Innovation + Middleware

Knowledge 2.0: How McKinsey & Company is using Web 2.0 to Transform its Internal Knowledge Management

I have written extensivly on knowledge managment in the past. Two years ago I arrived at the sad conclusion that very few companies can actually enjoy knowledge managment. Well McKinsey & Company is definantly one. I had the pleasure of hosing David Chin in a Enterpise 2.0 conference in Janurany 15, 2007. His presnetaiton highlight the committment, and the value that McKinsey hopes to get from KM -- especially when it comes to new tools like the Wiki.

If you need the details please contact David_Chinn AT mckinsey.com

Note: I am publishing this on Feb 24, 2007; but it will move to the Jan 15, 2007 - close to the event.

UFTAA Congress: From a Travel Agent to a Travel BroKer

I had the pleasure to participate in the 40th UFTAA Congress, Delhi, India, 17 September 2006.

The United Federation of Travel Agents’ Associations (UFTAA) emanates from the Universal Federation of Travel Agents’ Associations created in Rome, Italy, on November 22nd, 1966. UFTAA was originally founded as a result of a merger of two large world organisations, FIAV and UOTAA, recognising the need to unify travel agencies and tour-operators into one international federation. UFTAA started its operation as a Confederation on January 1st, 2003. It is a non-profit Confederation of international scope, representing Regional Federations comprising some 100 national associations.

The topic of my talk was the changing rule in the industry from an agent to a broker. I used the capital K to note the importanace of knowledge. See the presentation here