Linden Lab CEO Ebbe Altberg will be one of the speakers at Endgadget Expand NY this weekend. The website also paints a nice profile of Ebbe and Linden Lab :
Ebbe Altberg is the CEO of Linden Lab, the company best known for Second Life, the most successful user-created virtual world, and Blocksworld, the free build-and-play iPad game for kids and adults. Under Ebbe’s leadership, Linden Lab has now also begun work on the next-generation virtual world, which will be in the spirit of Second Life while empowering creators to go far beyond what’s possible today.Most recently prior to joining Linden Lab in early 2014, Altberg was COO of BranchOut. Prior to that, he was part of the executive team at Yahoo, most recently as SVP of media products. His more than 25 years of experience managing teams that create world-class products and services also includes leadership roles at Ingenio (acquired by AT&T Interactive) and Microsoft.
Ebbe is scheduled to take part in a discussion on Saturday November 8th at 1:10pm, entitled; Back To Reality : VR Beyond Gaming and will be joined by
- Matt Bell, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Matterport
- Ben Gilbert, Senior Editor, EndGadget
- Marte Roel, Co-Founder, BeAnotherLab
The blurb for the discussion states :
Rapid 3D visualization of physical spaces, social networking and gender swapping: This is what happens when virtual reality stops playing games and starts getting real.
I’m not sure what to make of that at all.
Engadget Expand is a free event and is open to the public on Friday, November 7th from 1:00 to 5:00 pm, and on Saturday, November 8th from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. The event is designed to bring together technology fans, startups and designers. Registration is available via the website.
The event will be taking place at the North Hall of the Jacob K. Javits Center, located at 655 W 34th Street (at 11th Ave.) in New York City. This is the sort of event that would ideally have a virtual world version too so that fans of technology from all over the world could join in, maybe one day hey.