• Metaverse Summit 2007
• Estrel Convention Center, Berlin, Germany
• December 06 - 07, 2007
• Description:
  

  The web is moving from its 2D beginnings towards its virtual and 3D future. The Metaverse Summit will consist of two days featuring interactive sessions revolving the next generation of the internet - the Metaverse - in all its manifestations. The rapid development and explorations of 3D immersive environments is changing the way people communicate, collaborate, work and live. It is bringing about significant businesses as well as social and technological opportunities, challenges and questions. This unique event will bring together business leaders, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, technologists, futurists, and industry participants to spend two days discussing current and emerging social, economic and technological trends and issues around the 3D-enabled web, virtual worlds, immersive networks, and ubiquitous information.

• 3D Business Symposium & Exhibition (3D Biz-Ex)
• South San Francisco, CA
• September 18-19, 2007
• Description:
  

  The 3D industry (stereoscopic, volumetric and holographic) is much more diverse and rich than most people realize. There are over 40 distinct market/application segments offering 3D solutions today. But there is little awareness of these applications across the industry, which is hindering the sharing of technology and solutions. There is also a key need to educate the customer community about the maturity and sophistication of 3D solutions. All this is needed to move the 3D industry from a series of niche applications to a broad market force with mainstream solutions.

  As a result, Insight Media (IM) and the US Display Consortium (USDC) have organized the 3D Business Symposium & Exhibition (3D Biz-Ex). Our goal is create a “Big Tent” environment that will bring together developers, providers and customers in all of these 3D market/application segments. This has never been done before, and we believe it will create a unique environment for attendees to:

  • Gauge the full scope of the diverse 3D industry
  • Learn about other 3D applications
  • Network with other leaders in the industry
  • Develop technology/solution partnerships
  • Help customers understand the maturity and benefits of 3D solutions
  • Allow leaders to understand the key business issues facing market expansion
  • Enable greater understanding of technology innovations, market dynamics and strategic opportunities
  • Lay the groundwork for a major exhibition expansion in 2008

  We invite you to attend this important event to take advantage of the excellent opportunity to meet with industry professionals and media representatives.

• Foresight Nanotech Institute Vision Weekend 2007
• Yahoo! Headquarters, Sunnyvale, CA, USA
• November 3-4, 2007
• Description:
  

  NanoBioInfoCognoSocioPhysical technologies & how to benefit from them all
  Yahoo! Headquarters, Sunnyvale, California

  We’re in an avalanche of change, speeding up every day. New technologies fly by almost faster than we can track. Advances in physical tech, info tech, social tech create new mashups that impact us professionally and personally—mostly for good, but not always.

  What’s coming, and how will it affect you, your career, your economic and physical well-being?

  And for the more active among us: How will you affect what’s happening? Will you start the next company or write the new book that will change how the rest of us see our world? At the Vision Weekend, we know from experience that the answer for some is yes, you will!

• Second Life Community Convention 2007
• Chicago, IL
• August 24-26, 2007

• International Conference on Aging & Longevity
• Moscow, Russia
• August 27-28, 2007
• Description (announcement from Dr. Leonid Gavrilov, Ph.D.):
  

  I am pleased to announce the upcoming International Conference on Aging & Longevity Studies, which brings together researchers from Russia and the United States at Moscow State University, this month.

  This unusual, brain-storming Conference is organized by Professor Vladimir Skulachev, the member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Director of the A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology at Moscow State University, Moscow.

  Note that the term “phenoptosis” used in this conference program is a code word for “programmed death,” and that the title of the conference (see below) may cause an excitement in the transhumanism movement. Frankly speaking, the conference is centered around this ‘crazy’ scientific idea:

  Is aging an atavistic program that can be ’simply’ switched off?

• Virtual Worlds Forum Europe
• London, England
• October 23-26, 2007
• Description:
  

  Welcome: our pan-European virtual worlds conference is the meeting place for brands, corporates, virtual worlds, entertainment, media, IT and all those interested in exploring the business possibilities of virtual worlds. If you’re interested in harnessing the power of virtual worlds to engage with clients, suppliers or customers, this is the place to be.

• Virtual Worlds 2007 Fall
• San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA, USA
• October 10-11, 2007
• Description:
  

  Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo Fall dedicated to helping businesses harness the power of virtual worlds to engage with their customers, partners and employees.

• Productive Nanosystems: Launching the Technology Roadmap
• DoubleTree Hotel Crystal City, Arlington, VA, USA
• October 9-10, 2007
• Description:
  

  For 20 years, researchers have explored the amazing promise of atomically-precise manufacturing. Now, for the first time, the Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems will show the way forward, and the payoffs along the road, to this ultimate technological revolution.

  Over the last two years, under Battelle’s leadership, and hosted by four U.S. National Laboratories, researchers from academia, government, and industry have met to chart paths toward advanced, atomically-precise manufacturing. The resulting roadmap reveals crucial challenges and unexpected opportunities in the next steps forward. Join us for two intensive days with leading experts as we explore the power of advanced “bottom-up” nanotechnologies.

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• 7th Alcor Conference
• Hilton Scottsdale Resort, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
• October 5-7, 2007

• The Stem Cell Summit
• Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA
• October 2-3, 2007
• Description:
  

  Stem cell research represents the universal hope for healing and the political climate is changing for those seeking cures through revolutionary medicine. New rules are being written and public and private funding for research is becoming available. Genetics Policy Institute, Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Burrill Life Science Media Group have joined together to produce The Stem Cell Summit. This unique event will gather the global community of stakeholders to learn what’s new, share ideas, search for solutions and focus on advancing stem cell research from “the bench to the bedside.”

  Meet top innovators, researchers from around the world, clinicians, government officials, business leaders, political strategists, bioethicists, legal experts and advocates to celebrate scientific achievements, confront challenges and chart the future of regenerative medicine. Learn how cutting-edge biomedical research might impact your health and the health of your family and loved ones.