2007 Headlines
Second Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Virtual Financial Markets
Cornell Professor to Moderate Panel at Dr. Dobbs Island on Friday, July 13
Ithaca, NY - Professor Robert Bloomfield of Cornell University's Johnson School will moderate a panel discussion on the major stock exchanges in Second Life, AVIX and WSE. The panel discussion is a Metaversed Geek Meet co-sponsored by Dr. Dobbs Journal, Information Week, and Cornell University. It will be held in Second Life on Dr. Dobbs Island at noon SLT (3:00 p.m. EST) on Friday, July 13, 2007. Transcripts will be available after the panel through Metaversed at http://metaversed.com.
Panelists will describe the current state of the markets and what they hope to see in the future, particularly with regards to regulatory and non-regulatory ways to strengthen investor confidence. The panel will also discuss whether Second Life stock exchanges are a "game," and address the legal ramifications of the answer to that question. Participants include:
- LukeConnell Vandeverre/Sinatra , CEO of WSE
- Maelstrom Baphomet, COO of AVIX
- Arbitrage Wise, CEO of SL Capital Exchange (a proposed exchange)
- Mystik Boucher, CEO of Mystik Designs, listed on WSE
- TraderJohn Susa, Chairman of SL Exchange Commission (a group intending to regulate the exchanges, or facilitate self-regulation)
- OliveEue Sholokhov, CEO, SL Business Bureau (a Second-Life analog to the Better Business Bureau)
The panel has been arranged with the help of Nick Wilson's Metaversed, a website devoted to business and technology in the growing "metaverse" of virtual worlds, and is being hosted on the island managed by Dr. Dobbs Journal.
Robert Bloomfield, known in Second Life as "Beyers Sellers," is a Professor of Accounting at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management, where serves as Director of Doctoral Studies and Director of the Business Simulation Laboratory. Professor Bloomfield has published dozens of peer-reviewed papers on the regulation of financial markets, and is currently Director of the Financial Accounting Standards Research Initiative, which conducts research to help the Financial Accounting Standards Board in their deliberations on accounting standards in US capital markets. He is currently a guest author on the virtual world website Terra Nova, and is pursuing the use of virtual worlds for business research and education through his Worlds for Study project.
To attend the panel, go to http://secondlife.com/ and click "Join Now." Use the search tool to find Dr. Dobb's Island and "teleport" there, or visit: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dr%20Dobbs%20Island/128/128/0.
