Sponsors

• Ziff Davis Media Inc. is a special interest media company focused on the technology and game markets. Reaching over 17 million readers per month, the company provides total market coverage—from corporate technology buyers and users to consumer enthusiasts and gamers—through its portfolio of award-winning print and online brands.Ziff Davis Media publishes 10 industry leading business and consumer magazines including: PC Magazine, eWEEK, Baseline, CIO Insight, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, Computer Gaming World, GameNow, Xbox Nation, and GMR. The company exports the power of its brands internationally, producing publications in 43 countries and 20 languages. In addition to producing companion websites for all of its magazines, Ziff Davis Media develops tech and game enthusiast sites such as ExtremeTech.com and 1UP.com.  The company distinguishes itself through its comprehensive labs-based evaluations, trusted buying advice, recognized industry experts, thought provoking news, reviews and analyses. Ziff Davis Media provides custom publishing and end-to-end marketing solutions through its Integrated Media Group, industry analyses through Ziff Davis Market Experts, and produces eSeminars and conferences.  Founded in 1927, the New York based Ziff Davis Media Inc. has approximately 450 employees nationwide. Robert F. Callahan is Chairman and CEO. Bart W. Catalane is Chief Operating Officer and CFO.
• Gaming Industry News is for top-level executives and decision makers at all entertainment companies, not just game companies, because we believe the game business is becoming the center of the broader entertainment industry. Executives in the film, music, and publishing industries — and investors in those industries — need to know where the game industry is now and where it's going. Gaming Industry News is written by top media and gaming editors and is the indispensable resource for gaming experts and entertainment professionals. 
• Linden Lab is a privately held company established to develop an extraordinary new form of shared 3D entertainment. Through its first product, "Second Life," Linden Lab offers a truly collaborative, immersive and open-ended entertainment experience, where together people create and inhabit a virtual world of their own design.  Founder Philip Rosedale is the former CTO of RealNetworks, where he pioneered the development and deployment of streaming media technologies. Linden Lab is funded by a group of notable early stage investors including Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Development, and Catamount Ventures.  Based in San Francisco and founded in 1999, Linden Lab employs a senior development team bringing together expertise in physics, 3D graphics and networking. Team members have previously worked at leading entertainment companies such as Electronic Arts, Disney, THQ, Acclaim, Hasbro, and Mattel.
• There is an online getaway where you can hang out with your friends and meet new ones--all in a lush 3D environment that's yours to explore! In 1998, Will Harvey, a Stanford computer science PhD and successful game developer, began working with Jeffrey Ventrella, an expert on artificial life from MIT's Media Lab, on developing a next-generation "metaverse." With more than 80 employees, There, Inc. brings together deep experience in online community building, consumer marketing, PC games, telecommunications, and e-commerce from major companies, including CNET, eBay, Disney, Electronic Arts (EA), Cisco, Colgate-Palmolive, Lucas Arts, Yahoo! and Sony.
• The Lower Manhatten Cultural Council brings art where it’s least expected and engages the ideas of the moment, burnishing and tarnishing the links between culture and capital. We curate, produce and commission art installations, performances, concerts and symposia to insert questions of art into urban experience. Three decades after its founding, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council remains at the forefront of Downtown’s creative hub, linking artists with new audiences and sustaining Manhattan’s vast and vibrant arts community.