State of Play V: Speakers' Bios

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Steiger’s career has been focused on using interactive technologies to build communities that reflect and enhance the physical world. Prior to founding Millions of Us, Steiger was the Evangelist for Linden Lab, creators of the 3-D virtual world Second Life. In that role he was responsible for business development efforts and bringing the first wave of corporations and commercial developers into Second Life. Prior to Linden Lab, he worked for Las Vegas mogul Steve Wynn as VP of Interactive Services where he led efforts to translate the vision of the still unfinished $2.8 billion casino to the web.

Until 2002, Steiger was Chief Development Officer at OVEN Digital, where he helped build that company into the world's largest privately-owned Internet consultancy with 11 offices and 350 employees worldwide. At OVEN, Steiger headed efforts to build the world’s most advanced broadband services firm, creating OneCosmos.net, a 3-D model of the known physical universe as well as a host of next generation broadband services for WINFirst, a $900 million Fiber-to-the-Home company.

Reuben Steiger founded and runs Millions of Us with its president Christian Lassonde. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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