Think Services (formerly CMP, also parent of Worlds in Motion) has announced that Mitch Kapor will keynote at Life 2.0 Summit Spring, a six-day virtual conference taking place in Second Life March 15-21, 2008.

Kapor is board chair of Linden Lab, creators of Second Life; chair and founder of the Open Source Applications Foundation; co-founder of the Electronic Frontier and Mozilla Foundations; and is best-known as the creator of Lotus 1-2-3, the spreadsheet that revolutionized enterprise computing in the 80s. He will speak about current work to enhance the user interface for virtual worlds, enabling even more immersive experiences in the medium.

Life 2.0 Spring will offer 7 tracks, metaverse marketing, community nurturance and involvement, 3D commerce, metrics and ROI, tools and techniques, and will dive deep to explore business applications and opportunities offered by emerging virtual world platforms. Evening sessions will provide highly-topical roundtables, and offer a forum for professionals in Higher Education, Government, Public Works, Green Technology, and Social/Humanitarian/Philanthropic work to network and share ideas.

Conference director John Jainschigg commented, "We are delighted to welcome Mr. Kapor back to Life 2.0, and eager to hear more about his current work. He was kind enough to address our audience a year ago, at the founding of this event. Much of what he looked forward to in that first keynote has come true -- the virtual worlds phenomenon has exploded, Second Life's user base and concurrency have grown 600%, and our show is tracking about the same. So it's a great time for another look forward from this master of technology and market insight."