On October 20, 2009, Valerie Williamson, ESC’s VP of Business Development & Marketing, will be speaking on a panel about virtual goods monetization at the Digital Hollywood Conference in Santa Monica, CA.  Valerie is joining a panel of folks from IMVU, Gaia Online, RocketOn and Sulake Corp., led by David Traub, VP of Business Development for DigitalSportsMedia. The panel description is as follows:

Virtual worlds, virtual gaming and virtual communities have spawned a universe of goods and services. With hundreds of millions of users consumed in online gaming or social media, the phenomenon of the virtual economy is becoming ever more innovative and based in impressive economic numbers. As the technology enables better and more creative consumer experience, enabling full rich media virtual services and economies, the size, scope and future of the virtual world will only first become understood and realized.