This year, for the first time, ECML PKDD will be present in a virtual world. On Monday at 5.20pm CEST (11.20am in New York/8.20am in San Francisco), the Opening and Awards ceremony as well the invited talk by Rosie Jones (Yahoo!, Inc) will be broadcast in real time to a virtual conference centre provided by Nature Publishing Group in SecondLife.

Everyone is invited to join the event (and check out how the programme chairs avatars look like). To participate in this experiment, follow the instructions at http://www.nature.com/secondnature/basics.html and then visit http://slurl.com/secondlife/Elucian%20Islands/214/42/58 .

The video stream will also be accessible via a web browser here.