Those of you interested in Virtual Worlds will definitely want to check out the Federal Consortium For Virtual Worlds (FCVW) conference coming up.  The conference will be at the National Defense University, but (of course, given the content) most of it will be available in various online means. They already have Facebook Groups, Twitter Feeds, and various Virtual World links setup and ready to go.

They have a great collection of speakers too:

Hit their website for all the details..

The Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds.