Who We Are

World2Worlds is a diverse network consultancy drawing on engineers, designers, user-experience facilitators and other professionals worldwide. It is headed by Kimberly F. Smith, CEO. Ms. Smith's career includes nearly a decade as Sr. Vice President of Office Automation Training, Inc., providing computer and application training and course design for corporations in the Northwest. She spent more than 19 years in positions of increasing responsibility in operations, logistics, sales and management at several of the nation's largest Architecture and Engineering (A&E) firms, including CH2M Hill, Tetra Tech and Black & Veatch. An early adopter of virtual world technology, Ms. Smith founded RM Metaverse Services (now World2Worlds) in 2006, providing metaverse design/build, community, commerce, branding and event consulting services to corporations entering that environment.

As a consultant to global publisher United Business Media, Ms. Smith co-founded and produced Life 2.0 Summit, the leading virtual event on metaverse development. In her capacity as consulting director of Operations and Sales for UBM Metaverse, she has produced virtual world projects for clients including Intel, Cisco, Sun Microsystems, IBM and Microsoft.

World2Worlds' Advisory Board Chairman is John Jainschigg, who is Director of Ziff Davis Enterprise's Internet and Community Laboratory -- an incubator for new online and social media technology and products. As Executive Director of UBM Metaverse, John created the virtual worlds consulting business for United Business Media and founded Life 2.0 Summit, the leading virtual event for virtual world developers. A 25-year veteran of online software development and media, John's career spans roles as print and/or online Editor in Chief of award-winning CMP B2B technology publications such as Teleconnect, Computer Telephony, Communications Convergence, and Dr. Dobb's Journal, with stints in online software development and custom media and market consulting for diverse clients including Atari, General Electric, CTL Telematique and Global Crossing. A leading virtual worlds visionary and popularizer of social networking, VoIP and related technologies, John speaks frequently at industry events. He blogs at zzomg.com.

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“I wanted to send my deep thanks for the live video feed to Second Life from my Second Earth panel at MIT. The turnout was amazing--we were able to relay questions from SL into the real-world Q&A session. Jason Pontin, editor and publisher of Technology Review, was particularly pleased ...”
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