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SUMMARY:Regulatory Sandboxes for Virtual Worlds Innovation
DESCRIPTION:Virtual worlds are rapidly evolving from experimental entertainment spaces into persistent socio-technical infrastructures spanning healthcare\, education\, industry\, and public services. This transition presents a unique regulatory convergence\, simultaneously invoking rules on data protection\, artificial intelligence\, cybersecurity\, digital identity\, and intellectual property. Traditional regulation is often too slow and fragmented to address these hybrid environments without either stifling innovation or failing to protect fundamental rights. \n\n\n\nThis webinar builds upon the recently published OPENVERSE policy brief\, “Regulatory Sandboxes for Virtual Worlds Innovation”\, to discuss on the potential of controlled\, evidence-generating testing environments to help Europe build a trustworthy\, inclusive\, and competitive OPENVERSE. \n\n\n\nCore Objectives\n\n\n\n\nExplore Experimental Governance: Discuss how regulatory sandboxes provide a supervised environment for innovators to test technologies and business models while generating real-world evidence for future EU legislation.\n\n\n\nShowcase the OPENVERSE Observatory: Provide insights into the OPENVERSE Observatory’s curated collection of international regulatory sandbox case studies.\n\n\n\nBridge the Local and the European: Understand how municipalities and academic institutions interface with virtual world sandboxes to foster human-centric urban innovation and local digital ecosystems.\n\n\n\nBridge the Real and the Virtual: Explain how it could be possible to model the evolution of European city cultures through advanced Digital Twins.\n\n\n\nIntroduce the concept of Virtual Innovation Districts: Examine EABID’s proposal to leverage existing knowledge to create a “Virtual Innovation District”: a pan-European orchestration layer that simplifies cross-border scaling for micro-enterprises and startups.\n\n\n\n\nAgenda\n\n\n\n2:00 PM – 2:05 PM | Welcome Greetings | Fabio Perossini (The Lisbon Council) 2:05 PM – 2:15 PM | Setting the Scene: Outline of the Discussion | Francesco Molinari (The Lisbon Council)  \n\n\n\n2:15 PM – 2:45 PM | Open Floor: Expert Perspectives & Interventions \n\n\n\n\nJohn Favaro (Trust-IT Services) | Insights from the OPENVERSE Observatory’s collection of use cases\n\n\n\nGraham Colclough (UrbanDNA\, EABID) | Presenting EABID’s Virtual Innovation District concept as a component of the sandbox framework\n\n\n\nAnna Aseeva (Digital For Planet) | Nudging Sufficiency in the Spatial Web: Behavioral Choice Architecture in Municipal Virtual Sandboxes\n\n\n\n\n2:45 PM – 2:55 PM | Open Q&A2:55 PM – 3:00 PM | Conclusions & Next Steps
URL:https://open-verse.eu/event/regulatory-sandboxes-for-virtual-worlds-innovation/
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SUMMARY:EuroXR Conference 2026
DESCRIPTION:Following the success of EuroXR 2025 in Winterthur\, Switzerland\, which gathered more than 235 participants from academia\, industry\, and European projects\, the 23rd EuroXR International Conference – EuroXR 2026 will take place in Valencia\, Spain\, from November 3rd to 6th\, 2026 (Tuesday–Friday\, 6 half-days)\, with satellite events scheduled for November 2nd–3rd. \nOrganized by the European Association for eXtended Reality (EuroXR) together with the Institute for Research on Human-Centred Technology (Human-Tech)\, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia\, the conference will be locally co-chaired by Dr. Mariano Alcañiz Raya\, Director of Human-Tech and LabLENI. \nThis edition will also be organised as a joint event with the European Erasmus+ project Alliance4XR\, which will celebrate its final event during the conference. In addition\, other European projects will participate\, showcasing initiatives that address key themes such as XR in Industry\, XR for Cultural Heritage\, and XR in Education.
URL:https://open-verse.eu/event/euroxr-conference-2026/
LOCATION:Valencia\, Spain
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