VWBPE: Transitions
April 3-5, 2025
Announcing: Above the Book Guest Speakers
With eighteen years of education, art, science, discussion, and networking using immersive virtual environments in education behind us, we now explore the Transitions in brave new digital spaces of play, learning, and creation.
We are pleased to feature the following guest speakers in our “Above the Book” sessions for the upcoming VWBPE conference in April 2025.
You can mark your calendar with the dates of these presentations. See you at the conference!
Above the Book
Grumpity Linden
Senior Vice President of Product and Engineering, Linden Lab
Catching Up With the Lindens
Friday, 04 April 2025 :: 2:00PM SLT, VWBPE Auditorium
Grumpity Linden is the Senior Vice President of Product and Engineering at Linden Lab. She loves to dig into the intricacies of the Second Life economy and think about the evolution of the world as we make SL accessible across multiple platforms including Mobile and browser.
Grumpity is endlessly inspired—and honestly humbled—by the creativity, resilience, and community spirit of Second Life Residents. She sees her role not just as building features and fixing bugs, but as helping steward a world that belongs to its people.
Patch Linden is the Senior Vice President of Product Operations. A Resident since 2004, Patch was born into Second Life as a Linden in September of 2007, and has fulfilled a variety of roles from support to product since then. Now the Sr. VP of Product Operations, Patch works to bring the best of product and support based decisions on a daily operational basis to the virtual world platform for Second Life. Patch also maintains oversight on how all of the various teams within Linden Lab can best work together for the highest good of the residents and the business.
Patch Linden
Vice President of Product Operations, Linden Lab
Kali Linden
Director of Engineering, Linden Lab
Kali Linden is a Director of Engineering at Linden Lab, where she leads the team behind many of Second Life’s core Resident-facing systems. With 18+ years in tech and a newly completed EMBA, she’s passionate about leading through transitions—whether modernizing legacy systems, growing teams, or mentoring the next generation. She co-founded a nonprofit supporting hundreds of tech job seekers, guided teens through game development projects, and dabbles in costuming and Maker chaos. Kali believes the best transitions are powered by curiosity, community, and a little creative spark—online or off.
Kyle Linden
Senior QA Manager, Linden Lab
Lissena (Wisdomseeker) / Lynne Berrett
2021 Thinkerer
Catching Up With the Thinkerers
Saturday 05 April @ 3:00 PM SLT, VWBPE Auditorium
Join Becky Adams/Elli Pinion as she interviews our 2021 Thinkerer Award winner Lissena (Wisdomseeker) / Lynne Berrett. Lynne began her educational career with an MA in English and doctoral fellowships in the Humanities. She was an English instructor at universities in New York and Michigan. She joined Manhattanville College in the New York City area as Director of the H.E.O.P. College Skills Center for at-risk students and held many other positions there for almost 30 years. Concurrently, she established a private psychotherapy practice for adults and couples after getting an MSW in Clinical Social Work at New York University.
Lynne and her husband established the nonprofit Ageless Mind Project in 2015. The mission of AMP is to make people aware of the many things they can do to improve their brain health and total well-being and, as important, to offer them easy, natural ways to turn these activities into lifelong habits. Whole Brain Health in Second Life and Virtual Learning Village in OpenSim have been AMP’s ongoing virtual programs.
Let’s catch up with Lissena!