Embracing technology at Panacea Adviser's virtual conference

Last Thursday morning I created my own avatar. But I was neither blue, nor visiting Pandora and falling for an ex-marine. I was visiting a City conference centre smartly dressed with perfectly coiffed hair and collecting financial product literature courtesy of Panacea Adviser, which is claiming the UK's first virtual financial services conference. As for real me, I was sitting at my desk in my home office (read = spare room) in a hoody and tracksuit bottoms about to discover what it was all about. By nature I am a cynic, a mild Luddite and not in any way a member of the gaming com...