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hughes entrepreneurship -rrb- conference held in derry , uk in 2009 speaking . at ace -lrb- awakening , creative , norfolk , england , united kingdom epredator 30 or 31 august 1967 technology innovation ian_hughes_speaking_at_2009_conference . jpg ian hughes -lrb- epredator -rrb-
 ian hughes -lrb- aka epredator -rrb- metaverse evangelist , television personality
ian hughes -lrb- epredator -rrb-

ian hughes , also known as epredator , -lrb- born 30 or 31 august 1967 in norfolk , england -rrb- is a british metaverse evangelist and television personality .
in 2006 , he set leading set of like-minded individuals and subsequently many thousands of colleagues at ibm into virtual worlds like second life , and beyond .
-lrb- hughes ' effort in second life where he is known as epredator potato was documented extensively in a 2007 report . -rrb-
this sparked the massive growth in interest from enterprises and press alike .
hughes was a public figure in web 2.0 and , formerly , a blogger on eightbar , a site maintained by former and current ibm employees on the fringes of innovation within their labs .
he has also voiced evil eater , the antagonist in weetakid .
