Kevin Werbach, an organizer of the Supernova conference, is one of two individuals recently named by president elect Obama to head up the transition team and to review FCC issues. Werbach is also a huge fan of World of Warcraft as is evidenced by the two WoW guilds he belongs to. Werbach asserts that online gaming offers the unique opportunity for the engineering of newer, innovative software applications as well as an ideal environment for testing such technologies.