| Wednesday |
7:00 PM
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10:00 PM | Early Check-in and Welcome Reception (Garden Terrace) |
| Thursday |
| Room |
Congress |
Council |
Parliament |
Senate |
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9:00 AM
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9:50 AM
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Lecture: Appealing to the MMOB: Building Massively Multiplayer Online Brands
Brian Robbins (Fuel Industries)
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Lecture: Optimizing your localization pipeline for a dynamic universe
David Lakritz (Language Automation, Inc.)
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Lecture: MMOGs and Mobile Devices
Simon Hayes (BigWorld)
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Lecture: Writer: The Red Headed Stepchild of the Videogame World
Jess Lebow (Flying Lab Software)
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10:00 AM
to
10:50 AM
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Lecture: Building Games for the Mass Market
Mike Goslin (Disney Online)
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Lecture: IGDA Online Games SIG Persistent Worlds Whitepaper Review
James Hursthouse (Online Game Services, Inc.)
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Lecture: Working in the Data Mines: Uncovering Gameplay Gold
Darius Kazemi (Orbus Gameworks)
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Lecture: Global Gaming Goes Casual
Charles Merrin (RealNetworks, Inc.)
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11:00 AM
to
11:50 AM
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Panel: Online Consoles: Strategies for the Future
Jeff Pobst (Hidden Path Entertainment)
JJ Richards (Microsoft)
Michael Shorrock (Sony Computer Entertainment America)
Todd Northcutt (GameSpy / IGN Entertainment)
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Lecture: In-game Voice Makes Online Games More Than Just Games
Monty Sharma (Vivox)
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Lecture: Automating Online Game Balance
Christian Force (+7 Systems)
Nathaniel Bogan (+7 Systems)
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Lecture: Where Have All The Boys Gone - Video Games and Advertising
Michael Goodman (Yankee Group)
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12:00 PM
to
1:00 PM | Lunch (provided) |
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1:00 PM
to
1:50 PM
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Keynote: Software and the Concurrency Revolution
Herb Sutter (Microsoft)
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2:00 PM
to
2:50 PM
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Lecture: Secrets and Challenges of Localizing and Monetizing Different IP: Real World Cases
Won-il Suh (Neowiz)
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Lecture: It Takes Looks and Personality: GPUs in MMOs
Kevin Bjorke (NVIDIA Corporation)
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Lecture: A Psychological Approach to Decreasing Cheating & Griefing in Traditional (non-MMO) Online Games
Bill Fulton (Microsoft)
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Panel: Engaging Your Community what you can do for them and what they can do for you
Rich Weil (Kaneva)
Victor Wachter (Cryptic Studios)
Troy Hewitt (Flying Lab Software)
Alan Crosby (Sony Online Entertainment)
Steven Wade (Aeria Games and Entertainment)
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3:00 PM
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3:50 PM
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Panel: The Chinese Game Market: Latest Developments and Trends
Zhan Ye (GameVision)
Allison Luong (Pearl Research)
Diana Li (Shanda)
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Sponsored Lecture: Massive Consoles the business and technical assessment of developing MMOGs on consoles
Gavin Longhurst (BigWorld)
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Lecture: Xbox LIVE on Windows and 360: Are Your Games Dead or LIVE?
Brendan Vanous (Microsoft)
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Lecture: Security Issues for Third Party Games: Technical, Business, and Legal Perspectives
Steven Davis (IT GlobalSecure Inc.)
W. Joseph Price (Kelley Drye Collier Shannon)
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4:00 PM
to
4:50 PM
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Lecture: The Four Most Important Emotions of Game Design
Nicole Lazzaro (XEODesign, Inc.)
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Lecture: LIVE on Windows Essentials
Zsolt Mathe (Microsoft)
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Lecture: Cross Functional Teams in the New Third Place
Constance Steinkuehler (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
David Simkins (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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Panel: Successful Strategies for Taking Your Games to a Global Audience
James Hursthouse (Online Game Services, Inc.)
James Gwertzman (PopCap Games)
Tom DuBois (Electronic Arts)
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5:00 PM
to
5:50 PM
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Lecture: The Future of Games and Entertainment Resides Online
Erin Turner (Trion World Network)
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Lecture: It's All in the EULA
James E. Dunstan (Garvey Schubert Barer)
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Lecture: Everything but the Game
Robert Mitchell (Sony Online Entertainment)
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Lecture: Net Neutrality, IPTV, Wireless Broadband and More: A Gamers Guide to Broadband Issues
Steve Augustino (Kelley Drye & Warren LLP)
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6:00 PM
to
8:00 PM | Official Conference Networking Party (Garden Terrace)
Sponsored by OGSi |
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| Friday |
| Room |
Congress |
Council |
Parliament |
Senate |
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9:00 AM
to
9:50 AM
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Lecture: User Research for Online Game Development
John Hopson, Ph.D. (Microsoft Games Studios/Games User Research)
Lisa Galarneau, M.Sc. (The University of Waikato, New Zealand)
Ramon Romero (Microsoft Games Studios/Games User Research)
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Lecture: Adapting your Online Games to the Mobile Platform
Christof Wegmann (Exit Games)
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Lecture: Adventures in Middleware
Joe Ludwig (Flying Lab Software)
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Lecture: How Developers Build a Brand for the Company and Get More Coverage for Their Titles
Sue Bohle (The Bohle Company)
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10:00 AM
to
10:50 AM
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Panel: Developing Community
Rich Weil (Kaneva)
Charles Manning (PLAYXPERT)
Alexander Macris (Themis Group, Inc.)
Craig T. Dalrymple (Sony Online Entertainment)
Geoffrey GZ Zatkin (EEDAR (Electronic Entertainment Design and Research))
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Sponsored Panel: Designing Worlds Future Directions of Tools and Technology in MMOs
Gavin Longhurst (BigWorld)
John Romero (Slipgate Ironworks)
Dan Elggren (Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment)
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Lecture: Intelligence for Changing Worlds: Real-time Generation of AI Data in Dynamic MMO Environments
Ramon Axelrod (AIseek)
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Lecture: Building a World Class MMO While Building a Company Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment and Stargate Worlds
Joseph Ybarra (Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment)
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11:00 AM
to
11:50 AM
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Lecture: Legal and Trade Ramifications of Selling Virtual Items to Players
Kirk A. Soderquist (Perkins Coie LLP)
Don McGowan (Microsoft)
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Sponsored Lecture: Building an MMO is Easy If.....
George Dolbier (IBM Games and Interactive Entertainment)
Brett Close (38 Studios)
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Lecture: LagTalk
Simon Hayes (BigWorld)
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Lecture: Dirty Secrets of Episodic Video Games
Keith Halper (Kuma Reality Games)
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12:00 PM
to
1:00 PM | Lunch (provided) |
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1:00 PM
to
1:50 PM
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Keynote: Games Industry 2012
Erik Bethke (GoPets Ltd.)
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2:00 PM
to
2:50 PM
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Panel: The New Online Game Payment Model
Joshua Hong (K2 Network)
John Maffei (Affinity Media)
Peter Gollan (CCP Games)
Rich Wickham (Microsoft)
Steve Goldstein (Flagship Studios)
Tony Park (The9)
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Lecture:
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Lecture: Games and Brains
Isaac Barry (Sierra Online)
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Lecture: Culture Clash: When Security Comes Knocking
Dave Weinstein (Microsoft)
Bill Shihara (Microsoft)
Jeff MacDermot (Microsoft)
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3:00 PM
to
3:50 PM
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Lecture: Dissecting Our Baby: AutoAssault Postmortem - the Good, the Bad, and All the Ugly
Scott Brown (NetDevil)
Hermann Peterscheck (NetDevil)
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Lecture: The Evolution of In-Game Advertising
Yoav Tzruya (Exent Technologies)
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Lecture: Dynamic Bandwidth Throttling in a Client/Server Platform Shooter
Bart House (Microsoft)
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Lecture: How Educators Are Turning To Online Game Tech, And Why You May Want To Support Them
Daniel Ostenso (Illinois Institute of Art Chicago)
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4:00 PM
to
4:50 PM
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Sponsored Panel: Build or Buy? MMO Design and Technology Decisions That Affect Your Bottom Line
James Hursthouse (Online Game Services, Inc.)
George Dolbier (IBM Games and Interactive Entertainment)
Anthony Brown (Seven Group Digital Media)
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Lecture: Advanced D Programming Language Features
Walter Bright (Digital Mars)
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Lecture: Rigor-mortis... Animating life into those old dead rigs
Shayne Herrera (Cryptic Studios)
Sean Burgoon (Cryptic Studios)
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Lecture: The Future of the Video Game Industry: Better Design, Fewer Publishers More Millionaires (CANCELLED)
Corey Bridges (Multiverse)
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