Sponsors

The Online Game Development Conference, in its inaugural year, offers an unparalleled opportunity through sponsorship to target your brand and your message to key leaders in the interactive entertainment industry. Click this to find out how sponsorship of OGDC 2007 can uniquely benefit your company.

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Premier Sponsors

Diamond Sponsor

IBM

IBM knows games. As a longtime leader in the online games industry, we've helped some of the world's top games companies build profitable businesses with a full range of hardware, software and services offerings. Inside the consoles of every major video game system you'll find IBM technology. And inside IBM you'll find the expertise to help game companies reduce expenses while increasing efficiency and profitability in a complex yet boundless market. For more, visit www.ibm.com/solutions/games.

Platinum Sponsors

BigWorld Technology

BigWorld provides a mature middleware platform for developers of Massively Multiplayer Online Games that is fast becoming the industry standard.

The BigWorld MMO Technology Suite is a complete technology solution, consisting of a tightly integrated suite of high performance server applications, tools, advanced 3D client and APIs designed specifically for the fast and efficient creation of MMOGs. We give you the power to focus tightly on your core business of game production, rather than risking your project on uncertain, expensive and time-consuming research & speculative software development.

Online Game Services, Inc.

Online Game Services Inc has been developing its Game Service Provider business model since June 2004 and works with a range of game companies to provide them best-of-breed managed hosting and network services, helping them to offset the risks and costs associated with online game deployment. OGSI provides game companies, regardless of their size, with access to superior hardware and systems without the need for significant capital expenditure. Our core model is based around an affordable monthly recurring fee covering all of the hardware, bandwidth and technical support that a game company needs.

Gold Sponsors

Alchemic Dream

Alchemic Dream Inc., leader MMOG services provider, is a Canadian company created in 2001, dedicated to MMOG management (community management, quality assurance, customer support, localization, game mastering, etc).

Alchemic Dream has an international and multilingual structure that allows access to a very large market (Europe, America and Asia), and flexible outsourcing solutions, and currently provides these services to many game development studios, including Codemasters (Dungeons & Dragons Online, RF Online, Lord of the Rings Online), MindArk (Entropia Universe), Linden Lab (Second Life), Runestone (Seed), among others. Our corporate website : http://www.alchemicdream.net

Silver Sponsors

	Silicon Mechanics Silicon Mechanics is a leading manufacturer of rack-optimized servers and storage solutions with one of the most comprehensive product offerings available. We work collaboratively with customers deploying rack-optimized server installations, taking into consideration density, power, thermal efficiency, performance, and reliability to create best-fit solutions for each customer. Our solid history of reliability, responsiveness, and expertise bring customers like Linden Labs, Sony Playstation, and PopCap Games back to Silicon Mechanics for their gaming hardware solutions. To learn how to custom-configure a system for any computing environment, visit www.siliconmechanics.com or call +1-866-352-1173.

	SolutionsIQ Level Up Your Game Plan with SolutionsIQ. SolutionsIQ utilizes Agile best-practices and test driven development to deliver quality, reliability and scalability to game companies. As industry leaders in Agile, SolutionsIQ can quickly respond to changing requirements through focused collaboration, high performance scrum teams and frequent and consistent delivery. Founded in 1979, SolutionsIQ has been an IT leader for 28 years. This breadth of experience is leveraged for gaming. Combined with deep technical and creative expertise, SolutionsIQ enables game companies to hit their schedules, increase profitability and create great products. To set up a tour of SolutionsIQ game studios contact Entertainment Practice Manager, Will Iverson WIverson@SolutionsIQ.com. Visit SolutionsIQ on-line at www.SolutionsIQ.com.

	Panther Express Inc. Panther Express is the premier provider of world-class, low cost content delivery services. Founded in 2005 by Kevin P. Ryan, former DoubleClick CEO, and Dwight Merriman, former DoubleClick CTO, Panther Express leverages ten years of best practice experience to ensure rapid and reliable performance at the industry's lowest rates without requiring long-term contracts or monthly minimums.

	TheBroth.com TheBroth is the creation of Australian-based company TheBroth Pty Ltd, working on the convergence of digital collaborative art, social networking and multiplayer online gaming. TheBroth.com is a novel web-based art form that allows people to work together to create mosaic art. Each room has 1000 coloured tiles that can be moved simultaneously by everyone in the room. Artworks can be displayed in the gallery for everyone to see and give feedback. At TheBroth, anyone can be an artist, whether you're a beginner or very experienced. TheBroth offers a unique and fun art experience where everyone can become part of an exciting online art community.