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 Reggie Fils-Aimé, President & COO
Nintendo of America
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  Chaim Gingold, Game Designer &
Chris Hecker, Technology Fellow
Maxis/EA
Advanced Prototyping
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 Glenn Entis, Senior Vice President, Chief Visual & Technical Officer
EA Worldwide
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 Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Co-founder & Producer
Q Entertainment Inc.
Inspiration led creation - how can we design a game from the first inspirationpresented by
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 Ken Perlin, Professor of Computer Science
NYU Media Research Lab
The Illusion of Life, Revisitedpresented by
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Closing Panel : The Hot Seat: Game Execs Discuss Tough Issues, Inspiring Insights
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- Raphael Colantonio, CEO/Creative Director, Arkane Studios
- Greg Costikyan, CEO, Manifesto Games
- Andrew Eades, Development Director, Relentless Software
- Yannis Mallat, CEO, Ubisoft Montréal
- Rémi Racine, CEO - Executive Producer, Artificial Mind & Movement
- Jason Della Rocca (moderator), executive director, IGDA
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 Luis Alonso, Technical Artist
DC Studios
Bridging the Gap: Becoming an Artist's and Programmer's Peacemaker
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 Leslie Bishko, Associate Professor
Emily Carr Institute of Art+Design+Media
Laban for Animators
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 Matt Costello, President, Polar Productions
Story-Telling, Interactivity and the Creative Process
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 Stephan Martiniere, Visual Design Director, Midway Games
The role and impact of Visual art director for "next gen" games
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 Susan O'Connor, Game Writer
Susan O'Connor Writing Studio
Game Writing: Best Practices
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 Kees Rijnen, Technical Animator
Bioware
Realtime Skin Slidingpresented by
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  Richard Rouse III, Director of Game Design
& Marty Stoltz, Studio Cinematic Director
Midway Games
Cinematic Game Design
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 Tom Salta, Composer/Producer
Persist Music
Better Gameplay through Great Game Music
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 Borislav Petrov, Technical Director
Frantic Films
Rapid Tools Development using MAXScriptpresented by
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VO PANEL : The human touch: Bringing scripts to life
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 M. John Buchanan, Professor
CMU
Strange Bedfellows: Leveraging Academic Innovationspresented by
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 Jason Coleman, VP Software
Big Huge Games
Coding in an Iterative World: Rise of Legends Post-mortempresented by
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 Bruce Dawson, Software Design Engineer
Microsoft
Design and Implementation of Multi-Threaded Games
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 Marsel Khadiyev, Owner, EPHERE Productions Inc.
Practical real-time hair for games and interactive applications
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  Allen Lau, CTO and Co-founder
& Oliver Tabay, Development Lead, Content Adaptation, Tira Wireless
Best Practices for Mobile Content Development Using Aspect Oriented Programming
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 Dr. Alexander Nareyek, Professor, National University of Singapore
Game AI is Dead. Long Live Game AI!
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 Jean-François St-Amour, 3D programmer
Ubisoft Montréal
Bare metal: modern graphics hardware architectures.
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 Jos Stam, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist
Autodesk, Inc.
A General Dynamical Solver for computer graphics
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 Neil Trevett, Vice President Embedded Content
NVIDIA
Khronos - Creating an Embedded Media Processing Ecosystem
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 Tom Arundel
Introversion Software
How do indies push game innovation and remain commercially viable?presented by
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 Chris Bateman, Managing Director, International Hobo
Play Styles & Player Needs: How Gamer Typology Guides Game Design
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 Brenda Brathwaite, Game Designer/Professor
Savannah College of Art & Design
Sex in Games: The Evolution of an Industry
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 James Everett, Game Designer
Artificial Mind and Movement
Off the Shelf Tools for Communicating your Game Design
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 Michelle Hinn, Lecturer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Gamers with Disabilities: Expanding the Market through Accessible Design
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 Gerard Jones, Author of: Killing Monsters
Controllers and Decontrollers: Games as the Emotional Arenas of the Modern World
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 Nicole Lazzaro, President
XEODesign, Inc.
The 4 Most Important Emotions of Game Design.
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 Elan Lee, Vice President of Experience Design
42 Entertainment
Alternate Reality Games: Check Your Joystick at the Door
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 Mike Mace, Game Evaluation Lead
Microsoft
Making Good Games Great: Advancing Playability for the Next Generation
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 Michael Mateas, Assistant Professor
University of California, Santa Cruz
Interactive Drama: A solution to the interactive story dilemma
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 Tracy Rosenthal-Newsom, Senior Producer
Harmonix Music Systems
Innovation, accessibility and diversity : Designing games for the broader market
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 Toby Schadt, Lead Designer
Toys for Bob
Taking Tony Hawk to the Wii: Challenges of redefining a well known propertypresented by
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  Reid Schneider, Senior Producer &
Vanderlei Caballero, Design Director, Electronic Arts
Building New IP and Innovation in Games, how to break out of the box.
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 Raphael Colantonio, CEO/Creative Director
Arkane Studios
Building a Small Creative Studio (In a Big Publisher World) Passion is your best assetpresented by
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Greg Costikyan, CEO
Manifesto Games
Games, Genres, and Why Independent Games are Vital
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 Andrew Eades, Development Director
Relentless Software
How To Keep A Team Motivated, Or Why it Doesn't Even Matter
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 Noel Llopis, Senior Architect
High Moon Studios
Agile Game Development From The Trenches
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 Alexander Mendelev, Director, Product Deployment
Airborne Entertainment
Mobile Game Deployment - Unlocking the secrets
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 Kim Pallister, Business Development Manager - Casual Games
Microsoft
Opportunities and Challenges in the Age of Digital Distribution
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 Tobi Saulnier, CEO
1st Playable Productions
Better Games Via Formal Production Processes
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 Jonathan Smith, Development Director
TT Games Publishing
Fun With Licenses
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