Stone Librande has worked in the game industry for over 10 years on games such as Diablo 3 and Spore. He is currently the Creative Director at EA/Maxis where he is designing the newest SimCity game. In addition to his full-time job, he also teaches game design courses at Cogswell College in Sunnyvale, CA. and runs design seminars at the Game Developers Conference and at other locations around the world. His walk-in closet holds more than 300 card and board games, including 30 that he has designed himself.

Cynthia Woll recently completed a two-year stint as Creative Director for Disney Mobile, where she guided the design for the critically-acclaimed iPhone game “Where’s My Water?” as well as “Pirates of the Caribbean: Master of the Seas” and “Cars 2 AppMATes, a groundbreaking toy/iPad product. Cynthia has designed mobile games, social games, virtual worlds and reward systems for clients that include Tapulous, MTV, Neopets, DirecTV, AOL, Ultimate Movie Site, Buzznet.com, and Knowledge Adventure. In addition, as founder and CEO of Cul de Sac Studios and Angel City Games, she designed and launched a series of social games for Facebook including Burb Wars and Gossip Town. Prior to founding her own companies, Cynthia served as Executive Producer at Yahoo! Games, Executive Producer at Atari Inc., Sr. Producer at Electronic Arts, Director of Development at Mattel Media, Producer at Disney Interactive, and Executive Producer at Time Warner Interactive. Her published games are a diverse portfolio and include Yahoo! Chess, Barbie Magic Hair Styler, Dungeons & Dragons Online, online Scrabble and Monopoly, ClubWorld, and PopJax Video Trivia. Cynthia will be mentoring on game design and designing in monetization.

Marcus Montgomery is a veteran designer with more than 17 years of industry experience. As a game designer he has worked at 3DO, Sony Computer Entertainment, and currently holds the position of Senior Designer at Backbone Entertainment. He has lead design for 3 commercially released Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 titles and was instrumental in the design execution of 5 Playstation 1 and 2 games. In his free time he has been known to participate in the Experimental Gameplay Project and has organized a hackathon at Backbone Entertainment. He is intrigued by the innovation in the independent games space and hopes to foster more crossover with the mainstream.

Stephanie Morgan is a serial award-winning producer of social entertainment products, including GodFinger, WordFu, and Star Defense for iOS. She was also Studio Director at Hands-On Mobile (World Poker Tour and Guitar Hero) before her time with ngmoco. Prior to becoming a game producer, she lived as a professional card player and worked in films, with her first game being Baldur's Gate Mobile at Sorrent (Glu). Those in the industry know her as one of the key designer/producers that has driven powerhouse mobile titles, having multiple millions of downloads, DAUs and MAUs. Currently Founder & C3PO at Rabbit, a live social video startup, Stephanie continues to advise game companies as much as her schedule allows.

Doug Hill is a Lead Game Designer at Disney Playdom, where he oversaw the design of Armies of Magic for Facebook and is currently working on an unannounced title. Previously, Doug has worked on more than 30 published titles from a variety of publishers including Disney Interactive, Popcap Games, Nickelodeon, Activision, Take Two, and THQ. These were primarily on Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance, but also include PC, Nintendo Wii, and PlayStation. He has served not only as a Lead Designer, but also a Producer, Writer, and Content Designer on a variety of titles. Past titles include Armies of Magic, Elements of Destruction DS, Bookworm DS, Dora the Explorer, Little League World Series, UNO, and many more.

Mike Lu has over 10 years of product experience working in online media. His products has generated more than $200 MM in revenue across two separate start ups. He later joined Funzio as the executive producer for mobile games managing Crime City, Kingdom Age, and Modern War. Mike is currently the Sr Director of Product, at GREE which acquired Funzio in June 2012.

In his 20 years in the game industry, Josh Rose has overseen the launch of 28 software products and 22 games. Josh has assembled international game production teams of over 75 people, for both large and small clients, including ngmoco:) and Glu Mobile. He has worked with top-tier brand properties including Star Wars, Lady Gaga, and the George Romero Dawn of the Dead franchise. Josh is a frequent speaker on viral product design and a sought after expert for his unique talent at building, leading, and motivating creative teams as well as designing viral, high player-engagement products.

Christian Godorr is currently the Creative Director of Bigpoint. Christian joined in 2006 as the Producer of Dark Orbit, and oversaw the creation and development of one of Bigpoint's oldest and most successful titles. He now is responsible for managing the game design department as well as overseeing game balancing and virtual economies for all Bigpoint games.

Christian established the foundation for Bigpoint's successful virtual item-based business model, and has built a strong game design team, responsible for conceptualizing and balancing new products and product updates. His main focus is on balancing game titles by analyzing player's needs and monetizing audiences without overlooking the "fun-factor".

Christian has 14 years of professional experience in the online games industry, which has leveraged an excellent knowledge and skillset in Game Design, Game Balancing and Virtual Economy. Christian's prime focus has been on the analysis of player needs and knowledge on how to monetize these aspects without neglecting the "fun" in games. He studied Media Informatics, Philosophy and Social Science at the University of Hildesheim and Hannover.

Noah Falstein began his career in game development in 1980. Among the first ten employees at Lucasfilm Games (now LucasArts Entertainment), The 3DO Company, and Dreamworks Interactive, Falstein was project leader for the classic arcade game Sinistar, the PC titles PHM Pegasus and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and co-designer of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Other titles he has contributed to include Re-Mission, Cisco MindShare Game, and Alan Wake. He was the first elected chairman of the International Game Developers’ Association, and was the design columnist for Game Developer magazine for six years. Since 1996 he has been President of The Inspiracy, providing game design and project management expertise to a wide variety of companies. He has been an early leader in areas including interactive narrative and story games, flight simulators, modern console development, serious games, and virtual worlds. http://www.theinspiracy.com

Brandii Grace is the Chief Creative Officer of Transform Entertainment – a pioneering company recently featured on Gamasutra for working to create AAA console games specifically targeting the growing women’s market. Brandii has nearly 10 years of design and development experience in the games industry working with a wide array of platforms, genres, and markets for games ranging from giant AAA MMO’s to award-winning indie titles. She has taught game design innovation, been published in respected game development textbooks, and helped start more than one collegiate game program.

With more than two decades of industry experience under his belt, Randy Angle has been responsible for over 60 games, in every genre, on every imaginable platform, many as Lead Designer and Creative Director. He has a proven ability for game design, engineering, project management, and building teams while operating multiple projects. Games he has developed have won awards, garnered fan appreciation and earned hundreds of millions of dollars for past clients. Brands he has made games for include: Star Trek, LEGO, Lord of the Rings, Dungeons & Dragons, Spiderman, Dora the Explorer, SpongeBob SquarePants, Fairly Odd Parents, Danny Phantom, Jimmy Neutron, Zorro, Deal or No Deal, 1 VS 100 and many original titles.

Marina Kobayashi is a lead games user researchers at Electronic Arts Headquarters in Redwood City, California. She started conducting user research in the User Studies Lab at Carnegie Mellon University where she earned her Masters in Human Computer Interaction. Her user research has taken her to emerging markets ethnographies in Mumbai, India, contextual inquiries with roboticists for NASA AMES, to Turbotax studies and eBay gamification research. She currently supports the Battlefield, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age franchises. Through a morning ritual of talking about what games they each played the night before, Marina and her colleagues relish in game experiences, what makes them fun, and how to make them better. They are also passionate about improving the practice of Games User Research. This means thinking about process and methods and how to make them most effective and efficient. Marina lives in San Francisco, California’s Mission District where she enjoys tacos and tokidoki.

Sarah (Hatton) Romoslawski works at Sifteo Inc. designing games for the Sifteo cube platform. Additionally, she leads playtests for all Sifteo titles to ensure fun and usability for the Sifteo audience -- ages 7 to 12. Currently working on several unannounced titles for Sifteo, Sarah has also shipped The Cogwell Twins and the Amazing Alpha-Matic, a Montessori inspired game for pre-readers, and produced Sifteo’s DIY Multiple Choice Creativity Kit. Previously Sarah worked at EA’s Pogo.com on web features, games for the Pogo Mini avatar service and as a producer for the physics game Cirque du Flea. Sarah holds an MFA from Arizona State University’s interdisciplinary Arts, Media and Engineering program where she developed embodied and multimodal language arts scenarios and teen focused serious games for the Situated Multimedia Arts Learning Lab (SMALLab). Her art and research has appeared in venues such as ACM Sandbox, ACM Multimedia, the Participatory Design Conference, iDMAa, and Interaction Design and Children.

Rob Hunter joined forces with Mark Johnson in 2009 and have been making apps for iOS ever since. The two focus on making casual games that are specifically designed for mobile touchscreen devices. Their most popular title, Hit Tennis 2, has been downloaded over 13 million times. Mark and Rob have recently launched the third installment Hit Tennis (Hit Tennis 3) with truly spectacular results.

Ethan Levy is a 9.5 year veteran as a game producer and designer. He has worked at companies big and small, including BioWare, Pandemic Studios, PlayFirst, iWin and Electonic Arts' Office of the Chief Creative Officer. Currently, he works as an independent game developer and a game design consultant in the mobile/social space.

As part of BioWare San Francisco, he led the development of browser-based Dragon Age Journeys and Dragon Age Legends Remix and social network Dragon Age Legends as Game Producer. Dragon Age Legends was named as one of Kotaku's "5 Best Games on Facebook" and was nominated for 2 awards at the GDC Online Choice Awards in 2011. The three Dragon Age games have totaled over 50 million plays.

Tony Parisi is an entrepreneur and career CTO/architect. He has developed international standards and protocols, created noteworthy software products, and started and sold technology companies. Tony's passion for innovating is exceeded only by his desire to bring coolness and fun to the broadest possible audience.

Tony is perhaps best known for his work as a pioneer of 3D standards for the web. He is the co-creator of VRML and X3D, ISO standards for networked 3D graphics. He also co-developed SWMP, a real-time messaging protocol for multi-user virtual worlds. Tony continues to build community around innovations in 3D as the co-chair of the WebGL Meetup and a founder of the Rest3D working group.

Tony is currently a partner in a stealth online gaming startup and has a consulting practice developing social games, virtual worlds and location-based services for San Francisco Bay Area clients.

Anthony Farmer has been creating revolutionary games and game platforms for decades and most recently has enjoyed being part of the team that's transforming Las Vegas casino gaming by dragging it kicking & screaming into the Mobile Era.

Ross Dannenberg handles a wide-range of intellectual property issues, with experience in Internet, e-commerce, telecommunications, and computer software-related issues. With a background in computer science, Ross has prepared and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications in a variety of technical fields, including mobile and traditional telecommunications, computer software, video games, and Internet and business method inventions. He also has experience with intellectual property protection of video games, including patent and copyright protection, copyright clearance, and licensing, and has experience with entertainment, copyright, trademark and domain name related matters. Mr. Dannenberg is an adjunct copyrights professor at George Mason University School of Law.

Mr. Dannenberg earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology with concentrations in Telecommunications and Database Management. Between his undergraduate studies and law school, Mr. Dannenberg was an Information Systems Manager for Carnival Cruise Lines, where he was responsible for all facets of computer and network use, training, and administration aboard a cruise ship. He earned his Juris Doctor from The George Washington University Law School in 2000, where he was a member of The Environmental Lawyer legal journal.

Mr. Dannenberg is the founding Chair of the American Bar Association's (ABA) IP Section Committee on Computer Games and Virtual Worlds, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Patent Arcade website. Mr. Dannenberg is the author of The American Bar Association’s Legal Guide to Video Game Production, published by the ABA in 2011, and is the executive editor of Computer Games and Virtual Worlds: A New Frontier in Intellectual Property Law, published by the ABA IP Section in 2010. Mr. Dannenberg currently serves on the Steering Committee of the Intellectual Property Rights Committee of the International Game Developers Association. Mr. Dannenberg earned his Private Pilot's license in 1999, and is a former member of the Lawyer Pilots Bar Association and International Technology Law Association. Mr. Dannenberg is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Mr. Dannenberg's representative clients include multinational software, networking, and telecommunications companies, a virtual world software developer having a user base of over 4 million users, video game developers and publishers, and emerging technology companies.

Mr. Dannenberg practices in the firm's Washington, D.C. office.

Jon Slenk became a programmer probably because he liked video games (he grew up on Crash and Zzap! 64), and because he wished usability were more respected (he grew up on MacPaint). His day jobs have included startups, megacorps, and academia, in realms such as video games, television, consumer electonics, and bioinformatics. A fan of open source and smart programming languages, he naturally got sucked into the world of Haxe and NME for developing a couple of 'strictly small time' games.

Anton Commissaris brings to Apsalar over 15 years of experience in software, Internet and mobile sectors spanning product strategy, sales, business development, marketing and operations. As a founding member of Mint.com's executive team, he helped the service become the world's leading personal financial management web service until its acquisition by Intuit. As Director, Revenue & Business Development at Intuit's Consumer Group, Anton drove strategies to build Mint to obtain millions of additional users while increasing revenue per user.

Prior to Mint, Anton was VP of Business Development at Right Hemisphere, (acquired by SAP AG), the leader in visual enterprise solutions, and Director of Business Development at Spotlife.com, (acquired by Logitech in 2002), a pioneer in Web consumer video broadcasting. He began his career as an attorney working in London and Paris, and then in Palo Alto, California at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He holds law degrees from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and the University of Montpellier, France.

Aditya Dayal is the Founder and CEO of ThrowMotion, Inc. Building upon his passion for technology and sport, his vision is to scale down and bring the realism of sport indoors. ThrowMotion’s first game units are starting Beta tests at various locations in the Bay Area this fall. Aditya holds bachelor’s degrees in Physics and Mathematics, and a PhD in Astronomy from the University of Arizona. He has spent the last 12 years working with complex electro-optical systems in areas of systems engineering, algorithms and product development/marketing in Silicon Valley. Prior to that, he worked with the instrument design team for the Hubble Space telescope at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology.

Dren McDonald (nerdtracks.com) has most recently worked as Audio Director at Loot Drop developing the titles Ghost Recon: Commander (Ubisoft) and Pettington Park (Zynga), where he worked closely with well known game designers John Romero, Brenda Garno Brathwaite, and Tom Hall. Previously he was audio lead at 6Waves/LOLapps on hit titles such as Ravenwood Fair, and Ravenskye City, & he's worked on a number of mobile and indie titles, including the upcoming "Skulls of the Shogun". Dren also serves on the Game Audio Network Guild as the Community Manager and News Editor.

Alex Peake is the founder and CEO of Primer Labs, a startup that creates endless learning games to make all knowledge playable. Alex founded the alternative fashion company Tactical Corsets in 2009. Alex was the editor of Agile Journal, a web & mobile applications developer at Sling, and lead animation editor at Atomic Cartoons.

Tyson Daugherty is senior vice president, strategic partnerships at adtivity by appssavvy, an activity advertising technology company. He leads strategic partnerships integrating the adtivity activity-based advertising platform, which enables web, social and mobile publishers, including CrowdStar, Disney, OMGPOP, TheBroth and Ubisoft, to name a few, to unlock and create new, display advertising opportunities reaching people as they perform activities.

Daugherty arrived at the company from Future US, where he was vice president, Internet development. At Future US, he steered online strategy and execution, and managed a team of more than 30 employees responsible for building and operating online products in video games, technology, sports, entertainment and music sectors. Through a combination of building, buying, partnering and marketing, Daugherty drove growth of the online product portfolio from seven million to 20 million monthly unique users.

Previously, he was general manager and vice president of business development at Bolt, where he worked with appssavvy's Co-founder and CEO Chris Cunningham. Daugherty is an entrepreneur at his core and previously founded two Internet companies, Gigmania and Pixelfixx, in the music and gaming sectors respectively. Daugherty holds an MBA from Insead in France, where he founded iMEG (Insead Media and Entertainment Group) and is a graduate of Tulane University. Follow him on Twitter at @pixelfixx.

Aaron Cammarata has been developing videogames since he taught himself Logo on a Coleco Adam as an 8 year old. He turned pro in 1995, and was worked for companies including Activision, Neversoft, THQ, and Locomotive Games. He has contributed to top-selling games for console, PC, and handheld devices, including Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and multiple Pixar titles. He is passionate about innovation and creativity, and believes that videogames offer us entertainment experiences unlike any that have come before. In 2011 he founded game studio voidALPHA with partners Mark Day and David Nielsen, which currently has 4 titles in development. An avid gamer with a passion for game design as a craft, Aaron loves talking games, playing games, and making games. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Bucknell University.

First things you should know about Ben Peters are his allegiances: Warriors, Giants, 49ers, and UCLA, his alma mater. After a brief spell as a lawyer, he discovered an undiagnosed passion for tech and startups. If Pickmoto can figure a way to include hip-hop and Korean culture, then his life would be complete.

Ryan Merket has had a lifelong love of tech. He first learned how to program at 11, developed his first site at 13 and started his first internet business at the age of 16.

Prior to InMobi, Ryan was the CEO and co-founder of AppGalleries.com, a white label app platform that gives publishers the tools to showcase mobile apps that are relevant to their audience. Ryan founded AppGalleries.com after leaving Facebook, where he helped major platform partners like Disney, Hulu and Spotify effectively leverage the Facebook Platform. Before Facebook, Ryan co-founded Ping.fm (acquired by Seesmic), a service that allows users to post across multiple social networks at once.

Ryan’s first moved to the Bay Area to work for CBS Interactive in San Francisco as a Senior Product Designer. At CBS he launched the very first implementation of Facebook Connect and numerous social applications for various CBS properties.

When Ryan is not plugged-in you can usually find him at AT&T Park or Candlestick Park, or in the East Bay trying a new restaurant.

Cristian Mitreanu is the founder of BizBigPic, where he is building a platform for continuous business skill learning and personal marketing -- an alternative to the conventional business education. OFMOS, a casual video game that mimics the process of running a company over long periods of time, is a key component of the innovative offering, bringing a new approach to the way we learn business. Previously, Cristian authored and published Spointra and the Secret of Business Success, a business book humorously formatted as a "children's book for business professionals." Some of his writing has been published in MIT Sloan Management Review and by the American Marketing Association. He also founded and organized TEDxUIUC, an idea-sharing initiative at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

As senior partner alliance manager for the MHL Consortium, Michael Bergen is responsible for generating developer awareness to drive the adoption of MHL technology. Leveraging both his broad technical knowledge and his passion for games and apps, Michael brings a deep understanding of the mobile developer ecosystem to the MHL Consortium.

He has more than a decade of experience working with publishers and developers of mobile games and applications. Prior to joining the MHL Consortium, Michael was senior manager, global games business development at Sony Ericsson, responsible for the mass market adoption of the Xperia™ PLAY among developers and publishers that resulted in the creation of an extensive catalog of games. Previously, he spent five years at Nokia in a variety of roles working with games and application providers on a number of initiatives, including both N-Gage and the OVI Store. He began his career in mobile leading the entertainment, games and media vertical at Palm in the late 1990s.

Michael holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in broadcasting from San Francisco State University.

John Shedletsky is employee #1 and Creative Director at ROBLOX. He joined the co-founders in 2006 fresh out of Stanford as a caffeine-guzzling code monkey. Over the past six years, he has been involved in nearly all aspects of developing the product from being a tiny game with 3 active players up to a demographic-dominating behemoth with 3 million active players. ROBLOX is at the forefront of the user generated content movement - it is a platform that allows literally anyone to build and host their own cross-platform online multiplayer game for free. There are individual user-created ROBLOX games with tens of millions of game plays, and there are millions of games available to play on ROBLOX.com. John has been desigfning and building games for more than 20 years. His biggest fear is that one day he might have to get a real job.

Matthew Kagle teaches game design, level design, programming, and English composition at DeVry University; is a novelist and children’s book author; and is a stay-at-home father to two boys. He has worked as a game and level designer at Totally Games, Pterodactyl Inc., and Raven Software; a QA Engineer at Global VR and Eidos Interactive (where he was also an accountant for a few months); and a writer for Twilight Zone Software. Matthew’s company, Vacuum Genesis Games, is planning to release their first game, Maid Max Cleans Up Haunted House Hill, in October. In his spare time, Matthew likes to… Wait, what is “spare time?”

Terry Hsiao, is a recognized entrepreneur with an impressive track record for developing companies in the mobile telecom industry.

Prior to founding Hook Mobile, he was chief operating officer and general manager of International markets for Way Systems, taking the company from pre-revenue to more than $10M.

He also co-founded InphoMatch, the pioneer in mobile messaging, with annual revenue of $100M, which was acquired by Sybase for $425 million. In addition, he managed the founding and operations of Nextel Partners’ wireless venture (acquired by Sprint), from the creation of the business plan, raising capital, development of operating structures, to IPO within 18 months.

Hsiao has been appointed by Virginia Governor of Bob McDonnell to serve on the state’s Board of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority (IEIA). He also serves on the Board of Governors at MIT Sloan School of Management, Monte Jade D.C. Chapter, and on the Business Advisory Boards of Rutgers University College of Engineering and the Confucius Institute at George Mason University (GMU).

Hsiao holds an S.M. degree from MIT Sloan School of Management with a concentration on growth strategy and entrepreneurship, and an Honors B.S.E.E. degree from Rutgers University.

Dave Merrill is an expert in cutting-edge human-computer interaction and has developed multiple award-winning interfaces and technologies. A frequent speaker in the domains of user interface innovation, the future of play, and entrepreneurship, Dave and his work have been featured at TED, MoMA, the Discovery Channel, and Wired. Dave holds a BS in Symbolic Systems and an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University, and an MS and PhD from the MIT Media Lab.

Greg Campbell's parents believed he would have a future in video games ever since he was 2, when they pulled him off a Pac-Man arcade game he was hugging for dear life.
 He has since grown up to co-author Fate and Destiny, a turn-based RPG in the original StarCraft engine which took 10 years to complete. Chris Metzen of Blizzard Entertainment seemed excited to play it.
 Since then, he has made The Metaphysical Revolution, a D&D 3.5 module about the ramifications of industrializing magic, the rights of sentient machines, and change in a medievalish fantasy setting. He ran this module at a bar once because someone asked, "Do you know D&D?"
 Nowadays, Greg works at ParallelPorta on a game called PuzzAllure. Details are super secret right now, but Greg believes it will be fun, because more games should be about fun.

*Because you always get caught in the middle.

J. Chris Anderson is a co-founder of Couchbase and Chief Architect of the company's mobile technology. Chris has a personal obsession with bending the physics of the web and giving control back to users. Couchbase's mobile efforts fulfill his long-time dream of peer-to-peer replication. Chris is co-author of "CouchDB: The Definitive Guide" (O'Reilly) and has spoken at a number of conferences including: SXSW, OSCON, MySQL, ApacheCon and the Erlang Factory.

With an emphasis on design, experience and usability and a background that spans anthropology, geographic analysis, software engineering and product design, Nick has been working in the mobile-local space since 2005, leading startups and projects spanning community building, location based services and mobile monetization. Whilst designing CloudMade's upcoming mobile gaming product - 'Sponsored Locations' - Nick lead a design driven process to solve two big problems facing mobile game developers: user retention and user monetization. The CloudMade team built their product hand in hand with some 40+ national retailers, 100+ mobile game developers and 100s of end users. His talk looks at their approach and the impact their product has on mobile game design

Wally Nguyen is Pocket Change's SVP Business Development, managing developer relations, account management, and business development. Prior to Pocket Change, he served as VP Sales at Super Rewards, building the core publisher and advertiser platforms and helping lead the monetization company to a successful acquisition. Wally has also been critically involved in other internet start ups, such as EdgeCast and Panther Express, both specializing in gaming and digital content delivery network infrastructure.

Catherine Delcin serves as a business strategist and attorney to game developers and independent game companies. She is an impassioned entrepreneur and serves as resource for motivating entrepreneurial exploits. Catherine has written extensively on the topics of entrepreneurship and founded, The Entrepreneurship Movement, a non-profit organization with a mandate of empowering people to fulfill their life purposes. With designated business acumen and a creative analytical framework Catherine has accumulated several years of experience consulting in technology, life sciences, business and legal industries. Her academic credentials include Psychology and Law degrees.

Randy Mosiondz is a Senior Game Designer at Cryptic Studios, a California-based company specializing in Massive-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games. He worked as a Designer on the award-winning City of Heroes and Lead Designer on Champions Online. He is currently Creative Lead on the upcoming Neverwinter MMORPG, which has won best-of-show awards at PAX East, Gamescom, and PAX Prime. Randy has also done writing and editing on the tabletop role-playing game system Savage Worlds with Shane Lacy Hensley of Pinnacle Entertainment Group.

Brendan Burke plays a dual role at Playnomics – focusing on both understanding how players interact with games through the use of predictive analytics, and helping game publishers utilize that information on an ongoing basis. Prior to joining Playnomics, Brendan worked as a research scientist in Genetics and Bioinformatics through the Bio-X graduate program at Stanford, where he did his undergraduate as well. As a bench researcher he developed statistical models for predicting mutation rates in seasonal viruses, like influenza. He specializes in adapting biologically inspired models to predict virality and lifecycle change in online player populations.

After discovering that game designers have more fun, Scott Rogers embarked on a 19-year-(and counting) career in video games. He has helped design many successful video games including: Pac-Man World, the Maximo series, God of War, Drawn to Life series and Darksiders. Scott is currently Senior Producer for Walt Disney Imagineering and lives just outside nuclear strike range of Los Angeles with his lovely wife, two children and many, many action figures.

Mitch Zamara is a senior game designer at Storm 8 with over 5 years of experience in the Video Game industry. His primary expertise includes: Systems Design, Game Balance, Economy Design, First Time User Experience Design, Quest Design, Content Design/Itemization, New game conception/pitching, Game deconstruction/analysis, Monetization and virality optimization, and UI/UX Direction. Mitch's has shipped titles such as City Story Metro (iOS), Capital City (FB), CityVille (FB), Vampire Wars (FB), and specializes in Game Design, and Product Management.

Greg Costikyan has designed more than 30 commercially published games -- tabletop, PC, online, mobile, and social network, been a game industry entrepreneur, and written extensively about games, game design, and game industry business issues for publications as diverse as the New York Times, Salon, The Escapist, and Verbatim: The Language Quarterly. He designed one of the earliest online games, one of the earliest web games, and one of the earliest mobile games. Some of his writings are extensively used in game studies courses across the globe. He's received the Maverick Award (for "tireless promotion of independent games"), the Gamer's Choice Award, five Origins Awards, and is an inductee into the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame. At present, he is working as a freelance game designer and consultant.

Matt Allmer is currently Lead Designer at Bigpoint and has very recently launched Universal Monsters Online. His experience spans a diverse list of platforms, genres and designs. From Playstation PSP to mobile, from rhythm/dance to Tony Hawk to MOBA. In his recent project, Matt led the every area of design including level design, character design, game mechanics, progression and monetization.

Matt has over 7 years experience in the game industry. He graduated from Academy of Art University with a Bachelor's in New Media.

Dexter Chow's first game as designer and producer was the innovative digital video game In the First Degree, released in 1995 for Broderbund Software. He then produced a string of five popular Warlords titles. He has been Executive Producer and Designer at Strategic Simulations, Inc., Mattel and Ubisoft. Along the way, he also taught game design at the Art Institute of CA.

Rick Liu is a Member of the Founder Team of Gameview DeNA, with more than 20 years of experience in mobile, social, gaming, and digital marketing. Gameview Studios is a leading publisher of free-to-play games for iOS and Android; its Tap Fish franchise was acquired in 2010 by Japanese mobile Internet company DeNA. Liu's international assignments have taken him to Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia; he was responsible for Siemens mobile and networking business, Motorola's satellite communications business in China and its mobile broadband business in Latin America, and early Intel's mobile business development.

In a 25-year career reaching back to being among the first 200 employees at Electronic Arts, Eric has contributed to over 30 titles on multiple platforms in most genres, from early console to modern mobile free-to-play. He has led teams of eight and eighty, creating original properties as well as working with established intellectual properties including: Tomb Raider, Star Wars, James Bond, Arthur Christmas, and more. He speaks at industry events and has been nominated for WGA and BAFTA awards as well as being named one of Edge Magazine’s Hot 100 Game Developers of 2009.

Stefanie Hels is currently the Director of Analytics of Bigpoint. Hels joined Bigpoint in 2007 as the first Game Analyst, built up the analytics team, and established the KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) for efficiency control of Bigpoint’s free-to-play games. She is responsible for managing and overseeing the analytical department and developing analytical strategies that complement the company’s business model.

Hels is responsible for the planning, development, and execution of analytical tactics which support fact-based decision-making and competitive intelligence – resulting in effective business strategies and growth. She leads the business intelligence process with her knowledge of how to monitor interdependency in a virtual economy.

After several years of experience working in the game industry, Stefanie has vast knowledge and skill sets in Games Analytics, Data Mining, Behavioral Targeting and Virtual Economy. Stefanie studied Applied Media Science and specialized in the field of digital games research, media psychology and media economy.

Dr. Rob Jagnow is the founder and CEO of Lazy 8 Studios. After working on several AAA titles at Demiurge Studios in Boston, Rob bootstrapped his own company in San Francisco, CA. Lazy 8's first independent title, Cogs, has won a number of awards, including the Grand Prize at the 2010 Indie Game Challenge. Since it launched on PC in 2009, it has been ported to 9 different platforms to achieve broad distribution. Rob's latest project, Extrasolar (www.exoresearch.com), blends aspects of alternate reality games (ARGs) and traditional game design to create a new genre that blurs the line between fantasy and reality.

Mark Johnson joined forces with Rob Hunter in 2009 and have been making apps for iOS ever since. The two focus on making casual games that are specifically designed for mobile touchscreen devices. Their most popular title, Hit Tennis 2, has been downloaded over 13 million times. Mark and Rob have recently launched the third installment Hit Tennis (Hit Tennis 3) with truly spectacular results.

Mark Schlichting is a well-known pioneer of the children's multimedia and interactive design industry. He is an expert in children’s interactive design with over 30 years of design, publishing, and creative management experience, and over 100 awards for excellence in entertainment and education. Mark is probably best known as the creator of the Living Books CD-ROM series. The highly animated and multilingual Living Books set the benchmark for truly engaging and educational multimedia in the 90’s.

Currently Mark serves two roles: one as the Chief Creative Officer of Wanderful interactive storybooks, a company delivering enhanced children’s apps, based on the original Living Books. He also serves as the CEO of NoodleWorks Interactive, a design, consulting, and production company specializing in children’s interactive design. In late 2011 NoodleWorks Interactive released its first iPad/iPhone App, NOODLE WORDS – Action Set 1, which went on to win several awards, including the KAPi Award for Best Educational Product of The Year, The Parents’ Choice Gold Award, and The Children’s Technology Review Editor’s Choice Award.

After Living Books, a Broderbund/Random House company, Schlichting was the CCO at Narrative Communications, an early streaming technology company where he was the first to animate and stream Mozilla, Netscape's mascot. He also served as VP of Design & Development at JuniorNet, a children's online network where Schlichting worked with Highlights for Children, Ranger Rick, Weekly Reader, Zillions, Sports Illustrated for Kids, and Jim Henson/Disney's - Bear and The Big Blue House, before going on to found NoodleWorks in 2000.

Schlichting is currently completing a book on the psychology and art form of computer interaction titled, “Understanding Kids – Designing Award Winning Interactive Media for Children.”

Interactive Achievement Award loser Scott Foe is the undisputed most-spectacular failure that the games industry has ever witnessed, having been in on the ground-floor of both the commercially flaccid Sega Dreamcast and the awesomely horrible Nokia N-Gage.

Foe currently spends his time advising, consulting with, and sitting on the boards of pre-funding and seed-stage startups in the mobile and social gaming spaces. Foe also advises both GameFounders gaming startup accelerator and Cerca Trova Advisors.

Josh Lee is a veteran game designer with a broad range of titles and experiences under his belt. Josh runs Floor Is Lava, a design and development firm that focuses on the creation of offbeat games and and other fun things. His work has been featured everywhere from the Wii to the MOMA.

Prior to founding Floor Is Lava, Josh was the creative director at Sifteo, leading the creation of innovative games for cutting-edge devices and platforms. Josh has also worked on games for Nintendo, Sega, and more.

Josh is dedicated to the creation of experiences that are fun and accessible to people with a broad range of tastes and abilities. All he really wants is for you to be happy.

More information about Josh and Floor Is Lava is available at: http://floor.is/lava

Shailesh Bhat has more than 15 years experience in the broader software space. This presentation is based on Shailesh's experience in various product management roles in the consumer internet space since 2004. In 2010, Shailesh set up Clef Software. Clef Software's games ChemIQ and BioIQ are edu-games aimed at helping teachers and students.

Andrew Ashcraft has been designing games professionally - or working directly with game designers - since 1994. His experience places him directly where the idealism of the creative process meets the realities of game development and publishing. As a result Andrew has developed tools that guide the vision through to completion.

Richard Terrell is an indie game designer, video game consultant, tournament organizer, competitor, writer, musician, artist, and teacher. Video games are complicated interactive systems incorporating many different types of art and design. Gamers are diverse in preferences, opinions, learning styles, and play styles. Understanding how these two worlds collide requires a patient approach. In the fall of 2007 Richard started the Critical-Gaming blog to define the language and break down the design of video games to begin communicating clearly. Richard seeks to understand and converse with all gamers and non-gamers alike. He believes knowledge is power and teaching is one of the best ways to that knowledge. Knowledge of methodologies, crafts, and facts in addition to knowledge of each other on a personal level. Teaching and learning are important to Richard. If you have a comment or a question of any type, he'll do his best to help. If you seek debate or have a point to make, he will argue against you, defend you, or a bit of both.

Roger E. Pedersen has been designing, producing, and programming games since the early 1980s for companies such as CBS Software, Gametek, Hi-Tech Expressions, Merit Software, Villa Crespo Software, Acclaim Entertainment, Phantom EFX, Walker Boy Studio, 3D Open Motion, Hypnotics, Merit Industries, Slingo, Digital Embryo, Cellufun and Game Trust. His cumulative title sales have surpassed 60 million copies on over 80 titles for multiple platforms including the personal computer, video consoles, location-based, Internet, arcade, and hand-held. He is also the author of award-winning articles for Gamasutra.com, GameDev.net, and Gignews.com and best-selling Wordware Publishing book entitled "Game Design Foundations" the first and second editions.Roger received his Masters in Videogame Production from UAT.

Josh Samuels is the CEO of Raindrop Games, Inc, a startup founded in 2009. He has an extensive technical background and has programmed and designed video games for Windows, Web and iOS. Raindrop Games is presently focused on the Arrival Game Series which are historical games taking place in the Caribbean prior to European settlements.

Dr. KRS Murthy is child prodigy and a world famous polymath. He is a highly sought after Key Note speaker and public speaker in international conferences. He has shared the stage with Who's Who in technology, business, industry, music and literature, some even Nobel winners, government leaders, international religious leaders. He is a world famous speaker with over 150 Key Notes and organized, chaired and lectured in numerous international conferences.

One of the African American owned companies in USA he led as the President grew from $60M to over $500M and a valuation of $3.5B in one year. The companies was listed in the Black Enterprise 100 at the top. Murthy has advised the CEOs and the BOD of leading American Indian, Hispanic and Disabled Veteran owned companies in USA.

Dr. KRS Murthy has developed video games based education techniques, applicable to preschool, K-12 and college students of different ethnic demographics, not only for curricular improvement, and also for IQ and EQ enhancement.

He has served on the BOD of IEEE and Board of Governors of six IEEE professional societies, IEEE Standards Board and in IEEE committees preparing position papers on USA's competitiveness strategies and recommendations to be presented in the US Congress.

Murthy was the President of Silicon Valley Engineering Council and worked in committees with Who's Who of Silicon Valley and the World to include, for example, Dr. Dan Maden (Founder / CEO / Chairman of Applied Materials), Mr. Steve Wozniak (Founder and CTO of Apple), Mr. Stan Myers (Founder and CEO of Semi.org), Dr. George Kozmetsi (Presidential Gold Medal Winner from President George Bush, Senior), Prof. Pilkinson (Father of GPS) and Nobel Winners Dr. Arno Penzias, Dr.Charles Townsend, Dr. John Bardeen and Dr. Murray Gellman.

David Evans started his first technology business in 1986, adding his own splash screen to already cracked Commodore 64 games and selling them in the newspaper. Revisiting the hacker skills he learned as a kid, David started making corporate websites in 1997 to support support his theater habit. Finding the web a far more challenging and creative space than the unemployment queue, David incorporated his first company in 2000, Digital Monkey, to service the digital media needs of South Australia's arts and entertainment industry. David's second company, StarPlayit, a music learning and games technology platform, was spun out of Digital Monkey. He raised several million dollars from angel investors for StarPlayit and negotiated a term sheet for acquisition of the company for an 8 figure sum. StarPlayit lives on as an OEM licensor of music recognition algorithms. Digital Monkey was sold to an Australian based competitor.

David is now the COO at Roar Engine, the complete complete, social, mobile & web, cloud-based game mechanics engine. He most recently worked on the game design for Halfbrick/Six Foot Kid's sim built on Roar: Band Stars.

David has 2 granted patents. He loves public speaking and has presented at major conferences in the US and Australia. David's superpower is his ability to see and elicit feats of brilliance in others. He's building an entrepreneur coaching practice, Jedi Trainers, to help geeks like him unleash the force of creativity within and bring out their best.

Elissa Shevinsky is CEO and Founder of Menagerie Networks, a company building niche online dating software and social games. Elissa has worked in startups for the last ten years, and been part of gamer culture for just as long. Her current fascination is with games that facilitate social connection. Elissa can be found on most social networks via a simple google search for her name, or on twitter under @ElissaBeth.

Gregory P. Silberman is a patent attorney and partner in the Technology, Intellectual Property & Outsourcing Group in Kaye Scholer’s Palo Alto Office. His practice emphasizes the representation of domestic and foreign clients in the legal and business issues related to the development and deployment of business and entertainment, software, technology and services.

Heather Logas is a game designer, artist, educator and mother, currently working as a game design researcher at UC Santa Cruz. A professional game designer since 2004, Heather has worked on a wide variety of commercial titles,from point and click adventure games to MMORPGs as well as an exploration in games as art. Heather has an MFA in Digital Art and New Media from UC Santa Cruz, and currently works at that institution as a lecturer and game design researcher. Her personal work explores game making as an art practice and the social responsibility of game creators.

In 2008 David Wessman left a successful career in the game industry to begin teaching at the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, AZ. Drawing on 17 years of experience making some truly great games, Professor Wessman teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses while directing multiple student game projects.

His game career began in 1991 as a tester at Lucasfilm Games working on such classics as Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge, and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. This led to joining Larry Holland’s independent development team to lead testing on X-Wing, where he soon transitioned to a design role. Over the next several years he honed his design and writing skills on TIE Fighter, X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter, and X-Wing Alliance, becoming Totally Games’ Gameplay & Story Lead. With the launch of the Xbox Mr. Wessman switched to console development holding lead designer roles on Blood Wake, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Saints Row and Death Jr. 2: Root of Evil. His last industry position was as a senior designer on his first serious game, a training simulator for the U.S. Intelligence Community. In addition, David has worked on several board wargames as a developer, rules editor and playtester.

Wessman is most proud of the fact that TIE Fighter is still considered by many to be one of the top 10 games of all time more than 10 years after its release, and that Tellus: Save the Earth (one of his student projects) was the winner of the SaveEarthGame competition sponsored by the IEEE’s Committee on Earth Observation and the University of Advancing Technology’s 2011 Student Innovation Award.

Matt Thomas wrote his first novel at age 12 and designed and programmed his first video game at the age of 16 (a space conquest turn-based strategy game). Majoring in both computer science and creative writing, he has published 3 books including a science fiction novel, a cookbook and a true romance while also working continuously in the entertainment technology field as a technology entrepreneur. In 2000 he founded The Babylon Interactive Group (designing MMORPGs) and the TotalSynch Company in 2002 (creating game development tools), one driving content and the other driving technology. The TotalSynch Company holds 2 patents in automated 3D lip-synch animation. He also created and moderates “The Animation Proclamation”, a 3D animation blog. Over the last few years he’s been designing next-generation social media games. His passion is found anywhere that Entertainment and Technology come together.

After studying computer science, selling a business, and attending culinary school, Andrew Hager fell into his niche of helping people and numbers work together. A recent immigrant from Southern California, he is still adjusting to the idea of wearing pants to the beach.

Ms. Polachek has over 5 years of experience as CEO and founder of startups developing web and mobile applications, with millions of views worldwide. After an early career on Wall Street, working on M&As of technology companies at Lehman Brothers, Ms. Polachek was named one of Israel's 40 under 40 promising youngsters. Today, as Co-Founder and CEO of LoopJoy, she focuses on increasing revenue of mobile game developers.

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Prior to co-founding Kamcord, Matt Zitzmann worked at Google for nearly 4 years as a Product Manger on AdSense. He worked on developing innovative advertising products for both advertisers and publishers. Matt graduated from MIT with dual B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Management.

Matt Anderson is a producer at Wyrd Miniatures, a creative director and co-founder of Broken Compass Studios, and a co-founder of Cobalt Flux, Inc. He has done extensive work to promote and establish video games as a viable tool in physical education and physical therapy, and has co-developed hardware and software utilized by thousands of schools nationally and internationally. Products originated at Cobalt Flux, Inc. have been featured in Wired magazine, PSM magazine, the New York Times, and have been the core component of numerous studies. Recently, he worked as creative director on the iOs title Catball Eats it All by Broken Compass Studios, which has been featured three separate times as an Apple "Staff Favorite" on the front page of the App Store. Under Wyrd Miniatures, he co-designed and conducted the Kickstarter campaign for Evil Baby Orphanage, which funded at 1975% of its intended goal. Matt holds an MFA in Entertainment Arts and Engineering from the University of Utah.

Justin Gibbs is a game designer with Wyrd Miniatures. He originated the Evil Baby Orphanage game which funded 1975% on Kickstarter in two weeks. Evil Baby Orphanage is a card based party game for three or more players and it is currently on its way to retail stores both nationally and internationally. He also worked extensively on the game Puppet Wars and has been involved in playtesting and developing various games with Wyrd. Previous to doing game design, he worked with the developmentally delayed, primarily in an autism early intervention program.

Since May of 2012, Peter Kacandes has joined Bango Plc as the West Coast Regional representative for Mobile Billing and Analytics working with the Strategic Accounts such as Facebook, Amazon, RIM, and Microsoft. Peter has a background in Systems and Control and a minor concentration in semi-conductor physics. He received a MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and an MBA from MIT. He performed post graduate research in robotics at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation and worked as an embedded systems engineer on digital and signal processing at the UPS R & D center. Peter was at Sun Microsystems where he worked in Supply Chain Management and was the product manager for the Java APIs for XML and Web Services. Peter joined Adobe Systems as the product manager for the PDF and XML specification and later worked as a technical marketing manager in Mobile and Devices business working with customers on implementing the Flash mobile platform. At Sony Ericsson, Peter was an Android Developer Programs Manager and Business Development and Partner Manager for Android applications developers. In his free time, Peter is an avid sailor, dancer of Salsa and West Coast Swing, and has competed in many triathlon events including IronMan Austria, Coer d’Alene and Canada.

Scott Kim is Creative Director at Sifteo, leading the creation of games for the innovative Sifteo Cubes platform. He has been a game designer for 20 years, designing puzzles for Tetris, Bejeweled, and Lumosity.com. His work in other media includes monthly puzzles for Discover magazine, the annual Mind Benders & Brainteasers calendar, and toys for ThinkFun. Scott is the author of several books, including Inversions, Math Dance, and The Playful Brain. Besides designing games, he works in graphic design and mathematics education. He has a BA in music, and a PhD in Computers and Graphic Design from Stanford University.

Amit Khanduja is the Executive Vice President at Reliance Entertainment - Digital. He is currently responsible for the Jump Games Global Business and Reliance Digital Ventures, managing projects like Tom Hanks' Electric City, a first-of-its-kind 360 degree digital experience encompassing Online, Social, Mobile and Gaming. Jump has successfully developed and released titles like Real Steel, F1 2011, Total Recall, Tom Hanks Electric City, etc.

Amit has been instrumental in leading the growth of the company in the last 18 months by focusing on mobile platforms and the core loops of clear progression, retention, monetization and most importantly fun.

Having more than 15 years of high-tech consumer and enterprise experience, Amit has held key positions at several leading companies and start-ups, including Sun Microsystems, HP, and Tira Wireless. Previously he was the Managing Director for East NA and APAC for Tira Wireless and was instrumental in growing the business by 200% in the last 12 months of his tenure. Prior to this, Amit led the Marketing and Business Development initiative for Sun Java CDS and Sun J2ME partners and Business Development. He has also worked with HP as Director of Mobile E-Services solutions and held other positions in Marketing, Product Management, and Business Development.

From Colombia, but currently living in San Francisco, CA, has over 5 years of experience in the game industry. CO-Founder of Press Start Studios a game studio based in Colombia and San Francisco, before Press Start he worked as Level Designer, Game Designer and Game Developer in colombian studios like Jaguar Taller Digital, Colombia Games and Zio studios. With Press Start Studios he has published 4 games on Facebook with around 200k players, currently with Press Start he is working in a new game for iOS. He is always trying to innovate to deliver new experiences for players as well as making them laugh with his projects. While working at Press Start he has been finishing his Master in Game Design at the Academy of Art university.

Is all about team work "A great team makes a great game".

Ryan Gerard is the cofounder of Pickmoto, a game company looking to rethink sports games for mobile. He wrote binary before english, wrote his school essays completely in NAND and XOR gates, and has an upsetting tendency to dream in code. Before Pickmoto, he was an early employee at Xobni, where he learned the in's and out's of building awesome consumer software.

Michael Agustin is Chief Product Officer at GameSalad, where he leads product vision and creative direction of the company. Michael conceived and co-invented all of GameSalad's flagship products, including Creator, Arcade, Marketplace, Cookbook, as well as Portable Game Format.

Michael co-founded GameSalad in 2007 with the intention of making media creation a lifestyle accessible to everyone, not simply a tool for the technically literate. In a previous life, he designed tools and artificial intelligence (AI) at Edge of Reality for console games such as Pitfall: The Lost Expedition and Sharktale. Michael was also part of Apple's Platform Experience Group assigned to work on the MacOS X operating system. Most recently, he was a designer and programmer at Three Rings for the online game Bang! Howdy.

Michael earned a master's degree in entertainment technology from Carnegie Mellon University where his primary research was focused on the rapid ideation and prototyping of games. He received his Bachelor's degree in computer science, with a minor in business, from The University of Texas at Austin.

Kate Connally has been building casual games businesses for focused demographic groups for over eleven years. She was instrumental in identifying the female casual gamer when she was running the first downloadable games business at Shockwave. Most recently, she built the AddictingGames business into one of the top media brands for teen-age boys and the largest free online game site in the US (ComScore, June, 2010).

Now founder and CEO of Tadami Video Playground, http://www.tadamiplayground.com, she has teamed with veterans of Leapfrog and Nickelodeon to build an interactive video platform for kids. The platform enables creatives and developers to create simple interactive video applications using a real-time video processing engine, motion detection, and other enhancements. Applications run on tablets and handsets and have an array of uses from pure entertainment to education. The platform is affectionately referred to as "a super casual, super social Kinect, designed for kids and beloved by the kid in everyone."

She began her career with Volpe, Welty & Company, and has held posts with Advent International, Macromedia, Inc., Atom Entertainment and Nickelodeon / MTV Networks. Connally graduated cum laude from Princeton University. In 2010, she was named by "Fast Company" magazine among the "Most Influential Women in Games."

Zoya Street is editorial assistant at Gamesbrief.com, a blog and online resource about the business of games: marketing, monetization and more. Zoya is also a freelance writer, web marketing strategist and art technologist, writing a crowdfunded book about the history of the Dreamcast. Website: zoyastreet.com. Twitter: @rupazero

Andrew Pearlman has been working in the games industry for 2 years as a BI Analyst at 50 Cubes, Monetization Manager at Breaktime Studios and Product Manager at Playfirst. Specializing in the optimization of revenue and engagement, he most recently restored the Diner Dash franchise to see it's highest 2 quarters of revenue after 2 years in the App Store. He is currently building a small studio to focus on real money gambling games.

Bob Heubel is a haptic technology evangelist with Immersion Corporation, specializing in helping developers implement what is known as force-feedback, tactile-feedback or rumble-feedback effects. . You may have felt some of Bob’s work in Rockstar Games, Grand Theft Auto III, Max Payne, or Sega’s Sonic 4 Ep. II for Android. He has spent more than 13 years working with developers, carriers, OEMs and ODMs to design and program these sensations aimed at improving both gaming and interaction experiences. Bob graduated from UC Berkeley in 1989 with a BA in English Literature.

  An experienced Game Developer   and Designer that has created   game products for facebook,   mobile devices and game consoles.   Including over 4 years, as a Multimedia Specialist in Serious Games arena providing visuals in courseware, instructor, simulator, and web based training for the United States Military. She is also a Director of the Silicon Valley International Game Developers Association.

  Jonathan is a web designer,   project manager, musician,   composer, sound designer, audio   engineer, and whatever else he   decides to sink his teeth into. His accomplishments range from assisting with the successful execution of the largest HTML5 and JavaScript conference in the world, to winning Miami University's Undergraduate Artist Competition, and being awarded a Cincinnati Entertainment Award with the band Daughters and Sons, who were also named "The best reason to dance to live music" by City Beat magazine. He studied music performance, composition, and music technology, obtaining a Masters from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and a Bachelors from Miami University (OH). Jonathan is a member of the Game Audio Network Guild, International Game Developers Association, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and the North American Saxophone Alliance. Although a native of Ohio, Jonathan is fluent in Brazilian Portuguese and thrilled to now be living in San Francisco where you can find him throwing down the funk with the band "Hurricane Thursday."

  Andrew is completing a bachelor   degree in Game Development with   a focus in production at Cogswell   College. This is his second   semester as an intern for the SV IGDA/Bay Area Game and App Group where he has helped organize events such as the Game Dojos Accelerator and SV IGDA Meet Ups. He has been heavily involved at Cogswell as the Student Body President and within Student Life as a Resident Assistant. After college, Andrew will be pursuing a career in video game development as a producer.

  Founder HTML5DevConf, Game   Design Conference (new), Game   Dojos Game Accelerator, Bay Area   Game and App Developers, and a   long time mobileweb game developer. Ann is a game developer who joined the game industry with Macromedia Shockwave.com where she worked on some of the worlds first hit browser based casual web games and original work web showcases for such artists as Tim Burton and Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park. She and partner Liran Nuna eventually formed their own game development company. Together they worked on social and mobile games for the local school system and companies such as Crafted Fun, Quizmonster, Zynga. After having prototyped the hit game “It Girl” which morphed later into “Top Girl” on mobile for Crowdstar, Ann’s partner stayed on at YouWeb and their small dev company concluded with a reasonably happy ending. Ann founded the HTML5 Developers Conference, Bay Area Game and App Developers Group, Games.js, and chairs the Silicon Valley IGDA and the SF Mobile Dev Group. Ann is always interested in the next platforms and the next games and the art of fun.

  Ellis works as Project Manager and   Social Media Specialist by day,   while   moonlighting as an artist   and writer.He spends most of his free time on his personal project, of which you may occasionally see random sketches of at his Tumblr page or on his Deviant Art. You can also find him on Twitter at @EllisK01

  Tomoya is currently studying   algorithms with a focus in   informatics and mathematics.    He is well versed in many programming languages with Java and Javascript being his favorites. He has hopes to develop tools and services that will be used all over the world.
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