Programme

18-19 June Baltic Flour Mill, NewcastleGateshead, UK

Programme

The following is a preliminary schedule for the GameHorizon Conference 2008. Please note this is subject to change:

Tuesday 17th June

15.00
Registration and badge collections at the Baltic (until 18.00)
18.00Welcome drinks reception sponsored by Speechly Bircham: Pitcher and Piano

Wednesday 18th June

09.00
Registration and breakfast networking
10.00Welcome and conference open: Ian Livingstone, Eidos

Keynote: Growing our Medium: The Community Wave of Creation
Chris Satchell
, General Manager and Chief Architect XNA

Session 1: The business of games - part one
-Beyond the advance model: Rick Gibson, Games Investor Consulting
-interview with Geoff Iddison, Jagex. Interview by Rick Gibson
-Casual games - making it the world's business:Simon Usiskin, Spill Group

-Q&A panel session chaired by Rick Gibson with:
Martin de Ronde, OneBigGame
Simon Usiskin, Spill Group
Geoff Iddison, Jagex

12.30
Lunch
14.00 Session 2: Creating a phenomenon

-Torsten Reil, NaturalMotion: Euphoria in Grand Theft Auto IV
-Laurent Malville
and Emeric Thoa, Ubisoft: Tom Clancy's EndWar: Changing the face of strategy games
-Colin Macdonald, Realtime Worlds

15.30 Break
16.00Session 3: The long tail
-Panel session chaired by Mark Rein with:
Colin Macdonald, Realtime Worlds
Thor Gunnarsson, CCP
Julien Merceron, Eidos
17.30 Conference close
17.40
Conference drinks party sponsored by Audiomotion: Baltic Riverside Cafe
20.00
Official conference party: Brutus Gold's Love Train at Sea Nightclub

Thursday 19th June

9.00Breakfast networking
10.00
Session 4: Media melt
Todd Eckert, Film Producer: The benefits of divergence
Charles Cecil, Revolution: Introduction to Media Melt

-Panel session chaired by Charles Cecil:
Todd Eckert, Film Producer
Tameem Antoniades, Ninja Theory
Maurice Sucking, The Mustard Corporation

12.00
Lunch
13.30
Session 5: The Games Up?
Panel session chaired by Ian Livingstone:
Rick Gibson
, Games Investor Consulting
Ian Livingtone, Eidos
Angie Moxham, 3 Monkeys Communications
Gareth Edmondson, Ubisoft
14.30Break
15.00
Session 6: The business of games - part two

Panel session chaired by Ed Bartlett, IGA:
Shaun Himmerick
, Midway Studios
Darren Jobling, Eutechnyx
Robert Bond, Speechly Bircham

17.00 Conference close
18.00 Survivors party sponsored by Bluegfx: Pitcher and Piano

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