Nolan Bushnell to Keynote at LA Games Conference
Los Angeles, CA – Digital Media Wire today announced the final speaker lineup for the highly-anticipated LA Games Conference (http://www.lagamesconference.com/) to be held at the Roosevelt Hotel, April 28-29, 2009. Keynote speakers include:
Nolan Bushnell, Founder, Atari and Chuck E. Cheese, CEO, uWink and Chairman, NeoEdge
Known as one of the founding fathers of the video game industry and the man behind Atari, Bushnell will reveal his thoughts about new game consoles like Nintendo Wii and the new landscape of gaming.
“Distribution of Games and Digital Media – A Glimpse of the Future”
Mike Yuen, Senior Director, Games Services, Qualcomm
Yuen will give a glimpse into the future as he discusses the drive to digitally distribute content. Yuen will also discuss Qualcomm’s investment in a new wireless 3G game console for developing countries, called Zeebo. The new console targets middle-class gamers in emerging markets like Brazil, Russia, India and China and it only plays downloadable games, whose feature is designed to combat the piracy of disc-based games.
“Casual is the New Black – If You Want to Avoid the Red”
David Roberts, CEO, PopCap Games
Roberts will discuss a future where innovations from casual games will create the environment for tomorrow’s hardcore game experiences. Roberts will discuss the PopCap vision of bringing games to the other 80% of the market that even the broadest casual games haven’t yet attracted.
“Finding Money in Games”
Mitch Lasky, General Partner, Benchmark Capital
Lasky will outline the latest in investment trends and opportunities in games and digital media. Lasky has spent more than two decades in the mobile gaming, new media and interactive entertainment business. Prior to joining Benchmark Capital, Lasky served as executive vice president of Mobile and Online at Electronic Arts. Previously, he was chairman and chief executive officer of JAMDAT Mobile, Inc, the leading global publisher of wireless entertainment applications, which was acquired by EA in 2005.
These keynoters join a top caliber speaker group, which includes:
PANELISTS & MODERATORS
John Kavanagh, SVP, Interactive / Head of Games, Paramount Pictures
Gareth Davis, Platform Manager, Facebook
Spencer Hunt, VP, Game Production & Digital Development, Sony Pictures TV Int’l
Kuk Yi, Managing Director, Best Buy Capital
Bill Young, Western Region Sales Director, Electronic Arts
Jason Oberfest, SVP of Business Development, MySpace
Robert Norton, Managing Director, North America, King.com
Jana Friedman, SVP of Worldwide Advertising Sales, Double Fusion
David Reitman, VP, Content & Ent. Practice, Switch and Data
Kate Connally, Vice President, AddictingGames/MTV Networks
Bill Kispert, VP, Interactive, NBC Interactive
Jesse Redniss, Vice President, USA Network Digital
Ned Sherman, CEO and Publisher, Digital Media Wire
Eric Goldberg, Managing Director, Crossover Technologies
Nick Williams, Director, Media &, Entertainment Insights, OTX Research
Jay Baage, VP of Content, Digital Media Wire
Anu Shukla, Founder and CEO, Offerpal Media
Scott Scherer, VP of Product Management, Hands-on Mobile
Michael Rubinelli, SVP of Game Development, Genius Products
George Kurtyka, 3P Account Manager, Nokia
Nash Parker, Director, Emerging Technology & Media, Alcatel-Lucent
Braden Moulton, Senior Manager, Partner Development, Massive (Microsoft)
Nichole Goodyear, CEO & Co-Founder, Brickfish
Michael Chang, CEO & Co-Founder, Greystripe
Vijay Rao, VP, Director of Open Planning, Optimedia US
Ted Cohen, Managing Partner, TAG Strategic
Kyle Laughlin, Senior Director, Yahoo! Games
Bob Ferrari, VP, Publishing & Bus. Dev., Sanrio Digital
Michael Cai, Vice President, Video Games, Interpret
Kyu Lee, President, Gamevil
Mike Vorhaus, President, Magid Advisors
Dave Long, CEO/Co-Founder, Exponential Entertainment, Inc.
Matt Palmer, EVP & GM, Stardoll Network
Jim Drewry, Executive Director of Marketing, Turbine
Michael Rosenberg, COO, Future Ads (Owner and Operator, Gamevance.com)
Teemu Huuhtanen, President, N.A., Sulake Inc. (Habbo)
Matthew Bellows, VP, Consumer Strategy, Vivox
Ryan Barkan, Senior Director, Advertising & Video Games, Primary Wave Music
Mark Friedler, Partner, Worlds and Games LLC
Greg Short, Executive Chairman, EEDAR
Tim Chang, Principal, Norwest Venture Partners
Bjorn Book-Larsson, COO & CTO, K2 Network
John Canning, Principal, MediaSherpa
Dennis Fong, CEO & Founder, Raptr
Alex Hackford, Head of A&R, Sony Computer Entertainment America
John Hayase, Exec. Director of Development, Sony Online Entertainment
Steve Hoffman, CEO, RocketOn, Inc.
James Hursthouse, Bus. Development Director, Japan/Korea, BigWorld PTY
Dave Laux, Global Executive, InterActive Media
Nicole Lazzaro, President, XEODesign, Inc.
Calvin Ng, CEO & CSO, iLemon
Ken Rutkowski, President/Host, KenRadio
Tommy Tallarico, President, Tommy Tallarico Studios, Inc.
Dan Yue, Co-Founder & CEO, Playdom
David Zemke, Director of Marketing, Glu Mobile
Ethan Titelman, VP Media & Ent. Group, Penn, Schoen & Berland (PSB)
Jon Snoddy, Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer, Big Stage Entertainment
Ron Williams, CEO, The Zeev Exchange (Zeevex)
Event sponsors and media partners include CEA, OfferPal Media, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Switch and Data, Gamevance, Parks Associates, PopCap Games, OTX, EEDAR, Big Stage, Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, INComm, Zeevex, E3 Expo, Variety, Video Business Magazine, Content Agenda, DigitalLA, TAG Strategic, TechZulu, PR Newswire, Mary & Margaret, International Game Developers Association (IGDA), Casual Games Association, Conexion, UCLA Anderson, PGA, ECA, New York – Tokyo, Visual Effects Society, Music4Games, Terpin Communications and SocialRadius.
For complete agenda, registration and event details please visit: http://lagamesconference.com/
