Serious Games Conference - X | Media | Lab

 

Presented in partnership with ABC TV and Screen Australia at the Sydney Film Festival

June 12, 2009 at The Establishment, Sydney

X | Media | Lab Sydney presents Serious Games, Australia’s first conference dedicated to the rapidly growing serious games industry that features the use of interactive games technology within non-entertainment sectors.

While the market for entertainment games is relatively mature, ‘serious’ games-based learning for education, training and teaching, is growing globally at six times the rate of the conventional entertainment based computer games industry, and represents a huge opportunity for local games developers.

This one-day international gathering in Sydney provides a forum for game developers,
documentary filmmakers and industry professionals to examine the future course of serious
games development in areas such as education, government, health and corporate training.

International Keynote speakers include:

• Noah Falstein, one of the gaming world’s pre-eminent authorities and founder and CEO
  of The Inspiracy (San Francisco)
  
  
• Ondi Timoner, Director of internationally award winning documentaries DIG! and WE
  LIVE IN PUBLIC. He is also Director/Producer at Interloper Films (Los Angeles)
  
  
• Lee Sheldon, Video Game Writer and Designer, Professor, Indiana University and former
  writer and producer of popular TV shows including Star Trek: The Next Generation,
  Charlie’s Angels and Cagney and Lacey(Indianapolis)
  
  
• Ian Bogost, Founding partner, Persuasive Games; Associate Professor, Georges Institute
  of Technology (Atlanta)
  
  
• Joshua Harris, Internet Pioneer (founder Jupiter Communications) and Entrepreneur (Los
  Angeles, Sidamo)
  
  
• Michel Moi, Director of Innovation and New Media, Netherlands Public Broadcasting
  (Amsterdam)

Plus Australian experts: Bill McIntosh, Managing Director Torus Digital Concepts; David Hewitt, Creative Director Tantalus Interactive; Dr. Yusuf Pisan, Assoc. Professor and Director of Games Studio, University of Technology; Mandy Solomon, Senior Researcher Smart Services Cooperative Research Centre; Sohail Dahdal, Filmmaker and Interactive Designer, The First Australians; Stephen Sewell, multi-award winning writer (The Boys, The Blind Giant is Dancing), and Alana Valentine, multi-award winning writer (Parramatta Girls, Run Rabbit Run).

See www.xmedialab.com for more details.

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