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During the Festival of Games, the yearly NLGD Game Conference will focus on business trends:

Online Development, Online Disitribution, Online Marketing, Online Business Models and Online Play


The NLGD Game Conference is the forum in Europe where front-runners share their boardroom knowledge with dealmakers and professionals from the game industry, media and entertainment, big brands, mobile, ICT and their service providers. Our program committee and international game associations select the topics and speakers.
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General conference information

 


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The Game Conference will start and end with a Keynote session each day and will be held on:

 

Thursday, June 3 09:00 am - 17:00 pm
Friday, June 4 09:00 am - 17:00 pm

Aftwards there will be a reception with drinks and refreshments.


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The Conference will be at the Jaarbeurs Media Plaza, Utrecht, the Netherlands:
- 30 minutes from Amsterdam Airport
- 30 minutes from Central station Amsterdam
- Central location in the Netherlands
- Travel and parking information can be found here.


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The NLGD Game Conference focuses on everyone who wants to make a profit with digital games. Board room knowledge is shared with dealmakers and professionals from the game industry, media and entertainment, big brands, ICT and their service providers. Top providers of IP, capital, human resources and know-how take the game industry seriously. Speakers and audience will exist of:

Game Publishers
Console, Online, Old Media, PC, Educational, Traffic Generators
Game IP Creators and IP Developers Console, Online, PC, Serious, Advergames, Content Creators
Game IP holders
Owners, Licensees, Brokers
Finance and VC
Venture Capitalists, Informals, Investment Funds and Agencies,
Financial Consultants
Service Providers for Games

PR and Marketing, Localization, Sourcing, Audio / Sound,
Animators, Distributors, Regional Agents
Business Consultancy
Legal experts, Business Masters, Research Firms,
Tax and Subsidy Advisors, HR consultants
Game Research and Education
Schools, Universities, Specialized Research Institutes, Think Tanks

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Last year's visitors rated the Game Conference as one of the best components of the Festival of Games. The NLGD game Conference was a place where national and international thoughtleaders gave an insight in the global game industry and illuminated and explored global play and its meaning within as well as outside the videogame industry. They had the following statements:

Statements:

Total score, out of 100

"The Festival of Games is the place for cooperation"

74

"The Festival of Games is a good place for networking"

80

" The Festival of Games is interesting"

81

" I will continue visiting the Festival of Games in the future"

71


See Facts Festival of Games 2009 for more information or visit our Flickr page for images from last year.

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Passes can be purchased from January 1, 2010! Early bird prices are available until Februari 28, 2010.


You can purchase a ticket by selecting one of the following products:





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Speakers List

Hein Beute - Xsens Technologies

Ard Bonewald - Gamehouse Studios / RealGames

Jaap Bosman - Houthoff Buruma

Adam Boyes - Beefy Media

Maarten Brands - Virtual Fairground

Ferry Bult - Xsens Technologies

Rene Derks - W!Games

Joost van Dongen - Ronimo

Jeroen Elferich - Ex-Machina
Ralph Frefat - Gamigo AG
Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn - Tale-of-Tales
Paul Heydon - Avista Partners
Nils Holger Henning - Bigpoint
Toru Iwatani - Pac Man

Peter de Jong - Codeglue

Jan Lieuwe Koopmans - Engine Software

Nikki Kuppens - W!Games

Ian Livingstone - EIDOS/ Square-Enix

Masaya Matsuura - NanaOn-Sha

Dylan Nagel - Paladin Studios

David Perry - GAIKAI

Marco Prieuwe - Atlas Interactive Deutschland GmbH
Martin de Ronde - OneBigGame
Remco de Rooij - Triangle studios
Corey Rosemond - Microsoft Corporation
Michiel Sala - Little Chicken

Mark Sendo - Bodega

David Tisserand - Sony CE Playstation

Kellee Santiago - ThatGameCompany
Rikke Wivel - Monsterboard.nl
Ivo Wubbels - Engine Software
Alan Yu - ngmoco:)

Pieter Albers - X-Form


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