|
Speakers
|
|
|
Hein Beute
Product Manager at Xsens Technologies |
Hein Beute is the Product Manager at Xsens technologies
Xsens Technologies B.V. is a leading supplier of products for measurement of motion, orientation and position, based upon miniature MEMS inertial sensor technology.
Xsens’ products are used in various markets such as 3D animation, movement science, robotics and unmanned systems. Xsens’ latest product is the inertial motion capture suit Moven.
Together with Ferry Bult he will do a presentation titled: "From Killzone 2 to Alice in wonderland and beyond: Advanced motion capturing on the spot, anywhere you want"
|
|
|
|
|
Ard Bonewald
Studio Director of Gamehouse Studios / RealGames |
Ard‘s track record ranges from hardcore, traditional games to heartwarming casual entertainment. As a designer at Davilex and Playlogic he was known for his resourcefulness and creativity as well as a critical and demanding designer.
Ard is able to balance innovation and creativity on the one hand, and budget and deadlines on the other. Xyanide Resurrection and the Brutal Fairytale Fights are only two of the titles he created before going over to RealGames as a producer.
He has also been an enthousiastic lecturer in Game design at the Utrecht School of the arts for several years.
After being Head of Productions at Virtual Fairground he is now back at GameHouse Studios as Director of Studio and was involved in creating hit games such as Campfire Legends and Delicious – Emily’s Taste of Fame.
Ard holds a Master degree in Interaction Design and is always keen to analyze user behavior and to optimize game experiences.
His presentation is titled: "Developing hardcore casual games"
|
|
|
|
|
Jaap Bosman
Head of Marketing of Houthoff Buruma |
Houthoff Buruma The Game
Dutch Law firm Houthoff Buruma has developed a serious game in collaboration with Ranj Serious Games. Houthoff Buruma will use serious gaming in their recruitment and selection of aspiring lawyers. On 26 May 2010 ‘Houthoff Buruma The Game’ was presented at the World Expo in Shanghai. The Game sets a new international standard in the field of ‘serious gaming’, and recruitment and selection will gain an entirely new dimension.
Watch the trailers of Houthoff Buruma The Game on http://www.youtube.com/user/HouthoffBuruma
|
|
|
|
|
Adam Boyes
Founder of Beefy Media |
Adam Boyes is the founder of Beefy Media and the former director of Production at Capcom USA.
Adam is a video game developer who started off in the industry as a tester for Electronic Arts. After that he started working at Midway. There, he worked as an executive producer on the MLB Slugfest: Loaded and the NHL Hitz: Pro titles.
Adam would eventually go on to work on Blitz: The League which proved to be a successful title for the company with over 1.5 million units sold. Adam has alreeds been credited in 28 games.
|
|
|
|
|
Maarten Brands
Co-founder of Virtual Fairground |
Maarten Brands is the developer behind the upcoming MMO Club Galactik, the webgame based on the anime hit series Galactik Football.
He has been working in the games industry for over 8 years. Until 2007 he worked at W!Games. He then decided to quit his job there and started Virtual Fairground together with Ilja Goossens.
His presentation is called "How we built a business case around existing IP"
|
|
|
|
|
Ferry Bult
Business Development at Xsens Technologies |
Ferry Bult is responsible for the Business Development at Xsens Technologies.
Together with Hein Beute he will do a presentation titled: "From Killzone 2 to Alice in wonderland and beyond: Advanced motion capturing on the spot, anywhere you want".
|
|
|
|
|
Rene Derks
Project Manager at W!Games |
Rene Derks is Project Manager at W!Games.
He is responsible for creative development processes and organizational learning.
Together with Nikki Kuppens from W!Games he will give a presentation called "Imagining a world and then a game concept that fits that world"
|
|
|
|
|
Joost van Dongen
Founder of Ronimo |
Joost van Dongen is co-founder and lead programmer at Ronimo Games, a young development studio in Utrecht that focusses on console downloadable games. At Ronimo he worked on the side-scrolling real-time strategy game for the Nintendo Wii called Swords & Soldiers, which won two awards at the Dutch Game Awards.
When still a student, Joost worked on De Blob, a free-roaming-painting-colouring-platforming-extravaganza that won a Student Showcase Award at the Independent Games Festival and was sold to THQ, which developed a new version for the Nintendo Wii. THQ recently announced more games, a cartoon-series and action figures for De Blob!
Joost has taught several courses in game development at the Utrecht School of the Arts and the Hogeschool Utrecht. In his spare time, he is working on Proun, a weird little abstract racing game for PC and Mac.
|
|
|
|
|
Jeroen Elfferich
CEO and founder of Ex-Machina
|
Jeroen Elfferich is founder and CEO at Ex Machina, an independent Amsterdam-based company that enables multiplayer gaming on the internet and mobile devices. Jeroen's passion is extending the social context of technology and believes multiplayer mobile gaming is its cutting edge.
After studying Artificial Intelligence as well as Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, Jeroen founded NetlinQ in 1996, where he held the position of CTO. NetlinQ grew to become the largest web consulting and technology firm in The Netherlands with 200 employees and was acquired in 2000 by Framfab. NetlinQ nurtured a number of spin-off companies, including Ex Machina.
Ex Machina has since powered millions of live multiplayer game sessions. Deus+, Ex Machina's connected gaming platform, was turned into an SDK in 2003 and is currently used by over 30 mobile game developers in three continents as well as leading mobile operators.
Jeroen helped to start the MMBase Foundation and is part of the Liberty Alliance Gaming Services Subteam. Jeroen has been chair and speaker at numerous conferences covering multiplayer mobile games and contributed to various academic research projects.
|
|
|
|
|
Ralph Frefat
Director Business Development of Gamigo AG
|
Ralph Frefat is Director Media Partnerships with gamigo AG, one of the leading publishers of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG). At gamigo he is responsible for the collaboration with TV stations, including MTV, M6, RTL2, Pro7 and more.
Prior to gamigo Ralph studied Business Administration and worked as a management consultant for CSC. As one of a very few in the games industry he worked with market leaders like Atari and Bigpoint in all three games segments (retail, mobile and online) in the fields of marketing, licensing and business development.
Ralph strongly believes that 'free to play' and 'digital distribution' are the biggest earthquake in the games industry ever.
|
|
|
|
|
Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn
Founders of Tale-of-Tales
|
Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn are media designers and founders of the games development studio Tale-of-Tales.
The purpose of Tale of Tales is to create elegant and emotionally rich interactive entertainment. They explicitly want to cater to people who are not enchanted by most contemporary computer games, or who wouldn’t mind more variety in their gameplay experiences. For this purpose, all of their products feature innovative forms of interaction, engaging poetic narratives and simple controls.
|
|
|
|
|
Nils Holger Henning
CCO of Big Point
|
Nils-Holger Henning has been with Bigpoint since February 2006. He joined Bigpoint (formerly e-sport GmbH) as the Director of Business Development. Henning successfully attracted business co-operations with many of the major portals and media partners in Germany and throughout Europe with “turn-key” game solutions in white labels for their portals. Establishing the Sales and Marketing Departments at Bigpoint, he formulated the growth strategy based on internationalization and the development and publication of additional high quality games. Prior to Bigpoint, Henning worked with Hays plc./ Hays AG in Human Resource Consulting
|
|
|
|
|
Paul Heydon
Investor, Managing Director Avista Partners |
Games are business. Paul Heydon, managing Director of Avista Partners, knows this better than most. He has helped media companies globally on transactions with a total value of over $1 billion.
Paul Heydon has worked on a variety of transactions including cross-border M&A, IPO's, convertible bonds, private placements and strategic advisory with many digital media companies including: Unity Technologies, Infogrames, Ubisoft, Canon Europe, Criterion Software, Endemol, Teliasonera International Carrier, and Lionhead. He earned both a MBA and a HBA from the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. His previous positions include Head of Interactive Entertainment at Commerzbank Securities, part of the Media Team at ING Barings and Managing Director at Unity Capital.
|
|
|
|
|
Toru Iwatani
Professor Iwatani, inventor of Pac-Man
|
Toru Iwatani (1955) is the creator of Pac-Man. His keynote speech will open the the Game Conference during this year's NLGD Festival of Games in The Netherlands.
Iwatani was born in the Meguro ward of Tokyo, Japan. He joined the computer software company Namco in 1977, where he started his career in the video game business. Pac-Man's story is filled with highpoints. It took more than a year after release before the public began to notice the yellow partly-eaten Pizza, but after that, there was no stopping him. Pac-Man is mentioned eight times in the Guinness Book of Records. It is the highest grossing arcade game of all time. Pac-Man became a cultural phenomenon. His image decorates countless products, from t-shirts to Pac-Man shaped book cases. The pill-addicted hero stayed popular in the past three decades, and over thirty spin-off games where released.
|
|
|
|
|
Peter de Jong
CEO of Codeglue
|
Peter de Jong is the CEO of Codeglue.
Codeglue is a Netherlands game development studio that specializes in pick-up-and-play arcade games for mobile, handheld devices, and emerging console platforms.
Peter will talk about Second-life for game classics such as Worms, Lemmings and MonkeyBall.
|
|
|
|
|
Jan Lieuwe Koopmans
Senior Software Engineer at Engine Software BV
|
Jan Lieuwe Koopmans is the senior software engineer at Engine Software BV.
Before he started at Engine Software he was also active as a Software Engineer at TAS, as software support at Prodetis and as a programmer / composer / Artist / Editor at Emphasys.
Together with Ivo Wubbels he will talk about “"Outsmarting the DSI, adding tilt to games".
|
|
|
|
|
Nikki Kuppens
Game Designer at W!Games
|
A young and professional Game Designer with above average games industry experience and knowledge for his age. Worked for both a leading Dutch game studio and successfull advergame developer, as well as multiple game-related media outlets, both print and online. Also founded a couple of new and interesting initiatives, including a directory for the Dutch games industry and a personal online and offline media production company.
|
|
|
|
|
Ian Livingstone
Life President of EIDOS |
life is a game. it truly is when your name is ian livingstone. he will give a talk about his life in games, the history of video games, the history of eidos and the life of lara croft - past and future.
Ian livingstone is life president of eidos and one of the uk’s founding fathers of interactive games and fiction. in 1975 he founded games workshop with steve jackson and launched dungeons & dragons in europe. in 1977 he launched white dwarf, the uk’s first interactive games magazine. in 1982, again with steve jackson, he wrote the warlock of firetop mountain, the first in the fighting fantasy series of interactive gamebooks that sold over 16 million copies in 23 languages. he wrote more than 20 books in the series. he served as executive chairman of eidos plc from 1995 until 2002. at eidos he helped to secure many of the company's major franchises including lara croft: Tomb Raider and Hitman. He is the Non-Executive Chairman of Bright Things plc, Non-Executive Director of ELSPA, Chair of Skillset’s Computer Games Skills Council, Vice Chair of the BAFTA Games Committee and an advisor to the British Council. He was awarded an OBE, a BAFTA Special Award and an Honorary Doctorate of Technology for his contribution to the UK computer games industry.
|
|
|
|
|
Masaya Matsuura
Founder of NanaOn-Sha |
Masaya Matsuura is a video game designer and musician.
Technological development occurring during the 1990s generated increased interest in Matsuura in creating computer-based music and from this field Matsuura soon transitioned into interactive music and music video games.
Matsuura founded the Tokyo-based production company NanaOn-Sha.
In 2004, he was awarded the "First Penguin" award by the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) for his innovative contributions to the video game industry.
|
|
|
|
|
Dylan Nagel
Co-owner and Managing Director of Paladin Studios
|
|
Dylan Nagel is the managing director of Paladin Studios.
He is an experienced interactive media developer.
At Paladin Studios he created visualisations, games and simulations. His presentation is titled: "Developing the world's first serious game for Facebook"
|
|
|
|
|
David Perry
GAIKAI - CEO
Co-founder & former President Shiny Entertainment
|
|
Imagine playing any game in any browser with just one click. Welcome to the world of Gaikai, cutting edge video game streaming technology.
David Perry was the Founder & President Shiny Entertainment, Inc. for over 12 years (bought by Atari), he's one of the best known Video Game Industry veterans.
Now Perry is the CEO and co-founder of Gaikai.com, a company that’s developed a cutting-edge video game streaming technology that allows any Windows game or application to run in any browser with just one click.
Over 29 years, Perry has developed or programmed over 100 games across 29 video game platforms. All told, Perry's games (including #1 Hits like The Terminator, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Disney's Aladdin & Warner’s Matrix projects) have totaled over a billion dollars in retail sales. He's one of the best known Video Game Industry veterans.
In his last position Perry was the Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer of Acclaim.com, directing multiple MMORPG games, Social Network Games & Casual Titles. All games used the 'free-to-play' model, supported by in-game advertising, subscriptions or micro-transactions.
Perry also recently launched a book for students called David Perry on Game Design – GameDesignBook.org (the largest non-profit book on Game Design ever written.
|
|
|
|
|
Marco Priewe
Managing Director of Atlas Interactive Deutschland GmbH
|
Marco Priewe is the Managing Director of Atlas Interactive Deutschland GmbH and Sales Director for access and billing solutions for the global Atlas Interactive Group of Companies.
Marco Priewe, born in 1969, started his professional career after graduating from university in 1992 as Branch Manager for the international trading company Behn Meyer in Medan, Indonesia. From March 1996 until October 2003 Marco Priewe has been Chief Executive Officer of INA Germany AG. He joined Atlas Interactive in November 2003.
Furthermore, Marco Priewe was one of the founding members of the FST (the German Association for the Voluntary Self-Monitoring of Value-Added Telephone Services). He was Deputy Manager of the grievance board of the FST from 1998 to 2000 and has been elected as a Member of the Executive Board in October 2000, which he is still today.
Marco Priewe has been leading the German office of ATLAS Interactive for 7 years, and has been serving the gaming industry by providing micro payment solutions since then. Among the reference customers are market leaders such as Bigpoint, Travian, Gameforge, Upjers, Panfu, Innogames, Intenium, XS SOftware, Blizzard Entertainment and many more.
|
|
|
|
|
Martin de Ronde
Founder of OneBigGame and Guerrilla |
It's time for the games industry to give back. Martin de Ronde gained worldwide support for his charity initiative OneBigGame. He will talk about the future of OneBigGame and it's many unique games.
Martin de Ronde started working in the games industry over 15 years ago as a PR manager and later as development manager in publishing. He founded his own development studio in 1998, which he sold to multimedia conglomerate Lost Boys a year later. Here, De Ronde became co-founder and managing director of Lost Boys Games, the company’s newly setup games division. Lost Boys games went independent in 2001 and was renamed Guerrilla Games. As commercial director De Ronde witnessed the birth of PlayStation 2 hit Killzone. In 2006 he departed and founded OneBigGame, where he is responsible for for general management as well as business development. Besides OneBigGame, Martin runs casual MMO publisher Karami games, a new start-up in the field of browser based games.
|
|
|
|
|
Remco de Rooij
CEO of Triangle Studios
|
Remco de Rooij is the CEO from Triangle Studios B.V. He won the audience-price for “promising developers of the North” in 2009. He will talk about “The Business IP of production”.
|
|
|
|
|
Corey Rosemond
Gaming Industry Professional at Microsoft Corporation
|
Corey Rosemond is a 16 year game industry veteran whom throughout his career has been responsible for driving the continued development of Windows as a gaming platform as well as the initial justification for the creation of the DirectX SDK for Game Development in various roles at Microsoft Corporation.
Corey also has served on the board of the PC Gaming Alliance and is a member of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
Outside of Microsoft Corey has worked at both HP and Dell in Gaming specific Marketing and Business Development roles. At HP he headed HP’s Gaming software and services group where he lead the design, launch and growth of the HP Game Console, one of the largest online PC Gaming marketplaces worldwide with over 50 million customers in over 32 countries. At Dell he was responsible for the positioning of the first Dell Dimension XPS as a gaming PC and for closing some of the first online sales of PC Games at Dell.com.
Corey graduated from The University of Texas at Austin where he received a Master’s of Business Administration degree in Information Systems and Marketing and Washington University in St. Louis with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.
He is an avid Gamer who enjoys both hardcore and casual games and when he’s offline enjoys snowboarding and watching his favorite team, the New Orleans Saints.
|
|
|
|
|
Michiel Sala
Founder of Little Chicken |
Michiel Sala is one of the founders of Little Chicken Game Company. He creates game strategies for consumer and B2B brands. Since the birth of Little Chicken, he has been working on more than 60 game/brand campaigns. Michiel believes brands should be viewed as cultural IPs, in the same way that intellectual property is the foundation of the entertainment industry. Currently he is connecting online brand experiences to business models from the toy industry.
|
|
|
|
|
Kellee Santiago
Co-Founder & President of thatgamecompany
|
More information coming up soon.
|
|
|
|
|
Mark Sendo
CEO at Bodega
|
|
His current undertaking is Bodega, the world’s first sanctioned multi-platform virtual goods marketplace. With the the social gaming industry rocketing skyward, a marketplace is inevitable, and Bodega is ready to take its seat is the premiere virtual goods marketplace. Mark is the inventor of the revolutionary patent pending Bodega Settlement API for Virtual Goods, which Bodega uses to settle all transactions made. Armed with years of experience and unmatched charisma, as well as a committed team of investors, advisors, consultants, and interns, Mark is ready to take Bodega to the next level.
|
|
|
|
|
David Tisserand
Senior usability specialist at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
|
David was the first in-house usability specialist in WWS. He is responsible for the user testing process within WWS-Europe, as well as supporting the testing of games from WWSA and WWSJ with European consumers.
Before joining Sony, he was Usability Research Manager at Orange (a European mobile network provider), testing their mobile software, websites and services.
He began his career working for the French Air Force on Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle interfaces and the dynamics of communication between pilots and copilots.
David has taught at a number of French universities (Paris, Nice, Nancy) and given talks at national and international conferences (GDC, Usability Professionals Association, etc.).
|
|
|
|
|
Ivo Wubbels
CEO of Engine Software
|
Ivo Wubbels is the Chief Executive Officer of Engine Software and is responsible for long term operations, financial control and company policy. Ivo was actively involved in game development for over sixty commercially released games as programmer, producer and executive producer. Being one of the founding members of Engine Software in 1995, Ivo has over thirteen years of professional experience in the games industry in both games, and business development.
|
|
|
|
|
Rikke Wivel
Managing Director Marketing Benelux of Monsterboard.nl
|
Rikke Wivel joined Monster 5 years ago at their Canadian office in charge of communications, advertising and PR for Monster.ca as part of a team, which innovations are now used throughout Monster Worldwide.
Rikke came to the Netherlands 2 years ago to lead the Global Advertising and Media for EU. Since the start of 2010 Rikke is the Managing Director Marketing Benelux.
Prior to joining Monster, she created the online presence for Cirque Du Soleil, a project critically acclaimed both by the public and the business community for its creative content and ability to generate online business.
Following her success at Cirque she worked for CDPQ, Canada´s largest money manager, before launching her own consultancy in internet marketing strategies for clients such as communication giant BCE (Bell Canada Enterprises), the National Bank to name a few.
Rikke is originally from Denmark from where she has her educational background in the field of business administration and economics.
|
|
|
|
|
Alan Yu
Founder and Vice President of ngmoco:)
|
ngmoco:) has made a huge impression since the launch of the iPhone. With multiple Apple keynote appearances and hits like Rolando, Topple and of course Star Defense it became the first household name on the iPhone.
The company recently changed its business model entirely into Free-to-play, something that their VP Alan Yu has talked about previously.
Before co-founding ngmoco:) Yu was executive producer for the biggest game developers conference in the world, the GDC, and held several directors positions at EA.
|
|
|
|
|
Winner Diamond Trophy 2010