2009 Game Education Summit Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Richard Hilleman
Chief Creative Director
Electronic Arts
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Donald Marinelli
Executive Producer
Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University
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Speakers

	Title	Organization	Select for more information	Participating in:
Tom Abernathy	Senior Writer/Designer	Microsoft Game Studios	bio	Collateral learning, values, and cognitive framing in story-based video games
Ashish Amresh	Lecturer	Arizona State University	bio	Sharing Curriculum Between Academia and Industry
Kristy Bowden	Director	Digital Media Council	bio	Around the World: two Views of Game Education Development (A Case Study about mentoring a program in Europe since 1996 and Getting Texas in the Game)
Brenda Brathwaite	Game Designer and Professor	Savannah College of Art and Design	bio	The Making of a Gallery Game : A Post Mortem in Progress Industry and Academia: In Search of the Love
Tracy Brown	CEO & Founder	Evil Genius Designs, Inc.,	bio	Alumni Panel
Rusty Buchert	Senior/Managing Producer	Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA)	bio	Sharing Curriculum Between Academia and Industry
Josh Buck	Assistant Professor of Game Art and Animation	Champlain College	bio	Reaching Across Art-Technology Divide: A five-year post-mortem on Champlain College’s interdisciplinary, game development educational model
Billy Cain	Co-Founder	Critical Mass Interactive	bio	Game Industry Recruitment Panel
Vicki Callahan	Associate Professor	Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	bio	“Open Creativity” : Bringing New Models of Media and Authorship to Industry and Academia
Sande Chen	Writer and Game Designer		bio	Should Game Writing Be Part of the Curriculum? Creativity, Constraints, and Compromises
Chris Child	Lecturer, Department of Computing	City University London	bio	Sharing Curriculum Between Academia and Industry
Ming Y. Chow	Instructor	Tufts University	bio	Designing an Implementation-Based Game Development Course
Aram Cookson	Professor	Savannah College of Art and Design	bio	Industry and Academia: In Search of the Love
Amanda Crispel	Assistant Professor of Game Design and Program Director of Game Design and Game Art and Animation	Champlain College	bio	Reaching Across Art-Technology Divide: A five-year post-mortem on Champlain College’s interdisciplinary, game development educational model
Richard Dansky	Central Clancy Writer	Red Storm/Ubisoft	bio	Should Game Writing Be Part of the Curriculum?
Drew Davidson	Director	ETC-Pitsburgh	bio	Games across Media
Beth Davies-Stofka	Instructor	Front Range Community College - Arts and Letters Online	bio	Buddhist Death in Second Life
C. Dep-Wah Davis	Professor of Computer Information Technology	Lone Star College – Tomball	bio	Campus Shootings: A Look Into the Use of Serious Games in Game Design Capstones
Jason Della Rocca	Senior Consultant	Perimeter Partners	bio	Go Fail!: Experimentation, differentiation and other paths to innovation.
James Diamond	Researcher	Center for Children & Technology / Education Development Center, Inc.	bio	Gaming After-School: Boys and Girls Clubs of America Game Design Curriculum
Greg Foertsch	Lead Artist, Firaxis Games	Professor, Maryland Institute College of Art	bio	Industry and Academia: In Search of the Love
Oscar García-Panella	Faculty Advisor	La Salle School of Engineering (Ramon Llull University)	bio	Around the World: two Views of Game Education Development (A Case Study about mentoring a program in Europe since 1996 and Getting Texas in the Game)
Leah Gilliam	Project Director and Community Catalyst	Institute of Play	bio	The Dynamic Classroom: Collaborations between Game Designers and Teachers
Tracy J. Gromek	Game & Curriculum Designer and Research Specialist	Institute of Play	bio	The Dynamic Classroom: Collaborations between Game Designers and Teachers
Jessica Hammer	Instructor and Doctoral Candidate	Teachers College Columbia University	bio	Creativity in the Game Design Classroom
Vernon Harmon	Senior Developer Support Engineer	Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA)	bio	Sharing Curriculum Between Academia and Industry
Paul Herzog	Assistant Professor of Game Programming and Department Chair of Software Technology	Champlain College	bio	Reaching Across Art-Technology Divide: A five-year post-mortem on Champlain College’s interdisciplinary, game development educational model
Andrew Hieronymi	Professor of Interactive Design and Game Development	Savannah College of Art and Design	bio	Physical Gaming: Beyond Mini-Games
Michael Highland	Filmmaker and Strategic Consultant on Interactive Media		bio	Collateral learning, values, and cognitive framing in story-based video games
Richard Hilleman	Chief Creative Director	Electronic Arts	bio	Let’s Get Small.
Andy Jih	VP of Production	Evil Genius Designs	bio	Alumni Panel
Yu-Hong Lin	Assistant Professor	Chihlee Institute of Technology	bio	Virtual Reality for Art Students: Using Second Life as an Interactive Learning Environment
Lynne Lin	Student Researcher	ETC	bio
Geoffrey Long	researcher and Communications Director	Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab	bio	Play Chapter: Video Games and Transmedia Storytelling
Enrique Ma Sarmiento	Student Researcher	ETC	bio	Crayon3D: A New Platform for 3D Sketching Using the Wiimote
Colleen Macklin	Director, PETLab	Associate Professor, Communication Design & Technology; Parsons the New School for Design	bio	Gaming After-School: Boys and Girls Clubs of America Game Design Curriculum Industry and Academia: In Search of the Love
Donald Marinelli	Executive Producer	Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University	bio	What's in a Name? Gaming by Any Other Name Just Doesn't Sound as Sweet.
David Martz	Vice President of Sales and Business Development	Muzzy Lane	bio	Sandstone: A New Approach to Integrating 3D Games with the Web
Terrence Masson	Director of Game Design	Northeastern University	bio	Building Northeastern University's Game Design curriculum from scratch
Colleen McCreary	Chief People Officer	Zynga	bio	Game Industry Recruitment Panel Sharing Curriculum Between Academia and Industry
Claudia L. McDonald	Associate Vice President for Special Projects	Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi	bio
Jeneen Naji	Multimedia Faculty	Dubai Men’s College	bio	Games as Art or Artifact – Poetry as a game
Elisabeth Nonas	Chair	Department of Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts in the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College	bio	Should Game Writing Be Part of the Curriculum?
Brett Phares	Assistant Professor of Interactive Media	Marist College	bio	Industry and Academia: In Search of the Love
Ian Pilipski	Senior Programmer	THQ's Kaos Studios	bio	Industry and Academia: In Search of the Love
James Portnow	Founder and CCO	Divide by Zero Games	bio	Collateral learning, values, and cognitive framing in story-based video games
Ricardo Rademacher	Founder and CEO	Futur-E-Scape, LLC	bio	Creativity, Constraints, and Compromises
Walter D. Rotenberry	key faculty member	Wake Technical Community College	bio	Community College Challenge: Meeting Both the University Matriculation and Industry Needs for a Quality Workforce
Stephen Schafer	Past Chairman of the Humanities and Social Sciences Department	Digipen Institute of Technology	bio	Collateral learning, values, and cognitive framing in story-based video games
Ian Schreiber			bio	Innovative Teaching Through Game Design The IGDA Education SIG: What it can do for you
Matt Seegmiller	Lead Architect	Muzzy Lane	bio	Sandstone: A New Approach to Integrating 3D Games with the Web
John Sharp	Professor, Interactive Design and Game Development	Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta	bio	Gaming After-School: Boys and Girls Clubs of America Game Design Curriculum
Lee Sheldon	Professor	Indiana University	bio	Should Game Writing Be Part of the Curriculum?
Terrance “Terry” Simkin	Program Coordinator and Professor	Animation and Graphic Game Programming NHTI Concord’s Community College	bio
Emily Skopic		Wild Pockets	bio	Approachable, Scalable, Affordable, Teachable: A game design curriculum that meets all of your needs.
Leah Smith	Animation and Video Game Industries Liaison	Texas Film Commission	bio	Around the World: two Views of Game Education Development (A Case Study about mentoring a program in Europe since 1996 and Getting Texas in the Game)
Evan Tahler	Vice President of Technical Design	Evil Genius Design	bio	Alumni Panel
Aaron Tarnow		Wild Pockets	bio	Approachable, Scalable, Affordable, Teachable: A game design curriculum that meets all of your needs.
Roger Travis	Associate Professor of Classics in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages	University of Connecticut	bio	Collateral learning, values, and cognitive framing in story-based video games
Aaron Vanderbeek		Values@Play	bio	Creating Serious Games that are Serious Fun
David Versaw	Chief Financial Officer, Director of Business Development	WILL Interactive, Inc.	bio	Game Development for Governmental Use
Todd Waits	Vice President of Product Development	Skill-Life, Inc.	bio	Creating Serious Games that are Serious Fun
Gregory Walek	Game Designer and Professor	New Hampshire Technical Institute	bio	This Magnificent Puzzle Piece That Is XNA!
Lance Weiler	Award Winning Writer / Director		bio	“Open Creativity” : Bringing New Models of Media and Authorship to Industry and Academia
G. Michael Youngblood	Assistant Professor	The University of North Carolina at Charlotte	bio	Uncovering the Plot to Take Over the World! (Examining the work of game researchers and how you too can get involved)