Verizon Wireless Executive to Deliver Keynote Speech
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Responding to the enormous interest
in everything mobile, the 18th annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) will
focus two days of lectures and panels at the 2004 conference,
March 22 - 26, 2004, San Jose, Calif. on the mobile gaming industry. GDC
Mobile brings together more than 500 leaders from the game development
community with representatives from mobile game developers, publishers,
traditional platform game developers, handset manufacturers, aggregators and
operators, to discuss opportunities, challenges and viability in the space.
Keynote speaker Paul Palmieri, director, business development, Verizon
Wireless, will give attendees a close view of how the world's leading mobile
operators approach the game industry and the mobile data business as a whole.
Summit sessions include:
* Game Design Case Studies: Made-for-the-Medium Original Titles
Moderator: Dan Scherlis, Etherplay (USA)
Speakers: Glenn Broadway, IOMO (UK), Ilkka Paanenen, Sumea
(Finland), Juha Ruskola, Mr.Goodliving (Finland)
* The Future of Rendering: A Mobile Perspective
Speaker: Dr. Mark Ollila, MTGP, Telcogames, SIGGRAPH (Sweden)
* Multiplayer Games for Mobile Networks: A Distributed Computing
Approach
Dr. Aleta Ricciardi, JamSession (USA)
* Mobile Games in the Asia-Pacific Region
Speakers: Kyu. C Lee, GameVil (Korea)
Vishal Gondal, IndiaGames (India)
Stefan Rust, Sun Microsystems (Hong Kong / China)
* Big Game Hunting: Console Game Publishers Join the Mobile Fray
Moderator: Stuart O'Brien, Mobile Game Analyst (UK)
Speakers: Simon Protheroe, EIDOS
* Mobile Operator Spotlight Session
Moderator: Eric Goldberg, Unplugged Games (USA)
Speakers: Scott Edison, AT& T Wireless (USA), Tim Harrison, Vodafone
Live (International), Ravi Kanodia, T-Mobile (UK), Alan Welsman,
Orange (UK)
* Value of Brands in Mobile Games
Matt Edelman, (M)FORMA Group (USA)
* Smackdown: Making Sense of Competing Mobile Platforms
Moderator: Seamus McAteer, Zelos Group (USA)
Speakers: Greg Costikyan, Unplugged Games (USA), Misha Lyalin,
Reaxion (USA & Russia), Adrian Sack, ID Works 3D (UK)
* World Tour of Mobile Games
Speakers: Matthew Bellows, Publisher of Wireless Gaming Review (USA) &
David "DC" Collier, Namco (Japan)
* Mobile Operator Roundup
Moderator: Robert Tercek, Chairman GDC Mobile
Speakers: Jason Ford, Sprint PCS (USA), Richard Segwick, 02 (UK), Dan
Silberberger, Nextel (USA)
"The GDC is the gravity point for the creation interactive entertainment,"
said Alan Yu, director, Game Developers Conference. "We've made sure the 2004
GDC Mobile Summit program includes the most respected names in the field,
people who set the agenda in the mobile space."
For a complete list of GDC 2004 event information visit http://www.gdconf.com .
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