Session Content, Industry Veterans, Mobile Game Awards and Networking
Reception Make for the Mobile Must-Attend Event of 2007
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- CMP Technology's Game Developers
Conference (GDC) Mobile, the premier, professional conference for the
creators of mobile game applications, today announced a list of speakers
and sessions to be presented during the sixth annual conference. Taking
place March 5 - 6 at the Moscone Convention Center North in San Francisco
in conjunction with the Game Developers Conference, GDC Mobile provides
mobile game developers the opportunity to expand their knowledge of, and
contacts within, the mobile entertainment sector.
Representatives from companies such as Sony Pictures Digital,
Microsoft, I-Play, Digital Chocolate, GAMEVIL, Mofactor, G3 Studios,
RealNetworks, NVIDIA, ATI, QUALCOMM, ARM Ltd., Texas Instruments, Ericcson,
and Motorola will present at the conference. Some of the topics covered
will include: mobile postmortems; advertising in games; cross-platform
development; IMS standard and application development; evolution of casual
games; best practices on publishing, marketing, and porting content; and
emerging and untapped markets.
Industry executives will gather to discuss and debate the
opportunities, challenges, viability and future of the mobile entertainment
medium. More than 50 lectures, panels, technical tutorials, and roundtables
will cover areas such as 3D and programming, audio, deals and distribution,
game design, planning and production.
"The objective for GDC Mobile, as it is for the entire GDC, is to
provide a program designed primarily to empower individual game creators
with hands-on development details and unveilings of bold breakthroughs,"
said Jamil Moledina, executive director of the Game Developers Conference.
"The GDC has grown to become the world's largest game industry-only event
and GDC Mobile has quickly stamped its claim as the leading conference
dedicated to mobile interactive entertainment development."
"Attendees of GDC Mobile are going to be blown away by the extensive
amount of content offered," said Robert Tercek, founding chairman, GDC
Mobile and co-founder, Multimedia Networks. "The advisory board has gone to
great lengths, to accumulate some of the most inspirational and visionary
industry leaders to speak at GDC Mobile, moving the conference into the
limelight as the must-attend mobile event on the 2007 calendar."
In addition to key sessions, the Mobile Game Award Competition will be
a much-anticipated highlight of the conference. The competition gives
developers and publishers the opportunity to pitch their most innovative,
interesting, and groundbreaking game to a panel of expert judges and the
audience. This hour-long session will immediately be followed by the GDC
Mobile Networking Reception taking place on Monday from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
The GDC Mobile advisory board is comprised of senior industry figures
including:
* Matthew Bellows, general manager & VP Marketing, Floodgate
Entertainment
* DC Collier, president, Pikkle KK
* Jason Ford, VP of Strategy & Planning, Namco Networks America Inc.
* Jani Karlsson, director of Strategic Planning, ATI
* Kyu C. Lee, president, GAMEVIL
* Chris Melissinos, chief gaming officer, Sun Microsystems
* Dr. Mark Ollila, director of Technology & Strategy, Games Multimedia,
Nokia
* Jyri Ranki, producer, Digital Chocolate/Sumea
* Kristian Segerstrale, managing director, EMEA, Glu Mobile
* Andrew Stein, senior product manager, Cingular Wireless
* Lincoln Wallen, CTO EA Mobile, Electronic Arts
* Mike Yuen, senior director, Gaming Group, QUALCOMM
The speaker line-up, session descriptions, and registration are
available online at http://www.gdcmobile.com. Press registration is also currently
open.
More than 12,500 game industry professionals, including 1,000 members
of the working press, will convene during GDC, the world's largest games
industry-only event dedicated to the advancement of resources, tools, and
technologies used to create interactive entertainment. The GDC features
more than 300 lectures, panels, tutorials and round-table discussions on a
comprehensive selection of game development topics taught by leading
industry experts.
About the CMP Game Group (http://www.cmpgame.com)
A core provider of essential information to the professional game
industry, the CMP Game Group offers market-defining content, and drives
community through the Game Developers Conference, Game Developer magazine,
the Webby Award-winning Gamasutra.com, the Serious Games Summit D.C., GDC
Mobile, GDC Europe, the Independent Games Festival, the Game Developers
Choice Awards, GDC London, the London Games Summit, GDCTV, GDCRadio, and
the GDC Focus On event series. For more information, please visit
http://www.cmpgame.com.
About CMP Technology (http://www.cmp.com)
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industry. Through its market-leading portfolio of trusted information
brands, CMP has earned the confidence of more technology professionals than
any other media company. As a result, CMP is the premier provider of
access, insight and actionable programs designed to connect sellers and
buyers in ways that yield superior return on investment. CMP Technology is
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a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services
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