2007 Game Festival & Symposium Agenda

Agenda Current As/Of: March 24, 2007

Friday, April 13

Game Festival DCC Great Hall

5:30 to 9 PM Student Exhibition & Exhibition Tables (Recruitment and Clubs)

Saturday, April 14

Game Symposium Biotech Center Auditorium

9:15 Student Awards Judges Meet

9:30 - 2:00 Special Dmonstration, capAbility Game Research Project, Biotech Auditorium Lobby

10:45 to 11:30 Introductions: John P. Harrington, Dean, H&SS

Opening Address: Katie Salen, Parsons School for Design

11:30 to 12:15 Panel: Heading In Different Directions

Katie Salen, Moderator

Tim Sweeny, Lead Game Designer, PeaceMakers

Ananda Gupta, Breakaway Games

Mary Flanagan, Hunter College

12:15 to 12:45 Lunch

12:45 to 1:30 Panel: Tools: Working with Wacky Hardware

Steve Meretzky, Senior Designer, Blue Fang, Moderator

Mary Flanagan, Hunter College

Quing Ji, Rensselaer

Dan Maynes Aminzade, Tangible Media & Stanford Univ.

Jesse Raymond., Vicarious Visions - the Wii

1:30 to 2:00 Panel: Ask Away: Current and Future CEO's

Game company CEOS respond to a panel of RPI students in an interview forum

Karthik Bala, CCO, Vicarious Visions

Michael DelPrete, President, Agora Games

Michael Lewis, President, Cryptic Studios

Zach Barth, '09, ECSE

James Morris-King, '09, Management/CompSci

Corey Nolan, '10, EMAC/CompSci

2:00 to 2:30 Closing Address: Jason Della Rocca, E.D., IGDA

2:30 to 3:00 Vicarious Visions Student Challenge Awards Ceremony

SPECIAL PRESENTATION: capAbilities Games Research Group in the Biotech Audtiorium Lobby.