London Game Career Fair To Take London By Storm October 23rd and 24thEvent Co-Produced by Leading Industry Websites Gamasutra.com and Gamesindustry.biz; Expo has Become the Must-Attend Recruitment Fair in EuropePRNewswire SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2nd Annual London Game Career Fair is set to take place October 23 - 24, 2007 at London's Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane. The event, building on the success of the inaugural fair last year, features a mix of exhibitors and sessions, giving both existing members of the industry and those looking to break into the industry a chance to meet with companies and learn from experienced industry speakers. The London Game Career Fair is the exclusive recruitment event of the London Games Festival, a series of events taking place across the city during the week of October 22. This year's goal is to raise the caliber of the event by attracting qualified game developers as well as recent graduates to network with the world's top game development companies and to enhance their career strategies, drawing on the reach of the leading games industry websites. The inaugural event last year attracted more than 1,000 attendees and the 2007 event looks to expand on that success. Already, hundreds of attendees have taken advantage of the free registration and uploaded their resumes. The event sponsors, representing the industry's leading developers, will draw on the resume database to set meetings with qualified candidates. "The partnership between Gamasutra.com and GamesIndustry.biz proves our commitment to creating the highest quality career expo on offer in Europe," said Simon Carless, Publisher, Gamasutra.com. "The 2006 Game Career Fair far exceeded our expectations and we're excited to be offering aspiring game industry professionals the chance to network with leading game companies and talking about their career goals and aspirations." Industry giant Electronic Arts (EA) has thrown its weight behind the event, sponsoring gaming pods that will enable players onsite to test out the latest and greatest EA games. Additional sponsors and exhibitors include Blitz Games, Evolution Studios, Lionhead, LucasArts, NCsoft, OPM Response, Rare, Sega, THQ, and Team 17, as well as several UK universities. The London Game Career Fair will be attended by games industry professionals, recent graduates and individuals from related industries, such as film, computer graphics and animations. It will provide the ideal venue for attendees to speak with leading companies in the games industry about career opportunities. The fair focuses on a range of disciplines, including programming, audio, art, production, design and Quality Assurance. The schedule of sessions will be announced via the website at http://www.gamecareerfair.com/ in early October. For sponsorship opportunities or to book a stand at the London Game Career Fair, please contact Aaron Murawski, amurawski@cmp.com, 805-523-7841. To sign-up free of charge to attend the event, please visit the event's website -- http://www.gamecareerfair.com/. About Gamesindustry.biz GamesIndustry.biz is the world's leading source of business news and information for the videogames market, providing comprehensive and intelligent coverage of the sector to a worldwide audience of games industry professionals and investors. Learn more at http://www.gamesindustry.biz/. About Gamasutra.com Gamasutra.com is an internationally recognized and Webby Award winning online community. The site offers daily features, industry news, product news and reviews, job listings, and robust resume and contractor databases. Gamasutra addresses everything the developer needs to improve skills, interact with other developers, learn about products, find work, and locate services in their area. The site also enables vendors to reach over 324,000 registered industry professionals with product news and technical information. Learn more at http://www.gamasutra.com/. About the CMP Game Group (http://www.cmpgame.com/) The CMP Game Group delivers essential information and enables community within the game industry through events, services, and media. The group's flagship products include the Game Developers Conference and the Webby Award-winning Gamasutra.com. For more information, please visit http://www.cmpgame.com/. About CMP CMP (http://www.cmp.com/) is a media and marketing solutions company serving the technology industry. With the leading online, event and print brands in all technology market categories, and with services and tools that reach beyond traditional advertising, CMP shapes and influences the technology industry worldwide. CMP publishes highly respected media brands such as TechWeb, InformationWeek, ChannelWeb, CRN, EE Times and TechOnline; produces major industry events such as Interop, Web 2.0 Expo, XChange, Game Developers Conference and the Embedded Systems Conferences; and provides business information and marketing services such as the International Customer Management Institute, Semiconductor Insights and Second Life consulting for technology marketers. CMP is a subsidiary of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion. For more CMP news, go to http://cmp.com/news. SOURCE: CMP Game Group CONTACT: Craig Sinel, craig@fortyseven.com, or Sibel Sunar, Web site: http://www.cmpgame.com/ |