Speaker Line-Up and Schedule Announced for London Game Career FairIndustry Professionals and Renowned Journalists to Present Sessions at Europe's Leading Career Fair Dedicated to the Games IndustryPRNewswire SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The complete speaker line-up and a full schedule of sessions has been announced for the 2nd Annual London Game Career Fair, taking place October 23 - 24, 2007 at London's Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane. The presenters include leading game industry journalists as well as highly placed professionals from key video game companies in Europe. The London Game Career Fair, co-produced by Gamasutra.com and Gamesindustry.biz, 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. A robust recruitment expo takes place alongside the career expo. Exhibitors include Electronic Arts, Blitz Games, City University of London, Escape Studios, FreeStyleGames, Juice Games, Kuju Entertainment, LucasArts, NCSoft, OPM, Other Ocean Interactive, Qantm College, Rare, Realtime Worlds, SEGA, Team17, Ubisoft, and the University College for the Creative Arts. More than 1500 attendees are expected at the event, where both existing members of the industry and those looking to break into the business will find a chance to meet with companies and learn from experienced industry speakers. "We are excited to have secured the participation and support of many of Europe's leading video game professionals and journalists, all of them dedicated to helping aspiring video game professionals break into the industry," said Simon Carless, Publisher, Gamasutra.com. "This year's event is shaping up to be more popular than ever and we're looking forward to providing a destination that will help foster new partnerships." The goal for this year's summit is to raise the caliber of the event by attracting qualified attendees 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 full speaker line-up:
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
12:00 noon Andrew Eades, Director, Relentless Software
"Games Development and Quality of Life."
1:00 p.m. Chris Preston, Engineering Manager, Ubisoft Reflections
"A Career in Programming"
2:00 p.m. Nick Burton, Senior Software Engineer, Rare
"A Career in Programming"
3:00 p.m. Dr. Andrew Tuson, Head of Department of Computing, City
University London
"Getting Into the Games Industry: How a Degree Can Help You"
4:00 p.m. Jill Duffy, Editor, GameCareerGuide.com
"An Overview of the Games Industry Disciplines"
5:00 p.m. Dan Bardino, Audio & Video Manager, Sony Computer
Entertainment Europe
"A Career in Audio"
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
12:00 noon Miles Jacobson, Managing Director, Sports Interactive
On-stage Q&A interview with Phil Elliott, GamesIndustry.biz
editor
1:00 p.m. Rob Thompson, Programmer, Blitz Games
"Getting a Games Programming Job ... With No Experience"
2:00 p.m. Louise Ridgeway, Animation Supervisor, Rare
"A Career in Animation"
3:00 p.m. Dean Wray, Games Course Supervisor, Escape Studios
"A Career in Art"
4:00 p.m. Jez Harris, Lead Designer, Relentless Software
"A Career in Game Design"
5:00 p.m. Matthew Jeffery, Head of European Studio Recruitment, EA
"Which Way Now"
For sponsorship opportunities or to book a stand at the London Game Career Fair, please contact Aaron Murawski, amurawski@cmp.com or 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 380,000 registered industry professionals. Learn more at http://www.gamasutra.com/. About the CMP Game Group 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://www.cmp.com/news. SOURCE: CMP Game Group CONTACT: Craig Sinel, craig@fortyseven.com, or Sibel Sunar, Web site: http://www.cmp.com/ |