Connection Events and CMP Announce Paris Game Developers Conference Set for 23 & 24 June 2008Conference Focuses on Building Great Games for Console, PC, and Multi-Platform DevelopmentPRNewswire PARIS, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The Paris Game Developers Conference (GDC), now in its second iteration, will take place 23 and 24 June 2008 at the Coeur Defense in Paris. The event, which expands on the success of the first GDC held in Lyon in December 2007, is set to welcome hundreds of game industry experts. The French GDC edition is an extension of the Game Developers Conference, the largest global event dedicated to game creation held in San Francisco each year. Paris GDC 08 will draw top developers from the European community and the rest of the world eager to learn, inspire, and network, and will present a comprehensive line-up of more than 50 bilingual sessions in a full 2-day program. The key goal is to share expertise and breakthroughs in the modern game development ecosystem. Paris GDC 08 is actively seeking seasoned developers and industry professionals to submit their session proposals via its website (http://www.parisgdc.com/) by March 7, 2008. The event is structured around core technical expertise, with the main focus of the content on state-of-the-art current generation console and PC development, including multi-platform development. Sessions will drill down into the five main development disciplines through dedicated tracks: Programming/Coding, Game Design, Graphical Arts, Production/Project Management and Business/Management. "We were delighted with the success of the first French GDC held in 2007 and are confident that Paris GDC will bring together even more talented developers from around the world, now in a more central location and the home of the biggest development studios in the country," noted Pierre Carde, executive director of Paris GDC 08. The event will feature content programmed by an advisory board consisting of expert developers, both local and international, who share a commitment to promote and support the region's contributions to the industry. They include: -- Viktor Antonov, Art Director and Founder of The Building design studio -- Paulina Bowstock, Sony London Studio -- Risa Cohen, Independent Producer -- Francois Coulon, Producer, Pyro Studios -- Pierre Deltour, CTO Widescreen Games -- Chris Kinsley, CTO, Rebellion -- Julien Merceron, Worldwide CTO of Eidos -- Philippe Paquet, CTO, Vivendi -- Renaud Person, Artist, Ubisoft -- Patrick Pligerdorfier, CEO, Cyanide -- Eric Viennot, CEO, Liexis Numerique -- Avni Yerli, Managing Director, Crytek For additional information on the conference and for guidelines to submit a session for consideration, please visit: http://www.parisgdc.com/. The organizers The Lyon GDC is brought to you by Connection Events, the company behind the Game Connection conventions, as well as CMP Technology, presenters of the Game Developers Conference (GDC), largest global event dedicated to videogame creation. About Connection Events Created in July 2006, the company is a spin-off of Lyon Game, which initially launched Game Connection Europe. Game Connection is a business convention for the video game industry, usually taking place in Lyon (France) in December, San Francisco (California, USA) during the Game Developers Conference, and during Tokyo Game Show, in Tokyo. Game Connection provides several different services, all geared toward the same goals: matchmaking between outsourcing companies, tools providers, developers and publishers, network building and enhancement, and examination of projects and companies. Connection Events was also co-organizer of the Lyon Game Developers Conference, the French launch of the GDC held last December. 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 Developer 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 cmp.com/news. SOURCE: CMP Game Group CONTACT: Sophie Therrien, Communication and Marketing Manager of Web site: http://www.cmpgame.com/ |