Happy All Fools' Day
In all seriousness, time is starting to run down on making the decision to join in the excitement of the 2008 ION Game Conference. Less than forty-five days remain until the conference kicks off. Less than a month remains before the current low online registration rates expire. Less than a week remains to promote your company using the ION Game Conference as a stage! Over one hundred insightful and well-informed speakers, numerous networking opportunities, and more are just a part of what the ION Game Conference has to offer the seasoned online game industry representative. No fooling, the 2008 ION Game Conference will be serious fun.
Countdown to ION
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In the spirit of the merry season that is April 1st, let us give you a little food for thought. Only one of the following stories below is true, but guessing which one is the fun part!
Time keeps on ticking down to the doors opening at the second annual ION Game Conference, as we mentioned earlier. Still, we wouldn’t want to encourage you to attend without many good reasons to, especially when we also know how full a calendar can be. We’re at number six and counting down.Once you've registered for ION, we definitely recommend booking your stay at the official conference hotel, the Seattle Marriott Waterfront Hotel. Not only are you conveniently located at the center of all the official conference action, you’re staying at one of Seattle’s finest hotels at a specially discounted rate. We've negotiated a special rate of just $209 for ION attendees. Suites are also available at a discounted rate. But hurry, the special ION rate is only valid until April 15, 2008.
New Speakers Announced
We are very pleased to announce we have some amazing additions to speaker lineup. We will be announcing more speakers and sessions over the coming months, so stay tuned for the complete list.
See the complete list of speakers
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Adam Martin Adam's been working with online and multiplayer games for almost ten years, and still hasn't been tempted to get a "real" job yet. He's done everything from patenting MMO technology to performing a real-life "emergency extraction" by helicopter as part of an alternate reality game. As the CTO for MindCandy, he oversaw development of the live systems and game/web integration for the PERPLEX CITY ARG. He now works for NCsoft on technology and MMO development, with a particular personal interest in finding ways to break online games out of their current cliches - to bring them out of the server and into the wider world. His best advice to online game developers is to remember that hope is not a strategy... |
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Scott Hartsman Scott Hartsman’s entire career has taken place in, on, and around online games, worlds, services, and the communities that form around them. He’s a 20 year veteran whose experience has spanned positions all the way from Game Master to CEO. He’s worked on market-leading online products through multiple generations at companies such as Sony Online Entertainment, Interplay, Ameritech, and Simutronics. Earlier this year he left his position running the EverQuest II franchise to pursue new opportunities in online gaming, and has never been more thankful to have worked with many of the industry’s best and brightest along the way. |
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Edward Hunter Ed Hunter is Director at comScore, and is responsible for providing audience measurement solutions to the fast-growing electronic gaming sector. Mr. Hunter is an avid gamer, and held epic or near epic level characters in every major online MMOG from Ultima Online forward. He was the Editor and Chief of Massively Multiplayer Gaming News Network (MMGNN), and has had articles and reviews published at a wide variety gaming information sites including Warcry and MMORPG.COM. |
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Victor Jimenez Mr. Jimenez has been in the software field almost 20 years, working for various companies and government agencies. He has had the privilege of working in a wide variety of projects ranging from networking, parallel computing, custom hardware, compilers, VOD, AI and simulators. He remembers having a bang address, wire-wrapping a CPU and sitting on the Cray-1 supercomputer. Recently, he has been networking large numbers of simulators from around the world and creating several AI's to simulate human actions. |
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Jason Larsen Jason Larsen works for IOActive finding vulnerabilities for some of the nation's largest corporations. Described by Forbes as a "Master Hacker", he is best known for his work penetrating critical infrastructure networks. Jason is a sought after speaker on the threats and techniques applied to high-value systems. |
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Don McGowan Don McGowan is the attorney for Microsoft Game Studios with responsibility over game and franchise development in some of the biggest properties in interactive entertainment, including the Halo franchise, and has worked on several MMO games. He also deals regularly with legal issues involving transactions using Microsoft Points, Microsoft’s micropayments and rewards system. Prior to arriving at Microsoft, Don worked at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and Stikeman Elliott LLP in Montreal, Quebec focusing on IP/IT, sports/entertainment, and antitrust litigation. On February 7, Don’s Xbox LIVE Gamerscore was 9,656, and by the time this conference starts he hopes to have cracked 10,000. Dream big or go home... |
This was one of the best conferences I've been to.
Joe LudwigFlying Lab Software
