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Abiola Adeagbo (9JA GAME JAM)Biola is the CEO and Founder of 9JA GAME JAM and 9JAAPPS- The first independent mobile game publisher in Nigeria. Promoting STEM education in primary and secondary schools in Nigeria through game development competition across 36 states in Nigeria. 9ja Game Jam is a game development Competition open to School students and College students, which will be held... |
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Thomas Bedenk (bedenk.de/sign)Thomas Bedenk is Freelance Creative Director / Consultant and Virtual Reality Consultant at Exozet Berlin GmbH. From 2009 until 2015 he was Creative Director, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Brightside Games. He studied Media Design in Nuremberg and Human Factors in Berlin. He is teaching various game related subjects at game schools and universities. Before... |
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Stephan Beier (Travian Games GmbH)Stephan has collected 12 years of industry experience in QA and Project Leader positions. He currently serves as the Production Director at Travian Games and oversees the Art, Localization and QA department, while also serving as the Associate Game Director of Travian 5. |
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Stefan Blanck (Chromatrix GmbH)Dr. Stefan Blanck is working as professional producer, game designer, and story author in the games industry since 1996. His passion for computer games was awakened 1974 and he programmed his first game already 1977. Stefan graduated in mechanical engineering and was working as scientific assistant at the department of design on several projects for automation of... |
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Marcus Bösch (the Good Evil GmbH)Marcus graduated from the University of Cologne with an MA in political science and information technology before his Master of Arts in Game Development and Research. He has been working as a journalist and lecturer for Germany´s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle. Marcus’ aim is to merge these worlds creating and developing... |
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Zac Bowling (Apportable)Zac Bowling is a Senior Platform Engineer at Apportable, joining the company early on in 2011 to bring Objective-C to Android. For the last 15 years he has focused on purely on the evolving mobile space, building out the platforms and products for industry leaders like Texas Instruments, doubleTwist, and Match.com. In his free time, he has participated in over 117 hackathons and... |
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Martin Dechant (SensoMotoric Instruments GmbH)TBA |
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Sebastian Dorda (Fairytale Distillery)After tons of game jams, 3 years of development and life operation of the game Travian (Travian Games), some mobile projects (Bit Barons) and sysadmin stuff during university Alex and I founded a small company (Fairytale Distillery) to create a small... |
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Uta Eberhardt (Creative Europe Desk Berlin-Brandenburg)Uta Eberhardt obtained qualifications in foreign trade commerce and graduated 1998 in Audio-Visual Sciences at the Academy for Film and Television Potsdam-Babelsberg. Having worked in various sectors of the German film industry she is also experienced in film production, film marketing and new media. Following a masters degree... |
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Ina Göring (Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH)Ina Göring graduated as a film and television producer from the renowned Film and Television Academy “Konrad Wolf” in Potsdam-Babelsberg. She has been working for television stations and production companies in Berlin and Chicago, as well as a freelance production manager, producer and director for multiple media projects. In... |
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Arwed-Ralf Grenzbach (Conflutainment GmbH)Arwed is Founder and Managing Director of Conflutainment. The business incubator is representing both developer and investor in interactive entertainment on all platforms. Conflutainment has been heavily involved in the Executive Production of Sleeping Dogs & THIEF in collaboration with Square Enix and its... |
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Hubert Habas (Bonkers Media)Skilled PR manager and business consultant with over 5 years of experience in gaming industry. |
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Dennis Heinert (InnoGames)TBA |
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Volker Hirsch (Ravensburger Digital GmbH)After getting killed by a giant ant at the age of twelve in his first AD&D session, Volker wanted more of the new inspiring game systems so different from Monopoly. Equipped with a rather rare diploma in Toys, Games & Educational Production Management he ventured the path of board games and video games. Working at or with companies as Amigo Spiel +... |
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Volker Hirsch (Blue Beck)Volker is a mobile, gaming and digital media entrepreneur and executive. He is the co-founder of Oystercrowd (growth accelerator for start-ups), Blue Beck (a game development studio) and Digital M (branded digital merchandise for avatar and sticker platforms), and serves as Chairman of Cognisess, a people analytics start-up based in Bath and Berkeley, California. He is also... |
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Christopher Kassulke (HandyGames)Christopher Kassulke is CEO and co-founder of HandyGames™ (www.handy-games.com). Founded in 2000, HandyGames is one of the oldest developers of mobile games and experts in the mobile advertisement space. The company started out as a quality developer of feature phone games and fully... |
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Michalina Kiera (SoftLayer, an IBM Company)Michalina is a technology marketing professional, recently absorbed by the new frontiers of cloud computing, Big Data and mobile. She is responsible for SoftLayer's marketing in the EMEA region, being part of the company... |
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Tobias Knoke (Google)Tobias Knoke is the Tech Industry Manager at Google UK where he partners with the top global accounts and leads performance marketing solutions, specifically, Mobile, Online to Store, Programmatic. Before moving over to Google UK, he was a Industry Manager in the Media & Entertainment team at Google Germany and a Finance Manager at Google Ireland. Pre-Google, Tobias... |
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Matteo Lana (Tiny Bull Studios)Matteo enters the world of video games at age 6, when receiving an 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System he is immediately hooked. His passion leads him to follow a path that will allow him to work in the video game world, until he eventually gets a Master’s degree in Virtual Reality and Multimedia in Turin. He begins to understand the complexity and beauty of what’... |
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Hendrik Lesser (remote control productions)Hendrik Lesser is managing director of the Munich based production house remote control productions, which was founded in 2005. He is Executive Producer of the development studio Chimera Entertainment as well as Deputy Chairman of the german game developers association “G.A.M.E. Bundesverband” and board member of the EGDF, the European Games Developer... |
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Fumiko Lipp (PULS / Bayerischer Rundfunk)Fumiko (Mercedes Pandora) Lipp ist... … Moderatorin bei PULS, dem jungen Sender des Bayerischen Rundfunks … auf Achse als Reporterin in TV und Radio, auch mal für RadioFritz oder einslive … Bühnenmoderatorin auf Festivals, Preisverleihungen, Podiumsdiskussionen und Events … Journalistin mit Abschluss an der Deutschen... |
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Michail Mamaschew (Fairytale Distillery)Coming soon |
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Alexa Mann (InnoGames)Alexa Mann is the international PR Manager for German-based gaming company, InnoGames, where she focuses on entering new markets, and managing current ones in partnership with several international agencies. Previously, she worked at a boutique PR agency in Minneapolis focusing on lifestyle brands, and organized events and visual communication at AAA... |
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Tobias Mannewitz (KARAKTER)Tobias Mannewitz is one of the founders of the Design Studio KARAKTER and it's Creative Director. He's a frequent speaker at industry conferences and a design instructor at School... |
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Vlad Micu (Data Realms)Vlad is a business development professional in the game industry with a strong reputation for creating long-term relationships and generating new sources of revenue that lead to significant returns. Experienced evangelist with a strong network who is equally able to take the lead as well as be part of a team. Established track record of being able to easily adapt to new challenges,... |
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Shalev Moran (independent)(this bio, complete with links can be found at my about.me page: http://about.me/shalevmoran ) As a writer, I've covered culture and lifestyle for Time Out Tel Aviv, technology for Nana10, and games for Israel... |
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Sebastiao Neto (Overpower Studios)Sebastiao Liparizi Neto, 29 years. CTO and Founder of Overpower Studios Game Producer, Game Designer and 3D Modeler at Overpower Studios. Have studied Mechanical Engineering, Architecture and Computer Science, have a passion for all mechanical forms of art, Fiction and fantasy. He found in games development a way to bring his passions... |
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Tim Nilsson (glispa)Tim Nilsson is Vice President of Sales and Managing Director at glispa. As Managing Director, he drives glispa’s business development, publisher management and recruitment efforts. Tim has over 15 years of leadership experience in fast-growing Internet and new media companies across Europe. Prior to glispa he was Country Manager for Zanox UK in London and Group Vice President at... |
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Candice Pascoal (Kickante)After being international vice president of Putumayo World Music in New York, responsible for launching big names in the global music scene, Candice Pascoal specializes in the collection of funds segment, where was in charge of important projects fundraising for NGOs in Europe, Asia and the Americas, as Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross, WWF... |
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Jochen Peketz (Blue Byte GmbH)After being a brewer apprentice and journeyman Jochen joined the gaming industry in 1999. Experience so far --Piranha Bytes-- (Gothic 1 &2) Lead Level Designer skripting the AI --Bristein Verlags GmbH-- Editor for several Console Game Magazins --EA) Phenomic-- Complete Spellforce Series Level Design Battleforge: Development Manager for the prototype --10tacle Mobile--... |
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Michelle Pereira Jakobs (TrafficCaptain)Michelle is Brazilian and has been working with Game developers in Germany helping them develop the Latin America market. She is a passionate about online market and has lots of experience with the most famous websites in Latin America. She has great knowledge about users behaviors, differences between countries and monetization for this... |
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Josep Prat (GameDuell GmbH)Josep Lluis Prat is HTML5 Game Architect and Java Lead Developer at GameDuell. The graduated computer science engineer from Polytechnic University of Catalonia specializes in frontend development based on JEE and is backend developer of several Facebook games. Besides that he is the responsible software engineer for the backend, frontend and game engine of the GameDuell community... |
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Nick Prühs (slash games)Nick Pruehs is a Co-Founder of slash games, Hamburg. In 2009, he graduated as “Best Bachelor” in computer science at Kiel University. Two years later Nick finished his master’s degree in “Sound, Vision, Games” at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, becoming the Lead Programmer of Daedalic Entertainment shortly after. |
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Christian Rauda (GRAEF Rechtsanwälte)Dr. Christian Rauda, partner in the media law boutique GRAEF Rechtsanwälte (Hamburg/Berlin) specializes in the law of computer games and is an expert in this field. He is a certified specialist in copyright and media law, a certified specialist in intellectual property law and a certified specialist in information technology law. He is a prolific speaker... |
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Christof Rezk-Salama (Trier University of Applied Sciences, GERMANY)Christof Rezk-Salama is professor for computer games technologies at the Computer Science Department of Trier University of Applied Sciences, GERMANY. He has received a PhD from the University of Erlangen in 2002 as a scholarship holder in the DFG graduate college... |
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Kai Rosenkranz (Nevigo)Kai has co-founded Nevigo in 2009. The company produces development tools and middleware for videogames and related industries. Following the company’s mission – “better tools for better games” – Nevigo’s technology is designed to increase productivity and catalyze story-driven, cinematic game projects. Kai is very interested in story-... |
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Bartłomiej Rozbicki (ATGames)Founder and CEO of Warsaw-based creative agency, Ars Thanea (www.arsthanea.com) and a game production studio ATGames. From over 16 years creating experience in interactive creation field Bartłomiej worked for Fortune 500 companies. |
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Michele Sasso (48h Studio)I'm 22 years old and in my life I only wanted to create videogames so I decided to create 48h Studio, simple as that. We released our first game "Avoid: Seonsory Overload" for iOS, Android, MAC and PC. |
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Johanna Schober (Sproing)Johanna is COO of Sproing, one of the globally leading independent studios focusing on free-to-play games. She is responsible for process development, growth and team management. She joined Sproing in 2003 and worked as a project manager and development director before assuming her current role in 2011. Johanna studied economics and information management at FH Salzburg and... |
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Susan Tackenberg (Susan Tackenberg Media & Communications Consultant)Susan has been involved in film production since the 80s, and began designing, writing and producing Alternate Reality games 15 years ago, before anyone (including her) actually knew what they were. She developed an interest in Serious Games (games that have an impact on the real lives of their players) during a stint in the... |
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Daniel Trifonov (myGaze)Daniel Trifonov is responsible for business development and strategic partnerships at Visual Interaction. His work experience combines strategy, e-commerce and entrepreneurship across over 10 countries. He holds a BA from Amsterdam Business School and MBA from Cambridge University. |
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Guy Ulmer (GameIS)Guy Ulmer is a board member at GameIS, the Israeli game industry association. In the past few years he has been an advocate of the Israeli game industry: doing advisory work for different parties and performing industry analysis work. He is also a speaker at and organizer of multiple industry related events and conferences in Israel such as GameISConf, DLD, IndustryCon, IconTLV and others.... |
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Pete Walentin (Keen Flare)Pete is one of the co-founders and CEO of Keen Flare; Flaregames’ Frankfurt based development studio. He is also one of the co-founders and COO of keen games in Frankfurt, where he has developed console games for publishers like Disney, Ubi, Konami and Atari. Pete has spent the last fifteen years of his career in the gaming industry. In addition to his management... |
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Jaroslaw Wojczakowski (Vivid Games)Jaroslaw is a graduate of the University of Technology and Life Sciences in Bydgoszcz, with telecommunication and multimedia as his field of study. As one of Poland’s most talented programmers, Jaroslaw has achieved international acclaim after winning a host of worldwide coding contests. After 17 years in the industry – ten spent in games... |
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Marek Wyszyński (Infinite Dreams sp. z o.o.)Vice President and co-founder of Infinite Dreams. Active in the mobile games sector for 12 years. Had an opportunity to witness its difficult beginnings and the dynamic growth. In his long-term professional work has been in touch with nearly all mobile platforms, which awarded him with extensive knowledge on the interconnection of... |
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Alexander Zacherl (Fairytale Distillery)Alexander Zacherl is a game designer and entrepreneur. He was once 100% sure that he was going to start a communication agency after graduation. So in grade 11 he decided to study Media Management — and he did. But then he started working in the industry and found out that it was actually less fun than he had imagined. So he pivoted and started an... |
