Friday, October 14, 2011

Business of pLAy, 10/14/11 Edition: Upgrade Your Business at the Leadership Forum

How can the IGDA Leadership Forum help your business? By offering access to top experts who will cover a wide range of topics: productivity, leadership management, communication, marketing, studio growth - and much more!

Take a look at what some of the speakers have planned and judge for yourself:

Speaker: Tom Frisina | Chairman, thatgamecompany
This session will provide guidance and inspiration to all Founders and valued leaders who want to take what they have created so far through the next steps to becoming successful.
Session: How to Manage the Transition From Start-Up Studio to Emerging Company

Speaker: Richard Iwaniuk | Senior Director, Business Planning & Development, Bioware
BioWare will discuss its history, lessons learned, and future plans in building and maintaining audience engagement at a time where customers and technology are evolving at an accelerating pace.
Session: The Evolution of Audience Engagement

Speaker: Jesse Schell | CEO, Schell Games
As studios grow and change, mysterious communication problems and other frustrations start to arise, compromising projects, and threatening to tear the team apart. In this talk, Jesse Schell, CEO of Schell Games, shows the hidden source of these problems
Keynote: Information Flow: The Secret to Studio Structure

Speaker: Jesse Janosov | CEO, Rivet Games
Janosov will share his unique perspective on the new concept of upward innovation: developing gaming content on social and mobile platforms to cost efficiently test the content's potential success on other platforms.
Session: Social and Mobile Gaming - The New Path to AAA Quality Content

Speaker: Karen Clark | Director of Studio Operations, Loot Drop
Leadership best practices were synthesized from the interviews and distilled into an insightful talk to provide attendees with tools for use in their own companies.
Session: Leadership Best Practices (Learned Through Actual Practice)

And don't forget, there's also a SCRUM certification available on Oct 24th & 25th, as well as an AGILE gathering on Oct 26th!

IGDA members can register here with the code "IGDAProducer" for a 25% discount!!

Want to attend, but can't just afford it? Why not volunteer? Just send an email (subject "LF Volunteer") to brandii@igda.org

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