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SAVA – Advancing Digital Business

Presented by Alain TascanPresidentSAVA Transmedia

November 2nd11:15 - 12:15Room : Outremont



SAVA Transmedia is a new independent social and mobile entertainment venture being built in Montreal. This talk will outline business opportunities that exist today as well as current market dynamics to answer the questions “why here?” and “why now?”. It will discuss challenges and opportunities of starting a new social games business such as funding opportunities and the need of multiple accelerators that start-ups must find on busin ess and creative sides to successfully enter the market-place.

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Alain-Tascan
About Alain Tascan

Alain Tascan is an entrepreneur in the multimedia and games industry. Co-founder of Ubisoft Montreal and founder of Electronic Arts Montreal, which he managed for the last seven years, he is taking an active part in the development of the industry since 1997. He also developed partnerships with some major Hollywood film studios like Warner, Disney, Sony Pictures, DreamWorks, and many others. Within Electronic Arts, the world-leading video games company, Tascan not only took the challenge of developing the first non-English speaking studio of the American company, but he also managed to rank it as a center of excellence due to its original intellectual property creations. Tascan also worked in France for Télérama and Radio France International. He holds a Master's degree in Economics from the Nice Sophia Antipolis University and a postgraduate degree from the Institut Supérieur de Management Culturel in Paris.

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