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10:00 am - 11:00 am

11:15 am - 12:15 pm

12:15 pm - 1:30 pm

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

2:45 pm - 3:45 pm

3:45 pm - 4:00 pm

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

5:15 pm - 6:15 pm

Outremont	Westmount	MRHCSL	Lachine-Lasalle	Verdun	Jacques-Cartier	St-Pierre
Finding the Way of Uncharted: A Creative Commentary Richard Lemarchand and Philippe Morin Naughty Dog, Red Barrels Studio
MIGS Brain Dump - Best Ever/Worst Ever Richard Rouse III, Jason Della Rocca, Lee Perry, Tom Salta, Raphael Van Lierop, Chris Pruett, Heather Alekson, Patrice Désilets, David Sears	Social Games Development in a Traditional Game Studio Luc Richard Ubisoft Quebec	Cardinal Sins and Virtues Stefan Boberg EA DICE	Stop Making Video Games, Start Making Brands Jesse Divnich EEDAR	How to Feed your Trolls and Influence People Craig Morrison Funcom	Changing Times: The Benefits of Using Generative Music In Games Paul Weir Eidos Montreal	PlayStation™ Vita Platform Vernon Harmon Sony Computer Entertainment America
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The Great Divide Cord Smith Square-Enix	Keep it Together: Encouraging Cooperative Behavior During Co-Op Play Pat Redding Ubisoft Toronto	Cubes All The Way Down : FEZ Technical Post-Mortem Renaud Bédard Polytron Corporation Inc.	Animation in Gaming: the Importance of Being an Artist VS Being a Technician Samantha Youssef Studio Technique	Customer-Provider Philosophy Applied Within the Agile Team Thiéry Adam Ludia	For the Love of the Game - a composer's journey into the gaming industry Tom Salta	A Showcase of successful experimental projects Catalina Briceño Canada Media Fund
Arkham City - Journey from the Asylum to the City David Hego Rocksteady Studios	Beyond Choices: Designing Ethical Systems Manveer Heir BioWare Montréal	Shark Wrestling: Marketing and PR for Indie Developers Chandana Ekanayake Uber Entertainment	Sustainable Talent Development Marie-Joëlle Charlebois & Jean-François Malouin Ubisoft, Montreal	Moving 25,000 Game-Stats Transactions per Second from SQL to NOSQL Mike Ruangutai GameSpy Technology	Real-Time Simulation of Sound Propagation, Diffraction, and Absorption in Video Games Jean-François Guay Ubisoft
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Art Direction of Assassin's Creed: Revelations Raphael Lacoste Ubisoft Montreal	How Prototype Based Design Shaped the Gears of War Series Lee Perry Epic Games	Alternative Funding Strategies for Interactive Entertainment Marc Jackson Seahorn Capital Group	Yay, We're Alive! Now Let the Real Work Begin on City of Wonder Andrée-Anne Boisvert and Patrick Hsieh Playdom	Rethinking Game Lighting Pipelines Chris Doran Geomerics	The Music of the Game without Music- The Audio of "Kane & Lynch2: Dog Days" Mona Mur Mona Mur
Between the Machine and the Masses – Contemporary UI Design John Nash Blitz Games Studios	A Creative Toolkit: N+1 Tricks of the Screenwriting Trade Alex Epstein	Building a Studio Culture Dorian Kieken BioWare Montréal	Blacksmith2: Quest for Productivity Jean-Philippe Morel and Nicolas Fleury Ubisoft Montreal	Connecting Keys & Kites: Insider Tips for Creating Fresh New Brands Jake Theis Frima Studio	Novel Audio Interactions in the Digital Age: Getting Audio Out of Paleolithic! Amaury La Burthe AudioGaming

Outremont	Westmount	MRHCSL	Lachine-Lasalle	Verdun	Jacques-Cartier	St-Pierre
The Challenge Renaissance Jason Rohrer
SAVA - Advancing Digital Business Alain Tascan SAVA Transmedia	New Horizons for Game Design Patrick Plourde Ubisoft Montreal	Dead Space 2 User Interface Dino Ignacio and Jérémie Benhamou Visceral Games	Industry Survey Results on Improving Production Practices Keith Fuller Fuller Game Production, LLC	Supersize your Production Pipe! (aka How to Get the Best From Your Studio’s Content Creation Tools and Data Pipeline) Paul Martin Slant Six Games		Profiling Memory Allocations with Memory Allocation Profiler (MAP) John McCutchan Sony Computer Entertainment America
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Monster Teams: How One Producer Tamed the Beast and Lives to Tell About It Alex Parizeau Ubisoft Toronto	The Blockbuster is Dead, Long Live the Blockbuster!: An Argument for Smaller Big Games Raphael van Lierop aka Duke of Awesome™ HELM \| Studio	Making of "Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm" series Real-time Demos The "Kami-sakuga" illusion Hiroshi Matsuyama CyberConnect2 Co., Ltd.	Replica Island: Building an Aggressively Compatible Android Game Chris Pruett Robot Invader	Creating Compelling Encounters Jesse Cluff Relic Entertainment		Define the right QA strategy Paquito Hernandez Bug-Tracker
What happens when your studio launch project is called Deus Ex: Human Revolution? David Anfossi Eidos Montreal	Using your Friends: Social Mechanics in Current Social Games Mia Consalvo MIT/Concordia University	Next-Gen Games Need Next-Gen Techniques Robert Moodie THQ Montreal	3D on the Web Aaron Tarnow Autodesk	Moving on to the Next Level: The Legal Implications of Shifting to Digital Distribution of Video Games Maxime Gagné Heenan Blaikie LLP		Business Opportunities in Mexico Alfonso Mojica Navarro ProMéxico
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Would You Like Some Data With Your Coffee? aka The Key Analytics You Should Start Every Day With Caryl Shaw ngmoco:)	Systems Literacy: How the 2D Platformer is Addressing the Challenge of Designing Meaningful Games Nels Anderson Klei Entertainment	Inspiration Through Lifelong Education—The Importance of Creative Development in the World of Entertainment Art Alex Alvarez Gnomon School of Visual Effects	From Boxes to Life! How to Prototype and Develop Creatures: Mass Effect 2 and 3 Case Study Scylla Costa BioWare	HTML5 and Other Modern Browser Game Tech Jeff Timanus Google
When Socialization Meets High-Definition Gaming: Ubisoft’s View on the Future of the Video Game Industry Yves Guillemot Ubisoft

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