Speakers Presentations

Arts & VFX

Alex Alvarez: Inspiration Through Lifelong Education—The Importance of Creative Development in the World of Entertainment Art

Audio

Paul Weir: Changing Times: The Benefits of Using Generative Music In Games

Business

Caryl Shaw: Would You Like Some Data With Your Coffee? aka The Key Analytics You Should Start Every Day With

Jake Theis: Connecting Keys & Kites: Insider Tips for Creating Fresh New Brands

Raphael Van Lierop: The Blockbuster is Dead. Long Live the Blockbuster!: An Argument for Smaller Big Games

Design

Alex Epstein: A Creative Toolkit: N+1 Tricks of the Screenwriting Trade

Craig Morrison: How to Feed your Trolls and Influence People

Patrick Plourde: New Horizons for Game Design

Production

Alex Parizeau: Monster Teams: How One Producer Tamed the Beast and Lives to Tell About it

Keith Fuller: Industry Survey Results on Improving Production Practices

Marie-Joëlle Charlesbois and Jean-François Malouin: Sustainable Talent Development

Scylla Costa: From Boxes to Life! How to Prototype and Develop Creatures: Mass Effect 2 and 3 Case Study

Thiéry Adam: Customer-Provider Philosophy Applied Within the Agile Team

Technology

Aaron Tarnow: 3D on the Web

Chris Doran: Rethinking Games Lighting Pipelines

Jeff Timanus: HTML5 and Other Modern Browser Game Tech

Paul Martin: Supersize your Production Pipe! (aka How to Get the Best From Your Studio’s Content Creation Tools and Data Pipeline)