Speakers

Ernest W. Adams
Game Design and Production Consultant, working independently and as a member of the International Hobo game design consortium, former Lead Game Designer of Bullfrog Productions

Edward Castronova
Associate Professor of Telecommunications at Indiana University, Bloomington

Greg Costikyan
Game designer, Manifesto Games

Chris Crawford
Game designer and researcher

Gonzalo Frasca
Videogame researcher and developer, Center for Computer Game Research, IT University of Copenhagen

Larry Friedlander
Professor of English Literature and Theater at Stanford University

Tracy Fullerton
Visiting Assistant Professor, Interactive Media Division, USC School of Cinema-Television

Chaim Gingold
Game designer, Spore

Henry Jenkins
Professor, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Aki Järvinen
Game Researcher and Designer, Veikkaus, the Finnish National Lottery

Sampo Karjalainen
Chief Creative Officer, Sulake

Nour Khrais
Founder and General Manager, Maysalward R&D (MRD)

Beth Kolko
Associate Professor, University of Washington

Ilari Kuittinen
CEO & Co-founder, Housemarque

Jami Laes
Sumea Studio Manager, Digital Chocolate

Jane McGonigal
Game designer, 42 Entertainment, and researcher, UC Berkeley

Jessica Mulligan
Executive Consultant, Online Games

Frans Mäyrä
Research Director, Hypermedia Laboratory, University of Tampere, Finland

Katie Salen
Director of Graduate Studies, Design and Technology Program, Parsons School of Design, New York

Nishant Shah
Expert of Asian cybercultures

Christa Sommerer
Associate Professor, IAMAS Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, Gifu, Japan. Professor, University of Art and Design, Linz, Austria

Sandy Stone
Director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab) and the New Media Initiative in the department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas, Austin.

Tom Söderlund
Head of Games Publishing, Synergenix

Mika Tuomola
Artistic Director, Crucible Studio/Media Centre Lume and Medialab, University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland

Catherine Warren
President, FanTrust Entertainment Strategies

Emma Westecott
Games Research Fellow, Synergy

Leo Sang-Min Whang
Professor of Psychology, Yonsei University

Dmitri Williams
Assistant Professor, Department of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Eric Zimmerman
CEO, Gamelab