Digital Chocolate's Trip Hawkins, Square Enix's Kosei Ito To Keynote Mobile Game Conference July 13-14, 2006 In Seattle
Seattle, Washington, June 15, 2006 - The Game
Initiative, the leading producer of conferences for
professionals in the computer and video game industry, today
announced a stellar roster of conference speakers for the
fourth annual Mobile Game Conference taking place July 13-14,
2006 in Seattle. In addition, it was announced that Trip
Hawkins, Chairman and CEO, Digital Chocolate and Kosei Ito,
Vice President and Producer of Mobile Products, Square Enix
North America will deliver keynote addresses.
With speakers from leading operators, developers and
publishers worldwide, Mobile Game Conference focuses on three
key themes: Design, Construction and Potential. Attendees
will walk away having shown, discussed and seen state of the
art innovation in the mobile games industry.
Mobile Game Conference Speakers Include:
Alex Bloom, Vice President, Content and Developer Services,
Motricity
Andrew Stein, Sr. Product Manager, Cingular
Andre Vahsen, COO, Machineworks NW LLC
Are Traasdahl, Founder and CEO, Thumbplay
Chris Early, Studio Manager, Microsoft Casual Games
Group
Eric Goldberg, Managing Director, Crossover
Technologies
Jason A. Ford, Vice President, Strategy & Planning, Namco
Networks America Inc.
Jason Spero , SVP Marketing , Digital Chocolate
Jill Braff, GM North America & SVP Worldwide Marketing,
Glu Mobile
John Cahill, General Manager, Mobile Games, Yahoo
John Szeder, CEO, Mofactor
Julian Corbett, Vice President of Business Development and
Brand Partnerships, In-Fusio
Kanishka Agarwal, Vice President of New Products,
Telephia
Kosei Ito, Vice President and Producer of Mobile Products,
Square Enix North America Kris Davis, Games Product Marketing
Manger, Sprint
Kyu Lee, President, GAMEVIL USA, Inc.
Neil Halder, Vice President Content Programming &
Strategy, SkyZone
Mark Pierce, CEO, Super Happy Fun Fun, Inc.
Matthew Bellows, General Manager, Floodgate
Entertainment
Mike Yuen, Senior Director, Gaming Group, QUALCOMM
Misha Lyalin, CEO, Reaxion
Paul Foster, President/CEO, Pick Up and Play
Paul Nakayama, Sr. Director, Content Programming, Amp'd
Mobile
Ron Czerny, Founder & CEO, Play Phone
Randy Shepherd, founder & director of business
development, werd interactive inc.
Scott Edison, Director-Mobile, Oberon
Seamus McAteer, Chief Product Architect & Senior Analyst,
M:Metrics
Steve Hoffman, North American Studio Head, Infospace,
Inc.
Trip Hawkins, Chairman & CEO, Digital Chocolate
Trip Hawkins is Chairman and CEO of Digital Chocolate, a
creator of innovative mobile phone games and social
applications. Trip is responsible for the strategic focus,
overall direction, and performance of the company. Trip has
been a new media pioneer for 30 years. Early in his career,
Trip played a key role in defining the personal computer at
Apple. He went on to found Electronic Arts and built the
company into the industry leader. Trip also founded 3DO, a
pioneer in digital video, network gaming, and social
communities.
As Vice President and Producer of Mobile Products, Kosei Ito
oversees the development and quality assurance of all mobile
games under the Square Enix Mobile brand in North America. In
2002, he played an instrumental role as one of the founding
members of Square Enix's mobile business, creating a new
division that is currently a $30 million a year business in
Japan. Currently, Ito's projects include the highly
anticipated North American mobile title Before Crisis: Final
Fantasy VII.
LivePitch OnStage at the Mobile Game
Conference
A cornerstone of the Mobile Game Conference, LivePitch
OnStage, is the chance for game developers, indie game
developers and publishers to float their skunkworks projects,
their nights-and-weekend designs, in front of a panel of
mobile games executives who can bring them to market.
Submission details are available at http://www.LivePitch.com
Registration Information
Online registration is open and attendees can save $200 by
taking advantage of the early bird registration - only $295
until June 30, 2006. Online registration after June 30, 2006,
is $395 and onsite registration is $495. Registration
information and conference details are available on to
http://www.MobileGameConference.com
About The Game Initiative
The Mobile Game Conference is produced by The Game
Initiative, a leading producer of conferences and events for
game industry professionals. Game Initiative, events
attracted almost 4,000 game industry professionals from
around the world as speakers, attendees, sponsors and
exhibitors in 2005. The Game Initiative serves the needs of
companies and people involved in producing interactive
entertainment software and hardware for video game consoles,
handheld devices, personal computers and the Internet. Game
Initiative events include the Austin Game Conference, the
Mobile Game Conference, the Women's Game Conference, the Game
Writers Conference, the Advertising In Games Forum, the
Casual Games Conference, Game Technology Association Meetings
and the How to Break into the Game Industry national
conference series. More information about The Game Initiative
can be found at http://www.GameConferences.com
Contact:
Tim Williams
Mobile Game Conference
512.289.8687
tw@gameconference.com