Interactive Digital Media Conference
- The Future of Games and Gaming -

Conference pictures are now online!
Photos of the conference can be found here.

Keynote Jason Della Rocca - The future of Games and Gaming:

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Keynote Jason Della Rocca's blog entry about GAMEplaces International can be found here

Conference
The GAMEplaces International Conference for the game and media industry concentrates on next generation game and business development in a dynamically growing industry. The focus is on facilitating the transfer of knowledge and networking on an international level and encouraging co-operation across the game and media industry. GAMEplaces International brings together established developers and known visionaries to talk about progress and challenges relating to technology, design, content creation and the economy of next generation games, focusing on the challenges of this industry with regards to business, vocational education and politics. The conference takes place for the third time and will again showcase some of the latest work of leading industry professionals.

The key themes
- Production & Development - Future game play
- Marketing & Sales - Innovative marketing tools
- Transformation & Research - Technical drivers

Schedule Schedule (pdf download)

Program Program (pdf download)

Networking
GAMEplaces International is the perfect networking platform for developers, producers and publishers of the game industry. In additional, the conference set up and the facilities support this idea.

Participation
The attendance is free of charge, but registration is required.

Map of the exhibition ground
For your comfortable fairground orientation, we offer you a map of the exhibition ground
messe frankfurt plan.pdf ( 1.97 MB) .

Partner

Messe Frankfurt GmbH www.messe-frankfurt.com		Hessen-IT www.hessen-it.de

Media Partner

GEE www.geemag.de		Entertainment Media Verlag GmbH & Co. KG www.gamemarkt.de
Making Games IDG Entertainment Media GmbH www.makinggames.de

Sponsors

IHK Frankfurt www.frankfurt-main.ihk.de		Atari www.atari.de

Exclusive GAMEplaces Dinner

The finishing highlight of the conference is the “Games and Politics” discussion with high ranked politicians and leading managers from the game industry, followed by an exclusive Dinner, by personal invitation only. The dinner guests get the possibility to exchange experiences and points of view about developments in the German and International games market. The dinner will be held in one of the finest dining locations in Frankfurt.

Welcome by Markus Frank, Deputy Mayor, Head of the Department of Economy, Human Recources and Sports

Discussion on "Generation Game"

• Lutz Anderie, Vice President Continental Europe, Atari GmbH

• Bernd Fakesch, General Manager, Nintendo Germany GmbH

• Jason Della Rocca, Founder and Senior Consultant Perimeter Partners, Montréal, Kanada

Presented by Professor Christoph Klimmt, Department of Communication, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Sponsor

Crytek www.crytek.com

 

Review of GAMEplaces International 2008
GAMEplaces International Program 2008 gameplaceint_program2008.pdf ( 299.49 KB)
Impressions of the conference 2008 can be found » here.