Mark Your Calendar: Casual Connect comes to Seattle in July
Casual Connect, the world’s largest conference focusing on mass market games, returns to Seattle’s Benaroya Hall July 19 – 21 offering current and aspiring industry insiders the opportunity to network and share game innovations and trends.
Always a cutting-edge event, this year’s Casual Connect includes speakers like:
• LeVar Burton, Actor and Educator
• Paul Thelen, Founder, Chairman and CSO, Big Fish Games
• Peter Vesterbacka, The Mighty Eagle, Rovio
• Gareth Davis, Platform Manager, Facebook
• Jens Begemann, CEO, wooga
• Dave Roberts, CEO, PopCap Games
• Charles Yim, Strategic Partner Development, Google
• Andrew Sheppard, CPO, Kabam
• Raph Koster, VP Creative Design, Playdom
• Heiko Hubertz, Founder & Co-CEO, Bigpoint
• George Donovan, CEO, Gogii Games
• Thomas Chung, VP, GM, The Playforge
• Jesse Redniss, SVP, NBCU
• Vivian Lee, Director of Strategic Partnerships, EA Interactive
• Jennifer Lu, Director of Business Development, TinyCo
• Shainiel Deo, CEO, Halfbrick
• Sean Ryan, Director, Games, Facebook
• Arjun Sethi, CEO, Lolapps
• Aki Jarvinen, Creative Director, Ph.D., Digital Chocolate
• Dan Chao, Lead Designer, Funzio
• Robert Tercek, President, General Creativity
• Seth Ladd, Developer Advocate, Google
• Demetri Detsaridis, GM, Zynga New York
• Tim Chang, Principal, Norwest Venture Partners
• Game Audio Alliance
and lectures on such topics as:
• Beyond Play: Gaming in the Connected Age
• What It Takes to Create and Manage Entertainment
• Winning in Social Mobile: What it is and the future of Social Mobile games
• How to Make Your IP Work for You
• Challenging Social Success Conventions: There’s more than one way to build successful social games
• Online Game Security: Foiling the hackers
• Casual Games: The cross-platform king!
• Making money on Mobile Games
The full list of content can be found online at the Casual Connect site.
Casual Connect is organized by the Casual Games Association.
