ADVISORY/250+ Leading Games & Mobile Industry Executives to Gather for NYC Forum on April 15.Assignment Desks/High-Tech Writers ADVISORY...for Thursday Thursday: see week. (April 15) Games & Mobile Forum NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 2004 250+ leading games and mobile industry executives will gather in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. on April 15 for Games & Mobile Forum, the 1-day forum on business developments in the burgeoning games and mobile industries. Games & Mobile Forum, now in its 2nd year, is the only premier industry conference focused on online and mobile games on the East Coast. Delegates are executives from the leading games and mobile companies, analysts, VCs and investment bankers Investment Banker A person representing a financial institution that is in the business of raising capital for corporations and municipalities. Notes: An investment banker may not accept deposits or make commercial loans. , including Ubisoft Ubisoft Entertainment (formerly Ubi Soft) is a computer and video game publisher and developer with headquarters in Montreuil-sous-Bois, France. The company has facilities in over 20 countries, including development studios in Montréal and Québec City, Quebec, Canada; , Microsoft's Zone.com, AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Games, AT&T Wireless, MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. , Gameloft, JAMDAT, Nokia, MSNC MSNC Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan) MSNC Microsoft Network Client .com, MForma, Digital Chocolate, GameSpot, MENT, Turbine turbine, rotary engine that uses a continuous stream of fluid (gas or liquid) to turn a shaft that can drive machinery. A water, or hydraulic, turbine is used to drive electric generators in hydroelectric power stations. Entertainment, Ericsson, RBC RBC red blood cell. RBC or rbc abbr. red blood cell RBC, n See red blood cell count. RBC red blood cells; red blood (cell) count (see blood count). Capital, WildTangent, Universal Television, Billboard Magazine, Mitchell Mitchell, city (1990 pop. 13,798), seat of Davison co., SE S.Dak.; inc. 1881. Mitchell is a trade, distribution, and shipping center for a dairy and livestock area. Silberberg & Knupp LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol and Jupiter Research.
Date: Thursday, April 15, 2004
Venue: The French Institute, 55 East 59th Street, New York City
Agenda, Speakers & Registration: http://www.gamesandmobile.com
Panel topics include:
-- Online Games: Identifying Business Opportunities in an Evolving
Market
-- Are Games a Legitimate Advertising Option for Mainstream
Marketers?
-- The Evolution of Games: What's Next?
-- How Will Content & Business Models Evolve for the Mobile Market?
-- The Downloadable & Mobile Game Business from the Developer's
Perspective
-- Interfacing with Hollywood: Challenges & Opportunities for the
Game Industry
Sponsors and media partners include Billboard Magazine, Mitchell
Silberberg & Knupp LLP, Backbone Entertainment, MENT, Connected Home
Media, N-Gage Gaming, Xbox365.com, Tech Wire Media Group and
GameDaily.
Confirmed speakers include:
Eric Albert - Business Development Manager, Gameloft
Jeff Anderson - President & CEO, Turbine Entertainment
Greg Ballard - CEO, Sorrent
Matthew Bellows - VP, Mobile Entertainment, GameSpot
Stephanie Boyle, Head of Partner Relations, Ericsson Mobility World
Matt Bromberg - GM, AOL Games
Gordon Bellamy - former Exec. Dir., Academy of Interactive Arts &
Science
Mike Cartabiano - President, Sennari Mobile
Greg Costikyan - Chief Creative Officer, Unplugged Inc.
Lee Crawford - Editor, IGDA Mobile Games whitepaper
Ron DiNicola - Partner, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
Michael Dowling - VP, Business Development, Nielsen Entertainment
Andrew Elliott - Head of Bus. Dev. & Strategies, Ent. & Media, Nokia
Americas
Keith Ferrazzi - CEO, YaYa Media
Mark Friedler - CEO, Gigex, Inc./GameDAILY LLC
Minard Hamilton, SVP Sales & Brand Partnerships, JAMDAT
Stewart Halpern - Managing Dir., Digital Ent. Research, RBC Capital
Markets
Todd Herman - Streaming Evangelist, MSNBC.com
Mark Jacobstein - President & COO, Digital Chocolate
Daniel James - Founder & CEO, Three Rings Design
Scott Jensen - VP, Bus. Development, Media & Entertainment, (M)forma
Group
Scott Johnson - President, MENT (Mobility Entertainment)
Garry Kitchen - President/CEO, Skyworks Technologies, Inc.
Joseph Laszlo - Senior Analyst, Broadband & Wireless, Jupiter
Research
Misha Lyalin - CEO, Reaxion Corp
Marcus Matthews - CEO, Blue Heat Games
Matt Railo - Partner, IP & Technology, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
Brian Robbins - Editor, IGDA Downloadable Games whitepaper
Jason Rubinstein - GM, Ubi.com, Ubisoft
Don Ryan - Studio Manager, Microsoft's Zone.com
Mika Salmi, CEO, AtomShockwave
Dan Scherlis - CEO, Etherplay
Mike Skagerlind - SVP & GM, Nickelodeon Online
Alex St. John - CEO & Co-Founder, Wild Tangent
Jeff Tunnell - Founder & Chief Creative Officer, GarageGames
Joseph Varet - Vice President, Groove Alliance
John Welch - Chair, IGDA Online Games SIG, VP, AtomShockwave
Gabe Zichermann - VP, Strategy & Communications, Trymedia System
For more information, please visit http://www.gamesandmobile.com.
To request press credentials, arrange speaker interviews or ask
questions, please contact Tinzar Than by email at
tinzar@digitalmediawire.com or by phone at 323-822-0936.
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