Chief Creative Director, Electronic Arts, Head of Game Education at Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon, To Keynote Game Education Summit in June.

PITTSBURGH -- Richard Hilleman, Chief Creative Director, Electronic Arts (EA), and Professor Don Marinelli, executive producer, Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), will keynote the Game Education Summit (GES), a Game Path event scheduled for June 16 - 17 in Pittsburgh.

GES, the only conference for instructors of college and university game programs, will offer a wide range of sessions on curriculum options, with advanced sessions for schools with a long program history as well as sessions essential for schools starting a game program. Hilleman and other senior game industry executives are attending to help academics understand the skills students need to have successful careers in the game industry.

Hilleman, who playfully says he spent much of his formative years in the game industry soldering cables, coping disks, mastering and manufacturing more than 200 titles, assumed the large shoes of Bing Gordon as Chief Creative Director, EA, in 2008. He has worked in the industry for 25 years. The first title he worked on was Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer, followed by a broad range of simulators and driving games. He also worked on the first Madden title and, more recently, the first Tiger Woods. Since 2000, Hilleman has taught EA's master production classes and often lectures to university programs.

Marinelli's ETC program brings together artists and technologists to work on projects combining the latest digital media technologies with artistic, educational and entertainment objectives, has undertaken projects for Give Kids the World, the Pittsburgh Children's Museum, Carnegie Science Center, Electronic Arts, the New York City Fire Department, Northrop-Grumman, Kodak and other corporate and charitable entities.

Carnegie Mellon was the first school in the country to offer a degree program in entertainment technology.

GES attendees will include program heads and instructors from game studies programs, industry executives and game professionals interested in a teaching career.

Interested parties can register for GES at www.gameeducationsummit.com. Early Registration for the conference is $349 per attendee. At the door registration is $399.

The Game Education Summit is produced by Game Path LLC, an independent conference and trade show management company.