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<font size=3>This just in from IGDA Central --<br><br>
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1: IGDA Leadership Forum Program Posted, Open for Registration<br>
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The IGDA, in coordination with the Production SIG, is hosting the second
annual IGDA Leadership Forum (November 13-14, San Francisco). This event
will focus on advancing the state of the art in game production and
management.<br><br>
The IGDA Leadership Forum is intended for all those who serve in a
leadership role in the game development industry and are seeking to
become better leaders, create successful games, and learn from other
working professionals in the game industry.<br><br>
The first IGDA Leadership Forum was a smashing success with top rated
sessions and 300+ delegates from over 15 countries. The 2008 IGDA
Leadership Forum has EXPANDED its session offering to encompass a broad
range of leadership topics, including personal leadership, project
leadership and management leadership. The sessions will run in parallel
tracks and will consist of a mix of lectures, panels, and interactive
workshop sessions.<br><br>
Baseball all-star Curt Schilling (38 Studios) and Mark Cerny (Cerny
Games) will open each day with a keynote. Other production/leadership
gurus speaking include Mike Capps (Epic Games), David Edery (Xbox Live
Arcade), Mat Hart (Ninja Theory), Richard Hilleman (EA), Clinton Keith,
David Mann (Foundation 9), Trent Oster (BioWare Corp.), Michael Saladino
(Pandemic Studios), Tim Train (Big Huge Games) - among many
others.<br><br>
Full program and speaker details are at:<br>
<a href="http://www.igda.org/leadership/?page_id=3" eudora="autourl">
http://www.igda.org/leadership/?page_id=3<br><br>
</a>For registration details (early bird pricing ends September
1st):<br>
<a href="http://www.igda.org/leadership/?page_id=4" eudora="autourl">
http://www.igda.org/leadership/?page_id=4<br><br>
</a>(FYI, last year's conference sold out. There are only 500 seats or so
to fill, and we expect them to go fast...)<br>
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Henry Lowood, Ph.D.<br>
Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections;<br>
Film & Media Collections<br>
HRG, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall<br>
Stanford University Libraries<br>
Stanford CA 94305-6004<br>
650-723-4602; lowood@stanford.edu;
<a href="http://www.stanford.edu/~lowood" eudora="autourl">
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