We invite your participation in the first IGDA Leadership Forum, focused on advancing the state of the art in game production and management. This event will be valuable for producers, team leaders, project managers, studio directors, and all others seeking to learn and share techniques for leading teams in creating successful games.

The conference will host two complementary tracks. The Production Track will focus on the nuts and bolts of game production, such as scheduling techniques, post-mortems, and project pipelines. The Leadership Track will cover general leadership skills as well as more advanced team management and motivation techniques. Both tracks will consist of a mix of one-hour lectures, panels, and roundtables

To ensure full coverage of all topics, the program is being developed by a conference committee of industry veterans. The committee welcomes nominations, and self-nominations, of qualified speakers for both tracks. Please send an informal email proposal, with the topic(s) of interest and qualifications, to leadership-forum at igda.org by April 1st.

The committee also welcomes suggestions for presentation topics and feedback on what would interest prospective attendees. Suggested topics for lectures include, but are not limited to:

• development methodologies
• scheduling techniques
• multi-team management
• outsourcing and remote development
• pipeline optimization
• hiring strategies and immigration
• pre-production, prototyping
• personal/team communication
• team/company culture and structure
• motivation and team morale

We appreciate your help in making the first IGDA Leadership Forum a success!

Dr. Michael Capps
Chair, Forum Committee
Treasurer, IGDA
President, Epic Games, Inc.

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