Early Registrations Tracking Nicely

We are only a few weeks into the registration period for the Leadership Forum and we already have several dozen folks registered (almost a quarter of capacity, if we also count speakers). What’s particularly encouraging is that we are attracting the exact audience that we are targeting. Here’s a listing of the job titles of those registered so far (alpha sorted, duplicates removed, not including speakers):

  • Associate Producer
  • Business Development Manager
  • CEO
  • Co-Studio Director
  • Creative Director
  • CTO
  • Director of Product Development
  • Executive Producer
  • Lead Programmer
  • Partner
  • President
  • Producer
  • Product Director
  • Production Director
  • Project Manager
  • Segment Executive
  • Senior Artist
  • Senior Game Producer
  • Senior VP – Development
  • Senior VP – Worldwide Studios
  • Time Distortion Specialist
  • VP, Deployment and QA
  • VP, Technology

OK, fine, so “Time Distortion Specialist” is not really considered part of our intended audience… Also, nice to see the many notable and interesting studios and companies that folks are coming from (alpha sorted, duplicates removed, not including speakers):

  • Audiokinetic
  • Backbone Entertainment
  • Bethesda Game Studios
  • BioWare Austin
  • Blizzard Entertainment
  • Blue Fang Games
  • CCP
  • Darkworks
  • Destineer Studios
  • Digient Technologies
  • Digital Extremes
  • EA Mobile
  • Full Sail
  • Gas Powered Games
  • Gracenote
  • Humagade
  • Human Soft
  • IBM
  • Insomniac Games
  • Junction Point Studios
  • Kush Games
  • Large Animal Games
  • Midway Amusement Games
  • Peligroso Entertainment Group
  • Radical Entertainment
  • Red Storm Entertainment
  • Superscape
  • TableStar Games
  • Threewave Software

Finally, what’s particular impressive is we have many folks coming from abroad, including Canada, France, Iceland, India, Sweden and the UK.

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“The IGDA Leadership Forum has, without question, the highest quality of content of any game industry event I have ever attended. As far as “”bang for the buck”" it is the best conference for producers and managers in our industry. Any studio looking to upgrade its production and management techniques should make this a must attend event for their studio’s production and management leads. The annual IGDA Charitable Foundation dinner is also not to be missed.”

- Tom Buscaglia, The Game Attorney


“I’ve had the pleasure of attending the IGDA Leadership Forum for 2 years now. The conference is small and focused, which is its greatest strength. Not only does it offer an excellent schedule with high quality speakers, attendees have many opportunities to connect with other developers. This networking and sharing of ideas is what gives someone the additional tools, and perspective to be better at their job. The IGDA Leadership Forum has had a huge impact on my career. Every year, I’ve come away with new friends and mentors, and new inspiration that I can immediately apply to create positive impact within my company. For such a low cost with such high return, I ask you this: How can you not afford to send yourself and your employees to the IGDA Leadership Forum?”

- Kim Sellentin, Associate Producer, Blizzard Entertainment


“I’ve attended the Leadership forum every year since its inception. It’s my can’t miss conference each year for a couple of reasons… 1. It’s a very personal conference, small enough to get to know everyone and large enough to attract great speakers. 2. The game industry tends to build leaders from with in, but being a great developer does not make a great leader. The Leadership Forum provides a wonderful opportunity to develop those traits and learn how others have gotten there. 3. Unlike some large events, this is a very focused conference. The topic is narrow enough to attract a lot of like minded people and broad enough to cross disciplines. I can’t recomend the Leadership Forum highly enoughto any producer, leader, or simply those in our industry seeking to be the best at their craft. ”

- Chuck Hoover, Studio Production Director, Schell Games


“If you’re a manager in the games industry, or you have managers reporting to you, you owe it to yourself to come out or send them to the IGDA Leadership Forum next year. Your competitors are out here trying to figure out how to get better at capturing the lightning and putting it in a package to ship out to customers. We desperately need better trained leaders in the industry, and this is a proven place where they can come and improve their skills. This year I found an insight in every talk to make me better at my job, and to help my reports become better at their jobs. I really don’t feel like I can afford *not* to go. Can you?”

- Brett Douville, Lead Systems Programmer, Bethesda Softworks
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