The preliminary schedule for the Leadership Forum is now online.
We may still make a few tweaks (and we’re still working on making the formatting slightly nicer)…
With only ~50 seats to go, it felt like time to refresh our initial look at who’s coming to the Leadership Forum.
Here’s the list of studios and companies that folks are coming from (alpha sorted, duplicates removed):
Amaze Entertainment
ArenaNet
Audiokinetic Inc
Autodesk
Backbone Entertainment
Bethesda Game Studios
Big Huge Games
Big Rooster, LLC
BioWare Corp
Blizzard Entertainment
Blue Fang Games
Bugbear
Buzz Monkey Software
Caught Thinking Inc.
CCP
Crystal Dynamics
DAM-North
Dark Angel Creations
Darkworks
Destineer Studios
Digient Technologies PVT LTD
Digital Extremes
Double Fine Productions
EA Mobile
Eidos Interactive Ltd.
Electronic Arts – Los Angeles
Emergent Game Technologies
Ensemble Studios
Epic Games
Full Sail
Gamelab
GarageGames
Gas Powered Games
Gracenote
Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce
HANSOFT
High Moon Studios
Humagade
Human Soft Inc.
IBM
IDI Entertainment
Insomniac Games, Inc
Interzone Games Pty Ltd
Jolly Bear Games
Junction Point Studios
Kush Games
Lamplighter Studios, Inc.
Large Animal Games
Leapfrog Enterprises
Lincoln Beasley
Massive Entertainment
Matahari Studios Philippines
Media Sunshine, Inc
Microsoft Game Studios
Microsoft Game Studios / Turn 10
Midway Amusement Games
Midway Studios – Austin
Namco Networks
NCSoft
Nihilistic Software, Inc.
OMNI Interactive Audio
Peligroso Entertainment Group
Playlore Gameworks
PlayMotion
Radical Entertainment Ltd.
Rebellion
Red Storm Entertainment Inc.
Relic
Remedy
Saga of America
Schell Games
Secret 6, Inc.
Seven Studios
Slant Six Games
Softimage
Stormfront Studios, Inc.
Superscape
TableStar Games
THQ
Threewave Software Inc.
Tilted Mill Entertainment
Torpex Games
Treyarch Corp.
Turbo Squid Inc.
TwelveJ Limited
Ubisoft Montreal
Ubisoft Québec
Ubisoft San Francisco
Vicarious Visions
Vision Mexico
Vivendi Games
Warner Brothers
Zombie
Zoonami Limited
Here’s a listing of the job titles of those registered so far (alpha sorted, duplicates removed):
Art Director
Art Process Manager
Art Production Director
Artist
Associate Producer
Business Development Manager
CCO
CEO
Chief Technology Officer
COO
Co-Studio Director
Creative Director
CTO
Designer
Development Director
Development Support / QA Manager
Development VP
Director
Director of Central Content Groups
Director of Creative Management
Director of Development
Director of Engineering
Director of Game Production
Director of Product Development
Director of Technology
Director/Project Manager
Executive Director
Executive Group Manager
Executive Producer
Executive Studio Director
General Manager
Graphics VP
Group Program Manager
Head of Production
Lead Designer
Lead Programmer
Managing Director
President
President & CEO
Principal Lead Designer
Producer
Product Director
Production Coordinator
Production Director
Production Manager
Program Manager
Programmer
Project Manager
Sales & Operations Manager
Segment Executive
Senior Animator
Senior Artist
Senior Associate Producer
Senior Designer
Senior Development Director
Senior Director
Senior Director, Outsourcing
Senior Game Producer
Senior Producer
Senior Software Engineer
Senior SQA Manager
Senior Technical Manager
Senior VP of Development
Senior VP of Process
Software VP
SQA Lead
SVP Worldwide Studios
Tech Wrangler
Technical Director
Time Distortion Specialist
Vice President, R&D
Visual Development Director
VP of Deployment and QA
VP of Technology
And, in terms of countries, we’ve got a pretty amazing spread considering the focused/specialized nature of the conference:
Australia
Canada
Finland
France
Iceland
India
Mexico
Philippines
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States
If you want in with the same crowd, better register before it’s too late!
The program is now 100% complete, with Kenneth Yeast (director of engineering at Seven Studios) and his How Not To Dine In Hell: Next-Gen Development Without Killing Your Team lecture filling the final slot. FYI, the actual schedule will be posted soon. Also, we’ll be putting out the call for roundtable topic ideas in the near future…