Welcome to LF’2010!

We invite your participation in the 4th annual IGDA Leadership Forum, focused on advancing the state of the art in game production and management. The 2010 IGDA Leadership Forum is seeking session proposals from speakers with thorough industry experience to offer insightful leadership and production-related sessions. If you share our passion and commitment for better leadership in the game industry, please submit your proposal by 17:30 pm (EST) on 25th of April.

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. Last year, we welcomed 330+ delegates from over 12 countries, including the UK, Finland, Sweden and Australia.

The 2010 IGDA Leadership Forum will continue the format of three tracks – Personal, Project, and Tools Track – that encompass a broad range of leadership topics. The sessions will run in parallel tracks and will consist of a mix of lectures, panels, and interactive workshop sessions.

The Personal Track will cover general leadership skills as well as more advanced team management and motivation techniques. The Project Track will focus on the nuts and bolts of game production, such as scheduling techniques, post-mortems, and project pipelines. 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 by April 25th 2010.

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

Please note we are ALWAYS here to help you. If you have ANY questions you think we need to cover on this area of our website, please email Heather Chandler or Toby Allen. The Committee also welcomes suggestions for session topics and feedback on what would interest prospective attendees

We appreciate your help in making the 4th IGDA Leadership Forum a success!

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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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