All of the session slides have been converted to PDF and zipped up for your downloading pleasure.

Leadership Track:

• Building the Perfect Team – Mike Capps, Epic Games
• Leadership Lab – John Farnsworth, Destineer
• Death By 1000 Ideas: Managing Designers and Creatives – Tim Gerritsen, Big Rooster
• Managing Engineers – Mike McShaffry
• Managing Artists and Art Outsourcing for Next-Gen Games – Mike Swanson, Gas Powered Games
• Communication Breakdown: How to Prevent This on Your Watch – Tony Van, Ubisoft
• Caught in the Middle: Managing Staff, Teams and Executives – Catherine Herdlick, gameLab
• How Not To Dine In Hell: Next-Gen Development Without Killing Your Team – Kenneth Yeast, Seven Studios

Production Track:

• How Not To Schedule A Project – Jamie Fristrom, Torpex Games
• Agile Implementation – Trent Oster, BioWare Corp.
• Something from Nothing – Tim Longo, Crystal Dynamics
• Working with Publishers as a Developer Producer – Chris Natsuume, Boomzap
• Local Anesthetic: Painless Game Localization – Heather Maxwell Chandler, Media Sunshine
• Cross Discipline Team Collaboration – Clinton Keith, High Moon Studios
• Leveraging Outsourcing to Enhance Development – Aaron Pulkka, Vivendi Games
• Dilemmas of the Publisher’s External Producer – Bill Dugan, Torpex Games

Keynotes:

• Ultimate Objectives: Lessons Learned From Building BioWare – Ray Muzyka – CEO, BioWare Corp., Corporate VP and Director, BioWare/Pandemic and Greg Zeschuk – President, BioWare Corp., Corporate VP and Director, BioWare/Pandemic
• 10 Surprising Ideas for Leaders on the Future of Games – Don Daglow – President and CEO, Stormfront Studios

Thanks to all the great proposals and the hard work of the program committee, the following awesome line up of industry speakers have been confirmed for the IGDA Leadership Forum this fall:

• Mike Capps – President, Epic Games
• Heather Maxwell Chandler – Executive Producer, Media Sunshine
• Don Daglow – President and CEO, Stormfront Studios
• Jason Della Rocca – Executive Director, IGDA
• Shekhar Dhupelia – Development Director/Producer, Midway
• John Farnsworth – Studio Director, Destineer
• Jamie Fristrom – Technical Director, Torpex Games
• Tim Gerritsen – Executive Director, Big Rooster
• Michael Heilemann – Technical Director, Stormfront Studios
• Catherine Herdlick – Director of Game Production, gameLab
• Tim Longo – Creative Director/Senior Designer, Crystal Dynamics
• Mike McShaffry – freelance developer
• Ray Muzyka – CEO, BioWare Corp., Corporate VP and Director, BioWare/Pandemic
• Chris Natsuume – Creative Director, Boomzap
• Trent Oster – Project Director, BioWare Corp.
• Aaron Pulkka – Senior Director, Outsourcing, Vivendi Games
• Mike Swanson – Studio Art Production Manager, Gas Powered Games
• Tony Van – Executive Producer, Ubisoft
• Greg Zeschuk – President, BioWare Corp., Corporate VP and Director, BioWare/Pandemic

There are still a few folks we’re waiting on for confirmations, but this will serve as the bulk of our faculty for the Leadership Forum.

More details to come in the near future regarding their actual topics and session descriptions, along with a preliminary schedule.