Founding Partner, Persuasive Games; Associate Professor at Georgia Tech (Atlanta)

Dr. Ian Bogost is a videogame designer, critic, and researcher. He is Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC, and a Board Member at Open Texture. His research and writing considers videogames as an expressive medium, and his creative practice focuses on games about social and political issues. Bogost is author of Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism (MIT Press 2006), recently...

Co-founder of WiReD Magazine; Mentor; Venture Philanthropist; (Beijing)

Ian Charles Stewart supports commercial & social entrepreneurs in Media, Sports, Entertainment, the Arts and Education.   He is currently Executive Chairman of Piech Asia Enterprises, a private sector creative business incubator and Chairman of social venture Khunu Limited, a Fair Trade producer of Mongolian Yak Wool luxury sports garments.   Before arriving in China in 2006, Stewart was a successful entrepreneur and investor in the media and technology sectors....

World-leading pioneer of interactive entertainment & fiction; Life President of Eidos; Co-Author of the Next Gen. report (London)

      Ian Livingstone is the Life President at Eidos, and a leading pioneer of interactive entertainment.  In 1975 he founded Games Workshop Ltd with Steve Jackson and launched Dungeons & Dragons in Europe and the Games Workshops retail chain.  In 1977 he launched White Dwarf, the UK’s first interactive games magazine, and was its editor for 5 years.  In 1982, again with Steve Jackson, he wrote the...

Ars Electronica; Editor, Author; Sinologist (Shanghai)

Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber (AT) is a translator, editor and manager of cultural cooperation projects with China. Since the 1980s she has translated many books about Chinese philosophy and digital culture. She has been working for Ars Electronica, the oldest festival for "art, technology and society“, as an editor and curator (Ars Electronica Festival Symposia, Digital Communities category of Prix...

Author of "The Art of 3D Computer Animation Effects" (Singapore)

Isaac Kerlow is a visual creator who continues to pioneer the use of digital and computer technology to produce creative content. Prof. Kerlow was recently Artist-in-Residence at Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing, China, and is the Festival Director for SIGGRAPH 2010’s Computer Animation Festival in Los Angeles. Prof. Kerlow just completed People–Coral–Mentawai, a documentary short about earthquakes and tsunamis in West Sumatra’s Mentawai...

Manager Layar Partner Network, Layar (Amsterdam)

Ivo is currently responsible for the Layar Partner Network, the premium tier of the Layar developer community. He joined Layar in November 2010, and is tasked to build, grow and facilitate a global network of passionate and dedicated developers. By offering tools, information and business opportunities to Layar Partners, Ivo stimulates the growth of the overall Layar ecosystem. He acts as the linking pin between Layar's product development team and...

Technical Art Trainer, Codemasters Studios Sdn Bhd (Kuala Lumpur)

Ivon has been in the 3D industry for over 12 years, working in film, TV and games in the Asia Pacific region as an animator, character rigger and VFX artist. He has also developed a wealth of training resources for students and professionals from the entertainment and design visualization industries. Ivon is one of the regions few Autodesk Certified Instructors (ACI) and Examiners (ACE) for 3ds Max. At  READ MORE