Creative Director at Electronic Arts (Montreal)

Alex Hutchison was the Lead Designer on two of the most successful and influential computer games of all time: The Sims and Spore. Do we have to say anything more? Alex is currently Creative Director at EA Montreal, a branch of Electronic Arts, the world’s largest third-party videogame developer and publisher. His current game is on Army of Two: The 40th Day, a co-operative action title for the...

Columnist, Podcaster, The Guardian (London)

Aleks Krotoski is an academic and journalist who writes about and studies technology and interactivity. In addition to writing a column for The Guardian's Technology section and presenting the Guardian's weekly technology podcast, she blogs on Guardian Unlimited and is currently working towards a PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Surrey, examining the social networks of cyberspace. Aleks writes about the social dimensions of interactive entertainment,...

Senior Art Director, Visual Designer and Concept Artist (Los Angeles)

Alex Laurant‘s career spans nearly two decades of entertainment media: primarily feature films and games but also including TV commercials, motion graphics, interactive multimedia, theatrical scenic design, print illustration & graphic design. Alex has enjoyed working with some of the industry’s most prominent creative directors, visual effects supervisors and game development teams providing visual design leadership, for large and small projects, from conceptual development through all...

Director, Digital Wellbeing Labs, formerly Interaction Architect of IDEO (London)

Alexander Grünsteidl is a Director at Digital Wellbeing Labs, tuning technology to bring harmony into people's everyday interactions with digital products and services. After witnessing repeated failure to successfully launch well-designed products to market, the company was set up in 2006, to bridge the last mile in product development between the customer retail experience and the user of digital lifestyle products and services. Digital Wellbeing launched the first...

CEO and Co-founder, mInfo Inc (Shanghai)

Mr. Graylin is the CEO of mInfo, the leading Mobile Search Service in China providing natural language search services to users throughout China via SMS, WAP, IM and embedded client applet. Mr. Graylin is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and business leader with over 15 years of management experience, seven of which are in Greater China. Mr. Graylin co-founded mInfo in early 2005. He is intimately knowledgeable about the wireless search and mobile...

Director, Corporate Development, Google (Mountain View)

Amin Zoufonoun joined Facebook in 2011.  Prior to this he was a senior member of Google's Corporate Development team for 8 years where he was responsible for evaluation, negotiating and executing Google's mergers, acquisitions and investments.  He led a number of Google's key strategic acquisitions and investments both in the U.S. and internationally. Previous to Google, Amin was a practicising attorney, both in-house and at...

Chairman, Reliance Big Entertainment (Mumbai)

Amit Khanna is a noted entertainment business leader, producer, writer, lyricist and director active in Indian film industry for about four decades.   He started his film career as an Executive Producer with Actor-Producer Dev Anand's banner “Nav Ketan“ in 1971. He wrote lyrics for about 400 film and non film albums.   He has written many scripts that include award winning films such 'Saaransh'. He has also written...

Founder and CEO, VentureGurus (Singapore/Mumbai)

Amit Anand is the Founder and Chief Executive of VentureGurus, a Singapore-India based private equity investment partnership that is focused on converting "talented entrepreneurs to successful enterprises". In its initial avatar, the firm specializes in match making services between entrepreneurs and investors. It provides funding services alongside experienced entrepreneurial management through partnering in the strategic development of the company. On the other hand it partners with larger fund operators and...

Director of the CFC Media Lab (Toronto)

Ana is the founding Director of CFC Media Lab, a world-renowned new media research, training and production think tank environment created in 1997 at the Canadian Film Centre (CFC).   As director of CFC Media Lab, she provides strategic and creative leadership for all of the Centre’s new media initiatives, including the development and production of a diverse range of critically acclaimed interactive narrative projects. In 2000, Ana produced Canada...

Co Founder, CEO & Managing Editor of AnimationXpress.com (Mumbai)

Co Founder, CEO & Managing Editor of AnimationXpress.com (Mumbai) AnimationXpress.com is the internationally acclaimed Animation, VFX, Gaming information portal and Business2Business company. Anand is thoroughly networked with a 1000+ studios across India, China and the Asia Pacific and with an equal number of content buyers, distributors and outsourcing studios from the US & Western Europe. He also loves writing and traveling and...