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 Peter Wanat, Executive Producer, Universal Studios Interactive Group
From the Thing to The Chronicles of Riddick titles to Scarface, Pete Wanat is the man behind some of the biggest and most critically acclaimed licensed games in recent years. He has worked on games ranging from sports titles like All-Star Baseball to the recently launched Wanted: Weapons of Fate. According to Wanat, who oversees development of Universal Studios’ movie-based titles: “One of the things we do at Universal all the time is we ask ourselves, Is this an innovative mechanic? Has this been seen before? If it has, are we doing it in a different way? Is it going to be fun? …Are we pushing? Are we continuing to move the industry forward? We so rarely think of the games we work on as movie games. We think of them as great games first and foremost, so we are working on a game..” (March 10, 2009 interview with Joystiq)
 Allen DeBevoise, Chairman and CEO, Machinima.com
Machinima is the leading online network for the machinima movement which is spearheading the integration of filmmaking, animation and videogame technologies to produce computer-generated content in real-time. You can watch thousands of trailers, gameplay, montages, music videos and original machinima series and movies created in World of Warcraft, Halo, Sims 2, GTA, Battlefield, Counterstrike and many more games. Starting Monday, machinima's first of six episodes of "Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series" will be available online on iTunes, Amazon Video, and Microsoft's Xbox Live, produced in collaboration with the Nordic game company GRIN.
 Tim Langdell, CEO, EDGE Games
Tim is an early founding member of the game industry
having formed one of the first games companies, EDGE
Games. At the time, EDGE was effectively Electronic Arts
Europe and Sega Europe as well as being a top five
European game publisher. With more than 180 games to his
credit, Tim is not only passionate about games, but is
also an industry leader who is Vice Chair of the Writers
Guild of America Videogame Writers Caucus, Board Member
of the New Media Council of the Producers Guild, the
Television Academy (ATAS/Emmys), and AFTRA and on the
Board of Directors of the International Game Developers
Association (IGDA).
 Jeff Gomez, CEO, Starlight Runner Entertainment
Jeff Gomez, CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment, is a leading expert at developing entertainment properties and premium brands into highly successful transmedia franchises. Jeff conceived, co-wrote and produced one of the most successful transmedia storylines of the decade with Mattel’s Hot Wheels comic books, videogames, web content and animated series. He has gone on to work with such franchises as Pirates of the Caribbean, Fairies, Prince of Persia and Tron for The Walt Disney Company, James Cameron’s Avatar for 20th Century Fox, Halo for Microsoft, Happiness Factory for The Coca-Cola Company, and most recently Transformers for Hasbro.
 Mark Friedler, Partner, Worlds and Games LLC
Mark Friedler is a dynamic entrepreneur with a record of success in consumer products, tech, internet and video games markets.He has started, grown and sold 3 companies to Verizon and TimeWarner/AOL. His 20 Years of unique life and business experiences drive his “get results” style in coaching entrepreneurs, CEOs and executives to grow and succeed. His companies grew and succeeded in challenging business markets. As a speaker and coach, Mark shares his hands-on experiences and lessons learned from Internet advertising, games, business development, social media, ECommerce, venture capital, fund raising, M&A, strategic relationships, international business, sales team management, product development and marketing.
 David Freeman, CEO, The Freeman Group
Perhaps more than any other writer, David Freeman bridges the world of Hollywood and video games. His specialty is bringing emotion into games, which includes, but goes far beyond, superb writing. David heads The Freeman Group, the most active game writing/design consultancy in the business. All the members of The Freeman Group are ild of America), and all have sold scripts to studios or TV series.The Freeman Group specializes in making games more emotionally immersive, which means not just executing great stories, characters and writing, but also using a vast array of tools to build emotion right into the gameplay. He is currently working, or has worked, as a designer and/or writer on games for Sony, Activision, Ubisoft, Atari, Microsoft, Vivendi Universsal Games, Midway, 3D Realms, and others. Among the games they've worked on: “Marc Ecko's ‘Getting Up – Contents Under Pressure,'” “Prey,” “Enter the Matrix,” “Van Helsing,” “Shark Tale,” “Terminator: Redemption,” and many others. David is the author of the influential book, “Creating Emotion in Games,” with a foreword by Will Wright (creator of “The Sims”).
 Navid Khonsari, Director, Writer & Producer, Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, Alan Wake.
For over 10 years, Navid Khonsari has worked on feature films, television series, documentaries and video games as director, writer and producer. Navid not only directed the "Grand Theft Auto"-trilogy but also established the cinematic feel for such Rockstar franchises as "Max Payne", "Midnight Club", "Manhunt", "Red Dead Revolver" and "The Warriors".
Navid was a pioneer in the use of live action film techniques and story telling in video game cinematics and recently directed the upcoming video game "Ride To Hell" by Deep Silver. He is currently working as voice acting director on the highly anticipated game "Alan Wake" by Remedy/Microsoft as well as developing two feature films, "Ali" and "Motor City".
 Christofer Sundberg, Creative Director & Founder, Avalanche Studios
Avalanche Studios was founded in 2003 and not only rapidly grew a reputation of being a developer of unique IP’s and unique technology, but also grew from four to 170 people in less than five years. The studio has gone through rapid expansion, a series of problems serious enough to threaten the existence of the studio and many other very difficult challenges. This speech will give you a brutally honest insight into running an independent studio today, what we’ve done right, what we’ve done wrong and how we’re moving forward without compromising our integrity and pride in our work.
 Patric Palm, CEO, Hansoft
Hansoft is an integrated solution for collaborative scheduling, Agile, bug tracking, workload coordination, and document management, used by developers in more than 20 countries. The tool is fast and easy and builds on principles of team empowerment, increased communication, transparency, and collaboration. New Hansoft 5.3 also includes an Asset Pipeline Editor to manage complex art creation flows, a Workflow Editor for testing, quality iteration and management sign-offs, as well as a new flow-based Report Generator. www.hansoft.se”
 Martin Walfisz, Former CEO of Massive Entertainment, Malmö Sweden
With more than 10 years in the hot seat as CEO and Founder of Massive, being US owned but with operations and production in Sweden, Martin brings a unique experience in doing business with US. He will share some useful insight on what to think about when doing games business with Nordic and European studios.
 David Helgason, CEO & Co-Founder, Unity Technologies
Next Generation middleware for games and interactive creations comes from Denmark and it’s called Unity. David has a vision of putting professional game making tools in the hands of everybody and the Unity engine has made a lot of mileage on that road recently. Is this the interruptive technology that we been waiting for? David might let us in on the secrets…
 Sten Selander, Director of Business Development, Nordic Game
With 32 years experience from producing and initiating media, design and art, co-founding several companies, leading large scale development processes and being on various boards and advisory boards, Sten is a well known senior in the Nordic industry and brings lot’s of experience and entrepreneurship to the table. Will be moderating some of the panels of the second day in his characteristic style.
 Orvar Säfström
Orvar Säfström is the most popular film critic in Sweden, having hosted several long running film shows on national television. He has interviewed most of Hollywood's greatest stars including Tom Hanks, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and Russel Crowe, and has attended film festivals and premieres all over the world. An avid gamer since the late 70's, Orvar has in recent years shifted his focus towards interactive media, writing and lecturing on games and gaming culture. He has produced and hosted several symphony orchestra concerts with game music as well as the multiple award winning Scandinavian launch event of Halo 3. He has also spoken about games in front of Swedish parliment.
 Mattias Bergbom, Techincal Director, Digital Domain
With a background in media technology and software engineering, Swedish Mattias Bergbom currently holds the position of Technical Director at industry leading CGI house Digital Domain. Bergbom is an expert in the dynamics of flexible bodies and fluids, as well as physically based rendering, specializing in all aspects of digital hair creation, modeling, animation and rendering. Apart from researching and developing creative tools for visual effects production in feature film and commercials, Bergbom was part of the Academy Award winning visual effects team for David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". In this presentation he will demonstrate the working process of creating the CGI replacement of the lead character played by Brad Pitt in several key shots.
 Jan Samzelius, Chairman and CEO, ByteShield
Jan is a Serial Entrepreneur-CEO of three previous startups in the past 15 years. He is one of the founders of ByteShield and has been its full-time leader for three years. Jan holds an important patent in the area of text processing and is the co-inventor of several of ByteShield’s current patent applications.
Jan has worked extensively in marketing, primarily as a consultant.After many years of consulting assignments for Coca-Cola, he has focused on service industries. Jan has worked with the telecom industry for almost 20 years. Jan received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1979.
 Mikael Sandgren, Composer & Producer
In the gaming arena, Mikael composed many scores for over a dozen video game publishers, including EA, Sony PlayStation, UbiSoft, and CapCom. He received a best music BAFTA nomination for the ethnic/orchestral score to Command & Conquer "Generals" (EA).
 Matias Myllyrinne, Managing Director, Remedy
As one of the key figures behind the company's success, owning the company in 1999, he has helped build Remedy into one of the world's leading independent game developers. He holds an MBA from the Helsinki School of Economics. When he's not playing or working on the company's next business move, Matias can be found travelling with his wife and two sons.
 Nathan Richardsson, Executive Producer, CCP Games
As the Executive Producer for EVE Online and the development of future virtual worlds. Coordinating the implementation of dozens of patches, releases, and expansions since his arrival in 2004, he has been a driving force in the ongoing success of the game, managing the joint project efforts of software development, art, content, game design, and quality assurance. Previously, he was a member of the product development team for Iceland Telecom, where he not only established hosting and support services for EVE Online, but also served as the project manager for residential communications, access networks, and content building.
 Timothy Cubbison, Production Supervisor, Blindlight
Timothy Cubbison has worked as a Voice Director, Voice Producer and Writing Producer on several games including Fallout 3, inFamous, CSI: NY, Rogue Warrior, Avatar and Dark Void. He has had the opportunity to voice direct such Hollywood heavyweights as Mickey Rourke, Laurence Fishburne and Gary Sinise. Prior to joining Blindlight he worked for the film development company CP Productions and The Gersh Talent Agency.
 Greg Crescimanno, Casting Supervisor , Blindlight
Greg Crescimanno brings a deep knowledge of Hollywood movers and shakers to the game industry. Greg’s expertise extends not only to celebrity film and TV talent but also unknown up-and-comers and established voice-over veterans. He has worked on numerous original IPs as well as licensed titles, including: Halo 3, Fallout 3, inFamous, Iron Man, and The Incredible Hulk. In his time at Blindlight, he has cast and worked with many Hollywood celebrities including: Robert Downey Jr., Edward Norton,
Mickey Rourke, and Laurence Fishburne. Prior to joining Blindlight, he worked in production for the hit syndicated TV show Entertainment Tonight.
 Henrik Tamm, Independent Conceptual Designer
Henrik spent close to a decade at Dreamworks Animation, developing the look of most of their feauture films such as Shrek and Shrek 2, Kung Fu Panda, Shark Tale, Flushed Away and many others. He has since worked as a freelance conceptual designer on many successful live action films, including The Chronicles of Narnia 1 and 2, the Swedish produced Arn films, and the upcoming G-force, Green Lantern and Tarzan. He is currently working with Zack Snyder on his next feature, Sucker Punch.
 Jens Andersson, Lead Designer, LucasArts
Jens joined the games industry in 1998 as one of the original members of Swedish developer ning games like The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and The Darkness. For a slightly different audience he is more know as the founder of Collecting Smiles and the developer of celebrated software Colors! for the Nintendo DS and iPhone. As of January 2009, Jens joined the ranks of LucasArts, where he is currently working as Lead Designer.
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Catering provided by Chef Mikael and FoodPerfected:
 Chef Mikael has over 20 years of professional experience to his credit. Mikael has worked in Europe and the United States, is a graduate of both Lilijeholmen and Sundbyberg schools of culinary arts located in Stockholm Sweden. Mikael began FoodPerfected a company providing three varieties of food services, banquets and buffets, corporate and location, and in-home catering in 1998. Within the last year FoodPerfected has opened a small café located in West Los Angeles offering breakfast and lunch, a wide selection of fresh homemade baked goods, free wifi and Gevalia Kaffe, most recently FoodPerfected has started catering to and delivering lunches to the offices and studios in there most immediate vicinity including the Academy for Recording Artists, for more info and menu selections please contact FoodPerfected at: 310.445.1949, or to reach Mikael directly:310.849.1949, or www.foodperfected.com
Tuesday, June 2
Creative, Technology and Production Issues
at the Intersection of Games and Films
12.00 Noon Veranda Lunch service and network lounge – mingle, relax, work on your
laptop (WiFi available) and have your business meetings
2.30pm - 5.30pm
Seminar program, lectures, demos, panels on production, tech, creativity, business, licensing and marketing at the interface between film and games
Program produced by 
Host: Orvar Säfström
2.30pm-3.00pm Game Cinematics 101 – The influence of Film on Game Cinematics & Production
Speaker: Navid Khonsari, Director, Writer & Producer, Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, Alan Wake.
3.00pm-3.30pm The Academy Award winning CGI of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Speaker: Mattias Bergbom, Techincal Director, Digital Domain
3.30pm-3.45pm Break
3.45pm-4.15pm Strategies for Bringing Hollywood and the Game Industry Together
Film and games have a lot in common. From a production stand point however, these two industries work in very different ways. Hollywood based company Blindlight specializes in bridging the gap between Hollywood and the game industry and will in this presentation share their unique insights.
Speaker: Timothy Cubbison and Greg Crescimanno, Blindlight
4.15pm-5.00pm Production Panel
Panelists
Patric Palm, CEO, Hansoft - Agile Development for Film and Games
Mahiar Hamedi, CEO, Donya Labs
Ilkka Immonen, CEO, Lapland Studios
David Helgason, CEO & Co-Founder, Unity Technologies - Democratizing 3d Tools
5.00pm-5.30pm Audio for Games and Film
Speaker: Mikael Sandgren, Composer & Producer
5.30pm-5.45pm Stage Interview with Matias Myllyrinne, Remedy (Max Payne, Alan Wake)
5.45pm - 6.45pm
Games and Films 2.0 – Creating and Producing Global Films and Games of the Future
Panel produced by 
Global film and gaming heavyweights will share their views and predictions on the future of these two industries and what the current trend of convergence will mean for both mediums from the creative and production standpoints. Topics will include the impact of new technologies such as CG, 3D and social media, the role of ground-breaking new devices such as the Nintendo Wii and the iPhone and the effect of increased broadband penetration all over the world. What lessons can U.S. companies and game and film creators learn from current trends in Europe and Asia and vice versa? What trends will fuel the film and game concepts and brands of the future?
Panelists
Tim Langdell, CEO, EDGE Games
Peter Wanat, Executive Producer, Universal Studios Interactive
Henrik Tamm, Freelance Conceptual Designer (Shrek, Narnia, Arn etc.)
Jens Andersson, Lead Designer, LucasArts
Moderator: David Freeman,
Consultant/Author, Creating Emotion in Games
6.30pm Nordic Cocktail Lounge, open bar, snacks, post-show networking
Entertainment by DJ Crash
9.00pm Nordic Damage Control Party (Tuesday only)
Entertainment by DJ Crash
Wednesday, June 3
Business, Licensing and Marketing Issues
at the Intersection of Games and Films
12.00 Noon Veranda Lunch service and network lounge – mingle, relax, work on your
laptop (WiFi available) and have your business meetings
2.30pm - 5.30pm
Seminar program, lectures, demos, panels on production, tech, creativity, business, licensing and marketing at the interface between film and games
Program produced by
Hosts: Per Roman, GP Bullhound & Sten Selander, Nordic Game
2.30pm-3.45pm Business Model Session: Presentations and Stage Discussion
2.30pm-3.00pm Working with Vikings
Speaker: Martin Walfisz, Former CEO & Founder, Massive Entertainment
3.00pm-3.30pm Making Money Online and On-Couch
Speaker: Jan Björk, Head of Interactive Entertainment Research, Stockholm School of Economics
3.30pm-3.45pm Decisions Toward World Domination
Speaker: Nathan Richardson, Executive Producer, CCP Games
3.45pm-4.00pm Break
4.00pm-4.45pm Avalanche Studios - a Mid-Mortem of a Studio
Speaker: Christofer Sundberg, Creative Director & Founder,
Avalanche Studios
4.45pm-5.15pm DRM that gamers like(!)
Speaker: Jan Samzelius, Chairman and CEO, ByteShield
5.15pm-5.30pm Break
5.30pm - 6.30pm
Gaming and Film– How to Successfully Navigate the Murky Waters Surrounding Hollywood and the Game Industry
Panel produced by
Most big movies released these days have a video game based on the movie narrative and characters tied to the franchise, and, while licensed games don’t always get the most favorable reviews from game critics, they often sell better than games based on original IP, making it a big opportunity for Hollywood and the game industry alike. In this panel, leading game and movie execs discuss the growing relationship between Hollywood and the game industry. How are these two industries working together to create profitable games based on film brands? What are the business and marketing challenges in trying to develop profitable games? What lessons have been learned from past projects – good and bad – that are guiding the relationships of the future as these industries continue to converge to develop better games of the future?
Panelists
Allen DeBevoise, Chairman and CEO, Machinima.com
Jeff Gomez, CEO, Starlight Runner Entertainment
Jörgen Tharaldsen, Product Director, Funcom (Age of Conan, Anarchy Online, Dreamfall)
Lenny Brown, Creative Development Director, THQ
Moderator: Mark Friedler, Partner, Worlds and Games LLC
6.30pm Nordic Cocktail Lounge, open bar, snacks, post-show networking
Entertainment by DJ Crash
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