| 2/5/2008 |
4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Red Rock Registration |
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Conference Registration |
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| 2/6/2008 |
7:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Red Rock Registration |
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Conference Registration |
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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
TPC Golf Club |
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5th Annual D.I.C.E. Summit Golf Tourney Sponsored by EA Sports |
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2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Pavillion Ballroom |
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Autodesk Presents: Visual Fight Club - Leading game executives square-off Round 1:
Will Consolidation Kill Innovation and Risk? Mitch Lasky, game industry executive and now with VC firm Benchmark Capital, squares-off against game veteran Keith Boesky, Principle, Boesky & Company. Round 2:
Traditional Publishing vs. Free Distribution Kelly Flock, industry publishing veteran squares-off against Min Kim, Director of Operations for Nexon America, publishers of Maple Story and Kart Racer. |
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6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Summerlin Ballroom |
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Conference Opening Remarks and Keynote Speaker Presentation Gore Verbinski, Director, Pirates of the Caribbean |
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7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
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Opening Night Welcome Party |
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| 2/7/2008 |
8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Red Rock Registration |
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Registration |
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8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
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Breakfast |
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9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Summerlin Ballroom |
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Opening Remarks: Joseph Olin Team Blizzard: Mike Morhaime, CEO & Co-Founder
Rob Pardo, Senior VP, Game Design
Frank Pearce, Executive VP, Product Development |
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10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Summerlin Ballroom |
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20 Questions: Interview with Shane Kim, Corporate VP Microsoft Game Studios Interview with Seth Schiesel, New York Times |
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11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
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Mini Break |
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11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Summerlin Ballroom |
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Power Hour: Engaging the Consumer Roger Snow, Senior VP of Products, Shuffle Master Inc. Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Founder Q Entertainment |
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12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
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Lunch |
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1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Summerlin Ballroom |
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Robin Kaminsky, Executive VP Publishing, Activision The New "Gamer": Closing Gaps in our Growing Industry" Michael Gallagher, President, ESA |
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2:45 PM - 3:30 PM
Summerlin Ballroom |
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Everyone said it wasn't possible with six grand...so we did it anyway--Then came the aquisition discussions.
Jason Manley, CEO, Massive Black How Great Game Characters Get Made Roger Hector, VP Development, Namco Bandai Games |
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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Cherry Nightclub |
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IAA Awards Pre-Party Sponsored by Comcast/Game Invasion |
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7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Red Rock |
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Red Carpet |
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8:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Red Rock Ballroom |
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11th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards |
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10:00 PM - 1:00 AM
VIP Bowling Lanes |
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IAA Afterparty Co-sponsored by Cox Communications |
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Summit Adjourns Day 1 |
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| 2/8/2008 |
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Red Rock Registration |
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Registration |
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8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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Breakfast |
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9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
Summerlin Ballroom |
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Open Remarks: Joseph Olin |
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9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Summerlin Ballroom |
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Charting the Future of Interactive Entertainment John Riccitiello, CEO Electronic Arts |
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10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Summerlin Ballroom |
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A Sense of Fun: Anybody Could Be Your Player 1 Masaya Matuura, CEO NanaOn-Sha Ryo Watanabe, President Robot Sound, Inc. |
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11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
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Mini-Break |
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11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Summerlin Ballroom |
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Game Maker's Surprise Dr. Mark Ollila, Director Strategy & Research, Nokia |
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12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
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Lunch |
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Summerlin Ballroom |
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Power Tools: The Best Way to Build Tomorrow's Games Mike Acton & Andy Burke, Insomniac Games
Michael Capps, CEO Epic Games
Yannis Mallat, CEO Ubisoft Studios Montreal |
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2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Summerlin Ballroom |
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Understanding Consumers & Entertainment Consumption Russ Crupnick, VP, Senior Analyst, NPD Research Group |
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6:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Bally's VIP Race & Sports Room |
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Bioware/Pandemic Presents: 3rd Annual Poker Tournament |
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Bioware/Pandemic Presents: 3rd Annual Poker Tournament |
