Games and Media Industry Leaders to Gather at NY Games Conference, September 30,...

Games and Media Industry Leaders to Gather at NY Games Conference, September
30, 2009
Over 300 Senior Decision-makers from Leading Games, Media, Entertainment and
Tech Companies to Gather in NYC at Prestigious Industry Event

NEW YORK, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Media Wire today announced the
speakers and agenda for the highly-anticipated NY Games Conference
(http://www.nygamesconference.com) to be held in New York City on September
30.

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The most influential decision-makers in the digital media industry will gather
at NY Games Conference to network, do deals, and share ideas about the future
of games and connected entertainment. Now in its 3rd year, the event features
lively debate on timely cutting-edge business topics surrounding online,
mobile, console and social games. Participants are from the top publishers,
developers, advertising, investment firms, social networks, technology
providers and content companies.

The themes for this year's event include digital distribution, social and
connected gaming and game monetization.

"We've seen terrific interest in this event from the games industry itself, as
well as professionals in other areas of media and entertainment looking to
learn from what the games industry has done to become the favorite medium of
the millennial generation," says Jay Baage, Event Director, NY Games
Conference. "A big topic of conversation at the event this year will be the
fact that sales of video games are actually dropping off a bit in the last few
months after years of explosive growth. The games industry is now facing many
of the same issues as the music and film industries, which have been
struggling as distribution moves from sales of plastic discs to digital
distribution."

Confirmed speakers for the event include:
Masaaki Maeda, President & CEO, NTT DOCOMO USA
Ben Feder, CEO, Take-Two Interactive Software
Jill Braff, SVP, Global Publishing, Glu Mobile
Jason Oberfest, SVP of Business Dev., MySpace
Nanea Reeves, SVP, EA Online Group
Susan Choe, Founder & CEO, Outspark
Eric Goldberg, Managing Director, Crossover Technologies
Wade Tinney, CEO & Co-Founder, Large Animal Games
Kyu Lee, President, Gamevil
David Reitman, VP, Content & Ent. Practice, Switch and Data
Adam Caplan, President, Super Rewards
David Freeman, CEO, The Freeman Group
Eric Zimmerman, Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer Gamelab
Ned Sherman, CEO and Publisher, Digital Media Wire
Jay Baage, VP of Content, Digital Media Wire
Anu Shukla, Founder and CEO, Offerpal Media
Jay Eum , Co-Founder & Managing Director, TransLink Capital
Dan Jansen, CEO & Co-Founder, Virtual Greats
James Green, CEO, Giant Realm
Michael Chang, CEO & Co-Founder, Greystripe
John Bates, MMO Evangelist, Entropia Universe / MindArk
Tom Akel, Supervising Producer, MTV Networks
Sebastien de Halleux, Co-Founder & COO, Playfish
Sanjay Sarathy, SVP, Marketing, Vindicia
Mike Vorhaus, President, Magid Advisors
Jonathan Epstein, President & CEO, Double Fusion
Hill Ferguson, VP Product Management & Marketing, Zong
Brandon Van Slyke, Game Designer,
Vicarious Visions (Activision Blizzard)
Peter Blacklow, President, WorldWinner, EVP, Digital, GSN
Anders Evju, VP, Bus Dev & Partner Relations, Americas, Oberon Media
Andrew Sheppard, Executive Producer, Interactive Media, hi5 Networks
Fernando Paiz, Executive Producer, Turbine
Martyn Brown, Studio Director, Team17
Billy Pidgeon, Research Manager, Consumer Markets: Games, IDC
Robert Driscoll, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
John Vechey, Co-Founder and Head of Social Games Studio, Popcap Games
Cindy Cook, Former Chief Strategy Officer and CMO, Vivendi Games
Alex Bubb, Senior Partner Manager, Games and Media, Nokia
Michael Worosz, Vice President of Business Development,
CBS Interactive -- Games and Music
Michael Klotz, Games Business, Senior Manager, The NPD Group
Robert Levitan, CEO and Co-Founder, Pando Networks
Chris Petrovic, GM, Digital Media GameStop
Kenny Rosenblatt, CEO and Co-Founder, Arkadium
Matthew Bellows, VP Sales, Vivox
Tom Dusenberry, Founder, Dusenberry Entertainment /
Director & Advisor, Robonica

Event sponsors and media partners include OfferPal Media, Outspark,
SuperRewards, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Zong Mobile Payments, Vindicia, Parks
Associates, New York - Tokyo, PR Newswire-MultiVu, Entertainment Consumers
Association, GameX Industry Summit, ScreenBurn at SxSW, Women in Music, NYC
Makes Games, NYCGameIndustry.com, Nordic Game, Mary & Margaret, International
Game Developers Association (IGDA), Casual Games Association.

For complete agenda, registration and event details please visit:
http://nygamesconference.com/

Other prominent Digital Media Wire events include LA Games Conference, Future
of Television East & West, Digital Music Forum East & West, Future of Film and
Digital Media Conference East and West. For more information, visit
http://www.dmwmedia.com.

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