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Event: Start-Up Grind Los Angeles

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On 14/07/2013

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If you’re in Los Angeles this week, I would urge you to come over to the Startup Grind Meetup on Wednesday night where my good friend (and exceptional speaker) Robert Tercek will give a keynote. It is bound to be full of enlightening stuff about the future of media & technology (he’s been there and done that many a time, be it with Star TV, Sony Digital, Packetvideo, Oprah Winfrey Networks or any number of ventures he was involved with over the years).

You can RSVP here and buy tickets here (they’re cheap, don’t worry).

Hope to see you there (because, yes, I will indeed be in town this week).

Event: ICT Spring Luxembourg

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On 14/06/2013

In BlackBerry, Events, Games

Are you in Luxembourg and not involved in either counting money or European law? Then I would urge you to come along to ICT Spring, the conference that will take place next week.

it is a widely varied agenda. I’ll be speaking on a panel on “How Games are Impacting the Global Social and Business Landscapes” (yes, it is about gamification) and will be joined by a venerable list of A-listers:

  • None less but Trip Hawkins (founder of EA and Digital Chocolate);
  • Boris Pfeiffer (MD of Kabam Europe);
  • David Gardner (Co-Founder and General Partner of London Venture Partners); and
  • Raphael Goumot (Founder of CREAgile and previously Head of Games at France Telecom/Orange)

It should be rather lively indeed and with the event being headlined by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Eventbrite CTO and Co-Founder Renaud Visage and a raft of other very high-profile speakers, it promises to be inspiring and, well, simply awesome.

Panel: Providing Wow Through Innovation & Disruption

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On 06/06/2013

In Events, Games

Soooo.

Better than traveling down to one of the most gorgeous cities in Europe in February is what? Yes, traveling there in June! And so, I will be in Barcelona in a couple of week’s time, i.e. from 26-28 June for GameLab, Spain’s largest gaming conference this year.

And if this wouldn’t be enough, I will have the immense pleasure (and honour!) to speak on a rather cool – and, at first sight, funky-sounding – panel, namely on how to deliver "Wow Through Innovation & Disruption". A lot of buzz words, you say? Well, thank Wilhelm for that… BUT there is something to it as there is a rather cool composition of that panel and I am really looking forward specifically to this one as I think we have people together who will be able to deliver a little more than your usual corporate-y blah blah blah. The panel will feature:

  • Paulina Bozek, the founder of inensu, a maker of games and previously the executive producer of the awe-inspiring Singstar game for Sony (yes, they generated a cool 1/2 billion dollars (!) in retail)
  • Trevor Klein, the Head of Development of digital stuff for Somethin’ Else, another Shoreditch-based content design company who dream up things for the BBC, Boots and other b-based superstars
  • Chris James, CEO of Steel Media, the folks who bring PocketGamer to the world
  • Corey King (remember: no under_scores) from Winnipeg who has some rather cool ideas to takes games to (geo-location plus story-telling plus tons of other cool stuff!)
  • Benoit Auguin, who realized that you can do a lot with the camera facing you (#justsayin)
  • and then we’ll be reigned in by Wilhelm Taht himself, the maven who is the COO of PLGND in beautiful Marseille (after having spent innumerable years in Helsinki)

It will be very cool (even though Barcelona will be very hot)! 😉

Game Monetisation Europe

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On 08/05/2013

In BlackBerry, Events, Games

Will you be in London next week? If so, make sure to head over to Tower Hill to join me and tons others for the Game Monetisation Europe conference. I will be participating in a panel on how to approach multiple platforms. There are a lot of very worthwhile speakers for you to listen to (in case you’re bored by my rants, that is… ;-). Here’s a few of them:

  • Ian Livingstone (Eidos/Square Enix, Games Workshop, etc).
  • Teemo Huuthanen (Rovio)
  • Tommy Palm (King)
  • Ed Rumley (Chillingo/EA)
  • Peter Edward (PlayStation)
  • Alex Bubb (Nokia)
  • Oscar Clark
  • Patrick O’Luanaigh (nDreams)
  • David Engelberg (Halfbrick)
  • and lots more…

It should be interesting and fun and, besides, London in spring is rather cool anyway! 🙂

 

Coming up: a week in the hipster capital

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On 14/04/2013

In Events, Games

Not next week but the week after, the world (well, a certain horn-rimmed-glasses-wearing, Google-Glass-adoring, game-controller-wielding, funky-t-shirts-wearing subset thereof) will come to the self-proclaimed world capital of hipsterdom that is Berlin to talk digital. And I will go, too.

There are tons of events to choose from, mainly everything around the German Gaming Days (“Deutsche Games-Tage”) with a couple of conferences (Quo Vadis, a.maze) some more events (the Gamefest at the German Video Game Museum should be cool) and the German Gaming Award (“Lara-Award“).

Then, of course, there is Next Berlin, one of the bigger events for new, high-tech, start-uppy things. It is packed with big names, cool start-ups, competitions and parties. If you are in this space (and you reading this blog suggests you are) and are around, come by.

BlackBerry 10 Rises / Slides

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On 19/02/2013

In BlackBerry, Events, Games, Slides

Last week, it was Casual Connect Europe time again. And as is good tradition, here are my slides:


Mobile Social: Why BlackBerry is Perfect / Slides

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On 20/08/2012

In BlackBerry, Events, Games, Slides

Last week, I interrupted my vacation on the rather wonderful island of Guernsey to fly over to GDC Europe in Cologne, the precursor to the gaming expo moloch that is Gamescom, where I had the great pleasure to give a little talk about why, distinct to widespread (at least in the game developer community) believe, there is a very natural and very compelling reason to marry mobile and social under the roof of BlackBerry. My slides are rarely wordy, so you may not follow the gist of each one, but I reckon it’ll do…

So here they are:

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