{"id":1948,"date":"2013-06-06T00:51:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T23:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2013-06-06T00:51:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T23:51:21","slug":"panel-providing-wow-through-innovation-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/06\/panel-providing-wow-through-innovation-disruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel: Providing Wow Through Innovation &#038; Disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soooo.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s time, i.e. from 26-28 June for <a href=\"http:\/\/gamelab.es\">GameLab<\/a>, Spain&#8217;s largest gaming conference this year.<\/p>\n<p>And if this wouldn&#8217;t be enough, I will have the immense pleasure (and honour!) to speak on a rather cool &#8211; and, at first sight, funky-sounding &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamelab.es\/2013\/en\/press\/news\/#22\">panel<\/a>, namely on how to deliver &quot;Wow Through Innovation &amp; Disruption&quot;. A lot of buzz words, you say? Well, thank Wilhelm for that&#8230; 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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/paulinebees\">Paulina Bozek<\/a>, the founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inensu.com\/\">inensu<\/a>, 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)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/trevoridge\/\">Trevor Klein<\/a>, the Head of Development of digital stuff for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinelse.com\/\">Somethin&#8217; Else<\/a>, another Shoreditch-based content design company who dream up things for the BBC, Boots and other b-based superstars<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Elfozzie\">Chris James<\/a>, CEO of Steel Media, the folks who bring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocketgamer.biz\/\">PocketGamer<\/a> to the world<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/corey_king\">Corey King<\/a> (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!)<\/li>\n<li>Benoit Auguin, who realized that you can do a lot with the camera facing you (#justsayin)<\/li>\n<li>and then we&#8217;ll be reigned in by Wilhelm Taht himself, the maven who is the COO of <a href=\"http:\/\/plgnd.com\/\">PLGND<\/a> in beautiful Marseille (after having spent innumerable years in Helsinki)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It will be very cool (even though Barcelona will be very hot)! \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s time, i.e. from 26-28 June for GameLab, Spain&#8217;s largest gaming conference this year. 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