CONFERENCE CHAIR

Paul Hollins - Manager, Educational Technology Interoperability Standards (Jisc CETIS)

Paul spent several years as a Director for an international games publisher before being appointed head of business development for an e-Learning content developer. Since 2003 he has been Manager of the Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards (CETIS), a Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) development service.

Paul continues to advise on the development of digital educational games for JISC through their Innovation strand projects and is on the NESTA Futurelab “Teaching with Games” Advisory Board. Paul also maintains a relationship with Electronic Arts, advising on their educational activities.

KEYNOTE

John Nordlinger - Program Manager, Microsoft Research

John has been a Principal Engineer with Digital Equipment Corporation and Technical Director at Oracle and lead the Microsoft SQL Server enterprise effort when joining Microsoft a number of years later.

Since joining Microsoft Research, John has worked with Academic Institutions in the Northeast and India. He produces The MSR gaming kit and, manages the MSR initiative on gaming in CS. John serves as co-chair for the annual GDCSE game cruise and the related Call for Papers. John's current focus is games for learning. He hopes to collaborate with others on developing a game to help younger students with algebra and geometry and older students with the GRE.

Other speakers include:

Matthew Jeffery, Electronic Arts

Sanjay Mistry, Electronic Arts

Paul Durrant, Abertay University

Dominic Davenport, Escape Studios

Gina Fegan, CEO South East Media Network

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