Here are the details on the Game AI Conference in the video below (left: Alex Champandard, right: Petra Champandard-Pail).

NeuroGaming Conference and Expo is the where your mind and body meet game play. Neurogame developers are using the latest emotional, cognitive, sensory and behavioral technologies to create radically compelling experiences to engage and entertain gamers worldwide.

Hear from over 50 companies involved in neurogaming

Try out the coolest neurogaming technologies

Be amazed from a over a dozen mind blowing panels

Find out how neurogame design works

Organized by the Neurotechnology Industry Organization, NeuroGaming is the only place that you’ll be able to experience everything from brain-controlled games to true augmented virtual reality experiences and even cognitive enhancing devices that send mild electrical pulses to your brain to improve concentration during game play, and so much more.

•NeuroGaming 2013 Conference will bring together all the players from across the emerging neurogaming industry and beyond to share insights and visions. Meet with the key people who are coming together for this first ever event including rock star CEOs, VPs of corporate development, venture partners, angel investors, VP Monetization, game designers, game producers, and more.

• NeuroGaming 2013 Expo will let you get your hands and minds on all these amazing new neurogaming technologies. We are bringing together all these cool technologies for you to play with in a floor expo that will blow your mind.

Conference Highlights

At NeuroGaming 2013 you’ll…

•Find out how neurogaming technologies are creating new growth opportunities

•See what venture and strategic investors are looking to fund in the space

•Hear from industry thought leaders and start up veterans on what’s next

•Learn how neurogaming will impact all facets of the gaming industry
•Discover new partnering and revenue making opportunities

•Try out the latest neurogaming technologies for yourself

Neurogaming is a disruptive force that will transform nearly every facet of the gaming industry, creating new opportunities for entrepreneurs and companies on the cutting edge to take leadership roles. If you are interested in the future of gaming or of humankind this is a must attend event.

Conference Location: 540 Howard Street

Hotel: We have a room block at the Hotel W in San Francisco, 1 block away. Room special room rates are available until March 30.

Cancellation Policy

After April 15, due to commitments to vendors, no refunds are available for cancellations or no-shows. Prior to April 15, cancellations will be charged a $200 processing fee.

Media

Must be verified media. To request a press pass please send relevant information to zack@neurogamingconf.com (limited passes available).

To Exhibit

We have space for 50 exhibitors with a variety of booth sizes. We will give priority space to companies who have directly relevant technologies to the neurogaming space. Please contact zack@neurogamingconf.com for exhibition information.

To Sponsor

Sponsorship identifies your company as a leading organization in the neurogaming community. There are multiple sponsorship levels and opportunities to suit your needs. Please contact zack@neurogamingconf.com for more details.

Conference Support Team

Zack Lynch, Elizabeth Olsen, Ian McGee, Jake Dunagan, Sana Choudary, Kathleen Kralowec, Anya Shapina, Japheth Dillman, Todd McCollough, Catherine Goldberg

Hollywood, CA – April 18-19, 2013 – Digital Media Wire hosted his annual DMW LA Games Conference (www.dmwgames.com). The two-day event featured 11 panels, 3 keynotes, 3 roundtables and 3 presentations as well as exhibits, demos and networking within the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Attendees were key decision-makers from the game, entertainment and technology industries including company founders, investors, major and indie game publishers, developers, advertisers, mobile companies, and members of the media.

The event focused on the many opportunities within the burgeoning game industry including digital and mobile games, investment trends and opportunities specific to the City of Los Angeles as it cements its position as a media-tech center and primary hub for game development. Executives from Zynga, Activision, YouTube, Machinima, NBCUniversal, Disney Interactive, Ubisoft, CBS, Scopely, Sony, Kabam, Siemers Ventures, SGN, Playstation, Warner Bros., and Dreamworks, to name a few, were in the house to examine the state of the industry, current trends, funding, acquisitions, marketing, distribution and other issues related to the changing game industry.

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What do you get when you mix a respected game conference brand in Eastern Europe and Russia, a busy week of events and conferences in San Francisco around the cloud and social gambling, and a venue location near Chinatown? You get Sociality Rocks! San Francisco, a small but focused conference organized by a small team with a very specific mission amidst a very busy week in one of the busiest cities for game industry events.

Sociality Rocks, held in San Francisco on April 22-24 last month, is one of the best known conferences in Eastern Europe and Russia focused on the social and mobile games ecosystem. It’s the fifth iteration of this conference but the first to be held in the United States.

Conference content, delivered by heavyweight names and companies such as Chillingo, GREE, Kabam and Glu Mobile, focused on independent publishing, platforms, monetization, user acquisition — and particularly the Eastern European markets and the rise of social and mobile gambling games, reflecting the trend of mobile game developers worldwide to seriously consider the possibilities in gambling-style games. The body of content overall was solid, foundational, insightful at times, but likely familiar to many local developers. For the Eastern European congregation of over 100 developers in attendance, it was very likely more illuminating, especially because access to such content and connections isn‘t as easy to come by from half the world away.

Opportunities for Eastern European developers to learn from, and connect with, local social and mobile game powerhouses was one of the main objectives for Yulia Tarasova, the Sociality Rocks! Conference founder, in bringing the conference stateside. “The Eastern European region is one of the richest regions of developers and here (in the United States) is the best market for developers to spread their product. So that’s why this was our first attempt to bring social European developers to the US, because it’s a problem for most Eastern Europeans to come to the US.

“At this event in SF we can say without any doubt we brought the best speakers for social and mobile that can’t be heard anywhere but in the US, because many of these companies would never reach Eastern Europe because it’s too far,” Tarasova added later.

Even though the conference presentation room was not often more than half full, the organizers weren’t concerned as that was not their focus for this event.

“(This time) it is not a business event, not an event for making money. Our task was from the very beginning was to break the borders, to show the possibilities of both sides of the planet to each other (and exchanging ideas),” said Tarasova. “We didn’t expect 500 people for the first event, for Eastern European strangers. We wanted to show a great range of developers with strong products who can add value to the US market.”

Further adding to the road show feel for Eastern European developers was the addition of one hour office tours at mobile mainstays PlayHaven and Zynga on the 24th, largely for the benefit of non-local developers who might not otherwise have the chance to see the inner workings of a studio in the United States.

What does Sociality Rocks! hope to accomplish for the next conference hosted in San Francisco? According to Tarasova, they’ll rethink their objectives for 2014 with the possibility of a new venue and a focus more on attracting more local developers to balance out the mix of attendees. Those steps would certainly take the conference from a showcase event for developers abroad to a more profitable, more heavily attended event with a balanced mix of attendees.

But this time around, Sociality Rocks! Laid a foundation by connecting an interesting strategy of integrating proven but useful content from recognized names in the mobile games industry to a heavily eastern European audience one might see at their Kiev event, which is a rare kind of alchemy in San Francisco. Following the path Tarasova outlined, Sociality Rocks! San Francisco could evolve into a valuable boutique event, while retaining its uniquely Eastern European and Russian character, for mobile and social game development communities on both sides of the Atlantic.

– Paul Philleo, Contributing Editor

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Art Gallery 13 June 2013
Computer Animation Festival 2 July 2013
Courses 6 June 2013
Emerging Technologies 13 June 2013
Posters 9 July 2013
Symposium on Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications 6 June 2013
Technical Briefs 9 July 2013
Technical Papers 14 May 2013