The Italian Videogame Developers Conference (IVDC) 2010, held at the LUISS University in Rome on the 3rd-4th December has now confirmed its international programme.
Available on the IVDC website www.ivdconf.com, the programme features international figures and the leading lights of the Italian videogame community.
On Friday 3rd December, the first day of the event, delegates will hear amongst others, Phil Harrison, former president of Sony Worldwide Studios and former president of Atari, SpinVector CEO Giovanni Caturano together with Daniele Azara, executive producer of Palzoun, KooPee Hiltunen, co-founder of the European Game Developers Federation, Irvin Zonca, head of racing group with Milestone Studios and Avni Yerli, managing director of Crytek.
For Saturday 4th December, the speakers will include Andrea Pessino, co founder of Ready at Dawn studios, Riccardo Cangini, CEO of Artematica, Jason Della Rocca, AIOMI international consultant on the new videogame museum project - ViGaMus, Fabrizio Vagliasindi, strategic corporate coordinator of Black Bean Games, Cornelius Wiegmann, head of marketing for audio specialists, Periscope Studio, and Peter Warman, managing director of Newzoo, the international games industry market research consultancy.
Marco Accordi Rickards, director and chairman of the IVDC said, “Over the past 3 years, the IVDC has grown from a national event, to an international conference on the world stage. We are delighted to have so many leading Italian companies sharing their ideas, and to have so many international speakers for this year’s event shows just how important the Italian videogames industry is becoming.”
**The IVDC 2010 will end with a special session starring the guest speaker of the conference Peter Molyneux, founder of Lionhead Studios and creative director of Microsoft Game Studios Europe. Peter Molyneux will be conducting his speech at the event on Monday 6th December, and afterwards it will go live the IVDC website**
Marco Accordi Rickards continues, “Our entire focus is to help build the Italian videogames industry into a world leader, but to do this, we need to help, motivate and inspire a whole range of visitors to IVDC 2010! Our guest speakers will cover an extensive range of subjects during the event so everyone attending will find something of interest.”
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