Games and Media Industry Leaders to Gather at NY Games Conference, September 30, 2009

NEW YORK, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ — Digital Media Wire today announced the speakers and agenda for the highly-anticipated NY Games Conference (http://www.nygamesconference.com) to be held in New York City on September 30.

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The most influential decision-makers in the digital media industry will gather at NY Games Conference to network, do deals, and share ideas about the future of games and connected entertainment. Now in its 3rd year, the event features lively debate on timely cutting-edge business topics surrounding online, mobile, console and social games. Participants are from the top publishers, developers, advertising, investment firms, social networks, technology providers and content companies.

The themes for this year’s event include digital distribution, social and connected gaming and game monetization.

“We’ve seen terrific interest in this event from the games industry itself, as well as professionals in other areas of media and entertainment looking to learn from what the games industry has done to become the favorite medium of the millennial generation,” says Jay Baage, Event Director, NY Games Conference. “A big topic of conversation at the event this year will be the fact that sales of video games are actually dropping off a bit in the last few months after years of explosive growth. The games industry is now facing many of the same issues as the music and film industries, which have been struggling as distribution moves from sales of plastic discs to digital distribution.”

Confirmed speakers for the event include:

    Masaaki Maeda, President & CEO, NTT DOCOMO USA
    Ben Feder, CEO, Take-Two Interactive Software
    Jill Braff, SVP, Global Publishing, Glu Mobile
    Jason Oberfest, SVP of Business Dev., MySpace
    Nanea Reeves, SVP, EA Online Group
    Susan Choe, Founder & CEO, Outspark
    Eric Goldberg, Managing Director, Crossover Technologies
    Wade Tinney, CEO & Co-Founder, Large Animal Games
    Kyu Lee, President, Gamevil
    David Reitman, VP, Content & Ent. Practice, Switch and Data
    Adam Caplan, President, Super Rewards
    David Freeman, CEO, The Freeman Group
    Eric Zimmerman, Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer Gamelab
    Ned Sherman, CEO and Publisher, Digital Media Wire
    Jay Baage, VP of Content, Digital Media Wire
    Anu Shukla, Founder and CEO, Offerpal Media
    Jay Eum , Co-Founder & Managing Director, TransLink Capital
    Dan Jansen, CEO & Co-Founder, Virtual Greats
    James Green, CEO, Giant Realm
    Michael Chang, CEO & Co-Founder, Greystripe
    John Bates, MMO Evangelist, Entropia Universe / MindArk
    Tom Akel, Supervising Producer, MTV Networks
    Sebastien de Halleux, Co-Founder & COO, Playfish
    Sanjay Sarathy, SVP, Marketing, Vindicia
    Mike Vorhaus, President, Magid Advisors
    Jonathan Epstein, President & CEO, Double Fusion
    Hill Ferguson, VP Product Management & Marketing, Zong
    Brandon Van Slyke, Game Designer,
      Vicarious Visions (Activision Blizzard)
    Peter Blacklow, President, WorldWinner, EVP, Digital, GSN
    Anders Evju, VP, Bus Dev & Partner Relations, Americas, Oberon Media
    Andrew Sheppard, Executive Producer, Interactive Media, hi5 Networks
    Fernando Paiz, Executive Producer, Turbine
    Martyn Brown, Studio Director, Team17
    Billy Pidgeon, Research Manager, Consumer Markets: Games, IDC
    Robert Driscoll, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
    John Vechey, Co-Founder and Head of Social Games Studio, Popcap Games
    Cindy Cook, Former Chief Strategy Officer and CMO, Vivendi Games
    Alex Bubb, Senior Partner Manager, Games and Media, Nokia
    Michael Worosz, Vice President of Business Development,
      CBS Interactive -- Games and Music
    Michael Klotz, Games Business, Senior Manager, The NPD Group
    Robert Levitan, CEO and Co-Founder, Pando Networks
    Chris Petrovic, GM, Digital Media GameStop
    Kenny Rosenblatt, CEO and Co-Founder, Arkadium
    Matthew Bellows, VP Sales, Vivox
    Tom Dusenberry, Founder, Dusenberry Entertainment /
      Director & Advisor, Robonica

Event sponsors and media partners include OfferPal Media, Outspark, SuperRewards, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Zong Mobile Payments, Vindicia, Parks Associates, New York – Tokyo, PR Newswire-MultiVu, Entertainment Consumers Association, GameX Industry Summit, ScreenBurn at SxSW, Women in Music, NYC Makes Games, NYCGameIndustry.com, Nordic Game, Mary & Margaret, International Game Developers Association (IGDA), Casual Games Association.

For complete agenda, registration and event details please visit: http://nygamesconference.com/

Other prominent Digital Media Wire events include LA Games Conference, Future of Television East & West, Digital Music Forum East & West, Future of Film and Digital Media Conference East and West. For more information, visit http://www.dmwmedia.com.

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