Speakers

ION speakers are widely recognized as the established authorities and forward-thinking pioneers who shape our industry. New speakers will be confirmed on an on-going basis up until March 2008. Please check back often to see the latest additions to the ION Game Conference program, or join the ION update list to receive notifications about new speakers and sessions in your inbox!

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Phil Adam President BigWorld	Bridget Agabra Project Manager (Metaverse Roadmap) Acceleration Studies Foundation	Osma Ahvenlampi CTO Sulake
Steve Augustino Partner Kelley Drye & Warren LLP	Isaac Barry Senior Game Designer Sierra Online	John K. Bates Business Development & Strategic Marketing Mindark / Entropia Universe
Erik Bethke Founder & CEO GoPets Ltd.	Neal Black VP of Legal & Corporate Affairs and General Counsel Live Gamer, Inc.	Paul Boustead Director for Interactive Voice Technologies Dolby
Adam Boyden General Manager Xfire, Inc.	Scott Brown CEO NetDevil	Rick Buonincontri Founder, President and CEO Solid State Networks
Isaiah Cartwright Game Designer ArenaNet	Sande Chen Narrative Designer/Writer The Writers Cabal	Alan Crosby Director, Community Relations Sony Online Entertainment
Craig Dalrymple Community Relations Manager Sony Online Entertainment	Steve Danuser Director of Community Development and Lead Content Designer 38 Studios	John DeMargheriti Chief Executive Officer BigWorld
George Dolbier CTO, Games and Interactive Entertainment IBM	Mike Doyle Online Producer THQ Canada	Tom DuBois Line Producer Electronic Arts
James E. Dunstan Partner Garvey Schubert Barer	Chris Early GM Windows Gaming Microsoft	Tom Edwards Principal Consultant Englobe Inc.
Dave Elchoness Executive Director Association of Virtual Worlds	John Erskine Director of Studio Services NCsoft	Robert Ferrari Vice President of Business Development Turbine, Inc.
Patrick Ford VP Marketing K2 Network	Shawn Foust Associate Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP	Peter Freese Conference Director ION Game Conference
Bill Fulton Founder Ronin User Experience	Eric Goldman Assistant Professor Santa Clara University School of Law	Mike Goslin Vice President Disney Online
John Griffin Director of the Games Market Segment Dolby	Brian Hafer VP of IT/Engineering TubeMogul, Inc.	Dana Hanna Senior Producer Microsoft Game Studios
Scott Hartsman Industry Veteran	Simon Hayes Chief Technology Officer BigWorld	Troy Hewitt Director, Community Relations Flying Lab Software
Charlie Hite Senior Producer, Tools and Technology LucasArts	Erin Hoffman Designer Philomath Games	David Hoppe Principal Access International Law Group
David Ryan Hunt Game Designer Flying Lab Software	Edward Hunter Director, Game Solutions comScore Inc.	Scott Jennings Lead Designer NCsoft
Victor Jimenez Chief Engineer Northrop Grumman	Dan Kaminsky Director of Penetration Testing IOACTIVE	Sean F. Kane Attorney Drakeford & Kane LLC
Darius Kazemi President Orbus Gameworks	Nour Khrais Founder and General Manager Maysalward	Min Kim Director of Game Operations Nexon America
Steven Klebe VP, Sales & BD Danal, Inc. (BilltoMobile.com)	David Lakritz President & CEO Language Automation, Inc.	Rick Lambright Technical Director Sierra Online
Rob Lanphier Director of Open Source Development Linden Lab	Jason Larsen Security Guy IOACTIVE	Nicole Lazzaro President XEODesign, Inc.
Jess Lebow Lead Quest Designer Carbine Studios	Sam Lewis Lead Designer Cartoon Network	Dr. Andreas Lober Partner SchulteRiesenkampff
Gavin Longhurst Vice President BigWorld	Joe Ludwig Director of Development Flying Lab Software	Allison Luong Managing Director Pearl Research
Alexander Macris Co-founder, President and CEO Themis Group, Inc.	Charles F. Manning President/CEO PLAYXPERT	Adam Martin Lead Core Programmer NCsoft
Don McGowan Attorney, Microsoft Game Studios Microsoft Corporation	Mike McShaffry Consultant MrMike	Karl Mehta Co-Founder & CEO PlaySpan
Larry Mellon Consultant Larry Mellon Consulting	Wanda Meloni President & Senior Technology Analyst DFC Intelligence	Jay Minn Founder AristoDigital
Robert Mitchell Director of Technology Sony Online Entertainment	Jay Moore Founder / "Head of Special Ops" The Strategery Group	Todd Northcutt Director, GameSpy Technology GameSpy (A subsidiary of IGN Entertainment)
Daniel Ostenso Associate Professor – Interactive Media & Game Design Illinois Institute of Art	Brian Pass Partner Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP	Hermann Peterscheck Producer NetDevil
Katie Postma Senior Community Manager FireSky	Marty Poulin President Social Sage	Toby Ragaini Director of Game Development Big Fish Games
John W. Ratcliff Most Worshipful Senior Programmer Simutronics Corporation	Brandon Reinhart Lead Designer Spacetime Studios, LLC	Brian Robbins Gaming Evangelist Fuel Industries, Inc.
Jason Roberts Lead Gameplay Designer 38 Studios	Meghan Rodberg Online Community Manager Turbine, Inc.	Sara Jensen Schubert Senior Designer Spacetime Studios
Damion Schubert Lead Combat Designer BioWare Corp.	Mike Sellers Chief Alchemist Online Alchemy	Dillon Seo Global Business Manager Korea Game Industry Agency (KOGIA)
Andrew Sheppard Vice President, Product Management Outspark	Craig Sherman CEO Gaia Online	Yat Siu Founder and CEO Outblaze
John Smedley President Sony Online Entertainment	Kirk Soderquist Attorney Perkins Coie LLP	Alex St. John CEO Wild Tangent
Won Il Suh Vice President Neowiz	Anne Toole Narrative Designer/Writer The Writers Cabal	Bharat Vasan COO/CFO EA Online
Victor Wachter Online Community Relations Manager Cryptic Studios	Scott G. Warner Owner Garvey Schubert Barer	Grant Wei Director of Publishing Cryptic Studios
Dave Weinstein Security Development Engineer Microsoft	David Whatley President & CEO Simutronics Corporation	Jason Wonacott CEO Wonacott Communications
Bruce Woodcock MMOG Analyst MMOGCHART.COM	Joseph Ybarra Senior Vice President of Strategic Operations FireSky	John Young General Manager, "New Business Initiative" Slipgate Ironworks
Geoffrey Zatkin CEO Electronic Entertainment Design and Research (EEDAR)