The Social Gaming
Summit 2009 is a one day event focused on the intersection of games and the
social web. This year's event will focus on helping social games developers
build, monetize, and grow their social games. We're bringing together the
leaders in free-to-play games, social networking, and payments infrastructure
for a full day of panels and talks. We'll be updating this page as we continue to confirm speakers - we hope to see you in June!
Agenda
9:30
- 10:00 Social Gaming Industry Overview and Update
- Justin Smith, Inside Social Games
10:00 -10:50 Panel: Building Social Games at Scale
- Moderator: Jeremy Liew, Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Mark Pincus, Zynga
- John Pleasants, Playdom
- Sebastien de Halleux, Playfish
11:00 - 11:50 Panel: Social Games - A Platform Perspective
- Moderator: Michael Arrington, TechCrunch
- Jason Oberfest, MySpace
- Gareth Davis, Facebook
- Andrew Sheppard, hi5
- James Liu, Xiaonei
12:00 - 1:15 Lunch
1:15 - 2:00 Panel: Monetization Infrastructure for Social Games
- Moderator: Charles Hudson, Serious Business
- Erikka Arone, Zong
- Adam Caplan, Super Rewards
- Rob Goldberg, GMG Entertainment
- Renata Dionello, PayPal
2:00 - 2:45 Panel: Customer Acquisition and Retention for Social Games
- Moderator: Sean Ryan
- Jia Shen, RockYou
- Anu Shukla, Offerpal Media
- Greg Tseng, Tagged
- James Currier, WonderHill
2:45 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:00 Expert Talks
- "Viral Metrics In Action - Building a Killer Testing and Metrics Infrastructure"
- Siqi Chen, Serious Business
- "Getting the Most Out of Your IP: Extend or Be Cloned"
- David King, (Lil) Green Patch
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Social Games in the Wild: Living Outside of Social
Networks
- Moderator: Jeremy Liew, Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Matt Mihaly, Sparkplay Media
- Andrew Busey, Challenge Games
- Jim Greer, Kongregate
- Daniel James, Three Rings
4:45 PM
Closing
5:00 PM Closing Reception
Hotel Room Discount
We also have a limited number of discounted rooms available at the Hotel Nikko. We've secured a rate of $129 per night for a Deluxe King Room including free Internet access. The rate is good from June 19th through June 26th. To reserve, visit http://www.hotelnikkosf.com or call (415) 394-1111 and use the Group Code "SSOCGM" to get the discounted rooms.
If you and/or your company are interested in sponsoring or speaking at the
conference, please email Charles Hudson at charles@socialgamingsummit.com.
TICKETS ARE TRANSFERABLE BUT NONREFUNDABLE
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