Leading Game Industry Recruiter Moderates Panel at G.A.M.E.S. Synergy Summit
Focuses on Non-Entertainment Applications for the Game Industry
Tuesday, January 25 - Orlando, FL - Mary-Margaret.com, a leader in international recruitment services for the interactive entertainment industry, is pleased to announce the inclusion of company president and co-founder Mary Margaret Walker as a panel moderator at the G.A.M.E.S. Synergy Summit, in Orlando, Florida on January 27. The G.A.M.E.S. Synergy Summit conference, running January 26-28th, attracts representatives from the government, academic, military, entertainment and simulation fields to focus on the convergence of interactive games, immersive entertainment and simulation techniques and technologies. G.A.M.E.S. Synergy Summit is produced by the Interactive Entertainment Institute.
From 2 pm to 3:30 pm on Thursday, January 27th, Mary Margaret Walker, founder and President of Mary-Margaret.com, will participate in the featured conference panel, "Non-Entertainment Applications of Interactive Entertainment Technologies: What are the Opportunities?" As part of the Doing Business Across Disciplines: Methods, Models and Opportunities bridge session, Mary Margaret will be moderating an industry panel comprised of executives Walter Cheek, VP of BreakAway; Waymon Armstrong, CEO of Engineering & Computer Simulations, Inc.; Julia Loughran, CEO of ThoughtLink; Jason Robar, Founder of AisA Group and Matt Seeney, Managing Director of tpld.
This timely panel will explore the present and future opportunities for a broad range of beneficial applications of interactive, immersive and game-based entertainment technologies throughout the world. Who and where are the customers? Governments? Educational institutions? Militaries? Commercial entities? Healthcare? How committed are they? What are the impediments to deployment of these technologies and techniques by new customers? What are the routes in? Who is leading the charge? Details on the panel can be found online at the G.A.M.E.S. Synergy Summit web site: http://www.synergysummit.com/bridges.html.
Thomas Buscaglia, Executive Director of Interactive Entertainment Institute, states, "Being involved with interactive multimedia applications of one type or another, we are all well aware of their tremendous potential. Interactive multimedia, pioneered by the game industry, will have a profound impact on the future. These technologies and techniques comprise one of the most important breakthroughs in communication and learning since the invention of the printing press. We have designed the G.A.M.E.S. Synergy Summit to be a forum for the exchange of information and relationship building across myriad disciplines, and we are greatly pleased that top game recruiting firm Mary-Margaret.com can participate in and contribute to this effort as both a sponsor and as a panel moderator."
The conference will be held at Renaissance Orlando Resort at Sea World, located at 6677 Sea Harbor Drive in Orlando, Florida. Attendance costs $595and includes access to all conference sessions. To register, please visit http://www.synergysummit.com/registration.html.
About Mary-Margaret.com
Mary-Margaret.com is a leading recruitment firm in entertainment software, representing top clients and creative leaders in the games software and hardware industries. With offices in Los Angeles, Boston, Austin, Washington D.C. and London, Mary-Margaret.com is continually seeking and placing highly-qualified creative, executive and technical talent for clients in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Europe.
About G.A.M.E.S. Synergy Summit
The G.A.M.E.S. Synergy SummitTM brings together forward thinkers and doers from the Government, Academia, Military, Entertainment and Simulation fields, to focus on the convergence of interactive games, immersive entertainment and simulation techniques and technologies. Researchers, developers, users and policy makers from these synergistic sectors will together explore beneficial uses of these technologies in a variety of potential non-entertainment applications for educational and medical institutions, governments, militaries and commercial entities. This international summit provides a nexus where best practices, lessons learned and future needs are shared through expert speakers, panel sessions, technology demonstrations and case studies. The Synergy Summit strives to create an atmosphere of collaboration, and to help bridge the differences in terminology, culture and processes that often exist between different communities of practice.
For further information on the G.A.M.E.S. Synergy Summit, please contact Thomas Buscaglia, Executive Director of the Interactive Entertainment Institute: telephone: 305/810-2887, e-mail: thb@synergysummit.com .
For more details regarding Mary-Margaret.com, visit our web site at www.mary-margaret.com, or contact Morgan Ogburn, ThemePark Studios, 512/916-9633 or morgan@themeparkstudios.com, for more information.