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Speakers from Around the World in last Year's Cohort

Ashley Simmons

AdventHealth Nicholson Center

Dan Lim

AdventHealth University (AHU)

Daniel Siegel

Full Sail University

David Renton

Porter-Gaud School

Elin Festøy

Teknopilot AS, Norway

Elizabeth James

Employee Education System of the Veterans Health Administration

Enid Brown

BrainPOP

Eva Den Heijer

HKU University School of the Arts Utrecht, the Netherlands

Greg Toppo

Author

Hélène Michel

Grenoble Ecole de Management, France

James Gaiser

University of Central Florida

James Portnow

Rainmaker Games

John Poniske

Katie Salen

Institute of Play, UC Irvine, Connected Learning Lab, Connected Camps

Manuel Arrieta

Ens Universalis Desarrollo Integral S.C., Mexico

Marie L. Lumbart

Utica College-Miramar

Matthew Marino

University of Central Florida

Paul Cummings

Engineering and Computer Simulations

Ronald Stevens

UCLA School of Medicine /
The Learning Chameleon

Assessing the Neurodynamics of Uncertainty during Serious Play

Tim Welch

Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD)

Todd Chang

Childrens Hospital Los Angeles / University of Southern California

Alicia Sanchez

Defense Acquisition University

Designing Memorable Games

Anders Gronstedt

Gronstedt Group

The Half-Life of Training: How Mobile Gaming and VR is Disrupting Learning

Bradley Tanner

Clinical Tools

Carole Bagley

Technology Group, Inc. and University of St. Thomas

Design for Learning & Performance Effectiveness

Catherine Croft

Catlilli Games

Chris Dede

Dan White

Filament Games

Dennis Glenn

Dennis Glenn LLC / DePaul University Graduate School for New Learning

Dov Jacobson

GamesThatWork

Bron Stuckey

Innovative Educational Ideas, Australia

Immersive and Virtual Environments: Are We Aiming for the Floor or the Ceiling?

Garth Jensen

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division

Jenn McNamara

BreakAway Games

Making the Case for Serious Games: Why Is it So Hard?

Jonathan Peters

Sententia Games

The Gamification of Learning:
A Certification Course for Talent Development Officers, Training Leads & Faculty w/ Leadership

Kevin M. Holloway

Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP), Uniformed Services Univ of the Health Sciences

Lorin Grieve

University of Pittsburgh

What Makes a Game Empathetic?

Marc Ruppel

National Endowment for the Humanities

Mechel Glass

United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Michael Freeman

Naval Postgraduate School  (in Monterey)

Mitch Weisburgh

Academic Business Advisers

The 4 Types of Problems,
In Life and Games

Peggy Sheehy

Ramapo Central

Scott Brewster

Triad Interactive Media

WORKSHOP: The 4 Types of Problems, in Life and Games

Steve Guynup

Hayfield Isovista

Tammie Schrader

Washington State Association of Educational Service Districts

From a Few Games to
Multi-Discipline GBL Program

Thomas B. Talbot

USC Institute for Creative Technologies

WORKSHOP: Artificial Intelligence Demystified

Tony Crider

Elon University

Using Games in Higher Ed
Assessment of Experiential Learning vs. Experiential Assessment

Lucas Blair

Little Bird Games

Marianne Malmstrom

Know Clue Kidd

Mark Suter

Pandora-Gilboa

Michael DiPonio

Quicken Loans

Michelle Zimmerman

Renton Prep

Mish McIntyre

University of Massachusetts Boston

Monica Cornetti

Sententia Games

The Gamification of Learning:
A Certification Course for Talent Development Officers, Training Leads & Faculty w/ Leadership

Naza Djafarova

The Chang School, Ryerson University, Canada

Nolan Bushnell

Atari Founder

Pablo Suarez

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

Paul Darvasi

York University

Paul Thurkettle

NATO Allied Command Transformation

Paulette Robinson

Office of Personnel Management

Peter Stidwill

FableVision Studios

The Future is Now: Games as Assessment

Phaedra Boinodiris

IBM

Randy Brown

Virtual Heroes Division of ARA

Operational VR: From Play to Simulation to Military Operational Use

Richard Boyd

Tanjo Inc.

Richard Lamb

University at Buffalo

Ross Smith

Sam S. Adkins

Metaari

2020-2025 Global Game-Based Learning Market

Sande Chen

Independent

Scott Martin

Virginia Serious Game Institute (VSGI), George Mason

Scott Silsbe

Educational Games Consultant

Seth Andrew Hudson

George Mason University

Terrence Gargiulo

Accenture

Tony Beck

National Institutes of Health / Science Education

Serious STEM Games SBIR, STTR Funding Opps and Grant Writing Workshop

Adrian Cox

JHT, Inc

In-Game Measurement of Learner Motivation

Jeff Berkeley

Mimic Simulation

Valary Oleinik

Weil, Gotshal & Manges

Gamification Cheat Codes: Strategies That Achieved Winning Results
Purposeful Play Workshop

Tobi Saulnier

1st Playable

Kevin Miklasz

BrainPOP

How Reward Structures Can Aid Assessment Without Harming Learning

Wei-Fan Chen

Fourdesire

Playable Design: The Play Space of Toys, Environments, Games, and More

Leonora Zefi

The Chang School, Ryerson University, Canada

David Metcalf

Institute for Simulation and Training, UCF

How To Use Blockchain in Serious Games

Benjamin L. Noel

Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy (FIEA) at UCF

Chris Crowell

Crowell Interactive

Peter Smith

University of Central Florida & Limbitless Solutions

Integrating Hardware into Serious Games Design