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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)

Rules of the Game: How to Ensure Training Outcomes

Todd Chang

Childrens Hospital Los Angeles / University of Southern California

Alicia Sanchez

Games Czar
Defense Acquisition University

Top Ten Research Findings in Games 2020 Edition

Anders Gronstedt

President, Gronstedt Group

The Half-Life of Training: How Mobile Gaming and VR are Transforming Learning

Bradley Tanner

Clinical Tools and Health Impact Studio

INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION: Using Simulation to Prepare for and Anticipate the Challenges of an ICU

Carole Bagley

President
The Technology Group and Distinguished Service Professor, University of St. Thomas
Learning Impact of Gaming & Interactive Narratives/Stories

Catherine Croft

Co-Founder/CEO
Catlilli Games

PANEL: Teacher Tales: Experiences with Board Games in the Classroom

Chris Dede

Dan White

Filament Games

Dennis Glenn

Dennis Glenn LLC /
DePaul University

Micro-Learning:
How to Create Microlearning Apps in Less than an Hour!

Dov Jacobson

Creative Director
GamesThatWork

Zero to Playable in 60 Minutes. Make Your Game Now

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

Complexity and How it Applies to Learning

Jenn McNamara

BreakAway Games

TBD

Jonathan Peters

Sententia Games

Deliberate Fun: A Purposeful Approach to Gamifying Learning Experience

Kevin M. Holloway

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

Victoria Grieve

University of Pittsburgh

What Makes a Game Empathetic?

Marc Ruppel

National Endowment for the Humanities

Federal Grant Opportunities in the Arts

Mechel Glass

United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Mitch Weisburgh

Founding Partner
Academic Business Advisers

Worst Practices for Learning

Peggy Sheehy

Ramapo Central

Scott Brewster

Triad Interactive Media

The Immersive Classrooms in Middle and High School

Steve Guynup

VR Developer / Online Game Design Faculty, Hayfield Isovista

Workshopping VR Art, Design, & Education — in VR

Tammie Schrader

Science/Computer Science Coordinator
Washington State Association of Educational Service Districts
Game Based Learning Across the Curriculum and Across Washington State

Thomas B. Talbot

USC Institute for Creative Technologies

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

MiniDevs < = > Mixiply: NZ Developers and Middle School Students Collaborate to Build a Platform for Creating Mixed-Reality Games

Mark Suter

Pandora-Gilboa

Michael DiPonio

Instructional Designer
AmeriSave Mortgage Corporation

Developing Serious Games on Little (to No) Budget

Michelle Zimmerman

Renton Prep

Serious Play: Leading School Transformation during a Global Pandemic

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

Educator, Royal St. George's College/University of Toronto
Circle 1964: A DIY Game that Saved a School from COVID Ennui
Building An Online Library Orientation Game

Paul Thurkettle

NATO Allied Command Transformation

Preparing Soldiers To Deal with an Extraordinary Situation: War Camps

Paulette Robinson

Office of Personnel Management

Peter Stidwill

FableVision Studios

The Future is Now:
Games as Assessment

Phaedra Boinodiris

Academy of Technology Member
IBM
Trust in AI Business Transformation Leader at IBM

Randy Brown

Virtual Heroes Division of ARA

Operational VR: From Play to Simulation to Military Operational Use

Richard Boyd

President
Ultisim

Educational VR for K-6: Water Treatment Sim

Richard Lamb

University at Buffalo

Ross Smith

Microsoft

Games, AI and Worker Displacement

Sam S. Adkins

Metaari

2020-2025 Global Game-Based Learning Market

Sande Chen

Writer and Game Designer
Independent

Design Principles for Early Education Apps

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

Finding Funding for Healthcare and other Qualifying Games under Federal Grant Programs

Adrian Cox

JHT, Inc

Motivation: What Is It and How Do We Know If It’s Happening?

Jeff Berkley

Mimic Simulation

Measuring Effectiveness in Healthcare Simulations

Valary Oleinik

Consultant

Gamification on a Shoestring: No Budget, No Problem

Tobi Saulnier

1st Playable

Avoiding the Tower of Babel: Best Practices for Interdisciplinary Teams

Kevin Miklasz

Senior Director, Learning Analytics, Noggin
The Value and Use of Game-Based Intrinsic Rewards
WORKSHOP: Making Well-Designed, Meaningful, Intrinsic Reward Structures

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

Serious Games for BioDefense

Ben Noel

Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy (FIEA) at UCF

Chris Crowell

Chief Creative
Crowell Interactive

Make A Game Workshop

Peter Smith

University of Central Florida & Limbitless Solutions

Integrating Hardware into Serious Games Design