Serious Play Conference

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Our speakers are pioneers in an industry that is reshaping training and education. They are thought leaders, agents of change, breaking norms, doing things that have not been done before.

Russ Shilling

American Psychological Association

Keynote

Richard Van Eck

University of North Dakota

How Games Work Well for Healthcare Training

Louise Bennett

King's College London

Using Games in Higher Education / Running Serious Game Dev Programs

John Shulman

Alignor

Using Data from Scenario-based Games to Demonstrate Business Impact

John Kolm

Team Results USA

Augmented Serious Gaming In The Physical Universe

Katharine Hargreaves

ARKO

Flex: Impossible Stories and Speculative World Building

Rob Alvarez

IE University // Professor Game

From Games to your Learning Experience: A Practical Workshop

Ronald Dyer

University of Sheffield

Measurement & Evaluation - Strategies for Measurement of Serious Game Integration

Enrique Cachafeiro

Duke Health

The Serious E-scape Room:
A Cost-Effective Serious Game Model for Deep and Meaningful E- learning

Mari Strand Cary

University of Oregon

Let's Get Better at Blending Technology and High-quality Instruction

Lina Shanley

University of Oregon

Let's Get Better at Blending Technology and High-quality Instruction

Jim Kiggens

Immersive Learning Experience Team, Adtalem Global Education

Assessment for Immersive Learning Experiences

Rachel Slivon

University of Florida

Create an Escape Room, Producing a More Active Learning Environment

David Hull

The University of Texas at Tyler

Hollywood Meets Learning:
A Story-based Model for Behavioral Cybersecurity Training

Mahesh Joshi

GMU School of Business

Creating an Interactive TableTop Business Strategy Game

Dov Jacobson

GamesThatWork

Scott Provence

Grand Rounds

Functional Failure:
How We Learn More by
Getting It Wrong

Paul Lopushinsky

Playficient

Creating A More Playful Framework For the Workplace

Mitch Weisburgh

Academic Business Advisers

The 4 Types of Problems,
In Life and Games

Thomas B. Talbot

USC Institute for Creative Technologies

WORKSHOP: Artificial Intelligence Demystified

Marcia Downing

Marciaz Consulting

Turning Games/Activities into Learning and Engagement

Georgi Tsvetanov

Silega Americas

Designing and Using Games to Teach Business Skills to Children

Monica Cornetti

Sententia Games

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

Jonathan Peters

Sententia Games

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

Scott Brewster

Triad Interactive Media

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

Lindsay Grace

University of Miami

Designing Interactives,
Toys and Games for Optimal Engagement

Mike Beall

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Lorin Grieve

University of Pittsburgh

What Makes a Game Empathetic?

Peter Stidwill

FableVision Studios

The Future is Now: Games as Assessment

Tony Beck

National Institutes of Health / Science Education

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

Tony Crider

Elon University

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

Thierry Karsenti

University of Montreal

E-sport Practices and Experiences in Academic Settings: the Case Canadian High-school Students
Minecraft and Makecode

Sam S. Adkins

Metaari

2020-2025 Global Game-Based Learning Market

YJ (Yoon Jeon) Kim

MIT Playful Journey Lab

The Future is Now: Games as Assessment

William Volk

Deep State Games

The Climate Trail, A Game That Changes Hearts and Minds

Adrian Cox

JHT, Inc

In-Game Measurement of Learner Motivation

Alicia Sanchez

Defense Acquisition University

Designing Memorable Games

Maja Pivec

FH Joanneum University of Applied Science

Games for Sustainability:
RIO and Other Mitigating Factors

Paul Pivec

CranberryBlue R & D

Create Serious Games without Coding: Using Visual Scripting

Jeff Berkeley

Mimic Simulation

Dennis Glenn

Dennis Glenn LLC / DePaul University Graduate School for New Learning

Valary Oleinik

Weil, Gotshal & Manges

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

Tammie Schrader

Washington State Association of Educational Service Districts

From a Few Games to
Multi-Discipline GBL Program

Anders Gronstedt

Gronstedt Group

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

Michelle Zimmerman

Renton Prep

Tobi Saulnier

1st Playable

Ronald Stevens

UCLA School of Medicine /
The Learning Chameleon

Assessing the Neurodynamics of Uncertainty during Serious Play

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

Bradley Tanner

Clinical Tools

Ben Chang

Benjamin L. Noel

Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy (FIEA) at UCF

Angela Malicki

Johns Hopkins Hospital

From Game Design to Production in 4 Months

Sharon Bildstein

Johns Hopkins Hospital

From Game Design to Production in 4 Months

Christian Clausen

Johns Hopkins Hospital

From Game Design to Production in 4 Months

Chris Crowell

Crowell Interactive

Maria Tafuri

IBM Tivoli Software

How to Turn Coin Operated
In-curious Learners and Eager Crowdsoursers

Jenn McNamara

BreakAway Games

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

Peter Smith

University of Central Florida & Limbitless Solutions

Integrating Hardware into Serious Games Design

Roger Smith

Carole Bagley

Technology Group, Inc. and University of St. Thomas

Design for Learning & Performance Effectiveness

Sreeram Kongeseri

Amrita University

Games for Community Engagement
- Will it Work for You?

Ajay Balakrishnan

AMMACHI Labs

Games for Civic Engagement - Will it work for you?

David Metcalf

Institute for Simulation and Training, UCF

How To Use Blockchain in Serious Games

Aditya Vishwanath

Inspirit

Engaging Lived and Virtual Realities

Randy Brown

Virtual Heroes Division of ARA

Operational VR: From Play to Simulation to Military Operational Use

Kimberly Hieftje

play4REAL XR Lab at Yale

Freeze! An Augmented Reality Game for Alcohol Harm Reduction in Teens

Bernard François

Preview Labs

VR Prototyping: Best Practices

Paula Kelly

NExT, a Schlumberger Company

Onboarding Gen Z and Millennials with Experiential Training

Carlo Fabricatore

Huddlesfield University

 

Doug Whatley

BreakAway Games

Ashley Parker

Harvard Business Publishing

Not Just Soft Skills: Unlocking the Power of Branching Games

Scot Osterweil

MIT Education Arcade

The Future is Now: Games as Assessment

Alexander Salas

StyleLearn eLearning

Beyond the Abstract: The Quest for Better Learning Analytics in Serious Games

Tim Welch

Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD)

Michael DiPonio

Quicken Loans

Jennifer Scianna

Field Day Lab, Univ of Wisc

All Day, Every Day Analytics for Design, Evaluation and Understanding

Carlos Mario Zapata-Jaramillo

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Creation of an Educational Board Game

Bron Stuckey

Innovative Educational Ideas, Australia

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

Cecilia Bolich

Emory University

Gameful Learning Strategies for a Low-Tech Classroom

Colin Saunders

Otterbein University

Gameful Learning Strategies for a Low-Tech Classroom

Magy Seif El-Nasr

Northeastern University

Data-Driven Design of May's Journey: A Programming Game for Non-Programmers

Andrew Easton

Westside Community Schools

Alice Formwalt

StreetSmartsVR

Current State of Firearms Training Simulators

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