2020 Speakers « Serious Play Conference

2020 Speakers

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.

Amrutha Vasan

Inspirit Learning & Stanford University

How Do We Make Immersive VR More Scalable, Accessible

Florian Tolk

Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative

An Introduction to Using xAPI in Gaming and Simulation

Ryan Connell

NCMA

PANEL :
How the Govt is Attempting to Reach Non-Traditional Problem Solvers

Cody Coltharp

Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access

Free Govt Assets to Enrich Educational Game Content

Ben McMartin

Public Spend Forum

ANEL DISCUSSION:
How the Government is Attempting to Reach Non-Traditional Problem Solvers

Iain Skeete

NSTXL

PANEL :
How the Govt is Attempting to Reach Non-Traditional Problem Solvers

Matt Denny

NavalX

PANEL DISCUSSION: How the Government is Attempting to Reach Non-Traditional Problem Solvers

Shobhana Gupta

NASA

Free Govt Assets to Enrich Educational Game Content

Chris Benson

AFWERX

PANEL :
How the Govt is Attempting to Reach Non-Traditional Problem Solvers

Marianne Malmstrom

Know Clue Kidd

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

Elizabeth Newbury

Wilson Center’s Serious Games Initiative

Free Govt Assets to Enrich Educational Game Content

Helen Wechsler

Institute of Museum and Library Services

Federal Funding Opportunities for Museums from the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Tony Bevilacqua

Cognitive 3D

How to Measure Success From Your VR Training Program

Andy Johnson

Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (ADL)

An Introduction to Using xAPI in Gaming and Simulation

Lakita Edwards

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

Games for Learning Funding Opportunities: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

Russ Shilling

Keynote: Pandemics to Psychological Health: What Developing Games Can Teach us About Social Impact

Jennifer Murphy

Quantum Improvements Consulting

Developing Research Methodologies for Grant and Funding Submissions

How to Make Memorable Games

Phaedra Boinodiris

Academy of Technology Member
IBM

Ethics and Tech Leadership

Teaching AI Ethics in K-12: The Urgent Reason Why and the How

Drew Robarge

Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History

Free Govt Assets to Enrich Educational Game Content

Bob Hone

Game Design & Architecting

Designing Effective Health Games for Digital Therapeutics

André Thomas

Triseum

PANEL: Forming a Organization to Promote Game-Based Learning Developers

Leslie Faircloth

Small Business Programs
Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division

PANEL: Finding Funding from the Department of Defense

Thomas Burelli

Professor in Law
University of Ottawa

Gamifying a Semester Long Course in Higher Education Through

Sarah Hughes

Lab at OPM

Choose Your Own Adventure in Government Benefits

Ed Metz

Program Director, Institute of Education Sciences, US Department of Education

Federal Funding for Education Games

David Macdonald

University of Ottawa

Reality or Fiction? The Use of Pervasive Games in Graduate School

Sam S. Adkins

Metaari

2020-2025 Global Game-Based Learning Market

Olli Rundgren

Psyon Games

Gamified Marketing, Awareness and Data Collection Platform for Pharma and Biopharma Companies

Alex Lillo

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Ottawa

PANEL: Spice up Your Online Teaching: GBL for Higher Education

Gamifying a Semester Long Course in Higher Education Through

Amina Kator-Mubarez

Dept. of Defense Analysis Naval Postgraduate School

The Do's and Don'ts of Facilitating Serious Games Effectively

Sally Baho

Operations and Info. Sci. Naval Postgraduate School

The Do's and Don'ts of Facilitating Serious Games Effectively

Eulani Labay

Lab at OPM

Choose Your Own Adventure in Government Benefits

Dan Mapes

Full Sail University

Essential ICU Nurse Training Forced Online During a Pandemic

Brandon Baker
AdventHealth University

Essential ICU Nurse Training Forced Online During a Pandemic

John Findlay
LemonaidLXP

Why Game-based Learning Will Thrive in the Post Pandemic Surge of Distance Learning

Steve Guynup
VR Developer / Online Game Design Faculty, Hayfield Isovista

Workshopping VR Art, Design, & Education — in VR

Ginny Smith
Florida State University

Designing In-game Supports to Facilitate Learning

Albert Liu
Cognitive3D

How to Measure Success From Your VR Training Program

John Fallon
Notre Dame High School

Teaching Video Games as a Text

Garth Jensen
Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division

Complexity and How it Applies to Learning

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

Brian Stensrud
SoarTech

PANEL: Achieving Deep Learning in Serious Games and Simulations

Leslie Gruis
Author

What Serious Game Designers Can Learn From The Espionage World

Sarah Miller
MITRE

Creating a Serious Game about Organizational Agility

Peter Leveille
MITRE

Creating a Serious Game about Organizational Agility

Rhonda Bruce
Defense Acquisition University (DAU)

Managing Successful Adult Learning Projects:
Let's Benchmark

Alice Formwalt
StreetSmartsVR

Current State of Firearms Training Simulators

Richard Van Eck
University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences

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
CEO, Team Results USA

Teamwork Meets Science - How Group Behavior Makes Better Games

Katharine Hargreaves
ARKO

Flex: Impossible Stories and Speculative World Building

Rob Alvarez
Founder / Professor / Assoc. Director
IE University // Professor Game

Workshop TBD

Ronald Dyer
Senior Lecturer
Sheffield University

Group Dynamics for a Gamified Collaboration Mindset

Enrique Cachafeiro

Education & Training Coordinator
Duke Health
Gamifying Conventional eLearning Modules Using Adobe Captivate

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

Vineet Raj Kapoor
Chitkara University

Practical Gamification; What Works, What Does Not

Jim Kiggens
Immersive Learning Experience Team, Adtalem Global Education

Immersive Clinical Learning Experience Production

Cynthia Sanner
Elsevier

Assessment & Data Utilization in Game Based Nursing Program

Rachel Slivon
University of Florida

Create an Escape Room, Producing a More Active Learning Environment

Mahesh Joshi
GMU School of Business

Creating an Interactive TableTop Business Strategy Game

Steve Isaacs
Education Program Manager
Epic Games

The Esports Experience: Empowering Every Learner Through Inclusive Gaming

Dov Jacobson
Creative Director
GamesThatWork

Zero to Playable in 60 Minutes. Make Your Game Now

Olufunmilola Abraham
Univ. of Wisconsin Madison - School of Pharmacy

Harnessing the Power of Serious Games to Improve Medication Use

Scott Provence
Grand Rounds

Functional Failure:
How We Learn More by
Getting It Wrong

Mitch Weisburgh
Founding Partner
Academic Business Advisers

Worst Practices for Learning

Paul Thurkettle
NATO Allied Command Transformation

Preparing Soldiers To Deal with an Extraordinary Situation: War Camps

Thomas B. Talbot
USC Institute for Creative Technologies

PANEL: Serious Games for Global Mental Health under Federal Grant Programs

Marcia Downing
Marciaz Consulting

How to Turn Games/Activities into Tools of Evaluation and Assessment

Richard Boyd
President
Ultisim

Educational VR for K-6: Water Treatment Sim

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

Deliberate Fun: A Purposeful Approach to Gamifying Learning Experience

Elisa Navarro Chinchilla

Educational Video Games Developer
Gargamel Studio
Building An Online Library Orientation Game

Scott Brewster
Triad Interactive Media

The Immersive Classrooms in Middle and High School

Lindsay Grace
University of Miami

Designing Interactives,
Toys and Games for Optimal Engagement

Mike Beall
University of Wisconsin - Madison

Designing Games for Professional Development

Victoria Grieve
University of Pittsburgh

What Makes a Game Empathetic?

Ret. Gen. Frank Kelley
Defense Acquisition Univ.

The Opportunity for Developer Contracts in Defense Acquisition

Karen Sikkema
Living Story

Escape Room Design for Learning

Ross Smith
Microsoft

Games, AI and Worker Displacement

Samantha Bond
University of Illinois at Chicago

Serious Games through the Eyes of a Certified Medical Illustrator

Peter Stidwill
FableVision Studios

The Future is Now:
Games as Assessment

Tony Beck
National Institutes of Health / Science Education

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

Tony Crider
Elon University

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

Thierry Karsenti
University of Montreal

Minecraft and Makecode

YJ (Yoon Jeon) Kim
MIT Playful Journey Lab

Playful Assessments: Practical Design Considerations
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

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

Miranda Verswijvelen
University of Auckland

Game-inspired Narrative Design to Support Compassion Training with Virtual Patients

Nataly Martini
University of Auckland

Game-inspired Narrative Design to Support Compassion Training with Virtual Patients

Alicia Sanchez
Games Czar
Defense Acquisition University

Top Ten Research Findings in Games 2020 Edition

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 Berkley
Mimic Simulation

Measuring Effectiveness in Healthcare Simulations

Dennis Glenn
Dennis Glenn LLC /
DePaul University

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

Valary Oleinik
Consultant

Gamification on a Shoestring: No Budget, No Problem

Sarah Moffat
Leadership Coach & Founder, Leading Ladies LLC

Developing High Performing Leaders

Tammie Schrader

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

Anders Gronstedt
President, Gronstedt Group

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

Michelle Zimmerman
Renton Prep

Serious Play: Leading School Transformation during a Global Pandemic

Tobi Saulnier
1st Playable

Avoiding the Tower of Babel: Best Practices for Interdisciplinary Teams

Marc Ruppel
National Endowment for the Humanities

Federal Grant Opportunities in the Arts

Ronald Kantor
Consultant

How China's After School Education Industry Leverages Digital Gaming

Kevin Miklasz

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

Ronald Stevens
UCLA School of Medicine /
The Learning Chameleon

Assessing the Neurodynamics of Uncertainty during Serious Play

Wei-Fan Chen
Fourdesire

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

Bradley Tanner
Clinical Tools and Health Impact Studio

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

Ben Chang
Rensselaer

Collaboration on Campus:
A Mobile Game about Drug Discovery and Development

Ben Noel
Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy (FIEA) at UCF

Angela Malicki

Program Manager, Multimedia & Learning Technology Systems, Johns Hopkins Hospital

From Game Design to Production in 4 Months

Sharon Bildstein
ISD, Multimedia and Learning Technology, 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
Chief Creative
Crowell Interactive

Make A Game Workshop

Mike Washburn
Participate

Fostering Affinity Spaces and Community in Academic Esports

Jenn McNamara
BreakAway Games

TBD

Peter Smith
University of Central Florida & Limbitless Solutions

Integrating Hardware into Serious Games Design

Roger Smith
Model Benders

PANEL: Achieving Deep Learning in Serious Games and Simulation

Sreeram Kongeseri
Amrita University

Games for Community Engagement
- Will it Work for You?

Ajay Balakrishnan
AMMACHI Labs

Games for Community Engagement - Will it work for you?

David Metcalf
Institute for Simulation and Training, UCF

Serious Games for BioDefense

Shawn Clybor
History Teacher
Dwight-Englewood School

Grand Strategy Games as History Textbooks

Aditya Vishwanath
Co-Founder & CEO
Inspirit (Inspirit Learning, Inc.)

Build Meaningful VR STEM Content: Instructors create VR!

Randy Brown
Virtual Heroes Division of ARA

Operational VR: From Play to Simulation to Military Operational Use

Kimberly Hieftje
play4REAL XR Lab at Yale

XR in Health & Education: Are We Ahead of the Game?

Bernard François
Preview Labs

VR Prototyping: Best Practices

Paula Kelly
NExT, a Schlumberger Company

Onboarding Gen Z and Millennials with Experiential Training

Carlo Fabricatore
University of Huddersfield

Game Design in the Age of Coronavirus: Fostering Sustainable Futures through Gameplay

Doug Whatley
CEO, BreakAway Games

COTS Driven Business Models and the Ethical Use of Data

Ashley Parker
Content Development Manager, Simulations, Harvard Business School Publishing

Fewer Papercuts: Digitizing In-Class 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)

Rules of the Game: How to Ensure Training Outcomes

Michael DiPonio
Instructional Designer
AmeriSave Mortgage Corporation

Developing Serious Games on Little (to No) Budget

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?

Magy Seif El-Nasr

Khoury College of Computer Sciences and College of Arts, Media and Design, Northeastern University
Data-Driven Design of May's Journey: A Programming Game for Non-Programmers

Andrew Easton

Digital Learning Coordinator, Nebraska ESU Coordinating Council
WORKSHOP: Practical Ideas for Enhancing Your Classroom Games

Carole Bagley
President, The Technology Group
and Distinguished Service Professor, University of St. Thomas

Learning Impact of Gaming & Interactive Narratives/Stories