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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.

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

IBM

Ethics and Leadership

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

University of Ottawa

Reality or Fiction? The Use of Pervasive Games in Higher Education

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

University of Ottawa

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

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

Hayfield Isovista

Designing Innovative Virtual Spaces

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

York University

From Cathedrals to Virtual Reality: (Un)Structuring Spatial Narratives for Video Games, AR, and VR
Teach like a Dungeon Master

Brian Stensrud

SoarTech

PANEL: Achieving Deep Learning in Serious Games and Simulations

Leslie Gruis

Author

CyberSafety: What You Need to Know about Privacy

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

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

TBD

Ronald Dyer

University of Sheffield

Measurement & Evaluation - Strategies for Measurement of Serious Game Integration

Enrique Cachafeiro

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

Assessment for Immersive Learning Experiences

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

Bernard Township Schools

Fortnite Creative: Leveraging Student Expertise in Content Creation

Dov Jacobson

GamesThatWork

Win the Boss Fight (A Live Game)

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

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

WORKSHOP: Artificial Intelligence Demystified

Marcia Downing

Marciaz Consulting

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

Richard Boyd

Tanjo

PANEL: Achieving Deep Learning in Serious Games and Simulations

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

Gargamel Studio

Who's Really Investing in Educational Games?

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

Defense Acquisition University

Developing Research Methodologies for Grant and Funding Submissions
How to Make 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 Berkley

Mimic Simulation

Measuring Effectiveness in Healthcare Simulations

Dennis Glenn

Dennis Glenn LLC /
DePaul University

Micro-Learning:
The Next Great Innovation in Healthcare Training

Valary Oleinik

Weil, Gotshal & Manges

Gamification on a Shoestring: No Budget, No Problem

Sarah Moffat

Leadership Coach & Founder, Leading Ladies LLC


Developing High Performing Leaders

Tammie Schrader

Washington State Association of Educational Service Districts

Game-Based Learning Across the Curriculum and Across Washington State

Anders Gronstedt

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

BrainPOP

How Reward Structures Can Aid Assessment Without Harming Learning

Ronald Stevens

UCLA School of Medicine /
The Learning Chameleon

Assessing the Neurodynamics of Uncertainty during Serious Play

Wei-Fan Chen

Fourdesire

TBD

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

Crowell Interactive

TBD

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

Dwight-Englewood School

Teachers as Game Designers: Games in the High School History Classroom

Aditya Vishwanath

Inspirit Learning & Stanford University

How Do We Make Immersive VR More Scalable, Accessible

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

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)

Rules of the Game: How to Ensure Training Outcomes

Michael DiPonio

Quicken Loans

Select a Champion: How Identifying the Right Stakeholders Will Make or Break your Serious Game

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

Westside Community Schools

A Video Production Power-Up for Your Gamification Skills

Carole Bagley

Technology Group, Inc. and University of St. Thomas

Design for Learning & Performance Effectiveness

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