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Welcome to the devcom 2017 schedule 
including devcom developer conference, RESPAWN - Gathering of Game Developers, devcom Master Classes & Tutorials, devcom Summits and the gamescom Business & Public Keynotes!

Please find all speakers (including keynotes, master classes, summits and tutorial speakers) on the left hand tab "devcom: All Speakers"

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Tuesday, August 22
 

11:00 CEST

The Next Decade of Graphics and Game Development
Epic Games Founder and CEO Tim Sweeney will discuss the current state of the art in game development and computer graphics, from PC and console to mobile, VR and AR. Attendees will learn about how Epic makes decisions when it comes to building and promoting their own games, like Fortnite and Paragon, as well as the trends that will shape the next decade of entertainment software.

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Tim Sweeney

Founder, Epic Games


Tuesday August 22, 2017 11:00 - 12:00 CEST
Congress-Saal (4th Floor, CONGRESS CENTRE EAST) 4th Floor, CONGRESS CENTRE EAST, Congress-Centrum Ost Koelnmesse, Deutz-Mühlheimer Straße 51D – 50679 Cologne

15:00 CEST

Building the World’s Largest Gaming Community

With 800M people playing at least Facebook connected game every month, we continue to invest in expanding the ways that people engaged with games across multiple platform experiences.  Bob will share the latest developments on these platforms including Instant Games on Messenger, Gameroom and Gaming Video as well as ways to leverage our suite of solutions to help engage and grow your communities of gamers regardless of the platform you are building on.

Audience addressed: relevant for all audiences but more focused on product, community and business


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Bob Slinn

Lead of Games Partnerships Team for EMEA, Facebook
As the head of Games Partnerships for EMEA, Bob leads a team that partners with a broad range of game developers across the region to help them build, grow and monetize their apps in the most successful way through Facebook’s platform and products. Prior to joining Facebook in 2013... Read More →


Tuesday August 22, 2017 15:00 - 15:30 CEST
Congress-Saal (4th Floor, CONGRESS CENTRE EAST) 4th Floor, CONGRESS CENTRE EAST, Congress-Centrum Ost Koelnmesse, Deutz-Mühlheimer Straße 51D – 50679 Cologne

16:30 CEST

Crowdfunding, Publishing, and Cowboys – Texas meets Bavaria

From crowdfunding to global publishing, the journey of 2 Texan “indie” studios on how to live up to backers’ expectations after an extraordinary kickstarter success; keep focus in the project and move to global publishing with the collaboration of a Bavarian publisher.

J. Todd Coleman, Gordon Walton, Richard “Lord British” Garriott and Lars Janssen will hold an open discussion with the audience and share their experience in designing, producing and publishing Multi-Player RPGs.


Audience addressed: Managers/Developers/Anyone who played one MMOG from the participants

Moderators
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Ralf Adam

Owner, Tiger Team Productions
Though insisting on the fact that he’s still 29, Ralf has spent more than two decades in the games industry. Ralf got his start in the early Nineties, and since then he has worked for a multitude of publishers and developers in different positions, among them Infogrames/Atari, Sunflowers... Read More →

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J Todd Coleman

CEO + Creative Director, ArtCraft Entertainment, Inc.
J. Todd Coleman is an internationally recognized designer and producer of AAA massively-multiplayer online games.   He is the creator (creative director and executive producer) of the explosively popular family-friendly hit, Wizard101, the highly anticipated follow-up, Pirate101... Read More →
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Richard Garriott

CEO, Portalarium
Richard Garriott de Cayeux is a founding father of the videogame industry and the commercial spaceflight industry, a flown astronaut, and an accomplished explorer. He has been inducted into the computer gaming hall of fame and has received the industry lifetime achievement award... Read More →
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Lars Janssen

CEO, Travian Games
Lars is currently leading the Munich-based games developer & publisher Travian Games as CEO. With his business background, he joined the company as Product Manager in 2010 after gaining experience on other projects in the games industry for a few years. Since then, he’s worked his... Read More →
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Gordon Walton

President & Executive Producer, ArtCraft Entertainment, Inc.
Gordon Walton has been authoring games and managing game development since 1977. He was most recently VP and Exec Producer at Disney Playdom.Prior positions include: VP and co-Studio General Manager at BioWare Austin working on Star Wars®: The Old Republic™; VP, Executive Producer... Read More →


Tuesday August 22, 2017 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Congress-Saal (4th Floor, CONGRESS CENTRE EAST) 4th Floor, CONGRESS CENTRE EAST, Congress-Centrum Ost Koelnmesse, Deutz-Mühlheimer Straße 51D – 50679 Cologne
 
Wednesday, August 23
 

11:00 CEST

Maximize Developer Opportunities on Xbox: Xbox One X and Beyond
TBA

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Chris Charla

Director, ID@Xbox at Microsoft


Wednesday August 23, 2017 11:00 - 12:00 CEST
Congress-Saal (4th Floor, CONGRESS CENTRE EAST) 4th Floor, CONGRESS CENTRE EAST, Congress-Centrum Ost Koelnmesse, Deutz-Mühlheimer Straße 51D – 50679 Cologne
 
Thursday, August 24
 

11:00 CEST

Branded Games & Entertainment for Kids of ALL Ages
We will take a look into several trends in game development and distribution, including the licensing of brands versus building brands on mobile, as well as the increasing importance of the kids category.

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Robby Yung

CEO, Animoca Brands
Robby is the CEO of Animoca Brands (ASX: AB1), a Hong Kong - based casual game developer & publisher focused on branded games & edutainment. He is a Director of Conspexit, and he is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Redgate Media & One Media Group and founded One Studio & OSMedia... Read More →


Thursday August 24, 2017 11:00 - 12:00 CEST
Congress-Saal (4th Floor, CONGRESS CENTRE EAST) 4th Floor, CONGRESS CENTRE EAST, Congress-Centrum Ost Koelnmesse, Deutz-Mühlheimer Straße 51D – 50679 Cologne
 

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