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Brains in the Game

Date: 14th May 2009
Time: 5.00 pm to 8.00 pm
Venue: Film, Media and Music Building, Room 2B05, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, AL10 9AB

Speakers and Topics include:

The games industry - Jon Hare
Jon has worked on over 60 games in the last 25 years on over 20 formats from Sinclair Spectrum to X-Box360. 10 of these games have reached number 1 in the UK games charts.

He is best known for his time as co-founder of legendary computer Games Developer Sensible Software (1986-1999) with whom he designed and developed games such well known as Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder and Wizball. Sensible Software was twice voted developer of the year for the prestigious Indin Awards.

For the last 10 years he has been a game design and business development consultant in the computer games sector for a number of international games developers such as Bitmap Brothers, Elixir Studios, Monumental, Tower Studios, In2games, Nikitova, Atomic Planet, Sobee, Acony, E-Play and Nice Tech and publishing companies such as Codemasters, THQ and Sony.

In addition Jon frequently performs numerous media, public speaking and educational roles for such corporate bodies as BAFTA, The British Consulate, GDC and numerous television and radio channels, websites and magazines.

How to start a company - John McMillan
Head of McMillan Technology, John is responsible for bringing high tech products to market. John has created and run numerous high tech companies in the last 25 years.  He has helped Universities market their intellectual property. 

He is President of the Sudbury Chamber of Commerce and he chairs the Collaborate2Innovate group - an initiative designed to help technology companies in the eastern region increase opportunities through networking.

Plus Networking over refreshments

This is a free event, but places are limited. Register now: http://www.gameseden.co.uk/index.php/BrainsintheGame

Posted on 14 May, 2009 - Event Proceedings