With great pleasure, we’re excited to announce the 2011 Gamification Summit (Jan 20-21, San Francisco) along with some major sponsors and keynotes. This is an exciting day – and space is strictly limited, so if you’re really into Gamification, skip the preamble and register now.
Gamification is a burgeoning industry with many new advances emerging every day and lots of both confusion and opportunity around best practices, market size/definition and the right approaches. So, working together with the amazing Margaret Wallace and our esteemed advisory board, we’ve put together an event that simply cannot be missed.
Whether you are a marketer, brand strategist, UX designer/architect or a startup person, Gamification Summit brings together the best minds for the first time for a series of keynotes, lectures, panels and networking that will help you learn best practices and the latest techniques from the field.
Our major sponsors include BigDoor Media and Bunchball, and other sponsors include Pillsbury, Winthrop and M2 Research. Thanks, Sponsors! More information about them can be found on the conference website.
Keynotes & Major Speakers Include:
Prominent game designer, Jane McGonigal, Director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future, will keynote the event, discussing how game mechanics can be harnessed to bring about change, even on a global scale. McGonigal will also use the Summit as the backdrop for launching her much-anticipated new book, “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World” (The Penguin Press).
Gabe Zichermann, celebrated author of “Game-Based Marketing” and blogger at Gamification.Co, who will share his vision for why page-views are a dead metric and will be replaced by an “engagement score”.
Amy Jo Kim, renowned gamification guru and author will be offering a full day, hands-on gamification workshop, along with an overview of designing for engagement.
And many more speakers listed on gsummit.com and even more to be announced.
Read the complete press release here.
Changing the Blog!
And, as many of you noticed, we’ve updated the FunwareBlog’s URL, look and purpose. Now at Gamification.Co, we’re going to be writing regularly, bringing you the freshest information about gamification – every day. Let us know what you think!
This looks pretty good. I’ll be interested to see how it develops. It’s really been interesting how this entire niche seems to have really blown up over the last year.