GSummit’s Advance Gamification Workshop: A great introductory for newbies and refreshers for veterans GSummit 2013 is finally here and it has started out with a full house at the Advanced Gamification Certification Workshop facilitated by Gabe himself. For those who are unfamiliar about the workshop, it exposes attendees how to develop and implement a gamified…
GSummit’s Enterprise Workshop: Everything you Need to Know to Get Started with Gamification Hello and a warm welcome from San Francisco! We are proud to announce that GSummit SF 2013 has kicked off successfully! Today was the first day of events and it was specially tailored for companies looking to earn a GSummit gamification certification….
A Focus on Our Favorite Tweets from GSummit 2013. GSummit 2013 is fast underway and attendees aren’t wasting any time tweeting about their experience here. Everyone attending is actively participating and giving feedback by posting real-time reactions to Twitter during talks, events, and even the awesome lunch trucks. Between Mario Herger’s Enterprise Gamification Certification Workshop…
As a lifelong gamer I’ve always considered video game mechanics to be in a league of their own. I find gaming to create a sense of interaction and engagement not found in other media. Whether it’s an experience point system such as seen in a role-playing game (RPG) or an acquired ability to problem solve from a puzzle game, there’s something special about gaming that appeals to our emotions to make us invested in a story or idea.
Adobe and Delta Air Lines both use gamification to drive engagement with their products, which in turn produces a kind of learning and subsequent new behavior for the engaged users. Learning is taking place in this regard but Adobe and Delta have managed to use gamification for an even higher level of learning.
Rather than creating general classes for learning, Adobe and Delta have successfully been able to use games to train people for tasks they want to accomplish and they will both be represented at GSummit 2013 to discuss their training games.
As the market for gamification matures, there are a number of significant changes in store for our nascent industry. Chief among those is the increased attention from bellwether companies that signal broadening support for our view of increased engagement through great design.
One of the most sought-after categories is consultancies, particularly the large management/strategy agencies. Their participation in our community is an essential step in getting major enterprises (e.g. Fortune 1000s), governments and large NGOs to see gamification and engagement science as a core part of their strategy.
The use of gamification is slowly gaining traction in the enterprise sector as the corporate workforce is warming up to the ideas of blending fun and engagement into the workplace. Unsurprisingly, this similar scenario is occurring within the education sector as well. Recent groundbreaking developments such as the use of collaborative platforms and massively online open courses purposes has redefined the traditional sense of education and teaching methodologies. With all this in mind, it leaves many to questions like how do we make sense of these developments, what does it mean for the future of learning and how does this affect the enterprise realm. However, fret not dear readers, as GSummit has an amazing line up of speakers to address these hot topics; here are some of our top picks for education gamification sessions.
Every week until GSummit SF 2013, we’ll be unlocking some special content from last year to give you a preview on what to expect this April 16 – 18.
Tricia Gellman of Data.com describes how gamification empowers communities and enables self-governing reward systems:
Every week until GSummit SF 2013, we’ll be unlocking some special content from last year to give you a preview on what to expect this April 16 – 18.
Jon Radoff, CEO of DisruptorBeam, explains what problems gamification can appropriately solve and how games are unique in that regard:
What makes receiving a badge for completing a task so exciting? Why does seeing a progress bar almost full make us itch until we finish it? Gamification—the combination of game-design principles and elements—implements cognitive psychology and decision-making theory as its scientific foundation. If gamification were stuffed shells, science is the shell, and everything else is stuffing.
Every week until GSummit SF 2013, we’ll be unlocking some special content from last year to give you a preview on what to expect this April 16 – 18.
James Gardner talks about what users value in gamification systems and how to appropriately present gamification as an engagement tactic rather than “playing games”:
Learn the latest in gamification by going to GSummit SF 2013. Register now!
GamificationCo has asked some its editors for their top sessions picks for GSummit SF 2013. Here is Sudarshan Gopaladesikan’s most anticipated session for GSummit:
I love risk-taking. As a junior in college, I have the notion that the workforce won’t allow me to take any risks because safe, but sure investments/ideas are less unpredictable to a company’s profits. Looking through the sessions at GSummit (all of them are great!), Ross Smith–Director of Test at Microsoft–will be speaking on how trust among colleagues can foster individual innovation, productivity, and risk-taking.
GamificationCo has asked some its editors for their top sessions picks for GSummit SF 2013. Here are Alex Landa’s picks for this year:
Gamification can change anything from a phone app to an entire business model. Here are a few events at GSummit that not only show changing media and businesses, but also show the innovative thought pattern behind these innovations.
This year’s GSummit is bigger and better than ever before, with 80 speakers and dozens of sessions covering key engagement science topics across marketing, loyalty, HR/enterprise, product design, UI/UX, learning/education and health. After the hands-on workshops the first day (which are selling out), the rest of the event is jam-packed with meaningful, highly curated talks from some of the best and brightest speakers in the world. To make sure the days flow smoothly, and everyone is getting the maximum insight from their time, we bring in top community experts to act as hosts throughout the conference.
Last year, Jessica Rogers and Ashok Kamal brought their unique insights to the floor to marshall an amazing event.
This year, we’re pleased to invite three of the most influential and vocal members of the global gamification community to be our hosts for GSummit 2013:
The GSummit speakers roster for this year’s event(SF, April 16-18, 2013) just keeps getting better and better. To support 2013’s themes of strategy, loyalty and engagement, we’ve just announced over a dozen new speakers. This brings our roster to 80 world-class engagement experts in multiple categories, making this the biggest and best GSummit ever. Here are some of the highlights from our latest group of amazing speakers. Be sure to check out their talks: they’re controversial, entertaining, informative and game-changing. We’ve got major content tracks for marketing, HR/Enterprise, Learning/Training, community, design and more.
Be sure to register now to reserve your conference/workshop space. Spots are going quickly, and if your job involves designing engagement you’ll definitely want to learn, network and earn your certification this year at GSummit.
Be sure to see the newly announced speakers and sessions – and some of my notes after the jump:
