WIGI-Austin Conference
She Got Game
Saturday, September 8, 2007
11am to 5 pm
Located at Austin Convention Center

Women in Games International is teaming up with the Austin Game Developers Conference, presented by CMP Game Group. WIGI-Austin will explore both the past and present experiences of the women working in our industry, as well as a bigger discussion about the current state of the industry, and where it appears to be headed.

Keynote speaker:

Dona Bailey, creator of the Centipede video game, one of the first videogames to incorporate artificial intelligence.

Games Now and Then
From her early days on Centipede to her current work with students at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Dona C. Bailey takes a look at where video games have been, where they are now and where she'd like to see them go in the future.

Panels:

Diversity Equals Dollars: Why having a diverse development team is good for your bottom line
Industry expert will discuss how workplace diversity and environments have evolved in the games industry over the last 2 decades, what the experience is now like for people entering the industry and the reasons that diversity is equivalent to profitability.

Her Virtual Life: Women and Online Games
With the statistics showing that MMO’s are the second largest market for women gamers, we address how game developers can utilize this information to expand MMO content and game play.

Our sponsors: WIGI series sponsors include Electronic Arts, ECD Systems, Game Developers Conference (GDC), GameDocs, GameRecruiter.com, Girls in Games, International Game Developers Association (IGDA), Mary-Margaret, ThemePark Studios, WomenGamers.com, Women in Games U.K., Women in Technology International and BusinessWire.

Register online today! www.womeningamesinternational.org.