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Paella Cooking Competition

Cocktail Hour

D.I.C.E. Europe Opening Night Party

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Breakfast

Welcome Remarks

Martin Rae
President
Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences

Why Are We Doing This, Really? The Human Benefit of Computer Games

Morning Conference Opening Keynote
Hilmar Veigar Pétursson
CEO, CCP Games 

This topic will provide a discussion about why, exactly, we make video games. For years Pétursson has been thinking about the motivation behind the people making games, and where this is all going.  With all this amazing technology within our grasp, what is the real goal of making games? Is it simply about making money or reducing boredom? Or can it be a path to achieving something greater? Join Pétursson for some insight into why he thinks that making games isn’t just about creating the next level of human interaction, it’s about the reaching the next level of the human condition.

The Immersive Medium of AR/VR Will Change Games Forever

Roy Taylor
Corporate Vice President of Alliances, AMD
Chair, BAFTA VR Advisory Group

The introduction of VR and AR has created much excitement and speculation. But how exactly should the traditional games industry react and what are the implications? When can we expect to see a real business opportunity and how will this affect the rest of the games industry. In this speech Taylor will explain how he and AMD see the near and far future of gaming evolve.

Coffee Break

Building Communities through Big Data

Tanya Forsheit
Partner, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz
Co-Chair, Privacy & Data Security Group

Forsheit will lead a discussion about how organizations can use privacy as a competitive differentiator and what companies can learn from the recent popular hit, Pokemon Go.

Finding Indie Success by Embracing Livestreaming

Alex Nichiporchik
CEO
tinyBuild

Alex Nichiporchik of tinyBuild will share how small studios can find success by embracing livestreaming and experimenting with new games and technologies. There are no rules. The games industry is changing as we know it, and indie devs are in a unique position to embrace it.

Lunch

VR and the Next Generation of Immersive Experiences

Afternoon Conference Opening Keynote
Clive Downie
Chief Marketing Officer
Unity

VR and the next generation of immersive experiences: Clive will be presenting his views on the quickly evolving VR space and the drive to create more immersive gaming experiences. Alongside a new virtual storytelling language, we're seeing an evolving mixed medium that brings in physical sensation. From Unity's use in the untethered hyper-reality experience Ghostbusters: Dimension to the Leviathan Project's tactile challenges, he has a unique insight into the cutting edge of the industry. Film, games and entertainment are merging into something else entirely as the new paradigm of VR takes hold, so join his session to hear more about where it's going. Unity currently has 5.5 registered developers and a majority of the VR content on the market is being created using the Unity platform.

Congruence: How to know what to do, when you don't know what to do

Paul Wedgwood
CEO
Splash Damage 

This is part two to the talk Paul Wedgwood gave at DICE Europe 2013. Paul committed Splash Damage to staff happiness.  He had answered what he believed were the three most important questions;  Why does Splash Damage exist?  How should Splash Damage behave?  What does Splash Damage do?  Paul quickly realised that saying he would transform Splash Damage in to a happy company, was not the same as doing it.  He discovered that how the company appeared to fans, and how its leadership appeared to employees, was not at all consistent with how it seemed to act behind closed doors.  He had created an intangible idealistic manifesto, Now he needed to achieve actual results...

A New Dawn for Simulated Worlds: the Making of Worlds Adrift

Henrique Olifiers
Co-Founder
Bossa Studios

Henrique's presentation will highlight the game design paradigm transformation that's about to take place, with a generation of Minecraft players whose limitless creativity is restricted by being unable to migrate or graduate into any massive online game in the market due to their scripted, 'on-rails' approach. He will shine a light on how the technology behind Worlds Adrift is a means to an end: creating interactive, reactive and gigantic persistent worlds where empowered players are set loose to do things that were otherwise impossible until now. Henrique will also share the challenges presented by the technology and game design, how to deal with users being able to definitively alter the world around them, methods for populating a gigantic universe, how advanced AI is now possible to be employed in a massive environment, and how the freedom of action by players results in endless content being created on the fly as they play, changing the way we think about content production and game updates.

Coffee Break

New Friends from Unfamiliar Places: Game industry partnerships across industries and continents

James Mitchell
Chief Strategy Officer and Senior Executive Vice President
Tencent

Unfamiliar and new companies are popping up on the game industry's historic periphery and moving to its core via partnerships, investments and acquisitions. James Mitchell is chief strategy officer of Tencent, a China-based Internet and games company with a $250 billion market capitalization that has invested in leading game studios in Europe, the US, Japan and Korea. He will share Tencent's view of the industry's shared past, current geographical and business model fragmentation, and future convergence. 

The Highs and Lows of Building a ‘World of Assassination’

Hannes Seifert
Studio Head
IO Interactive

HITMAN has been around for 15 years before IO Interactive set out to move it fully into the digital and live space in March 2016. Seifert will share the highs and lows of pushing the art form forward: the required change of mind, the tremendous excitement and involvement of players, but also the encountered bumps and obstacles on the way so far.

Welcome Night Drinks

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Breakfast

A Conversation Between Jeff Hilbert and the Founder of Gameforge and Flare Games

Tuesday Conference Opening Keynote
Jeff Hilbert, CEO and Founder, Starting Point
Klaas Kersting, CEO and Founder, Flare Games

Klaas will be interviewed by Jeff Hilbert regarding what he motivated him the start each Publisher, Market Opportunities that he saw at the time and where he feels the future of gaming is headed.

Morning Roundtable Session 1

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Coffee Break

Morning Roundtable Session 2

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Lunch

A Fireside Chat Between Friends: Brandon Beck and Min Kim

Tuesday Afternoon Keynote
Brandon Beck, Co-Founder, Riot Games
Min Kim, Ex-CEO, Nexon America

Brandon Beck and Min Kim are longtime acquaintances and friends whose respective work has seen them steer their companies through periods of drastic growth and change in the past decade. Join them as they share perspectives on the growth of online gaming, the value of culture, and lessons learned in publishing, investment and play. 

Afternoon Roundtable Session 3

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Coffee Break

Afternoon Roundtable Session 4

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Closing Night Reception