Topics include:

• Advocacy
• Audio
  • Creating amazing sound design and music for games
  • Your finest analysis, project, postmortems, techniques, innovations, and technology solutions
  • Strategies for creating unique sounding games and music, and integrated audio experiences
  • Platform Challenges - opportunities afforded by new hardware, overcoming limitations, web/mobile
  • "Post-production" - real-time mixing, DSP, their aesthetics and impact on the player experience
  • Development - teams, tools, pipelines, audio QA, audio localization
  • Business - contracts, copyright, licensing, careers, freelancing
  • Voice - aesthetics, asset acquisition and integration, performance and direction
  • Career development, from getting started to expanding, adapting, and reinventing
  • Diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and skills
  • Cross-disciplinary audio: when sound assists or interacts with other elements of gameplay in novel ways
  • Real-time synthesis and procedural audio - music, sound, and speech
  • Novel audio system implementations and programming best practices
  • "MIDI music" - the power of note data and just-in-time scoring
  • Sound and music for immersive and interactive virtual/augmented reality experiences
• Business & Marketing
  • Key Software Platforms of Today & Tomorrow
  • The Entrepreneur
  • Marketing
  • User Acquisition
  • Crowdfunding
  • Company Values
  • Streaming
  • F2P
  • Virtual Reality
  • And Many Other Topics: Virtual Goods, Community Management, Game Metrics, Practical Law Specifics, Funding, Smart/IPTV Gaming Opportunities/ESports business opps/PR, Developer Branding, International Markets
• Design
• Production & Team Management
  • Production Case Studies or day in the life of...
    • Making games for new platforms
    • Producing VR
    • Challenges of shipping on multiple platforms simultaneously
    • Building and running a service or managing communities
    • Managing licenses
    • Any other best practices
  • Studios & Teams
    • Producing with multiple types of production process
    • Habits and culture of successful teams
    • Building a new team: Start- up, new teams, mature team
    • Communication methods for your team and from your team across the organization
    • Managing creative people through difficult transitions
  • Production Roles
    • Working as/with external publisher production
    • Doing production when not a producer (very applicable for small/indie teams)
    • Transitioning into a producer role from another discipline
    • Training and career progression of producers
    • Producing multiple projects
    • Working with a Product Management team
    • Working with or producing your QA group
• Programming
  • New Game Platforms
  • Core Engine Techniques
  • Advanced in World Simulation
  • AI Behavior Design
  • High-fidelity Character Animation
  • Online-centric Games
  • Achieving the Most with Smaller Teams
  • Advances in Rendering
  • Tools and Pipelines
  • Gameplay Subsystems
  • Automated Testing in Games and Game Engines
• Visual Arts
  • Inspirational Art Direction Talks
  • Techniques and Demos
  • Next Gen Art Techniques
  • Art Management and Production Talks
  • Art Culture
  • Animation
  • 2D Art Production Pipeline Talks
  • Character Design Talks
  • Show us your tech, TAs