INAUGURAL 3D GAMING SUMMIT BEGINS TOMORROW
IN LOS ANGELES
Features All-Star Lineup of Gaming, Entertainment Leaders And 3D Gaming Lounge
With Latest In 3D Games and Systems
Two-Day Event Presented In Association with Variety
(Los Angeles, CA and Milford, CT; April 20, 2010) - The first ever 3D Gaming
Summit, featuring an all-star lineup of gaming and entertainment leaders and offering the 3D Gaming Lounge with the
latest in 3D games and systems, will run Wednesday-Thursday, April 21-22, 2010, at the Los Angeles Hilton in Universal City,
CA. For more information or to register, please visit www.3Dgamingsummit.com.
Keynote interviews, conducted by Summit Chairperson
Bob Dowling, are planned with Director/Producer Paul W.S. Anderson, whose credits include Resident Evil, Mortal Kombat,
Alien vs. Predator, and the recently announced 3D Buck Rogers and Jon Landau, Producer of the Academy Award®-winning
feature films Avatar and Titanic. Keynote addresses will be delivered by Phil Eisler, General Manager of 3D Vision,
NVIDIA, and Josh Greer, President and Co-Founder, RealD.
In
addition to Dowling and John Gaudiosi, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of videogame syndication service GamerLive.tv and Senior
Content Advisor to the Summit, featured speakers include producer Ari Arad (Lost Planet); Loren Lanning, Oddworld
Inhabitants; Dave Perry, President, Gaikai; Alan Price, Studio Chief, Chief Technology Officer, Electronic Arts, Canada; writer
Jesse Stern, (NCIS, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2), and Joshua Glazer, Co-Founder and Chief Technology
Officer, Naked Sky Entertainment (Star Trek: DAC).
The 3D Gaming Summit is a high strategy networking
event exploring how video games aided by new technologies, such as stereoscopic 3D, are bridging the gap between interactive
and linear entertainment.
"The 3D Gaming Summit will bring together some of the finest
minds in interactive and traditional media," says veteran gaming journalist Gaudiosi. "Videogames are a key
driver, along with Blu-ray 3D, in convincing first early adopters and then mainstream consumers to upgrade their HD home entertainment
centers into 3D HD experiences. Our conference speakers will address how the entertainment and gaming sectors can capitalize
on these new trends."
RealD, Sony Computer Entertainment America, Sony Electronics Inc., and
Sony Digital Cinema are Premier Sponsors. Official Sponsors are NVIDIA and MASTERIMAGE 3D. Harkness Screens, Mitsubishi, Panasonic
Hollywood Lab, Sensio Technologies, Strong / MDI Screen Systems, and Virtual Images are Event Sponsors. Supporters include
Darkworks, GUNNAR Optiks, Micoy Corporation, MicroVision Optical, SteelSeries North America Corporation, and TDVision Systems.
Among the other 3D Gaming Summit featured speakers are Matty Rich, Hollywood 3D Director and Game Creator; Mark
Long, Zombie Studios (game and movie production); Adrian Askarieh, Producer, Prime Universe Productions; Flint Dille, Game
Writer and Hollywood Writer; Josh Wexler, President, Threshold Entertainment Studios; Chris Baker, Videogame Editor, Wired
Magazine; Michael Pachter, Videogame Analyst, Wedbush Morgan Securities; Ben Barajin, Creative Strategies; Dr. Jon Peddie,
President, Jon Peddie Research; Neil Schneider, President, S3DGA & Meant to be Seen; Michael Cai, VP of Research, Video
Games, Interpret, LLC; Reuben Langdon, Actor/Producer, Just Cause Productions, Inc.; Ethan Schur, CMO, TDVision Systems Inc,
(@Home Promotional Chair; Jerry Heneghan, President of Virtual Heroes; Bill Fisher, Developer, 3D Military Simulations, QuickSilver
Software; Chris Marlowe, Moderator, Editorial Director, DeMarco Media Group; Mike Acton, Engine Director, Insomniac Games;
Gordon Bellamy, Senior Producer, Emerging Media, yu+co; Paul Debevec, USC ICT; Ashu Rege, Senior Director, Content and Technology,
NVIDIA; Brian Leake, VP of Technology, Disney Interactive Studios; Frank Vitz, Senior Art Director, Electronic Arts; Matt
Costello, President and Creative Director, Polar Productions, Ltd.; Kris Roberts, Senior Game Designer Rockstar San
Diego; Alexis Arragon, Product Development Manager, Darkworks; Mark Rein, Vice President, Epic Games; Hill Ferguson, Vice
President, Product Management & Marketing, Zong; Ludovic Bodin, Co-Founder and CEO, CMUNE; Mike Goslin, VP, Product Development,
Hangout Industries; Jonathan Dern, President, Cinedigm Entertainment Group; Michelle Martell, COO, Cinedigm Entertainment
Group; Dave Naranjo, Director of Product Development, Mitsubishi; Christian Svensson, Corporate Officer and Vice President
of Strategic Planning & Business, Development, Capcom Entertainment; Scott Hettrick, Publisher, Editor-in-Chief,
HollywodinHiDef.com; James Bower, COO, MasterImage; Andrew Fear, Senior Product Manager, Consumer 3D Products; Greg Spence,
Lead Programmer, EverQuest II, Sony Online Entertainment; Luis Gigliotti, Creative Director, THQ; Craig Allen, CEO of Spark
Unlimited (Call of Duty 1, Legendary, Turning Point); Jim Bell, CEO, Megaphone; Mike Schramm, Contributing
Editor, Joystick; Andrew Oliver, CTO, Blitz Games Studios; Denby Grace, Senior Producer, 2K Games; and Yoni Koenig,
Chief Scientist, Studio GPU.
3D Gaming Summit is the newest addition to the 3D Entertainment
Series of events produced by Unicomm, LLC in association with Variety. Bringing together the most prestigious
group of professionals, the 3D Gaming Summit's unique environment will enable attendees to engage, debate and define the
latest developments in the gaming and entertainment marketplace. With an unprecedented group of opinion leaders, the summit
will define the opportunities and strategic options presented by 3D stereoscopic gaming. For more information: www.3dgamingsummit.com.
3D Entertainment Summit presented in
association with Variety, attracted more than 500 attendees to last year's event at the Hilton Los Angeles in Universal
City. Co-produced by Bob Dowling, former Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The Hollywood Reporter, the summit featured
a "who's who" in 3D from top brands and all aspects of the entertainment community and received international media
coverage. Major sponsors included Sony Digital, Sony Electronics, RealD, 3Ality, DreamWorks, Panasonic and IMAX. Highlights
included a keynote address by Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation SKG and a keynote discussion with Coraline's
Academy Award® nominated director Henry Selick and Academy Award®-winning visual effects supervisor Brian Van't
Hull. The next 3D Entertainment Summit is scheduled for September
15-16, 2010 once again at the Hilton Los Angeles in Universal City. For more information: www.3d-summit.com.
The Bob Dowling Group - For 17 years through 2007, Bob Dowling was editor-in-chief and publisher
of The Hollywood Reporter and president of the VNU Business Media Film and Performing Arts Group. During Dowling's
tenure, The Reporter launched numerous new products, including the HollywoodReporter.com Web site, e-mail edition, weekly
edition, THR East, Literary Hollywood, Festival de Cannes dailies and the Oscar Screening Guide, as well as many annual events
such as the Women in Entertainment Power 100 stand-alone issue and its related breakfast event, the Next Generation ranking
of prominent young executives, the Film and TV Music Conference and the reorganized Key Art Awards. Dowling recently
started his own information and consulting firm, the Bob Dowling Group, to serve clients looking to navigate the converging
worlds of entertainment and technology, with the 3D Entertainment Summit and 3D Gaming Summit as lead projects.
Unicomm LLC is an independent business-to-business communications company specializing in originating
and managing world class trade shows and conferences in underserved and nascent markets. Founded in 1998 in Milford, CT, Unicomm
enjoys impressive track record of dozens of successful show launches and hundreds of event productions. Unicomm's properties
include the 3D Entertainment Summit in association with VARIETY, The 3D Gaming Summit, the LA Times Travel &
Adventure Show, Adventures in Travel Expo in NY, CH, DC and Seattle, and the Green Travel Summit. For more information:
www.unicomm.org.
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(RBI), the largest business publisher in the U.S. RBI is a member of the Reed Elsevier Group (NYSE; RUK and ENL).
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