Other GBL Events

Mission Statement
 Highlight academic and industrial perspectives on groundbreaking work in computer games research, games development and games education. Focus attention on issues of special interest to women in the games industry and through this seek to address the games industry's gender imbalance and develop a fuller understanding of games and game playing.

Thursday 15th July 2010
Brighton, United Kingdom

8-10 December  2010
Shanghai, China

This workshop is held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2010). The workshop aims at bringing together researchers, experts and practitioners from the domains of non-linear digital interactive story-telling and educational gaming to share ideas and knowledge. There is a great amount of separate research in these two fields and the celebration of this workshop will allow the participants to discover and leverage potential synergies.

15 - 17 September 2010, Leuven, Belgium

Workshop; Creative Learning with Serious Games (3.5 hours)

• Pedagogical approaches for Serious Games
• Development of Serious Games Storyboards
• Case studies of creative learning with SGs

Vienna Games Conference

GAME\\PLAY\\SOCIETY

Friday 24 to Sunday 26 September 2010
Vienna City Hall, Austria,

Vienna’s annual Games Conference FROG offers an open and international platform for leading game studies researchers and scholars, game designers, education professionals and gamers from around the world. The main objective of FROG 10 is to explore the relations between gaming, society and culture and to discuss insights into how to think ahead and beyond common limits of theory and practice of game and play. FROG 2010 is jointly organized by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth, the City of Vienna, wienXtra, the University of Vienna and the Danube-University Krems.

Tuesday 23 November  2010.

The Serious Game Expo will be held at Exhibition Centre - Cité Internationale de Lyon. France, 

An exhibition will bring together companies that will perform demonstrations of their expertise and their technologies throughout the day. A cycle of conferences, validated by a committee of experts, will be accessible to all and will revolve around the plenary conference at midday.

The Awards ceremony Serious Game Expo will also be one of the highlights of the day and reward the best projects of the year.
800 participants are expected at the largest national gathering of industry professionals.

2nd and 3rd December 2010

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Program

More detailed information about the conference programme will be provided in due course.

KEY NOTE SPEAKERS

Dr. Minako O’Hagan , Dublin City University. Provisional title: Translation in Digital Environments.

Dr. Dimitris Grammenos. Institute of Computer Science (ICS) Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH). Provisional title: Universally Accessible Games & Parallel Game Universes.

BETT (formerly known as the British Educational Training and Technology Show) is an annual trade show in the United Kingdom that showcases the use of information technology in education. BETT 2011 takes place on 12-15 January 2011, at Olympia in London.