Featured Speakers
JOIN US for a highly educational experience as we bring you Thought-Leadership Talks and Master Classes by the Gurus, Masters and Experts of Machinima, Games and Metaverse!
Professor Keiji Mitsubuchi
Digital Hollywood University Graduate School
Keiji Mitsubuchi is Professor of Digital Contents Research at the Digital Hollywood Graduate School. He has an MS with Scientific Computation & Computational Mathematics from Stanford University, 1991. He worked at Omron Advanced Systems in Silicon Valley, US, as a researcher of Artificial Intelligence, image recognition, and Fuzyy-Nuro based simulation until 1994. He started few venture companies in US and Japan, developing intelligent internet system, Ubiquitous information system, and Image recognition system. In 2005, he became professor of Digital Contents at the Digital Hollywood Graduate School. Then he become chief director of Scondlife (Metaverse) Laboratory in 2006. He has published 4 books, and several papers in journals and international conferences on 3D virtual worlds, avatar identity and 3D virtual world media.
In addition, he is founder of Nihon Web Concepts Inc in Japan, and 3u.com Inc in US. He is the board member of Japan Stanford Association, Metaverse Association in Japan, and Contents Institute In Japan. Also, he is a co-chair of mpeg-v, the international standard for virtual world.
Jeremy Snyder
VP of Community & Operations, Metaversum
Jeremy Snyder is responsible for day-to-day platform operations, community management and customer support at Metaversum. Jeremy also heads up Metaversum Asia, based in Singapore. Prior to Metaversum, Jeremy gained his experience at several companies as Senior IT Manager and Director for Managed Services and Hosted Business Solutions. He expanded his entrepreneurial career as co-founder of Extensive Development LLC, a consulting in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business. Jeremy has a BA in Computational Linguistics from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA in Enterprise Management from George Mason University.
Andrew Peters
The Pacific West Communications
Mastered the art of internet-awareness and is highly connected with online & offline web 2.0, Virtual Worlds & Social Media communities. With 20+ years of experience in traditional publishing, public relations and marketing having worked with companies like ICL, Wang Computers, Anixter, BenQ and Australian Consolidated Press. Currently Andrew has roles with a number of entrepreneurial ventures and is a partner of The Pacific West Communications. Andrew is a social media strategist for Geek Terminal Singapore & Cable TV Talk Show Asia Uncut seen on the Star World Network across Asia. Most recently appointed to 1st Web TV Reality Show, SuperModelMe as Online Publicist for global audience acquisition & interaction.
Jonathon Sze
Assistant Director, Product Management, IAHGames
IAHGames is well-known in South East Asia as a leading Online Game operator. They have brought to the gamers Award-winning MMORPGs such as Granado Espada. They were also the first online game operator to organize a full scale Machinima competition in which gamers used in-game characters to create movies. The competition would be running for the 2nd time in the early part of 2009. Jonathon and his team of community managers managed to tap on the power of Machinima to extend the popularity of Granado Espada beyond the traditional online channels.
Doug Gillon
Producer, IAHGames
A gaming industry veteran, IAHGames Producer Doug Gillon has nurtured and promoted a plethora of online and console titles during his time in Singapore, including Granado Espada, Grand Theft Auto IV, Hellgate: London, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, and EA SPORTS™ FIFA Online 2. Doug heads production work for voice acting at IAHGames and is the company’s chief writer. He occasionally presents at events such as machinima workshops and the recent X08 Xbox showcase in Singapore.
Francis Wee
Founder, Religion
Francis Wee, founder of Religion, a creative boutique agency started in 2007. He is ranked one of the top Executive Creative Directors in Asia. He is renowned for producing effective and world-class campaigns that garnered many international awards in his previous agencies:
SAATCHI & SAATCHI SINGAPORE
SAATCHI & SAATCHI HONG KONG
BBDO SINGAPORE.
Francis has won every single gold award in all the global, regional and local advertising shows. To date, he is the only creative person who has won the D&AD Black Pencil, outside of the US and UK.
Jerry Chen
Business Development Director, ExpressInMusic.com
Express In Music is a music portal which provides talents from composers to sound engineers to performing artistes - an opportunity to touch the lives of others through their music in a special personalised way. On a highly affordable budget, clients will have a wide pool of musicians composing specially for them. From the demo pieces submitted by the many composers, clients can select the ones they like from a quantity base. This helps in building up the musician’s portfolio in their career.
*The organiser reserves the right to amend the programme/speakers without prior notice.
