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9:30am EDT

Opening Remarks Mainstage - Tishman Auditorium

9:45am EDT

Keynote - Empowering Tech Crazed Kids to Save Lives with Rajesh Anandan Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumRajesh Anandan

10:15am EDT

Keynote - Thinking Inside the Box: The Changing Landscape of Learning with Adam Bellow Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumAdam Bellow

11:15am EDT

Making a Game on a Topic You're Not Directly Concerned With: A Methodology Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumFlorent Maurin From Apps to Nordic schools: How DragonBox created a full math curriculum with games, toys and storytelling Room 104Gonzalo Frasca Using VR to Transform Childrens' Medical Procedures into an Adventure Room 105Evelyn Chan • Joey Egger • James Kane Pop-Up Museum: Remembering 15 Years of the Games for Change Festival Starr FoundationBarry Joseph

11:45am EDT

Keynote - Going Global: Using Games To Eradicate Illiteracy World Wide with Robert Torres Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumRobert Torres Project Briefs: Games for Learning Room 104Ed Barton • Stuart Claggett • Natalie Gillard • Aya Saket Project Briefs: Neurogaming & Health Room 105Jung Yeon Choe • Jaehyun Kim • Sarah Ita Levitan • Thomas Lilge • Jullia Suhyoung Lim • Deborah Sturm

12:15pm EDT

Game On: What We Learned from Launching Our First Location-Based Game @ PAX Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumAnastasia Goodstein

1:00pm EDT

FACTUALITY: A Gamified Crash Course on Structural Inequality Starr FoundationNatalie Gillard

2:00pm EDT

Sesame Street: Coping with Traumatic Experiences Room 104Kristin Cook Panel - Designing for the Playful Classroom Room 105Anne Richards • Kara Carpenter • Charlotte Duncan • Allisyn Levy • Christina Oliver Panel - Changing the Game: A Conversation with the Founders and Leaders of G4C Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumAsi Burak • Barry Joseph • Susanna Pollack • Suzanne Seggerman • Benjamin Stokes Speed Networking Schwartz Concourse (5th Floor) Project Briefs: Civics & Social Issues Starr FoundationMitu Khandaker • Lual Mayen • Jim Munroe • Amanda Warner

2:30pm EDT

Designing Games to Improve Health Behaviors: Evidence-based Principles and Strategies Room 104Debra Lieberman

3:15pm EDT

Factitious News Game - Polling Fact from Fake Room 105Lindsay Grace • Robert Hone When Journalists Educate With Games: How and Why the New York Videogame Critics Circle Mentors Students and Older Adults Room 104Harold Goldberg Mozak: Turning the world into a neuroscience lab Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumZoran Popović Panel - e4j@g4cal: Education for Justice at Games for Change América Latina 2018-2020 Starr FoundationGilson Schwartz

3:45pm EDT

Can I Lend You a Hand? How to Make Engaging Games for Neuromuscular Prosthesis Training Room 105Fares Kayali • Cosima Prahm Strategies for Advancing Mental Health in Games Room 104Kelli Dunlap Meet the Funder: Marc Ruppel (NEH) Room 204 Keynote - Good Play with Katie Salen Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumKatie Salen

4:15pm EDT

Can Game-Based Training Programs Support Childhood Development? Room 104Hannah Kirk Hopelab: Designing for Impact Room 105Margaret Laws Meet the Funder: David Miller (NIH) Room 204David Miller Classcraft Quests Workshop: Experience New Personalized Learning Adventures Firsthand Starr FoundationDevin Young

4:45pm EDT

The Case of Climate Change: 15 Years of Ecogames Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumJoost Raessens Games and Concussions: The Next Frontier in Neurological Testing Room 105John Gardiner September 12th - A Well Played Retrospective Room 104Matthew Weise

5:30pm EDT

Keynote - Beyond Gaming: How Assassin’s Creed Expanded for Learning with Maxime Durand, Marc-André Éthier, David Lefrançois Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumMaxime Durand • David Lefrançois • Marc-André Éthier

6:00pm EDT

Keynote - Changing Games and Changing an Industry: A Career in Cultural Change Advocacy with Kate Edwards Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumKate Edwards

6:30pm EDT

Games for Change Awards Ceremony & Celebration - hosted by David Polgar Mainstage - Tishman AuditoriumDavid Polgar