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Friday
, June 29
9:30am EDT
Opening Remarks with Anne Gaines, Erik Huey
Mainstage - Tishman Auditorium
Anne Gaines • Erik Huey
9:45am EDT
Keynote - Connected Learning with Mimi Ito
Mainstage - Tishman Auditorium
Mimi Ito
10:15am EDT
How Technology Is Changing Our Relationship to the Places We Live
Mainstage - Tishman Auditorium
Sam Gill • Gabriel Stricker
11:15am EDT
The Meaning of Truth in Games for Investigative Journalism
Room 104
Nicholas Fortugno • Sisi Wei
Ending Poverty Wisely Through Games: EdTech Gamification Solutions for Global Financial Disparities
Room 105
Angel Rich
Not Becoming History: The Future of Mission US
Starr Foundation
David Langendoen • Leah Potter
Playing With Your Emotions: Games that Build Emotional Regulation
Mainstage - Tishman Auditorium
Trevor Stricker
11:45am EDT
The Game: The Game (A Pick-Up Artist Dating Simulator)
Room 105
Angela Washko
Meet the Funder: Lakita Edwards (NEA)
Room 204
Lakita Edwards
Panel - Cities Remixing PokémonGO
Starr Foundation
Benjamin Stokes • Nathaniel Eddy • Eric Gordon • Ed Solis
Panel - Beyond Blocks: How Minecraft is Helping Transform STEM Learning
Mainstage - Tishman Auditorium
Meenoo Rami • Trish Cloud • Chris Fuge • Beth Hobbs • James Protheroe
12:15pm EDT
Thunderbird Strike: Sovereign Game Development Without Borders
Room 105
Elizabeth LaPensée
Appetite for Change - Interactive storytelling inspiring healthy eating among children in the Pacific Islands
Room 104
Wil Monte • Allan Soutaris • Tash Tan
12:30pm EDT
Games for Change Mentor Lounge
Schwartz Concourse (5th Floor)
2:00pm EDT
Hololab Champions VR: The Making of a VR Chemistry Lab
Mainstage - Tishman Auditorium
Harley Baldwin • Jesse Schell
Hypothesis Tested: Designing Social Impact Games with Theoretical Frameworks
Room 104
Clay Ewing
Panel - Xbox Adaptive Controller: Industrial Design for Inclusivity
Starr Foundation
Chris Kujawski • Richard Ellenson • Erin Hawley • Andrew Pilkington
Panel - Teaching Games and Civics through the G4C Student Challenge
Room 105
Marc Lesser • Laura Levy • Kalonda McDonald • Stacie Pierpoint • Jennifer Stone
2:30pm EDT
A Fireside Chat with Anastasia Staten and Michael D. Gallagher about the State of the Industry
Mainstage - Tishman Auditorium
Libe Ackerman • Michael D. Gallagher • Anastasia Staten
Using Behavior Change Techniques to Improve Game Outcomes
Room 104
Emily Treat
3:15pm EDT
#EsportsEDU: Building the K-12 to College #Esports Pipeline
Room 104
Steve Isaacs
Meet the Funder: Edward Metz (US Dept. of Ed./SBIR)
Room 204
Edward Metz
Panel - BBC Earth: Life in VR
Mainstage - Tishman Auditorium
Susanna Pollack • Bradley Crooks • Kellee Santiago • Phil Stuart
Panel - Games and Empathy
Room 105
Arana Shapiro • Daniel Braunfeld • Matthew Farber • Karen Schrier • Rachelle Vallon • Jackson Westenskow
Panel - Adventures in WHOville: The Proposed Gaming Disorder's Impact on Games for Change
Starr Foundation
Jennifer McNamara • Kelli Dunlap • Lindsay Grace • Victoria Van Voorhis
3:45pm EDT
Programming the Illinois Map: Fostering Empathy & Digital Literacy through Collaborative Game Design
Room 104
Judith Pintar
4:15pm EDT
Looking Back and Moving Forward - The Past Decade and Future of Social Impact Games
Mainstage - Tishman Auditorium
Alan Gershenfeld
The Truth in Our Stars: Using Actual Science to Educate and Entertain
Room 104
Alexander Winn
Using Two-player Co-op to Examine the Interaction Between a Psychosis Sufferer and a Bystander
Starr Foundation
Nick Bush
Meet the Funder: Jax Deluca (NEA)
Room 204
Jax Deluca
Panel - Supporting Underserved Communities Through Events
Room 105
Carol Mertz • Shawn Allen • Francesca Carletto-Leon • EMiSpicer • Alejandra Villanueva
4:45pm EDT
Neurogaming and Mental Health in the Era of Techlash
Room 104
Tracy Dennis-Tiwary
Meet the Funder: Philip Loew (NYCRIN)
Room 204
Philip Loew
Brain Age: A Well Played Retrospective
Mainstage - Tishman Auditorium
Clara Fernandez-Vara
Panel - Game to Grow: How Esports Can Shape Student Success
Starr Foundation
Gerald Solomon • Adrian Olmedo • Constance Steinkuehler • Tom Turner
5:30pm EDT
Keynote - Social Impact for all Stakeholders with Jeffrey Burrell
Mainstage - Tishman Auditorium
Jeffrey Burrell
6:00pm EDT
Keynote - Future Reality with Ken Perlin
Mainstage - Tishman Auditorium
Ken Perlin
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