DAY ONE

Time
8:00 - 10:30
Registration
8:45 - 9:00
Welcome/Opening
Jonathon Stevens, Last Straw Productions
9:00 - 10:00
Indie Keynote
Jay Moore, The Stategery Group
10:00 - 10:30
Break
10:30 - 11:30
- Designing a Hybrid MMOG (s) -
Peter Smith
RETRO Lab (UCF)
- Game Data Models (rt) -
Scott Hartsman
Sony Online Entertainment
- Client Support Without Going Bankrupt (rt) -
Eric Rhea
Rhea Studios 
11:30 - 1:00
Lunch
1:00 - 2:00
- MMORPGs: Dead or Alive? (rt) -
Robert Rice
Neogence
- Indie 2.0 - The Brewing Revolution (ss) -
Tony Richards
IndieZen
- Community Workshop: Issues and Answers (p) -
Ron Meiners,  Scott Hartsman, Tami Baribeau
2:00 - 2:30
Break
2:30 - 3:30
- No Session Planned -
- 10 Things Every Good DBA Knows (s) -
Kristopher Petterson
MySQL
- Government Interference: How Much Can you Take? (rt) -
Dr. Richard Bartle
University of Essex
3:30p- 4:00
Break
4:00 - 5:00
- Learning From Other Media (s) -
Brian Green
Near Death Studios
- Networking Options in MMOGs (s) -
Rusty Lee
PX Interactive
- Building a Better EULA (rt) - 
Erin Hoffman
BetterEULA 
5:00 - 5:15td>
Closing
Jonathon Stevens, Last Straw Productions
7:00 - midnight
Official After Party

 

DAY TWO

Time
Design Track
Development Track
Business & Legal Track
8:00 - 10:30
Registration
8:45 - 9:00
Welcome/Opening Message
Jonathon Stevens, Last Straw Productions
9:00 - 10:00
MMOG Keynote
Dr. Richard Bartle, University of Essex
10:00 - 10:30
Break
10:30 - 11:30
- Designing the New Player Experience (p) -
Brian Green, Kelly Heckman, Jason Murdick
- Exploring Production Methods: Which works for you? (rt) - 
Peter Eckert, Michael Gjere
Brown College 
 - Self-Sufficiency: Generating Revenue as an Indie (s) -
Serafina Pechan
World Fusion
11:30 - 1:00
Lunch
1:00 - 2:00
- Scoring for Indie Games (s) -
Austin Wintory
- No session Planned -
- Independent Development: The Future of MMOGs (s) -
Gordon Walton
BioWare Austin
2:00 - 2:30
Break
2:30 - 3:30
- No Session Planned -
- How Online Game Projects Fail (s)-
Peter Freese
Hidden Path Entertainment
- MMOG Law: The Wild West or New World Order (s) -
Lawrence Walters
Weston, Garrou, DeWitt, & Walters
3:30 - 4:00
Break
4:00 - 5:00
- What Your Mother and Your Ten-Year Old Can Teach You (s) -
Nick Fortugno
Rebel Monkey
- Subscription vs. Item Pay: Which is the Way of the Indie? (rt) -
Kelly Heckman, Brian Green 
- What key factors drive Chinese people into online games? (s) -
Yifan Li 
5:00 - 5:15
Closing
Jonathon Stevens, Last Straw Productions

 

*(s) = Session, (rt) = Round Table, (p)  

*(s) = Session, (rt) = Round Table, (p) = Panel, (ss) = Sponsored Session
*Schedule may change without notice.iv>