Program Overview

8:00am – 8:15am
State of the Nation in Gaming

Affine Analytics, Manas Agrawal, Co-founder, and CEO, Affine & Vineet Kumar Co-founder, and Chief Solutions Architect, Affine

8:15am – 8:30am
Gaming: View from a (Twitch) Bridge

Drew Harry – VP Data and Research – Twitch

8:30am – 8:45am
How AI and Technology are impacting the future of Gaming and Entertainment?

Jonathan Lane – Senior Director, Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning – Activision

8:45am –  9:20am
Gaming & Entertainment: which goals, which data, which analysis?

Xun (YoYo)Yin – Director of Mobile Analytics – Activision; Nithin Mittal – President Zee5; Ashish Bansal, Twitch; Venkatesh Adavi

9:20am –  9:35am
The challenges of Entertainment for backend systems: performance, Co2 emissions and the promises of new technologies

Shobana Radhakrishnan – Senior Director of Engineering, Google TV

 

9:35am – 9:50am
The challenges of gaming and entertainement for backend systems: performance, Co2 emissions and the promises of new technologies

Stephen Peacock – AWS

9:50am – 10:05am
Gaming and Education

Rosemary Lockhorst, Founder and CEO, Storybyte Studio

10:05am – 10:35am
Money Games – A Future for Gaming

Kabir Rastogi – VP – Data Sciences & Analytics – (MPL) Mobile Premier League

10:35am – 10:50am
Understanding consumers and communities in the world of web 3.0/Gaming/Metaverse

Mark Miller, Stanford University, PhD, Biometrics, AR/VR

10:50am – 11:25am
Diversity, Equity in Gaming, Media & Entertainment

Colum Slevin, Senior Director of Positive Play Experiences at EA; Bryant Young – Gameheads & Fishean Studio; Samia Chelbi, CEO, DigiArtLivingLab Stephen Peacock – AWS

11:25am – 11:35am
Gameplay Demos – African Gaming

Featuring a Kenyan game from Kunta Count

11:35am – 11:50am
Gaming, Social Media and Reality – Metaverse: Business Models, Monetization and New metrics?

Rafael Brown – CEO & Co-Founder at Symbol Zero

11:50am – 12:05pm
10 Things to know the Meta-verse

Christopher Lafayette – Gatherverse

12:05pm – 12:10pm
Thank you

Fisher Center for Business Analytics & Affine Analytics