How AI is transforming Gaming,
Media & Entertainment
February 24, 2022
Online at Spieker Forum, Chou Hall, UC Berkeley
In partnership with:
The Fisher Center for Business Analytics in partnership with Affine is hosting the 2022 summit on “How AI is Transforming Gaming, Media & Entertainment. Join us for an opportunity to explore the limitless possibilities of what the future is yet to offer.
Find out what industry leaders have to say about the transformation of Gaming, Media, & Entertainment industry and how its driven by the tech revolution in AI, Metaverse, Virtual Reality and Web 3.0!
Program Overview
8:00am – 8:18am
State of the Nation in Gaming
Affine Analytics
Manas Agrawal, Co-founder, and CEO, Affine
Vineet Kumar Co-founder, and Chief Solutions Architect, Affine
Saurabh Tandon, Board Member, President, Affine
8:19am – 8:34am
Gaming, Gamers, and Creators: View from a (Twitch) Bridge
Drew Harry, VP Data and Research, Twitch
8:35am – 9:10am
Gaming & Entertainment Analytics: which goals, which data, which technique?
Xun (YoYo)Yin, Director of Mobile Analytics, Activision
Keith Van Houw, Director, Marketing Analytics, WB Entertainment (WB Games)
Ashish Bansal, Director, Recommendations Systems, Twitch
Moderated by Gauthier Vasseur
9:11am – 9:26am
How AI and Technology are Impacting the Future of Gaming and Entertainment?
Jonathan Lane, Senior Director, Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning, Activision
Moderated by Saurabh Tandon
9:27am – 9:57am
3 Success Stories in Gaming : AI in Engagement and Monetization in Gaming – What Can We Learn from Booming Indian Startups
Kabir Rustogi, VP Data Sciences & Analytics, Mobile Premier League (MPL)
Venkatesh Adavi, VP of Monetization, Growth strategy and Partnerships, VerSe Innovation
Nitin Mittal, President Zee5
Moderated by Manas Agrawal
9:58am – 10:13am
AI in Media & Entertainment: The Future of TV
Shobana Radhakrishnan, Senior Director of Engineering, Google TV
10:14am – 10:29am
Gaming and Education: Is it Work or Play?
Rosemary Lokhorst, Founder and CEO, Storybyte Studio
10:30am – 10:45am
Understanding consumers and communities in the world of web 3.0/Gaming/Metaverse
Mark Miller, Stanford University, PhD, Biometrics, AR/VR
10:46am – 11:21am
Diversity, Equity in Gaming, Media & Entertainment
Colum Slevin, Senior Director of Positive Play Experiences, Electronic Arts (EA)
Bryant Young, Gameheads & Fishean Studio
Samia Chelbi, CEO, DigiArtLivingLab
Moderated by Nathalie Mathe
11:22am – 11:32am
African Gaming: What Future, What Challenges
Featuring a Kenyan game from Kunta Count
11:33am – 11:48am
Gaming, Social Media and Reality – Metaverse: Business Models, Monetization and New metrics?
Rafael Brown, CEO & Co-Founder, Symbol Zero
11:49am – 12:04am
10 Things to know the Meta-verse
Christopher Lafayette, Founder, GatherVerse
12:02pm – 12:04pm
Thank you
Fisher Center for Business Analytics & Affine Analytics
Summit 2022 Speakers
Ashish Bansal
Director, Recommendations Systems , Twitch
Bryant Young
CEO at Fishean Studio
Christopher Lafayette
Founder, GatherVerse
Colum Selvin
Senior Director, Positive Play Experiences, Electronic Arts (EA)
Drew Harry
VP, Research & Data at Twitch
Samia Chelbi
Founder NetInfo & DigiArtLivingLab
Shobana Radhakrishnan
Senior Director of Engineering, Google TV
Saurabh Tandon
Board Member, President, Affine
Gauthier Vasseur
Fisher Center for Business Analytics, UC Berkeley
Mark Miller
Stanford University
Nathalie Mathe
Creative Director/Founder, NativeVR
Jonathan Lane
Sr. Director, Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning, Activision
Kabir Rustogi
Data Sciences and Analytics at Mobile Premier League (MPL)
Keith Van Houw
Director, Marketing Analytics at WB Entertainment (WB Games)
Rosemary Lokhorst
Founder and CEO, Storybyte Studio Ltd.
Manas Agrawal
Co-founder, and CEO, Affine
Vineet Kumar
Co-founder, and Chief Solutions Architect, Affine
Nitin Mittal
President & Group CTO, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited
Rafael Brown
CEO & Co-Founder, Symbol Zero
Venkatesh Adavi
VP of Monetization, Growth strategy and Partnerships, VerSe Innovation
Xun (Yo-Yo) Yin
Director of Data Science and Product Analytics, Activision