Serious Games Canada Symposium

The schedule for the two day Serious Games event is as follows:
Time Day 1 Day 2
09:00 MIGS Keynote: Yoshiaki Koizumi - Room 520 MIGS Keynote: David Perry – Room 520
10:00 ----- Break ----- ----- Break -----
10:15 John Nordlinger, Microsoft. Ender's Game, Snow Crash - whatever - It's finally time for Science Fic­tion to meet science Fact! Khal Shariff, Project WhiteCard Inc.
Project Moonwalk
11:15 ----- Break ----- ----- Break -----
514 AB 514 C
514 AB 514C
11:30
Session I
Mark Baldwin, McGill University and MindHabits Inc. MindHabits Trainer: Making a fun game based on serious science.

Katrin Becker Game Ethology
Kenton White,
President, Distil Interactive, Ottawa. Casual Games Get Serious
Kevin McNulty,
Terrace Hill Productions.
Panel Session
Educational Serious Games Kevin Kee(Brock), Richard Levy(U Calgary), Shawn Graham (Brock)
12:30 Lunch Lunch
1:30
Session IIA
Terry Lavender - Homeless: It’s
No Game


Luke Walker - The Orange Revolution: Simulating democratic reform & non-violent protest
Session IIB

Samuelle Ducrocq-Henry (Collège Edouard Montpetit) and Emile Liang (Ubisoft) My Word Coach



Serious Games/Jeux Serieux Canada Foundational Meeting
Agenda:
1. Introductions
2. Goals of the group
3. Basic organization
4. Approval of executive
5. Appoinment of senate members
6. motions from the floor.
7. Other business
8. Adjourn
2:30 Break Break
2:45 Michael Gibson, Zapdramatic: Negotiating Mind Games
Session IVa
Mentor, Preprocessing Audio to Drive Runtime Facial Viseme Animation

Dr. Wei Huang, CM-Labs High-fidelity physics modeling of vehicle/terrain systems for real-time, interactive 3D applications.
Session IVb
Tom Hunter, (CEO)Glymetrix, There Are No Game Developers In Serious Games

Session IV
3:45 Break Break
4:00 Robert Biddle, Carleton University. Computers are only Human: How Real-World Behaviour Explains Game-Worlds Game Demos
Richard Levy - Knight Elmar’s Last Joust: A Game for Promoting Literacy
Michel Carignan, Dr. Marek Teichmann, CM-Labs Simulations - Creating interactive validated physics-based simulation for training simulators... and games.
6:15 Booth Crawl 517D 6:30PM At Société des arts technologiques [SAT] for the GAMMA 256 1195 Boulevard Saint-Laurent Montréal, Québec 514.844.2033
8:00 IGDA party at Société des arts technologiques [SAT] 1195 Boulevard Saint-Laurent Montréal, Québec 514.844.2033
VIP Reception