| Starts: | Monday November 16, 2009 at 8:00am |
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| Ends: | Tuesday November 17, 2009 at 5:00pm |
| Event Type: | Conference |
| Region: | Montreal, Canada Area |
| Location: |
Hotel Hilton Bonaventure 900 de La Gauchetière Street West Montreal, QC H3A 2E6 CA |
| Price: | |
| Website: | http://www.sijm.ca |
| Industry: | computer games |
| Keywords: | Video Games Montreal Summit Serious Games |
| Intended For: | Game Designer, CTO, Creative Director, Game Developer, Game Producer, Lead Animator, Lead Designer, Software Developer, Technical Manager, Project Manager, Q&A Lead, Tools Programmer, Writer, Software Engineer, Solution Engineer, Student, General Manager. |
| Organization: | Alliance numérique |
MIGS serves members of the video and electronic gaming industries.
Geared to industry needs, the MIGS aims to be the annual event for game development specialists from all over the world.
Some 1500 members of the game industry are expected for this sixth Edition.
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3pod will attending the MIGS this year... Please let us know if you want to meet us... :) www.3pod.ca
The Manitoba video game development community will be back at MIGS. They will be showcasing their latest video games at the "Game On Manitoba" booth. See them in the Exhibition Zone.
BUSINESS LOUNGE – NOVEMBER 16TH AND 17TH, 2009 Be part and make the most of Canada’s largest gathering of video game professionals to meet and talk business with the industry’s key players. ONLINE PLATFORM SET UP TO ORGANIZE APPOINTMENTS: consult attendee profiles (buyers/vendors), request, receive, accept or decline business meeting proposals. The online tool Meeting Planner, will allow the Business Lounge participants to plan 20 meetings of 30 minutes between October 19 and November 10. NEW VENUE: the Hilton Bonaventure Hotel, given over entirely to the Montreal International Game Summit. The Business Lounge will occupy its very own floor in the hotel. Thanks to its new location, the Business Lounge offers you comfortable and very spacious meeting areas. Each vendor will be allocated an executive suite converted into a business office with three distinct zones. For more information on the offer, http://sijm.ca/2009/fr-espace-affaires.html
Giant Interactive Group (NYSE: GA), one of the top Chinese online game developers and publishers, will be attending MIGS. If you are developing online games and need investment or a publisher, please contact us.
Upclick.com will be attending MIGS 2009, please contact us if you would like to make an appointment.
I'll be presenting my "How to Love Outsourcing" session at 11:30am on Tuesday the 17th in the Verdun room. Come check it out, and let's chat afterward!
Autodesk's new Games group in Montreal is currently recruiting talent in the follow areas: Development, Product Design and Marketing. I'll be at MIGS and look forward to meeting some talented people who might be looking for a new challenge or a career change. Autodesk Games is a group of over 70 individuals dedicated to creating software tools and services sold to Game Developers worldwide. The group's responsibility ranges from developing Industry and Product Strategy for the games market, Research and Development of new runtime technologies for the games market, and the marketing and business development for these new products. Today middleware products like Autodesk Kynapse and Autodesk HIK developed by Autodesk Games have been used in over 100 of the top game titles created worldwide.