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Becker, Robert S.
Robert S. Becker, PhD has helped organize the Serious Games track of the SIEGE conference for three years. When
not volunteering for the Georgia Game Developers Association, he designs and produces online learning - in
particular serious games and training simulations. Bob founded Becker Multimedia, Inc. in Atlanta in 1994 and
moved his base to Chicago in 2011. He has worked for larger organizations in several verticals including health care
and life sciences, financial services, retail, hospitality and telecommunications. Prior to corporate work Bob was a
professor of English and scholar with a global research program in British and Irish literature and history. Earlier in
2011 he presented at the Games for Health Conference in Boston.
Bishop, Zach
Zach Bishop is an attorney with Wyrick Robbins in Raleigh, North Carolina. His practice is concentrated
ontechnology and corporate transactions, including the licensing and distribution of intellectual property, business
process and information technology outsourcing, technology acquisition and development, mergers and acquisitions,
venture capital financings, joint ventures and general corporate matters. Zach's practice includes the representation of
prominent video game and middleware developers on a full range of matters, and he frequently speaks at gaming
industry conferences on legal issues facing gaming companies. Prior to practicing law in North Carolina, Zach
practiced in the Atlanta office of a large national law firm, and he is licensed to practice law in North Carolina and
Georgia. Zach received his B.A. in Economics from Duke University and received his J.D., magna cum laude, from
Tulane University Law School. He was listed among North Carolina Super Lawyers "Rising Stars" in 2009 and 2010.
Boyd, Greg
S. Gregory Boyd is a partner and the chairman of the Interactive Entertainment Group at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein &
Selz, where he represents a wide variety of interactive entertainment and new media clients. Mr. Boyd has extensive
experience negotiating and drafting game development agreements for consoles, PC's, mobile games, social games,
online games, and MMO's. Mr. Boyd negotiates, structures, and drafts IP licensing, development, and employment
agreements for multiple game and high technology media publishers and developers. Mr. Boyd also drafts privacy
policies and terms of use, and has experience with all legal documents associated with the ongoing operations of
online games, social networks, branded entertainment, and high technology media outlets. He has advised high
technology media companies on intellectual property portfolio licensing, strategic development, litigation, and
registration of intellectual property. Mr. Boyd is co-author and editor of the popular textbook Business and Legal
Primer for Game Development (Charles River Media) and serves as an Adjunct Professor at New York Law School
teaching a seminar in advanced intellectual property. He is frequently quoted on interactive entertainment issues in
Gamasutra, Edge-Online, CNN, Fortune, Forbes, and the New York Law Journal. Mr. Boyd has his JD and MD
degrees from University of North Carolina (Chancellor’s Scholar, with honors, 2004). While in law school, Mr. Boyd
wrote for the North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology, and served on its Executive Editorial Board. He also has
an MBA with concentrations in finance and marketing from the NYU-Stern School of Business (2009), and is a
graduate of East Carolina University (MS 1998, BS magna cum laude, 1996). He is admitted to practice law in New
York and is a registered patent attorney with the USPTO.
Bradford, Asante
Asante Bradford is the Digital Entertainment Liaison for the Georgia Film, Music and Video division of the Georgia
Department of Economic Development. Asante will help promote the growth of the video game industry as well as
identify initiatives that will help grow businesses for the state of Georgia in video game development, film & music.
He will also help educate potential prospects and clients information about the Georgia Entertainment Industry
Incentives Act.