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All attendees are welcome to participate in any session,
but if you have an area of special interest, be sure to
look for our tracks on Art, Audio, Business, Design,
Programming, Pros Only and Serious Games.
Pros Only sessions are roundtables that encourage our
pros to really dig into the meat of their profession
without fear of confusing (or terrifying) anyone. No one
with a student badge will be allowed into these off-therecord
sessions. While each of these sessions has
moderators, their main task is to ensure that all the pros
who have something to say on the subject get their
chance. Join your fellow professionals and learn what
really goes on behind closed doors.
Games for Health Day
SIEGE Investment Conference
Now in its second year, the SIEGE Investment
Conference brings together game designers and studios
with angel investors, venture capitalists, and other
related industry experts. This is an invaluable
opportunity for developers to pitch projects and
companies and to get feedback on their proposals, win
prizes, and speak with potential investors. On the
investor side, these panels, meetings, and the
Legislative Roundtable provide a detailed and
comprehensive introduction to the opportunities in this
growing international industry, and to meet some of the
most promising up and coming game design studios in
the Southeast. If you are interested in pitching a project
or in many of the funding realities of the game design
industry, we encourage you to join us next year.
This interdisciplinary series of talks is the result of an
exciting new partnership between the Georgia Game
Developers Association and the Games for Health
Project. Games for Health Day highlights a number of
recent projects and innovative games spanning the
continuum of healthcare from education and training to
games on smoking cessation, childhood cancer and
obesity, sensorimotor rehabilitation, teen dating
violence, and much more. Games have tremendous
potential to positively affect human health and society;
we welcome you to this discussion. The GGDA will
host additional meetings and discussions on health
games over the next year leading up to Games for
Health Day 2013.
Town Hall
All SIEGE attendees are invited to join us at our Town
Hall meeting Sunday at 3:00 pm in Georgia Ballroom.
Here we discuss this year’s expo, hand out awards, and
begin planning for SIEGE 2013. If you have any
comments, thoughts or suggestions, please feel free to
share them with us. This session also encapsulates our
official, annual GGDA membership meeting, to which
everyone is invited.
Georgia Game Developers Association would like to extend its condolences to
the friends and family of Dave Murray, a long-time SIEGE supporter and a
leader in public relations for the game industry. We will miss his advice and
encouragement.