Serious Play Conference

Our speakers are pioneers in an industry that is reshaping training and education. They are thought leaders, agents of change, breaking norms, doing things that have not been done before.

James Piechocki

Instructional Designer
LightValve

Hollywood Methods for Corporate and Government Learning

Terrell Page

Undergraduate Student
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Game-Based Worldbuilding and Collaborative Creative Writing

Scott Nicholson

Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University

Inspiring Students to Develop Meaningful Games

Tony Beck

Program Director
NIH/NIGMS/NIGMS

How to Get Funding for Health and Other STEM-Based Games

Enrique Cachafeiro

Training and Education Coordinator
Duke Health

Designing a Digital Escape Room for Instruction Using WebXR

Kirk DesRosier

Instructional Designer / Evaluator
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada

Empathy, Leadership and Healthcare Edutainment

Alizée Bessim-Gagné

Game Designer
Affordance Studio

Co-creating Serious Games with Indigenous Partners

Mark Booker

Co-Founder
GoodGames

How to Include Serious Fun Virtually, In-Person, or Hybrid

Peter Williamson

Co-Founder; Head of Product
Barometer XP

The Science of Play at Work

Alex Suchman

Co-Founder; CEO
Barometer XP

The Science of Play at Work

Michael DiPonio

Instructional Design Team Lead
AmeriSave Mortgage Corporation

Tales from the Trenches of Serious Game Development

Bill Culbertson

Professor/Owner
New England Institute of Technology/ Whooplah LLC

From Early Learning Video Game to Television Series

Jorge Luis Castro Toribio

Senior Service Manager
NTT Data

Creating a Delivery Pipeline for a Simulation Serious Game

Elli Suzuki

Director of Education Research & Development
Kooapps

Formative and Summative Research for Your First Serious Game

Tammie Schrader

Science/Computer Science Coordinator
NorthEast Washington Education Service District 10

Expanding Game Based Learning Across the State

Steve Guynup

Game Design Faculty
Southern New Hampshire University

Teaching VR Art & Design - in VR / Web3D

Mick McCarthy

Special Educator
Exceptional McCare

Using Tabletop Roleplaying Games in the K-12 Classroom

Mike Washburn

Director of Learning and Development
Logics Academy

Approaches to World Design in Minecraft Education

Vikas Badami

Co-Founder
SILE.ai

Data Driven Game Design

Brandon Armstrong

Mathematics Professor
Valencia College - Poinciana

Gaming Up The Classroom!!!

Gary Goldberger

President
FableVision Studios

Five Tips for Researchers Who Want to Make Educational Games

Jamie Hurcomb

Unreal Engine Academic Advisor
Epic Games

Virtual Humans, Avatars and Digital Identity

Caleb Gentry

Teacher/Educational Content Creator
Sequim Middle School/Crey Games

Choosing the Right Tool for Beginning Game Designers

Dmitriy Babichenko

Clinical Associate Professor
University of Pittsburgh

Games for Cultural and Language Preservation

Danny Goel

CEO
Danny Goel

Simulation in VR: Driving Towards Proficiency

Anthony Chatfield

Adjunct Instructor, Composition and Rhetoric
Drexel University

Game-Based Experiential Workshops in the Writing Classroom

Mary Ann Communale

Assistant Professor
Drexel University College of Medicine

Serious Games as an HIV Resource

Joshua Bell

Sr. Director
Play with a Purpose

The PLAY Premise

Anthony Crider

Professor of Astrophysics
Elon University

Epic Finales: Experiential Assessment in Final Exams

Marion Blanchet

Game Designer
Affordance Studio

Co-creating Serious Games with Indigenous Partners

Peter Bruun

Founder
Amsterdam Game Lab

Psychological Dynamics that make Game Based Learning Stick

Sherry Prindle

Certified Master Coach Trainer
Professional Coach Academy

Practical, Easy, Gamified Engagement for ILT, VILT, & Hybrid

Valary Oleinik

Owner and Chief Disruptor
Valary With A WHY

Designing a Picture Perfect Doomsday Race

Mitchell Weisburgh

Founding Partner
Academic Business Advisors

How Do We Fix the Education System

Monique Thakkar

Mental Health Counselor
Puyallup High School

Building SEL Skills through TTRPG with Teens

Joshua Peery

Lead Game Designer
East Carolina University

Using Demographics to Create a Serious Game Platform

James Bower

CEO
Numedeon Inc/VWIP Inc

What We’ve Learned about
How Children Learn

Tom Smith

Lead Game Designer
Roblox

Building Fun and Educational Games

Nathaniel Torson

Adjunct Professor/STEM Teacher
Tarrant County College/Creek Valley Middle School

Art Appreciation through a Gaming Lens

John Kolm

CEO, Team Results USA

Moth in the Mainframe - Human Factors in Serious Games

Andrew Davies

Adjunct Faculty
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)

Using Side Quests to Improve Student Engagement

Vineet Raj Kapoor

Director
Chandigarh Design School

Gamification with NFTs

Thomas Talbot

Principal Medical Expert / Research Scientist
USC Institute for Creative Technologies

A Question of Fidelity: How and Where do I use Realism?

Joshua Heath

Chief Operations Officer
Reach-Out Roleplaying Games/High Level Games

Merging Fun with Change - Using Table-Top Roleplaying Games

Karen Fleming

Clinical Nurse Specialist
University Health Network (UHN)

Virtual Simulation Game to Reduce Racial Inequities

Michelle Goodridge

Head, User and Access Services
Wilfrid Laurier University Library

The Pedagogical Benefit of In-Class Game Simulations

Rachael Zeleny

Assistant Professor
University of Baltimore

Work Hard, Play Hard: Teaching Allyship through Escape Rooms

David Chandross

Faculty in Digital Media, Serious Game Design
Toronto Metropolitan University

G.O.N.E., Indigenous Games for Empathy and Knowledge Sharing

Jasminka Criley

CEO, Professor in Medicine
Indelible Learning, UCLA

Creating Health Applications for Schools

Jeremy Roberts

Educator and PhD Student
University of Manitoba

Game-Based Learning in Social Studies Programming

Peter Guenther

Implementation Engineer
Watershed LRS

Learning Analytics for Serious Games

Manish Honwad

Professor of Anaesthesiology & Critical Care


Much More with Much Less: Effective Healthcare Simulation

Erik Verlage

Research Scientist
MIT

STEM Games and Sims for Manufacturing Workforce Training

David Morris

Experiential Consultant
NYCAP3D

The Secret Sauce for Digital & Physical Convergence

Max Cropper

CEO
Five Star Performance Solutions

Instructional Design
for Games and Sims

Tony Bevilacqua

Founder & CEO, Cognitive 3D

Leveraging Analytics in the Metaverse for Learning

Jonathan Peters

Chief Motivation Officer
Sententia, Inc

A New Theory of Fun: A Purposeful Approach to Game Design

Afra Çalık

Faculty of Nursing
Suleyman Demirel University

The Role of Gamification in Nursing Education

Colleen Cleveland

Course Director
Full Sail University

Course Gamification for the Blind:
A Case Study

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