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

Senior Manager, Learning Innovation/Instructional Designer


PANEL: The Future of Learning

Enrique Cachafeiro

Training and Education Coordinator
Duke Health

Designing a Digital Escape Room for Instruction Using WebXR

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!!!

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

Anthony Crider

Professor of Astrophysics
Elon University

Epic Finales: Experiential Assessment in Final Exams

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

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

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

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

Enrique Ortiz

Professor
University of Central Florida

Lessons Learned from using Visualization Games for Learning

Anirudh Cheruvu

Game Designer
Questika

CHEETAH Way to Gamifying your Goals

Michelle Goodridge

Head, User and Access Services
Wilfrid Laurier University

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

Steve Guynup

Game Design Faculty
Southern New Hampshire University

Teaching VR Art & Design - in VR / Web3D

Andrew Davies

Adjunct Faculty
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)

Using Side Quests to Improve Student Engagement

Julia Rivard Dexter

Founder and CEO
Shoelace Learning

How to Build Top Level Performers Through Positive Failure

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

5- Star Instructional Design
for Games and Sims

Tony Bevilacqua

Founder & CEO, Cognitive 3D

Leveraging Analytics in the Metaverse for Learning

Rick Shepardson

Assistant Professor in Digital Filmmaking
Eastern New Mexico University

Digital Clay:
Playing With Ones and Zeros

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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