If you have any enquiries, please contact Paul Kelly, John Cass or Simon Colton at game@doc.ic.ac.uk

Time
09:00	Arrival, registration
09:25	Introduction and welcome John Cass Business Development Manager - Creative Industries, Imperial College London
09:30	Framestore and the Golden Compass - tools and techniques of VFX Andy Lomas Head of Computer Graphics, Framestore
10:00	Virtual reality and games Dr Anthony Steed Dept of Computer Science, University College London
10:30	How to design clean, abstract software and map it onto multicore platforms automatically Paul Kelly Department of Computing, Imperial College London
11:00	Coffee break
11:30	Academia, AI and the Games Industry: useful areas for collaboration Paul Miller Rebellion
12:00	The games programmer skills crisis: how we can fix it together Adrian Hawkins Technical Director, Kuju
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Games with Character Ian Livingstone OBE Creative Director, Eidos
14:15	Living Animations for the Next Generation Dr Joss Knight CTO, Natural Motion
14:45	Beyond Difficulty Levels: adaptive user modelling in human-robot interfaces and games Dr Yiannis Demiris Dept of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London
15:15	Coffee break
15:45	The opportunities and problems of games on multicore processors Andrew Richards Founder and CEO, Codeplay
16:15	The journey from academic research to a product Dr Chris Doran COO and Founder, Geomerics
16:45	Digital Economy - transforming society and business Carol McAnally Senior Software, Media & Communications Sector Manager, EPSRC
17:00	Artificial Intelligence and Games Research Network The Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network Simon Colton and John Cass Imperial College London
17:15	Closing remarks Professor Jeff Magee Head, Department of Computing, Imperial College London