GAMES & DIGITAL MEET-UP with Jo Twist 14/2/12

Event:  LAUNCH: GAMES & DIGITAL MEET-UP at Birmingham Science Park Aston with Jo Twist
Date: Thursday 16th February 2012, 4:30pm
Venue: Birmingham Science Park Aston, Faraday Wharf, Holt Street, Birmingham. B7 4BB

Come along for an informal games meet-up and network with fellow games and digital businesses together with meeting the newly appointed UKIE CEO, Dr Jo Twist previously at Channel 4 and Karl Hilton, Managing Director at Crytek UK the UK arm of Germany-based Crytek formerly known as Free Radical Design.

Dr Jo Twist, CEO, UKIE
Dr Jo Twist was appointed CEO of UKIE on January 9th 2012.  Dr Twist comes from Channel 4 as Commissioning Editor for Education and previous positions include Multiplatform Commissioner for BBC Entertainment and Switch, plus BBC Three’s Multiplatform Channel Editor.  With a strong background in education, creative technology and youth culture, Twist is a major coup for UKIE and brings with her a wealth of experience in all aspects of interactive entertainment including media, technical innovation and creativity, commercial and political issues.

Dr Jo Twist, CEO of UKIE commented – “I am delighted to be coming to Birmingham Science Park Aston and meet our members and people from the midlands games industry.  UKIE successfully partnered with Birmingham Science Park Aston in 2011 to support the entrepreneurial gaming sector culminating in the annual LAUNCH: Future Gaming & Digital Conference as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week for nearly 300 people. The conference three themes were Launching a Career, Launching a Business and Launching a Technology.  Once again I am delighted UKIE are continuing to partner with the Park, sit on their games advisory board, arrange meet-ups through to support their games incubator and Entrepreneurs for the Future programme for games businesses offering 6 months free support, mentoring and office space.”

Karl Hilton, Managing Director at Crytek UK
Karl Hilton heads up Crytek UK, the UK arm of Germany-based Crytek formerly known as Free Radical Design when it was bought-out in 2009. As one of the leading video game developers based in the Midlands, Free Radical Design was best known for Second Sight and the TimeSplitters series. Crytek, is best known for the Crysis series of games.  Prior to being an owner and director of Free Radical Design, Karl was a lead artist at Rare Ltd now part of Microsoft Games Studios.

Karl Hilton, MD, Crytek UK commented, “I am delighted to be supporting Birmingham Science Park Aston in their quest to nurture the development of early stage games businesses and I am looking forward to engaging with midlands games and digital businesses at the next meetup event at Faraday Wharf.  It is crucial for the industry that we continue to support and nurture the future entrepreneurial and creative talent in the industry.”

Events: To find out how you can get involved from speaking, exhibiting or sponsorship opportunities please call Matthew Hidderley on 0121 260 6168 or email matthewh@bsp-a.com

Further events are available on the events calender including:
- 3rd April 2012 LAUNCH: Meet the Games Press & App Media Event
- 20th June 2012 LAUNCH: Games & Digital Meetup Social
- 13-14th November 2012 LAUNCH: Future Gaming & Digital Conference (check out the early bird tickets!)

Exchange and Refund Policy
In general all ticket purchases are non-refundable.  Please asks for further details.

Delegate List (as of 12/2/12):

1. Paul Gartland, Animator, SCEE
2. Mark Tully, Senior Programmer, Crytek UK Ltd
3. Mark Ashcroft, Senior Artist, Ex Bigbig Studios SCEE
4. Simon Stevens, Software Developer, Creou Software
5. Seema Patria, Games Artist, Freelance
6. Lee Phillips, Sales Manager, bluegfx
7. Phil Irving, Senior Artist, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd
8. John Tearle, Founder and Director, Undrawn Reality
9. Adam Russell, Lead Designer, Soshi Games
10. Dave Conley, Lead Programmer, Fuzzy Frog Ltd
11. Richard Flower, CEO, Fuzzy Frog Ltd
12. Morgan Pretty, Lead Games Developer, Sync Interactive
13. Stephen Jones, Senior Designer, Sync Interactive
14. Mark Holland, Creative Director, Sync Interactive
15. Sion Lenton, Studio Manager, Sega of Europe
16. Daniel Scales, Student, University of Derby
17. Andrew Roper, Developer, Indieskies
18. Peter McGann, Director, Ironsun Studios
19. Alan Wild, PR & Marketing Manager, Focus Multimedia Ltd
20. Craig Johnson, Managing Director, Focus Multimedia Ltd
21. Natalie Griffith, Head of PR & Marketing, Blitz Games Studios
22. Jack Powell, Student, Norwich University College of Art and Design
23. Andy Payne, EMEA Region Manager, Havok
24. Matt Sansam, IC tomorrow, Technology Strategy Board
25. Chris Jones, Creative Director, BeefJack
26. Robert Karp, XDev Studio Europe, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd
27. Louise McNally, Investment Executive, Business Birmingham
28. Sarah Darch, Investment Manager, Business Birmingham
29. Jennifer Schneidereit, Game Creator, Nyamyam Ltd
30. Philip Tossell, Game Creator, Nyamyam Ltd
31. Fred Gill, Technical Director, Electronic Arts
32. Lee Wood, Company Owner, Inner Fire Games
33. Paul Orgill, Lead Programmer, Inner Fire Games
34. Richard Pearce, Lead Designer, Inner Fire Games
35. Jamie Partington, Solicitor, Challinors
36. Mark Steadman, App Director, Flaming Tarball
37. Bineet Desai, Sector International Trade Adviser – ICT & Digital Media, UK Trade & Investment
38. Paul Kelly, Director, Ironsun Studios
39. Mick Morris, MD, Audiomotion Studios
40. Brian Mitchell, Director, Audiomotion Studios
41. David Bozward, Director, dojit games
42. James Wood, Director, OOP!™ Games Studio Ltd
43. Joe Richardson, Director, OOP!™ Games Studio Ltd
44. Charlie Horn, Creative Director, OOP!™ Games Studio Ltd
45. Luiz Ferreira, Director, White Room Games Ltd
46. Ben Clark, Director, Forward For Ltd
47. Westley Bone, Director, Forward For Ltd
48. Chloe Ingram, Marketing Communications Manager, University of Birmingham
49. Joseph Lenton, Technical Director, Play My Code
50. Sebastian Lenton, Creative Director, Play My Code
51. Lynne McCadden, Consultant, Creative England
52. Aidan Winwood, Managing Director / Co-founder, GamerTrak
53. Guy Wilday, Consultant, Independent
54. Stephen Hands, MD, 3dnative
55. Varun Tyagi, GC Pro 2011, Gamer Camp
56. Jon Cole, GC Pro 2011, Gamer Camp
57. Steven Tsang, GC Pro 2011, Gamer Camp
58. Isaac Barrett, GC Pro 2011, Gamer Camp
59. Stephane Baroux, GC Pro 2011, Gamer Camp
60. Emma Douglas, GC Pro 2011, Gamer Camp
61. Simon Foster, GC Pro 2011, Gamer Camp
62. David Lynam, GC Pro 2011, Gamer Camp
63. Richard Haddon, GC Pro 2011, Gamer Camp
64. Dancho Makaveev, GC Pro 2011, Gamer Camp
65. Olly Boustead, GC Pro 2011, Gamer Camp
66. Callum Brighting, GC Pro 2011, Gamer Camp
67. Lucas Tsen, GC Pro 2011, Gamer Camp
68. Anthony Todd, GC Pro 2011, Gamer Camp
69. Thomas Hartley, Lecturer in Computer Games Development, University of Wolverhampton
70. Philip Oliver, CEO & Co-Founder, Blitz Games Studios
71. Oliver Williams, Operations Director, Gamer Camp
72. Iain Harrison, Studio Manager, Gamer Camp
73. Andrew Goff, Managing Director, Interactive Opportunities Ltd
74. Nia Wearn, Senior Lecturer, Staffordshire University
75. Karl Hilton, Managing Director, Crytek UK Ltd
76. Sam Collins, Commercial Manager, UKIE
77. Jo Twist, CEO, UKIE
78. Matthew Hidderley, Business Development, Birmingham Science Park Aston
79. Rich Eddy, Director, Communications, Codemasters
80. Neil Parmar, Founder & Company Director, bluegfx
81. Cliff Dennett, Commercial Director, Soshi Games
82. Kevin Corti, CEO & Development Director, Soshi Games
83. Yves Wheeler, ActionScript Developer, Civico
84. Daniel Cremin, CEO, Civico