BIG Impact: Fun Academy & Angry Birds
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What Rovio, and its famous Angry Birds, are doing on education with their new company: Fun Academy. Speech in Portuguese
Speaker: Fábio Florencio (Fun Academy) |
Big Playable City
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BIG Playabe City, a partnership between BIG Festival and Playable City, from UK, opens up the discussion. Playable Cities: the city that plays together, stays together Forget about smart cities, Playable City ideas – like Bristol’s water slide or its temporary play streets – are a human response to the coldness and anonymity of the urban environment
Speech in English (Mark Leaver) and Portuguese (other speakers) Speakers: Mark Leaver (Playable City) Giselle Beiguelman (FAU-USP) Sérgio Miletto (ADESAMPA) Guto Requena (Estúdio Guto Requena) Carla Costa (Porto Digital) |
Best Practices for Success with Your Games Using Google's Solutions
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You've got a great game, now what? In this talk, you'll hear about the investments Google is making to help mobile developers optimize their game business.
Speech in English Speakers: Moonlit M. Wang, Partner Development Manager - Google Play Games David Hyman, Gerente Regional del Online Partnerships Group - Google |
Going Off the Rails: The Making of 'Bullet Train'
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The session will cover the development process of creating Epic Games' "Bullet Train" VR demo. Design considerations surrounding the user experience of adding interaction to traditionally passive experiences will be highlighted, including a breakdown of alternative paths that were considered but didn't make the cut. Additionally, the speakers will discuss where they had to diverge from their original design choices in order to match the players' expectations of the world they interact with.
Speech in Portuguese Speaker: Paulo Souza (Epic Games) |
Investors & Games
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Investors attentive to the Games industry performance come to tell us how they choose a company and project for investment: CRP, Confrapar, Aceleratech and BNDES.
Speech in Portuguese Moderator: Pedro Waengertner (ACE - Aceleratech) Speakers: José Augusto Albino (CRP) Fernanda Farah (BNDES) Dina Rosman (Confrapar) |
BNDES & Procult: Funding for Games!
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Interested to know what the Brazilian Development Bank offers to Game companies? Come and learn about Procult!
Speech in Portuguese Speaker: Elza Paiva (BNDES) |
BIG Impact: Ludoactivist Manifest
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Ludoactivism is the engagement with the positive transformation of reality through games and play. In this presentation, Mario Lapin will share ludoactivist experiences of the past 10 years, and explore evidence that the ludic will be increasingly present in overcoming major challenges of the 21st century.
Speech in Portuguese Speaker: Mario Lapin (Virgo Games) |
The Growth of the Video Game Industry in Latin America
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Latin America has been at the forefront of emerging markets in the game industry for some time, with an impressive growth rate of 18% - second only to China's. In 2014, studies estimated the Latin American online market would reach $4.5 billion, which was more than South Korea's online and mobile game markets combined (SuperData Research). In this panel, industry leaders will share relevant information about their regional industries and discuss current challenges and business opportunities in their countries.
Speech in English Moderator: Luiz Sakuda, Abragames Speakers: Martin Cao, da Argentina, ADVA / Red Katana Gabriel Vainsencher, do Uruguai, Uruguayan Game Developers Association / Golden Bite Francisco Díaz, do Peru, CVA / CEO, Magma Creations Martín Melendéz, do México, Co-Founder, Cosmogonia/One Simple Idea Rodrigo Contreras, do Chile, CEO, Gamaga |
BIG Impact: Robotics Learning and How it Contributes to the Future of Students
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Novelis, in line with its social responsibility policy, sponsors robotics teams as a way to further encourage interest in science, technology, mathematics and engineering. We believe in the potential that Brazilian students have to create innovative solutions and values the robotics competitions as a great opportunity to put into practice the knowledge acquired in the classroom, especially the concepts related to science, mathematics and physics.
Speech in Portuguese Speakers: Lucas Andrade Rodrigues (Time 1860 - CEPHATRON) Ronaldo Vaqueli (Time 1382 - ETEP TEAM) Jeser Becker (Time 1772 - The Brazilian Trail Blazers) Carlos Vinicius Castro (Novelis) Ana Carolina Morais (Novelis) |
Youtube Gaming
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How YouTube creators are a fundamental piece in both educational and convincing processes of buying a game.
Speech in Portuguese Speaker: Alessandro Sassaroli (YouTube) |
