4 VC-backed Game Startups by Her: Margaret’s Roadmap
Event Information
Description
This month in San Francisco, ERT is bringing you Margaret Wallace as keynote speaker followed by talks/demo from our very interesting startup founders. Margaret had started several VC/angel backed game companies and she'll talk on "How Funding Choices Impact Your Start-Up".
About the speakers:
:: Margaret Wallace, co-founder/CEO Playmatics and Shadow Government. Previously she co-founded Skunk Studio and Rebel Monkey. Prior to that, she worked at Shockwave, Mindscape and PF Magic as game producer of many game titles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Wallace
She wrote about Gamification of Everything. Notable quotes: “Gamification provides a framework, an overall method for revealing a deeper understanding of how we as human beings tend to respond to and interact with our world.”
http://www.gamingbusinessreview.com/gamificationeverything.htm
:: Carla Bayot, founder/CEO of Design My Meals. Previously she was Technical Lead at Cisco, VP Engineer, JMD International, ECAD engineer at Xbox of Microsoft. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/carla-m-bayot/1/841/176
:: Joel Cheuoua, founder of Symbyoz, which builds meaningful relationships from meaningful activities and interactions with selected friends.
He worked for a French startup as a lead software engineer, and as a distinguished open source contributor. The startup was acquired by IBM where he continued to work as a manager and team leader.
Joel was born in Cameroon, and lived in France before coming to the U.S. 6 years ago.
Agenda
6:00 - 7:00pm, refreshment, networking
7:00 - 7:20 Opening, serial legal lessons from our legal experts from Pillsbury
7:20 - 8:45 Talks/Demo by:
Margaret Wallace, Plamatics
Carla Bayot, Design My Meal
8:45 - 9:15, You are the star! Tell us about yourself!
9:15 on, more shmoozing
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