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Games for Change Festival 2007

Parsons The New School for Design will join the nonprofit organization Games for Change to present its fourth annual festival. An early Sundance for socially-responsible game designers, the festival will bring together leading non-profit organizations, game scholars and industry experts to explore the expanding role of digital games as agents of social change and showcase some of the hottest new games in development during a special game expo.

Among the featured speakers at this year's festival are Chris Melissinos, chief gaming officer, Sun Microsystems, who will deliver the keynote address; Mckenzie Wark, professor of media studies at The New School and author of Gamer Theory and A Hacker Manifesto; Clive Thompson, technology correspondent for THE NEW YORK TIMES and WIRED; Katie Salen, exec director of the Gamelab Institute of Play and an associate professor of design and technology at Parsons; Ivan Marovic, former Serbian Resistance leader and collaborator on the game, A FORCE MORE POWERFUL; Stephen Friedman, evp, mtvU; Adam Green, civic communications director, Moveon.org; Eric Zimmerman, ceo of gameLab; and Allison Fine, author of MOMENTUM: IGNITING SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE CONNECTED AGE, and a senior fellow at Demos: A Network for Thinking and Action.

Presentations will address such hot-button topics as virtual activism, market-sector impact, grassroots gaming and net neutrality. In addition, leading developers and nonprofit organizations will present case studies of their efforts in the field. For the first time since the founding of Games for Change, the best games in a variety of categories will receive awards in a special ceremony as part of the Games Expo, hosted exclusively by Xbox, from 6:00-8:00 pm June 11. During the ceremony, Jeff Bell, corporate vp of global marketing in interactive entertainment for Microsoft, will announce plans to launch a nationwide, socially responsible game initiative. For more information, visit www.gamesforchange.org/conference/2007/program.php.

Dates 
Monday, June 11, 2007 - 11:00am to Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 7:00pm
Submission Deadline 
Monday, June 11, 2007 - 12:00pm
Location 
New York
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