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Games for Change is delighted and honored to announce this year's opening keynote on Tuesday, May 25th:

The first-ever U.S. Chief Technology Officer: Aneesh Chopra!

(For more info on why Aneesh's role is so very important to our country, please read this.)

We're also honored to have with us again
The Honorable Sandra Day O'Connor, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (Ret.) for the festival keynote, Wednesday, May 26th

Featured Speakers:

Clay Shirky, Internet expert and author of Here Comes Everybody

Nick Bilton, Specialist at the New York Times R&D Lab & author of the forthcoming book, I Live In The Future And Here's How It Works

Katie Salen, Executive Director of NYC's innovative "game school" Quest To Learn

Neal Baer, 5-time Emmy nominated executive producer of Law and Order

Dr. James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Arizona State University

Army Brig. Gen. Loree K. Sutton

Micah Sifry, co-founder TechPresident.com and Personal Democracy Forum

Kurt Squire, Associate Professor of Educational Communications and Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Constance Steinkuehler, Assistant Professor in the Educational Communication & Technology program in the Curriculum & Instruction Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Omar Wasow, Ph.D. candidate in African American studies and Government at Harvard University

Clive Thompson, contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, Wired, and Fast Company

Ze Frank, internet humorist

Among many others

OVERVIEW

This May, the only festival dedicated to the exciting new movement of Digital Games for Social Change will explore real-world impact, the latest games, and funding strategies. Hosted in New York City by Parsons The New School for Design and The Games for Learning Institute at NYU, the 7th annual Games for Change Festival will take place May 24 – 27, 2010.

Festival Schedule
   May 24th - Youth Game Design Workshop

   May 24th - G4C 101.5 Workshop

   May 25th - Festival

   May 26th - Festival

   May 27th - Games for Learning: Research and Design Innovation at NYU

More Information
The Annual Games for Change Festival brings together the world’s leading foundations, NGOs, game-makers, academics, and journalists to explore how best to harness this incredibly powerful medium to help address the most critical issues of our day, from poverty, climate change, global conﬂicts, to human rights. Every year, the festival doubles in size and brings in new, high-impact partners.

The festival includes 4 exciting days of panels, keynotes and brainstorming sessions, as well as funders' meetings, press briefings, a private journalists dinner, birds-of-a-feather gatherings and the usual excellent networking opportunities. This year also features the always popular Expo and reception where attendees can play these new games ﬁrst-hand.

Called "the Sundance of video games" for "socially-responsible game-makers" we’re promoting a new genre of video game – games to change the world – for the better.

Join us in this exciting and important new ﬁeld!

Full agenda to be announced shortly.

Special Thanks to our Sponsors:

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

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