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Games for Change Festival

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Alexia Bhéreur-Lagounaris

ABLBLALAB
Founder and creative director
Alexia Bhéreur-Lagounaris

I just started 8 months ago to create games design events in Montreal, it's going well & would love to hear advice about the business side to keep finding new innovative possibilities to use game mechanics towards live events.

9:00am EDT

Welcome and Opening Remarks Tishman Auditorium

9:15am EDT

Keynote - Amplius Ludo, Beyond the Horizon, with Christopher Weaver Tishman Auditorium

9:45am EDT

Opening Remarks from Erik Huey Tishman Auditorium

10:00am EDT

Progress Report from Richard Culatta Tishman Auditorium

10:15am EDT

Keynote - Into the Future, with Magic Leap's Graeme Devine Tishman Auditorium

11:00am EDT

Building School Community With Civic-Themed Hackathons Room 105 Playing Medical Minecraft with IBM Watson Starr Foundation Hall

11:15am EDT

Show, Don't Tell: Making Personal Games Room 104

11:30am EDT

Comedy, Games and Social Change Room 104 Workshop - Feats and Flops: Trailblazing the Edtech Market Starr Foundation Hall Big Picture: A Conversation About Neuroscience Tishman Auditorium

11:45am EDT

Gaming for Good: A Disruptive Innovation Room 104

12:00pm EDT

Edu-Larps: Live Roleplay in the Classroom Room 105

12:15pm EDT

Case Study: The Meaning of BEEP Room 105

1:30pm EDT

Lunch Starr Foundation Hall

2:00pm EDT

21st-Century Armageddon: Why Nuclear Weapons are Too Important NOT to Play With Room 105 Panel - More Than Child's Play: Games for Early Learners Starr Foundation Hall Video Games as Meditation Room 104

2:30pm EDT

Panel - Funding Games Within the Public Sector: A Conversation Between Funders and Artists Tishman Auditorium Heal Thyself: What Makes Health Games Work? Room 104

2:45pm EDT

Panel - From Player to Developer: Girls in Gaming Starr Foundation Hall

3:00pm EDT

Well Played: Project Syria Tishman Auditorium Pro Tips for Breaking into the Education Market Room 105

3:15pm EDT

Exploring Art, Narrative, and Mental Health in Anamorphine Room 104

4:00pm EDT

Industry Circle Town Hall Tishman Auditorium Workshop - Includification: Designing Accessible Games Starr Foundation Hall How We Bridged the Gap Between Science Fiction and Reality Room 104

4:30pm EDT

Panel - From Fantasy to Empathy: Changing Game Dialogue For the Real World Room 104

5:15pm EDT

Keynote - Games Reveal Decision Biases: Poker - a Lab for Studying Irrationality, w/ Annie Duke Tishman Auditorium

5:45pm EDT

Keynote - Sid Meier and Susanna Pollack, in Conversation Tishman Auditorium

7:00pm EDT

The 2016 Games for Change Awards Slate

9:00am EDT

G4C for MIL in Brazil Starr Foundation Hall

9:15am EDT

Welcome Remarks from Colleen Macklin Tishman Auditorium

9:20am EDT

Opening Remarks from Seth Andrew Tishman Auditorium

9:30am EDT

Keynote - The Future of Virtual Reality and Education with Jesse Schell Tishman Auditorium

10:00am EDT

Keynote - William Adams and Tracy Fullerton, in Conversation Tishman Auditorium

10:45am EDT

Empathy Overload: Choice Matters Room 104 Panel - Computer Science for All: Putting Students in the Driver's Seat Tishman Auditorium Panel - Rethinking Assessment: Mastery Doesn't Require a Bubble Sheet Starr Foundation Hall Meet the Industry Circle Faculty Lounge

11:00am EDT

Workshop - Transformational Experiences Room 104

11:15am EDT

Is Hacking the Brain The Future of Gaming? Room 105

11:30am EDT

Climate Challenge: A Live Pitch Event Tishman Auditorium Workshop - Gamifying the Classroom: Where the Student Becomes the Hero, with Classcraft Starr Foundation Hall Panel - Rewiring the Brain: Anxiety Treatment Through Gameplay Room 105

1:30pm EDT

Panel - Community of Interest: Violence and Games Room 105 Speed Networking Starr Foundation Hall

2:15pm EDT

The White House Call: Games for Grand Challenges Room 105

2:30pm EDT

Speed Networking for Students Starr Foundation Hall

2:45pm EDT

Reaching New Audiences with Interactive Stories: The Power of Genre Room 104 How the Science of Game Design Can Inform the Science of Games for Change Tishman Auditorium

3:00pm EDT

Break Tishman Auditorium

3:15pm EDT

Give Me Your Gun: An Interactive Theater Experience Starr Foundation Hall

4:00pm EDT

Increasing Social Impact: Tools to Design Across Sectors Room 105 Games Bridging the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Beyond Room 104 Applying Game Technologies Across Disciplines with Unity Tishman Auditorium Live Recording of the Games for Learning Podcast hosted by Filament Games Starr Foundation Hall

4:15pm EDT

Extra Life: Play Games, Heal Kids, and Get Involved in Your Community Room 104

4:30pm EDT

Games and Governance: Designing Games with International Organizations Room 105 Making Fitness Fun for Three Million People Tishman Auditorium

5:15pm EDT

Keynote - Digital Medicine: The Quest for the First FDA-Approved Game, with Dr. Adam Gazzaley Tishman Auditorium

5:45pm EDT

Keynote - Robin Hunicke on the Importance of Playfulness and Joy in Learning Games Tishman Auditorium

6:15pm EDT

Closing remarks from G4C President, Susanna Pollack Tishman Auditorium