CGDC confirms ten more speakers, including Blizzard Entertainment, EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, THQ, NCsoft and more.

The organizing committee of the China Game Developers Conference (CGDC) 2009 and Howell International Trade Fair Ltd. recently announced the participation of 10 more outstanding representatives from domestic and overseas game companies as speakers or panellists. CGDC 2009 is going to be held on July 24-26, 2009 at the Shanghai International Convention Center, comprising a three-day conference program with 47 general sessions.

According to the spoke-person from the organizing committee, the organizer started inviting speakers right after all the conference topics were confirmed and gained support from game enterprises worldwide, including Blizzard Entertainment, EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, THQ, NCSOFT, NEXON, Giant Network, Shanda Games, Tencent, The9, Netease, Perfect World, 9 You and Kingsoft. Speakers are gradually confirmed according to the inspection and evaluation of the papers done by the advisory board. The organizing committee will announce all speakers over the course of the next few weeks.

Conference registration for CGDC pass have now started; CGPA now calls on their members, totaling 130 game companies, to collect information from their technical staff and purchase group passes from the organizing committee. With the annual opportunity of exchanging ideas, share experience with other game companies worldwide, CGDC offers a great opportunity to all industry professionals and developers that is not to be missed.

CGDC 2009 speakers:
Taewon Yun, Platform Operation Director, Blizzard Software Development (Shanghai) Company Ltd.

David Kristofer Fried, Senior Game Designer, Ubisoft Shanghai.

Lei Zhang, Senior Audio Expert, Ubisoft Shanghai.

Ben Mowery, Director, Scaleform.

Yuxin Ren, Senior Executive Vice President, Tencent Corporate.

Quan Chen, NVIDIA PhysX Tech Support Engineer

Jerry Mao, Vice President, Object software

Yongquan Li, R&D Technical Director

Xinchun Gu, Senior Development Manager, The9 Co., Ltd.

Shiying Wang, Director and Producer, The9 Co. Ltd

The organizing committee is looking forward to confirming more outstanding speakers soon, and at the same time the conference registration has started. There is a 10% early bird discount register before June 10, 2009.

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