Women in Games International D-L-C event (D=drinks, L=lectures, C=community).

D-L-C events are held quarterly and move WIGI's mission forward to create a community interested and engaged in the gaming industry.

The upcoming topic will be "MONETIZATION IN GAMING (both in the casual and social gaming arena)". We have brought together a panel of industry leaders with a myriad of experience and insight.

Confirmed Speakers include:

EDDIE CHEN - CFO and Co-founder of ICE Entertainment, an online game developer and operator based in Shanghai, China. Eddie also serves as the CEO of THQ*ICE, a joint venture between ICE and THQ, one of the World’s leading video game publisher.

ALI MOIZ - Co-founder at Peanut Labs, one of the leading virtual currency monetization networks in what has become a $1.5bn industry in 2009. Before Peanut Labs Ali ran Xuqa a social gaming site which was one of the pioneers of the virtual currency model for free-to-play games and virtual worlds.

THOMAS LEE - A video game executive with a deep understanding of social networks, and free to play online games, and he is currently building the Micro transaction focused online game business initiative for Gamepot USA, the US publishing division of Japan’s Gamepot, Inc. Prior to Gamepot, Thomas was at the Korean game giant, Nexon America managing their business and focusing on Prepaid Card distribution at national retailers, including Target, 7-Eleven, Duane Reade, Rite Aid, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, and CVS, with the focus on promoting free to play micro-transaction item sales model.

CHARLES HUDSON - VP of Business Development for Serious Business. Charles is an expert in Virtual Goods and Monetization and was formerly the Sr. Director for Business Development at Gaia Interactive, the fastest growing online hangout for teens. Prior to Gaia, Charles worked in New Business Development at Google and focused on new partnership opportunities for early-stage products in the advertising, mobile, and e-commerce markets. Prior to joining Google, he was a Product Manager for IronPort Systems, a leading provider of anti-spam hardware appliances that was acquired by Cisco Systems for $830 million in 2007.

Charles is also the founder of the Virtual Goods Summit and Social Gaming Summit, two of the leading conferences in the games space.

Charles Hudson holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Economics and Spanish from Stanford University.

FRED SONG-Business Development Manager for InComm. InComm is the industry leading marketer, distributor, and technology innovator of stored-value gift and prepaid products, which pioneered the introduction of virtual currency into top retail destinations such as Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, 7-Eleven, CVS, Rite-Aid, Radio Shack, etc.

Before joining InComm, Fred was the Licensing & Business Development Manager for Nexon America, the leading free-to-play MMOG publisher.


Doors open at 6:30pm.

The panel discussion will begin promptly at 7:00pm and will last one hour. Space is limited to 100 attendees for the panel discussion (first come first serve seating).

Join us afterwards at El Torito (just a few doors down) to continue the conversation over drinks.

Look forward to seeing you all there!

2010 Sponsor
Sheppard Mullin

D-L-C and 2010 GDC Sponsors:

THE ENTROPIA PLATFORM: NextIsland, Planet Calypso, Rocktropia, SEE Virtual Worlds

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