Talk at Kinetic Futures – November 28, 2013
Out of Home (outdoor advertising) expert Kinetic will hold their annual “Interactivity event”. Speakers include Layar’s Raimo van der Klein, Harry Glotzbach and yours truly. I will talk about...
View ArticleHosting a panel at MIT’s Platform Strategy Summit
At MIT’s annual platform strategy event I will host a panel titled “Winning! Platform Strategies in the Digital Games Industry” on platform strategies in the game industry. With me are panelists Joost...
View ArticleTalk at TU Eindhoven – September 24, 2014
Games like Call of Duty and America’s Army demonstrate how the game industry and (American) military institutions are deeply intertwined on both a technological and economical level. At TU Eindhoven’s...
View ArticleTalk at HKU Hilversum – March 3, 2015
For the HKU I gave a talk on apps: “Een kritische kijk op de app economie”. During the talk I offered some insights into free-to-play games, Candy Crush Saga, why the Finnish game industry is doing so...
View ArticleTalk at Platform Klantgericht Ondernemen – April 9, 2015
For the Platform voor Klantgericht Ondernemen (customer focused entrepreneurship), I will give a brief talk on gamification as part of the “Mastersessie Gamification: How to make it happen“. The talk...
View ArticleTalk at Hack/Play festival – April 30, 2015
The Flemish-Dutch Culturehouse De Brakke Ground will organize a month of play-related cultural events, starting April 16. Part of this event is the two day mini-festival Hack/Play on meaningful play....
View ArticleTalk at European Ig Nobel Show – October 3, 2015
The Ig Nobel Show, prizes for “research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK” will come to Europe. Again. I’m very honored to make a brief appearance at the European Ig nobel prize show...
View ArticleKeynote at Nationale Payrolling Congres – December 14, 2015
The Vereniging Payroll Ondernemingen (VPO) will have their national annual get together on December 14. I will do the closing keynote and talk about the potential for play in the business of...
View ArticleTalk at GAMEWORK Seminar 1 – February 20, 2017
GAMEWORK is a Nordic research initiative run by the University of Tampere, Umeå University, and the University of Bergen and focuses on research on game development cultures. As part of their...
View ArticleKeynote at congres Duurzame Inzetbaarheid – June 15, 2017
If there is one domain that benefits from considering playful and gameful approaches, it’s HR and the realm of employee retention. I’ll give a keynote for the Congres Over Duurzame Inzetbaarheid....
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