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Contact: Rosalyn Gell |
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'Serious Games' Showcased at CED's Game Night May 17
Program Will Feature Marquee Panel; Company Demos
May 9, 2006, Research Triangle Park, NC – The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is presenting its ‘Game Night’ on May 17, 2006 at the CED Entrepreneurship Center from 5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. The program will showcase 'serious games' that are extending interactive entertainment technology beyond computer and video games to serve the education and training needs of businesses and government organizations.
Panelists include:
- Moderator
R. Michael Young, Director, Liquid Narrative Group, North Carolina State University - John Austin. Senior Vice President, Business Development & Marketing, Emergent Game Technology
- Tiffany Barnes, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, UNC Charlotte
- Frank Boosman, Chief Operating Officer, 3DSolve
- Jerry Heneghan, CEO, Virtual Heroes, Inc.
- Mark Rein, Vice-President, Epic Games
In addition to the marquee panel, ‘Game Night’ will feature the cutting edge game-based technologies that are being developed by North Carolina-based companies. Several companies will demo their products following the panel session. Confirmed demos include NCSU, 3Dsolve, Emergent Game Technologies and Do2Learn.
“CED’s ‘Game Night’ will not only give participants the chance to learn more about the gaming industry and its potential, but also the opportunity to see first hand the unique and innovative gaming technologies that are being developed here in North Carolina,” said CED President Monica Doss.
For more information or to register, please visit the CED calendar.
About CED: The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to identify, enable and promote high growth, high impact entrepreneurial companies and to accelerate the entrepreneurial culture of the Research Triangle and North Carolina. CED is the largest and oldest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 4,000 members representing over 1,100 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional firms. In July 2005, Wilmington's Coastal Entrepreneurial Council merged with CED to create CED-Coastal, a divisional office focused on entrepreneurial development in Wilmington and throughout North Carolina's entire coastal region. CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, seminars, workshops and programs on entrepreneurial management and finance. www.cednc.org
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