FGO 2010 | Future Game On

August 13, 2010

Future Game On (FGO), game research and development conference, is a new European professional event to showcase the latest innovations in the video game sector. FGO 2010 is organized by the business clusters Cap Digital and Imaginove, in collaboration with Capital Games, and the cooperation of ACM SIGGRAPH. FGO will be held September 9 and 10, 2010, preceding the Paris Game Festival, in the Parc des Expositions, Paris, pavilion 7. FGO will encompass a series of conferences presenting top quality technical and scientific papers to a mixed industry/academia public. The event will highlight the state of the art of European video game research and will be an opportunity for major video game actors to present their latest innovations in different fields, such as:

Casey Hudson (Executive Producer/Project Director on Mass Effect 2 and Vice President, BioWare)
Jason Della Rocca (founder, Perimeter partners): “The Innovation Dilemma: Surviving on the Bleeding Edge”
Scott Easley (Associate Director, USC GamePipe Laboratory, Viterbi School of Engineering): “New Devices, New Gameplay”
Jos Stam (Senior Research Scientist, Autodesk, Inc.): “How to make Computational Fluid Dynamics fun for the masses”

Conference Chair Sophie Revillard comments: “This annual international scientific event is intended to serve and unite the European video game community around the issue of innovation. We expect a rich series of exchanges as participants share their experiences.”