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With GDC Europe quickly gaining steam, show organizers have added 14 leadingEuropean game developers to the event's main conference and Summitadvisory boards, where they will help program the lectures, panelsand roundtable sessions taking place at this August's conference inCologne, Germany. The newest members to join the main conference advisory board forGDC Europe 2012 include former Battlefield Heroes developer Ben Cousins (now general manager of ngmoco Sweden,pictured), Playdead CEO Dino Patti ( Limbo ), DICE creative director Lars Gustavsson, and Christopher Schmitz,head of production at Ubisoft Blue Byte ( The Settlers and Battle Isle ). All of these new advisory board members come from notable andvaried backgrounds in the European development community, and giventheir range of expertise, they will be able to ensure that GDCEurope 2012 offers even more insightful content targeted atdevelopers all across the continent. Other new additions to GDC Euope's main conference advisory boardinclude Crytek veteran and Yager Interactive design director BerndDiemer, EA Phenomic VP Dirk Ringe, Kuju Entertainment COO AdrianHawkins ( Battalion Wars ), Guerrilla Games technical director Michiel van der Leeuw ( Killzone series), online game consultant Teut Weidemann, Secret Exitco-founder Jetro Lauha ( Zen Bound series), and Sven Liebech, head of art at Bigpoint GmbH. These developers will join continuing board members such as RemedyEntertainment's Matias Myllyrinne ( Alan Wake franchise), Avni Yerli of Crytek, and Harald Riegler of Sproing. Helping to program the increasingly vibrant GDC Europe submarketSummits will be Thomas Grip, one of the key creatives at Amnesia studio Frictional Games, who will join the advisory board for theIndependent Games Summit, alongside Knap Nok Lau Korsgaard (whopreviously worked on Die Gute Fabrik's B.U.T.T.O.N. ). Elsewhere, Jami Laes, general manager and co-founder of social gamegiant Playfish, and Henric Suuronen, head of studio at Non-StopGames (and formerly at wooga) will both join the board of theSocial & Online Games Summit. In addition, Ansu Lonnberg, chairman of the board at Secret Exit,and Semyon Voinov, co-founder of Cut the Rope creators ZeptoLab will join notables such as Fishlabs CEO andco-founder Michael Schade ( Galaxy On Fire ) on the advisory board of the Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit. Now in its fourth year and happening alongside the European-leadinggamescom trade fair, GDC Europe will take place Monday throughWednesday, August 13-15, 2012 at the Congress-Centrum OstKoelnmesse in Cologne, Germany. The event will once again serve the European game industry bygathering the world leading speakers in areas specific to currentEuropean game development trends across platforms and developmentdisciplines. "With this incredible influx of new energy and ideas across theadvisory boards for both the main conference and all three summits,I believe we can expect this year GDC Europe to continue toblossom into the most important event on the industry calendar forthose who want to push the European development industry into newterritory," said Meggan Scavio, general manager of all GameDevelopers Conference events. In 2011, GDC Europe hosted over 2,100 attendees , 170 speakers, 45 exhibitors and more than 300 mediarepresentatives. With a developer-focused Expo Floor area, andmyriad day and evening networking events, GDC Europe 2012 willcontinue to offer business and networking opportunities to allattendees. For more information on GDC Europe -- run by Gamasutraparent UBM TechWeb -- please visit the event's official website . Related news: Tales from the GDC Vault: A retrospective look at game developmentin 1997 Reminder: GDC Online 2012's call for submissions ends Wednesday,May 2 Reminder: GDC Europe 2012's call for submissions ends Monday, April23. The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as China Low End Mobiles , Wrist Watch Cell Phones, and more. For more , please visit Unlocking Motorola Cell Phones today!
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