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Details on:
http://www.meetup.com/Silicon-Valley-Web-Builder/events/16450633/
Moderator:
Michael Carter, Co-Founder, Game Closure
Panelists:
Kris Duggan, CEO & Founder, Badgeville
Keith Smith, CEO & Co-Founder, BigDoor
Finn Kelly, CEO & Co-Founder, The Go Game
Rajat Paharia, Founder/Chief Product Officer, Bunchball
Agenda:
7:00pm Pizza, Networking
7:30pm - 9:30 Panel
Gamification is the use of game play mechanics for non-game applications , particularly consumer-oriented web and mobile sites, in order to encourage people to adopt the applications. It also strives to encourage users to engage in desired behaviors in connection with the applications. Gamification works by making technology more engaging, and by encouraging desired behaviors, taking advantage of humans' psychological predisposition to engage in gaming. The technique can encourage people to perform chores that they ordinarily consider boring, such as completing surveys, shopping, or reading web sites.
::Michael Carter, Co-Founder from Game Closure. He is a network engineer at heart with a passion for dynamic languages like python and javascript. Michael designed the initial WebSocket protocol for HTML5, a contribution for which he is officially recognized in the HTML5 W3C spec. Michael's open source work, such as Orbited is in use at thousands of companies around the world, including Myspace, Redhat, Cloudkick, Like a Little, and many startups in the valley.
::Keith Smith, CEO & Co-Founder from BigDoor
Keith has been working on gamification well before the term was invented. An avid game fan, at the age of six he sold magazine subscriptions door to door in an effort to buy the original Atari Pong console. By his own admission, Keith wore out five Atari consoles and used his love of games to work his way through college as a game play counselor at Nintendo. He still knows every level and secret in Zelda and Super Mario Bros for the SNES.
Learn more about BigDoor at
www.bigdoor.com orfollow him on Twitter @chiefdoorman.
Kris Duggan, CEO & Co-Founder at Badgeville
He is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for building innovative SaaS companies with thousands of delighted customers. He is dedicated to helping brands on the web increase user engagement by leveraging proven techniques in social gaming and loyalty. A sought-after speaker on gamification and user engagement, Kris is a thought leader of innovative ways to incorporate game mechanics and real-time loyalty programs into web and mobile experiences. He believes the next decade of the web will focus on loyalty, user segmentation, and motivation techniques linked to deep engagement analytics. Prior to founding Badgeville, Duggan worked in leadership roles at a variety of successful companies, including WebEx, and across a wide variety of verticals.
::Finnegan Kelly, CEO & Co-Founder at The Go Game
Started in 2001 in collaboration with his good friend Ian Fraser, The Go Game was the first location-based game of it’s kind. In a time before flash mobs and check-ins, hundreds of San Francisco adventurers came out each month to play one of their hand-crafted urban games, weaving actors and creative stunts with trivia and location based clues. Over the past 10 years The Go Game has evolved into the leader in corporate team building running over 50 events a month around the world. They hold the record for the world’s largest mobile phone game with an event in Dallas that featured over 2500 players. To date, over 1 million players have experienced their blend of fun and creativity, and they have grown to a 3 million dollar company with 20 employees across the country.
::Rajat Paharia, Founder & Chief Product Officer at Bunchball. Rajat’s skill set combines a unique understanding of technology and design that stems from a four year career at design firm IDEO where he was co-director of the Software Experiences Practice. While there he worked with clients including AT&T Wireless, Avaya, Microsoft, McDonald’s, HP and Philips. Prior to IDEO, Rajat worked at Philips Consumer Electronics, IBM Research and ViewStar.
