Digital Media Wire is preparing to put on their next games conference, taking place September 17 in New York City. In addition to a daylong agenda looking at various game industry issues, much of it focused on digital games, the event will give game startups a chance to make their pitch to panel of big investment firms.
DMW is accepting entries from startups by email at ned@digitalmediawire.com. Finalists whose pitches make it past the first round will then have the opportunity to make their presentation during Games Startup Pitch Day, which takes place the same day as the games conference on September 17. Participating investors are Rogers Venture Partners, Raptor Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Time Warner Investments, Siemer Ventures, and Signia Venture Partners. The panel is also hearing pitches from video technology startups on September 18 – that’s likely why Comcast and Time Warner are there.
Conference organizers also recently announced speaker and panelist additions including award-winning game designer Greg Costikyan from Disney Playdom and Giordano Contestabile, VP of product management and revenue at newly formed digital game publisher Tilting Point. The [a]list daily also has a presence at the show. Chris Younger, who heads up strategy for [a]list daily publisher Ayzenberg, is moderating the Game Marketing Leadership Roundtable with Peter Gollan, head of global marketing, games group at Fiksu, Cara Scharf, president and founder of Fearless Media, JonMichael Bukosky, CEO of FragD Media, Sandy Diep, VP of advertising at BitTorrent, and Jill Braff, formerly EVP of digital commerce at HSN.
DMW Games NY web site has more information on the conference agenda and the startup pitch contest.
