Last month, after months of preparation, a handful of us organized the first ever video game conference at MIT called the MIT Sloan Business in Gaming Conference (http://www.mitbig.com/). In every aspect, it was a huge success.
We surpassed our attendance targets with around 200 professionals, students and faculty in attendance. We had four entertaining and educational panels. We networked; they networked. Our twitter hashtag was busy. We got tonnes of press ranging from Business Week, Newsweek, Boston Globe, PBS to Gamasutra, Joystiq and Game Daily. Our keynotes from Ken Levine (Co-founder, 2K Boston) and Susan Bonds (CEO, 42 Entertainment) were phenomenal. And we had all-star panelists representing start-ups, large caps, services and more including Curt Schilling and the new digital distribution console, Zeebo’s CEO, John Rizzo.
Best of all… we didn’t lose money.
Next year’s going to be bigger and better with a phenomenal class of 2010 leadership team. Good luck guys! Make us proud…
10pm the day before: manual labour… stuffing bags
11pm the day before: a quick break for Sandy to model way too many bags
11:30p the day before: half-way there
7:30a d-day: our AV guys testing out our Rock Band corner
7:45a d-day: all lobby signage up and ready to go… breakfast in the background
7:55a d-day: our logo banner ready to go
7:59a d-day: registration ready to go all last-minute items finished up (yah right)… GAME ON!
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