How to Leverage Open Innovation to Sustain the Planet: Strategies, Tools, Approaches & Policies

April 30 – May 3, 2024

NASA Research Center, Moffett Field

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Day 3: Thursday, May 2

NASA Research Center, Moffett Field

8:00am – 8:18am
State of the Nation in Gaming

Affine Analytics

Manas Agrawal, Co-founder, and CEO, Affine
Vineet Kumar Co-founder, and Chief Solutions Architect, Affine
Saurabh Tandon, Board Member, President, Affine

8:19am – 8:34am
Gaming, Gamers, and Creators: View from a (Twitch) Bridge

Drew Harry, VP Data and Research, Twitch

8:35am –  9:10am
Gaming & Entertainment Analytics: which goals, which data, which technique?

Xun (YoYo)Yin, Director of Mobile Analytics, Activision
Keith Van Houw, Director, Marketing Analytics, WB Entertainment (WB Games)
Ashish Bansal, Director, Recommendations Systems, Twitch

Moderated by Gauthier Vasseur

9:11am – 9:26am
How AI and Technology are Impacting the Future of Gaming and Entertainment?

Jonathan Lane, Senior Director, Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning, Activision

Moderated by Saurabh Tandon

9:27am – 9:57am
3 Success Stories in Gaming : AI in Engagement and Monetization in Gaming – What Can We Learn from Booming Indian Startups

Kabir Rustogi, VP Data Sciences & Analytics, Mobile Premier League (MPL)
Venkatesh Adavi, VP of Monetization, Growth strategy and Partnerships, VerSe Innovation
Nitin Mittal, President Zee5

Moderated by Manas Agrawal

9:58am –  10:13am
AI in Media & Entertainment: The Future of TV

Shobana Radhakrishnan, Senior Director of Engineering, Google TV

10:14am – 10:29am
Gaming and Education: Is it Work or Play?

Rosemary Lokhorst, Founder and CEO, Storybyte Studio

10:30am – 10:45am
Understanding consumers and communities in the world of web 3.0/Gaming/Metaverse

Mark Miller, Stanford University, PhD, Biometrics, AR/VR

10:46am – 11:21am
Diversity, Equity in Gaming, Media & Entertainment

Colum Slevin, Senior Director of Positive Play Experiences, Electronic Arts (EA)
Bryant Young, Gameheads & Fishean Studio
Samia Chelbi, CEO, DigiArtLivingLab

Moderated by Nathalie Mathe

11:22am – 11:32am
African Gaming: What Future, What Challenges

Featuring a Kenyan game from Kunta Count

11:33am – 11:48am
Gaming, Social Media and Reality – Metaverse: Business Models, Monetization and New metrics?

Rafael Brown, CEO & Co-Founder, Symbol Zero

11:49am – 12:04am
10 Things to know the Meta-verse

Christopher Lafayette, Founder, GatherVerse

12:02pm – 12:04pm
Thank you

Fisher Center for Business Analytics & Affine Analytics