The Vancouver International Game Summit is a  two-day conference/exhibition that brings together some of the industry’s top innovators, businesses and talent responsible for the explosive growth of the gaming industry, providing a platform to share knowledge and develop industry partnerships while showcasing the beautiful city of Vancouver.

The Summit focuses on providing education, networking and insight for the gaming community through three tracks: management, technology and design. It was developed in conjunction with the Vancouver Games community by Reboot Communications, a BC based company that organizes international conferences worldwide.  The inaugural Vancouver Game Summit was held in 2007.  This year’s event is expected to attract over 1,000 attendees, representing gaming companies and trade associations from around the globe.   www.vancouvergamesummit.com   www.rebootconference.com

Relic's General Manager Tarrnie Williams and Design Director Josh Mosqueira will be participating in panel sessions at the conference

 Tarrnie will be particiapting in New Business Models for the Next Decade - The purpose of this panel is to have a variety of speakers who can represent numerous successful models for running a game development company including how to structure a game design studio, alternative revenue streams and possible business models of the future.

Josh will be participating in Low-Fi Prototyping - This panel will discuss a number of different, successful, low-tech methods for prototyping a game. What are the thought processes used in the real world to formulate and design the game concepts? How were these real world concepts then implemented into the game?

Come visit our booth while you're there and play some of our games, meet some of our staff and learn more about what Relic.