CFP: Apply Serious Games 2008, London

Martine Parry, CEO of ANGILS.org in the UK, noted on the Serious Games listserv recently that Apply Serious Games 2008 is open for “presentations, live demos, speakers, sponsors and more.”

Here are the tag lines from their website describing what the conference is all about:

Premier Conference & Expo Now in the Third Year Leading the Debate About Innovation & Key Issues Around the Real-World Use of Serious Games

Europe’s leading conference continues to focus on the key issues for the serious games community, show-casing the best in the market. ASG 07 was the first conference in Europe to focus on virtual worlds and include a shoot-out between Second Life ™ and OLIVE virtual world platforms. Our key themes include: Web 2.0 , 3D Web, Tools & Techniques, Social Networking, Virtual Worlds – all with a twist

Speaker submissions now open. Keynotes to be announced soon.

Apply Serious Games is now in its third year, following on from the success of ASG 2007 and the linked masterclasses that had around 250 attending in total, representing the serious games community from across the world (see delegate break-down figures and feedback below).

Once again this year we are focused on the issues that make a statement of where the community is when we talk about serious games – what’s the latest buzz, where’s the reality of the application? There are also plenty of opportunities for networking over lunch and breaks throughout the day – and we are expanding out with even more activities. Stay tuned for those. We are adding more of the activities to this page and the programme and schedule.

The conference runs July 9-10, and Martine notes the Wimbledon finals are on July 6, so it would be easy to mix business with pleasure in a single trip. Here is the official CFP:

Call for Papers – Now Open

Please make contact with us if you would like to:

• Speak at ASG08. If so, then please send us a synopsis of no more than 100 words with your contact details and what the audience ‘take-away’ is from your session.
• Join the conference committee. If so, then please send us your bio and a short note about what you can bring to our programme and agenda.
• Sponsor the conference or take part in the expo

Don’t hold back – if you have a great presentation please send synopsis to:

martine <at> applygroup < dot> com

Many thanks.