Alan Abdine
Senior Vice President, Business Development
Rooster Teeth Productions
Online Influencer Marketing For Games
How can marketing managers best utilize online gamers and influencers to make exciting, meaningful, and engaging content that benefits both the brand and creator? Join a round table hosted by Rooster Teeth Productions, pioneers in the online video field, to discuss best practices for connecting directly with your audience in a meaningful and credible way.

Matthew Arevalo
Co-Founder/Chief Experience Officer
Loot Crate
Experience Focused Initiatives to Acquire, Engage and Retain
In this round table we will be sharing best practices focused on activating and growing your community by keeping them engaged through experience based campaigns.

Tim Campbell
Senior Vice President, Games & Executive Board Member
Gameforge
Publishing Portfolio Diversification
With the speed at which the interactive entertainment market evolves, diversity in genres, platforms, development strategies (e.g. internal vs. external), product acquisition methods, deal structures and talent can be crucial to weathering cyclical trends and executing the right idea at the perfect time. How do you make a portfolio diversification strategy work for you and not lose your mind in the process?

David Helgason
Founder
Unity Technologies
Unity, the industry, and you.
Frank conversation with David Helgason for customers, partners, and friends. BYO topics or listen in.

Don Karl
Partner, Co-Chair of Interactive Entertainment Group
Perkin Coie LLP
Game Company M&A
When opportunity knocks – is selling my company a smart move to take it to the next level, a payday for all of that hard work, or selling out? A discussion of the motivations, risks and rewards of selling your company.

Hendrik Lesser
Managing Director
Remote Control Productions
Europe, a Galaxy Far, Far Away? Opportunities and Challenges Across the Pond
Hundreds of development studios, an incredibly creative developer scene and government funding – Europe offers many opportunities for game developers. On the other hand there are so many countries, with many different laws, rules and regulations – Europe also offers many challenges for the uninitiated. We’re discussing what it takes to collaborate successfully with teams in Europe, what you need to take into consideration when planning a partnership overseas and how to make the most out of this hugely diverse market for your games.

Niccolo Maisto
Co-Founder and CEO
Faceit
The Influence of eSports on Games' Engagement and Monetization
Publisher and Developers are discovering eSports and its ecosystem with different perspectives, strategies and goals, striving to understand how it can aid their business. What’s the impact of eSports on the acquisition, engagement and monetization of a game? How can games align eSports to business strategy?

Laura Naviaux
Chief Publishing Officer
Daybreak Games
Games As A Service: Where To Focus Dev Resources?
In the Games As A Service model ongoing development has many competing priorities...with retention as paramount. How do you decide what to focus precious resources on? The spectrum of options is so wide from game stability and quality to new "marketing worthy" features and content, it's becoming more and more difficult to decide whether short or long term bets should trump.

Randy Pitchford
Founder and President/CEO
Gearbox Software
Cross-Platform, Cross- Media Brand Engagement
As cloud computing, mobile and wearable tech pushes forward alongside traditional platforms, the landscape for customer engagement is more diverse and complicated than ever before. How do we maintain engagement across platforms and across mediums in this new world? What new strategies can we imagine to increase engagement with our brands?

Mark Robinson
CEO
deltaDNA
Retention or Revenue? How to Have it All in F2P
Mark will discuss practical steps, referencing real case studies, on how to unlock your game potential. Learn how to understand your player experiences. Discover how to use this insight to design player-centric Ad and IAP monetization strategies that engage your players.

Nelson Rodriguez
Senior Industry Marketing Manager, Games
Akamai Technologies
Why Players Are Leaving Your Game
User churn is painfully high in our industry. Some estimates show 90% of players leaving a game after the first 30 days. That’s a shame, since some of the leaks are easy to plug. Using analytics and real life examples, we dig into this topic.

Hannes Seifert
Studio Head and Executive Producer
Io Interactive
The Digital Age and its Impact on Classic AAA Game Development and Publishing
Hannes will host a discussion on what opportunities and possibilities open up with moving AAA releases further away from physical platforms into the live and online world of today. What are the risks and challenges? How can existing franchises and development teams evolve? How do your publishing teams and your distribution partners fit into this new world? And most of all, what’s in it for the players?

Greg Short
President
IEP
Building Better Leadership
This round-table will center around the processes, mentorship, and educational approaches senior executives used to create more effective leadership and talent within their organizations. Participants are also encouraged to present specific challenges they are facing in their organization for peer input.

Gus Sorola
Co-Founder
Rooster Teeth Productions
Online Influencer Marketing For Games
How can marketing managers best utilize online gamers and influencers to make exciting, meaningful, and engaging content that benefits both the brand and creator? Join a round table hosted by Rooster Teeth Productions, pioneers in the online video field, to discuss best practices for connecting directly with your audience in a meaningful and credible way.

Christian Svensson
Chief Operating Officer
Six Foot
Communities Evolved: The Challenges and Opportunities of Player Engagement
The challenges and opportunities for keeping players engaged and contributing to the development process are more exciting than ever. This panel is meant to be a sharing of knowledge for what has worked and not worked in community development efforts. It will touch upon steaming, eSports, fan events and more.

The new roundtable format at D.I.C.E is just the best. I loved – and everyone else seems to too – engaging my peers in small and focused, no-nonsense groups, where we could really rip into some of the topics that are critical to our companies as well as our industry.
David Helgason, Founder at Unity Technologies

The D.I.C.E. roundtable format was a very positive change this year. It was great to participate in productive discussions with such an impressive group of people. This truly took industry networking at the conference to a new level.
Mike McDonald, CTO at Wargaming.net

I loved leading the round tables at D.I.C.E. Europe and would love to do it again. I expected to have some engaging discussion with peers but actually ended up not merely stimulated but actually profiting from the experience. I think the format has a LOT of potential for the D.I.C.E. Summit in Vegas and look forward to participating.
Randy Pitchford, President at Gearbox Software

One of my favorite aspects of D.I.C.E. is that everyone brings extensive games industry experience to the conference. And that experience is incredibly varied among attendees. As a result I walked away from my roundtables with a lot of useful advice I would never have found elsewhere.
Ted Price, Founder and CEO at Insomniac Games

The roundtables were great, interesting topics, more importantly learning from a great group of peers sharing their knowledge and opinion.
Alf Tan, Head of Business Development at Amazon Games

The roundtables offered a great opportunity to discover interesting topics through intimate, engaging discussions with colleagues across the video game ecosystem. Our team loved them.
Alyssa Padia Walles, U.S. Managing Director at Hitbox Entertainment

The roundtables at D.I.C.E. Europe were worth the trip alone! How else can you get so up close and personal with so many giants of our industry? I can't wait to see the format take shape at the D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas.
Dave Oshry, CEO at New Blood Interactive

I found the roundtables to be a refreshing format for generating real dialog with my peers about our business. There was a palpable circle of trust at each table that fostered genuine conversation about the challenges we all face.
Lyle Hall, President and CEO at Heavy Iron Studios

The roundtables were a huge source of insight and generated exciting discussions. It was a unique opportunity to explore, frankly and openly, with experts, subjects that are mutually interesting. I was pleasantly surprised by the candid dialogue. Definitely a highlight of the whole program.
Maria Sayans, Chief Customer Officer at CCP Games