New wave of speakers as Develop Conference fills

A new batch of industry professionals have been announced as speakers for the upcoming Develop Conference in Brighton.

The event has already amassed a strong set of speakers, and today it was announced that developers from the likes of Blitz Games, ngmoco, Square Enix, Sony and Microsoft.

Mick Hocking of SCEE will be presenting a speaker session on 3DTV in a lecture entitled ‘the next dimension in game graphics’, while Blitz Games Studios‘ CTO Andrew Oliver will discuss new possibilities with motion controllers.

Square Enix’s Jim Blackhurst and Mike Oldman will also be at the event to discuss opening up player metrics to the community in Just Cause 2.

Also joining the scores of developers is Alan Yu (ngomoco), Gabe Zichermann (beamMe), Jasper Koning (Ronimo Games), and Jerome Hagen (Microsoft).

The latest set of speakers complements a strong speaker line-up, which includes a conference keynote from BioWare co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, an audio keynote from Activision’s Adam Levenson and evolve keynotes from Louis Castle of Instant Action and David Helgason of Unity Technologies.

The final list of speaker sessions, roundtables and keynotes will be announced in May. The pivotal event takes place 13 – 15 July.

Go here for Develop’s profile of the event

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