Welcome Back!Welcome to the first issue of LOGIN Beat. We look forward to having you with us as we head toward our next exciting game industry event, the LOGIN Conference. LOGIN Beat will provide you with bi-weekly news headlines from the online game industry, exclusive updates about the LOGIN Conference, and interviews and editorials you won't find anywhere else. We have many changes and improvements in store for 2009. The very first change you'll notice about the newsletter and the conference is that we have a new name: LOGIN. The name reflects the conference's consistent focus on you, the Leaders of the Online Game Industry. LOGIN is about connecting people to people, and ideas to opportunities.
Our May 2008 conference was an impressive success by any measuring stick. Attendees represented some 270 companies, reflecting all aspects of the online game industry. The international and globally diverse audience (from 19 countries) consisted of major thought leaders in the industry; nearly 40% held C-level, VP, and Director level positions. These numbers collectively affirm the excellent standards we will carry over into the LOGIN Conference in 2009. LOGIN will return to the spacious Seattle Marriott Waterfront Hotel May 11-14, 2009. This venue features the intimacy, exclusivity and sumptuousness you expect – plus an incredible location on the Seattle waterfront. The LOGIN Conference and its activities are all contained within one venue to give you the best possible networking environment. Forget traveling all over town for your meetings. Private meetings rooms, a business lounge, conversation-friendly parties, and facilitated networking breakfasts all contribute to create an environment where you'll make valuable and lasting connections. In just two weeks, we will be opening the call for speaker submissions to LOGIN. This is an excellent opportunity for experienced speakers from the world of online games to gain exposure and recognition. Speakers at LOGIN represent the crème de la crème; these are the people who are shaping the face of the online games industry. If you've got the chops, here's your advance notice to get the jump on your industry colleagues! Although we consider everyone who attends LOGIN a VIP, being a speaker firmly establishes you a cut above. Speakers and sessions are selected through an extensive peer review process and achieving the opportunity to speak at LOGIN is no mean feat -- but the benefits are worth it. Besides complimentary registration to the conference and all its activities, speakers are prominently lauded and have daily access to the exclusive Speaker/VIP Lounge: "The speakers lounge was like an incredible changing roundtable session all day long! Instead of tiny tables, glare and the feeling of being strangers in an airport Starbucks, the round table setup was condusive to valuable conversation and connections, while still leaving the privacy for talk preparation. The mood was extremely social and connective with the elegant room, the plentiful power supplies and the warm collegial tone established by the organizers. Who would have thought? Bravo!" Bridget Agabra Metaverse Roadmap Project Of course, we have many more changes and refinements in mind for LOGIN 2009. You'll see these changes in both subtle and substantial ways that will make LOGIN 2009 an unforgettable conference for anyone in the online game industry.
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