Jade Raymond. This ground-breaking 32 year-old is considered to be the first star producer in the games industry. In November 2007, she launched her much anticipated game “Assassin’s Creed,” which went on to sell 2.5 million copies within 4 weeks. Ms. Raymond was already developing software on her computer at the age of 14. She went on to work as a programmer...  more

Writer, game designer and filmmaker Jordan Mechner is one of the videogame industry's most respected creators.  His games, including Karateka, Prince of Persia, and The Last Express, have sold millions of copies and received worldwide critical acclaim.  His film Chavez Ravine was named Best Short Documentary by the International Documentary Association and was short-listed for an Academy Award... more

Don Tapscott is a top consultant and university professor as well as founder and head of the international think tank New Paradigm. As the creator of the Wikinomics Theory, Mr. Tapscott knows his way around the networked universe and has written eleven bestsellers on the digital economy, all of which have been translated into  more

Matt Hanson, director, producer and founder of the Visual Intelligence Agency, has set himself an ambitious goal, namely the production of the feature film “A Swarm of Angels” using the Open Movie principle. The budget of 1.5 million euro will be helped along by roughly 50,000 community members who will in turn have a say in all project phases ... more

Ton Roosendaal is the head of the Dutch foundation “Blender” and chief developer of Blender, the free 3D graphic software. “Elephant Dream” is the first short film to have been created using the free software and the input of developers worldwide. Roosendaal subsequently started the Open Movie project “Peach” and is now also working on a parallel project entitled... more

Melinda Crane will moderate this year‘s Berlinale Keynotes. Ms. Crane is a presenter in several different formats at Deutsche Welle TV and also Executive Producer of Sabine Christiansen’s “Global Players,” the top international talk show on CNBC.  more