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2017 Games for Change Festival

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6:00pm EDT

VR Brain Jam (Advance Registration Required) Theresa Lang

8:30am EDT

VR Brain Jam (Advance Registration Required) Theresa Lang

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Games and Learning Early Career Workshop (Invite Only) TBA Minecraft Edu Curriculum Hackjam (Advance Registration Required) Starr Foundation

8:30am EDT

VR Brain Jam (Advance Registration Required) Theresa Lang

9:00am EDT

Welcome and Opening Remarks Tishman Auditorium

9:15am EDT

Keynote - with Michael D. Gallagher Tishman Auditorium

9:45am EDT

Keynote - Ten Important Findings from the Research on Games for Impact: A Look Back Over the Last Decade of Research with Constance Steinkuehler Tishman Auditorium

10:15am EDT

Keynote - How Unique are We? The New Neuroscience of Decision-making and Free Will with Moran Cerf Tishman Auditorium

11:00am EDT

Roll for Learning – Games in the Core Classrooms Room 104 Games and Game-based Simulations in Medical Professional Training Room 105 Can Gaming Play Nicely with Pharma? Tishman Auditorium Panel - VR in the Classroom: Practices, Challenges and Opportunities Starr Foundation

11:15am EDT

10 Years, 100 Countries: The Programmatic Growth of Global Game Jam, Inc. Room 104

11:20am EDT

The Importance of Screwing Up: Improving Health Through Failure Room 105

11:30am EDT

Beyond the Holocaust: Embodying Jewish Values in WWII Games Room 104 The Videogame Pioneers Archive at the Smithsonian: Preserving the Legacy Tishman Auditorium

11:45am EDT

iCivics: From Concept to Scale - 9 Years in the Baking. Why Good Ingredients Matter. Starr Foundation Panel - Building a Bigger Tent: How to Make Media that Includes All Kids Room 105

11:50am EDT

MISSING: Beyond Awareness Room 104 Making Games for Good: Kickstarter as a Platform for Games with Impact Tishman Auditorium

12:00pm EDT

Designing with Purpose: Creating Games for Global Competency Room 104

12:10pm EDT

Beyond Representation: Designing Games With Sociocultural Context Room 104 Unpacking Unconscious Gender Bias in Media Tishman Auditorium

12:15pm EDT

Playing for Change: Ten Years of Kids Helping Kids in the Virtual World of Club Penguin Starr Foundation

12:20pm EDT

How to use Comic Books and Augmented Reality to Challenge Sexual Violence Room 104

1:45pm EDT

How Gaming is Bringing Education to Children in Conflict Zones Room 104 English learning via Alphabear Tishman Auditorium The Promise of Brain Training Games Room 105 Panel - The Youth-to-Industry Pipeline: How Challenges & Game Jams Create Career Pathways Starr Foundation

2:00pm EDT

Mini-Talk Series - How Teachers Use Games in the Classroom Room 104

2:05pm EDT

G4C Live Pitch Event Tishman Auditorium

2:15pm EDT

Panel - Brain Training Games: Fact, Fiction, or Somewhere in Between? Room 105

3:00pm EDT

Speed Networking Rooms 204 and 205 Civics & Social Issues Microtalk Salon Starr Foundation

4:00pm EDT

Come out and Vote: How Play and Fun Improves Voter Participation Room 105 Industry Circle Town Hall Tishman Auditorium Mini-Talk Series - Developing Games for Informal Learning Spaces Room 104

4:15pm EDT

Panel: How G4C’s Migration Challenge led Developers to Think about a Global Problem Room 105

5:15pm EDT

Keynote - 3 Big Things We Got Wrong: How Humans Decide; How to Change Minds; and How to Craft Narratives that Fire Neurons with Chris Graves Tishman Auditorium A Neurogaming Poster Session with Engaged Learning Network Starr Foundation

5:45pm EDT

Keynote - Games of Life: Exploring the Arts and Humanities Through Play with Tracy Fullerton Tishman Auditorium

6:15pm EDT

Games for Change Awards Tishman Auditorium

9:00am EDT

Day 2 Welcome Tishman Auditorium

9:15am EDT

Keynote - Gaming the System: The Political Potential of Play with Colleen Macklin Tishman Auditorium

9:45am EDT

Keynote - Educational Games and the 'Invisible Learning' Opportunity: An Investor's View on the Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Dynamic Game-based Learning Market with Jason Horne Tishman Auditorium

10:15am EDT

Keynote - The Case for Evidence-Based Design with Mary Flanagan Tishman Auditorium

11:00am EDT

Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Motivating Millennials to Save Money through Gaming Starr Foundation Narrating Chronic Pain—Using Video Games to Tell Aspirational Stories Room 104 Panel - Industry Insights: A Conversation with Craig Hagen, EA and Alan Lewis, Take-Two Interactive Tishman Auditorium Mini-Talk Series - Highlights from the Latest Game-Based Learning Research Room 105

11:15am EDT

The Secret Process for Making Games that Matter Starr Foundation

11:30am EDT

Panel - A Conversation with Federal Funders and Artists Tishman Auditorium

11:35am EDT

Design Lessons from 3 Years at GlassLab Starr Foundation

11:45am EDT

The Power, Cost and Limits of Adaptivity in Neurogaming Room 104

12:00pm EDT

An Active Learning Game for Better Sound Localization Using Augmented Reality (AR) Room 104 Games on a Budget: Change for Change Starr Foundation Panel - Pick Me! Win More Fans With These Lessons from Platform Providers Room 105

12:15pm EDT

From Proteins to Planets: The First Year of Project Discovery Tishman Auditorium

12:45pm EDT

Civics & Social Issues Microtalk Showcase 5th Floor Playtesting and Prototyping Games for the Classroom: Putting Students and Teachers at the Center of Playful Learning Starr Foundation

1:45pm EDT

Engagement for Change: Improving News Media through Game Design Room 105 Government Grants for Health & Science Games Room 104 Well Played: Walden, a Game Tishman Auditorium Panel - From Player to Maker: Lessons Learned from Young Creators Starr Foundation

2:00pm EDT

Player Centered Design: Reframing the World through Play Room 105 Leveling Up Demographics: A Data Dive into Who Plays What Games and Why to Broaden Your Audience and Empower Your Impact Room 104 Meet the Experts 7th Floor Teacher's Lounge

2:15pm EDT

Improving Scientific Discovery Games with Data Room 104 Panel - All of the Above: Building Learning Games for Both Home and School Room 105

2:30pm EDT

VR Hacking:  from Innovation to Preservation Room 104 Playing Outwards: Critical Games in Context Tishman Auditorium

3:00pm EDT

Axon - A Social Media Showdown in Space, A Live VR Game Starr Foundation

4:00pm EDT

Xbox Fitness: A Success Story. How One Psychiatrist Used this Game to Lose and Maintain Significant Weight Loss Room 104 What do 'Fake News' and Video Games Have in Common? Exploration of Some Human Mind Limitations and their Impact on our Behavior and our Society. Room 105 Minecraft Edu Hackjam Outcomes Presentations Starr Foundation Panel - The Women of Overwatch: The Journey of Bringing Strong Female Characters to Life Tishman Auditorium

4:10pm EDT

How Uncertainty can be Used to Improve Learning Room 104

4:15pm EDT

After 'Reality' - Can a Game About Media-Making Save Democracy? Room 105

4:20pm EDT

Linking Rhythm Processing and Reading Development Young Children Using an Interactive Self-guided App Room 104

4:30pm EDT

The 5 Rules of Virtual Humans Room 104 Measuring Impact Room 105 Pre-Production Frameworks: Tools for Teams to Create Better Design, Development, and Evaluation of Games for Change Starr Foundation

4:40pm EDT

Fit Brains: A Summary of Eight Years in Brain Training Room 104

4:50pm EDT

Exploring the Feasibility of Video Games for Cognitive Assessment Room 104

5:15pm EDT

Keynote - Unity Education: Democratizing Learning, Creativity, and Impact with Jessica Lindl Tishman Auditorium

5:45pm EDT

Keynote - Into The Future : A World Without Edges with Graeme Devine Tishman Auditorium

6:15pm EDT

Gaming in the Real World Tishman Auditorium

9:00am EDT

Welcome to the VR for Change Summit Tishman Auditorium

9:15am EDT

Keynote - A Call to Action for VR for Change with Megan Smith Tishman Auditorium

9:30am EDT

Keynote - Technology Can Transform the Way People Access Reproductive Health Care and Information with Dawn Laguens Tishman Auditorium

10:00am EDT

Keynote - The Promise of Virtual Reality and the Brain with Adam Gazzaley Tishman Auditorium

10:30am EDT

Keynote - Portals: Walk Through The Internet with Amar C. Bakshi Tishman Auditorium VR for Change: Can VR Experiences Reduce Prejudice and Promote Empathy? Room 105

10:50am EDT

Is Immersive Storytelling Journalism's Future? Tishman Auditorium

11:00am EDT

Lessons Learned From Making 'Injustice' Room 105 Speed Networking: VR for Change Cafeteria

11:10am EDT

Intimacy over Empathy: The Future of VR Tishman Auditorium

11:30am EDT

Youth Voices in Virtual Reality Room 105 Panel - Forging the Cyberfeminist Multireality Tishman Auditorium

1:30pm EDT

Journalism360: New Futures for Interactive News Cafeteria Live Pitch Session: VR Brain Jam Showdown Tishman Auditorium

2:00pm EDT

How High School Students Are Learning to Build VR Content for the Web Room 105

2:15pm EDT

Panel - Teleporting Audiences to Distant Horizons Tishman Auditorium

2:30pm EDT

Why VR and Machine Learning are Good for Science Room 105

3:00pm EDT

A Call for Collaboration in Education with Seth Andrew Tishman Auditorium

3:30pm EDT

Biometric VR: 21st-Century Therapeutics Room 105 Well Played: BLINDFOLD, by iNK Stories. Tishman Auditorium

3:45pm EDT

Hacking the Magic Circle: USSR's Mixed Reality Room 105

4:00pm EDT

Revitalizing Education with Hands-on-Learning in VR Room 105 Seeing the Future in the Past: Exploring and Designing History in VR Cafeteria

4:15pm EDT

VR & Body Image: Living Life As An Eggplant Room 105 Panel - The Way Ahead for VR in Education Tishman Auditorium

4:30pm EDT

Hacking VR for High School Computer Science Room 105

5:15pm EDT

Keynote - From the Ice Cap to the Trading Floor: Immersive Journalism using VR and AR with James Pallot Tishman Auditorium

5:45pm EDT

Keynote - Representing the Pain of Others with Gabo Arora Tishman Auditorium