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The Summits at GDC return this year March 5-6, 2012 (Monday & Tuesday) for two days of lectures, panels, postmortems and more, to foster community-building within emerging sectors of the game industry. From year to year, the GDC continues to define market innovations and future vision, providing insight into the future of gaming. This year's GDC Summits include the following:

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AI Summit
The AI Summit at GDC features panels and lectures from more than two dozen of the top game AI programmers in the industry, giving you an inside look at key architectures and issues within successful commercial games, as well as let you eavesdrop on conversations, debates, and rants on how game AI can move forward.

Game IT Summit
The Game IT summit is focused on the use of videogames to tackle common organizational goals through enterprise-focused game development. The Game IT summit will address the need for fresh discussions about the integration points between games and technology oriented practices that lie at the heart of today's forward-thinking organizations, and will provide information enterprise leaders an opportunity to best understand the affordances games can offer them today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Localization Summit
The Localization Summit at GDC is aimed at helping both localization professionals and game developers and publishers understand the critical details of how to plan and execute game localization as a part of the game lifecycle.

Games for Change @ GDC
Games for Change @ GDC supports the creation and distribution of social impact games that serve as critical tools in humanitarian and educational efforts. The Summit will highlight models for collaboration on game design, bridging the gap between commercial and issue driven game development, distribution and publishing alternatives, and much more.

GDC Education Summit
The GDC Education Summit will explore experimental and inventive educational approaches that established game curriculum builders can bring back to their faculty and classrooms.

Independent Games Summit
The Independent Games Summit represents the voice of the independent game developer at GDC. It features lectures, postmortems and roundtables from some of the best, brightest, and most notable independent game creators, including many former and current Independent Games Festival finalists and winners, to discuss game design philosophy, distribution, business, marketing, and much more.

Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit
The GDC Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit brings together top game developers from around the world to share ideas, introduce best practices and discuss the future of gaming on established and emerging smartphone and tablet platforms, including the iPhone/iPad, Android, Windows 7 and more.

Social & Online Games Summit
The Social and Online Games Summit gathers the industry's established leaders and up-and-coming rebels for a series of illuminating sessions about the technology, design, business, marketing, and future of social and online games.

GREE is a leading mobile social gaming company that is currently developing a global platform with a focus on free-to-play games. In addition to opening their own social games studio in the US, GREE acquired OpenFeint in April 2011 and their ecosystem now reaches over 150 million players worldwide and offers over 7,500 games.

Pokki is an application platform that is re-inventing the desktop by empowering developers to create beautiful applications and immersive games built with HTML5. Pokki offers the same kind of elegant and easy app experience you have come to expect from iOS and mobile devices right on the PC.

Kontagent is the leading user analytics platform for developers, marketers, product managers and strategic partners across the social and mobile Web. Our proprietary platform kSuite has been built from the ground up to provide deep social data pattern visualization and analysis that delivers actionable insights via an on-demand service.

Android and iOS's leading social games network with a full suite of social features, diverse set of monetization tools, and the fastest 2D OpenGL cross platform game engine. PapayaMobile provides both tools for game developers and content for players on its growing social mobile network of over 40 million users worldwide.

As a top-10 games publisher to Facebook, GSN Digital apps include GSN Games, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, and the soon-to-be-released GSN Casino for mobile devices. GSN (Game Show Network) is owned by DIRECTV and Sony Pictures Entertainment, GSN Digital is the interactive division of GSN.

Serving over 25 million members, MocoSpace is the largest community on the mobile web. The MocoSpace game platform allows developers to bring their HTML5 mobile games in front of this audience while tapping into the social graph and supercharging the game experience with virtual currency, leaderboards, and persistent rewards. MocoSpace - Play Games, Make Friends

Headquartered in Beijing, CocoaChina hosts the largest iOS developer community in China. CocoaChina aims to help developers cross culture barrier between China and the world in both directions. The company is also a top game developer with more than 30 million installs and 3 million DAU on iOS and Android

Beintoo is the first white label mobile gamification and rewards technology that creates a true profitable gamification layer. Through a set of SDKs or APIs you can easily introduce involving cross-platform game mechanics, cross-app promotion and smart monetization tools. Deliver to your deserving users sponsored rewards, such as real mobile coupons or virtual coins convertible in real deals and monetize.

Introduce a platform fully integrated in the app user experience and start monetization as it should be.

NVIDIA awakened the world to computer graphics when it invented the GPU in 1999. From its roots in visual computing, the company expanded into parallel and mobile computing. One of the most complex processors ever created, the GPU is the engine of computer graphics: the science and art of using technology to create and enjoy beautiful, interactive experiences. NVIDIA has shipped over one billion GPUs.

AdColony is the premium mobile video ad network featuring Instant-Play™ HD video technology and the groundbreaking Videos-for-Virtual-Currency™ (V4VC™) SDK. Focused on helping app developers drive significant monetization, AdColony delivers premium CPM campaigns from the biggest advertisers in the world. Sign up today in the Developer Integration Center of AdColony.com!

ARM designs the technology that is at the heart of advanced digital products. The ARM® Mali™ family of GPUs scale up to multicore solutions and GPU Computing applications. The Mali Developer Center www.malideveloper.com brings together a vibrant community for highest quality graphics across consumer devices, from mainstream mobile phones through to Smart TVs. www.malideveloper.com

NCsoft is a leading developer and publisher of online, casual, and mobile games. Today NCsoft is home to numerous industry-leading franchises, including Aion, City of Heroes, Guild Wars, and Lineage. With offices Asia, Europe, and North America, NCsoft games entertain and delight players around the world.

App Annie is the industry leader in app store analytics and market intelligence with more than 60% of the Top 100 iOS publishers using our services.

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