BATON ROUGE – The LSU Digital Media Education Forum will feature Dawn Rivera-Ernster, a talent development director at Walt Disney Feature Animation, and Philip Holt, Vice President and Studio General Manager for Electronic Arts – Tiburon as speakers.
LSU will host the two-day Digital Media Education Forum Nov. 1 and 2 at the Lod Cook Conference Center. The Digital Media Education Forum will feature speakers from academic institutions that have successfully implemented digital media curricula, as well as industry representatives who can discuss the skills students from these programs would need to enter the workforce.
In addition to Rivera-Ernster and Holt, other speakers include:
• Raquel Benitez, Comet Entertainment, Inc.
• Susan Gold, GarageGames and the International Game Developer’s Association
• Dan Kelly, Sparter, and formerly THQ Games
• Jason Leigh, Electronic Visualization Laboratory at University of Illinois - Chicago
• Hans Rijepkema, Rhythm & Hues Studios
• Barbara Slade, Walt Disney Development, United Kingdom
• Barry Weiss, Sony Imageworks
• Chris Williams, University of Teesside, Animex International Festival of Animation and Computer Games
Registration fee is $125, with a discounted $55 registration fee for LSU employees. To register or learn more, please visit http://www.cct.lsu.edu/dme/.
Digital Media Education Forum is sponsored by the LSU Center for Computation & Technology, LSU Office of Research and Economic Development and the Baton Rouge Area Digital Industries Consortium.
For more information, please contact Stacey Simmons or Amanda Liddell at the Baton Rouge Area Digital Industries Consortium,225-389-7182, or ssimmons@cct.lsu.edu.
Publish Date:
10-17-2007
