Playdom and Gaikai CEOs to Keynote at LA Games Conference, April 29, 2010

LOS ANGELES, April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Media Wire today announced speakers for the highly-anticipated LA Games Conference (http://www.lagamesconference.com/) to be held at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, April 29, 2010. Speakers include the following keynotes:

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DAVID PERRY, CEO, Gaikai

Visionary game designer, Founder of Shiny Entertainment and CEO of Gaikai, David Perry will do a 1-on-1 keynote interview with David Reitman, VP, Content & Entertainment, Switch and Data. Perry is a game industry veteran and the mind behind such famed video games as Earthworm Jim (in which a bionic suit-clad worm saves the galaxy), Messiah (in which a rogue cherub hijacks creatures' bodies to defeat sin), and best-selling game adaptations of movies like Disney's Aladdin, Terminator and The Matrix. Gaikai is a hot company in the cloud-based gaming space backed by investments from Benchmark Capital. Its service, which is currently in beta, will allow gamers to try all kinds of games and software over a broadband connection without the need to have the latest hardware or even the game itself.

JOHN PLEASANTS, CEO, Playdom

John Pleasants, CEO of Playdom, will do 1-on-1 keynote interview with Mike Vorhaus, President of Magid Advisors. Before taking the helm at Playdom, John served as President of Publishing and Chief Operating Officer of Electronic Arts (EA), where he oversaw global operations for the four billion dollar gaming company and led its consumer-facing businesses, including EA Mobile, Pogo, EA.com, global online gaming and Rupture. Playdom is one of the hot companies in the social games space with a number of popular titles on the iPhone, Myspace, and Facebook.  In November of 2009, it closed a massive $43 million investment from New Enterprise Associates, Rick Thompson, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Norwest Venture Partners.

These individuals join a top caliber speaker group that includes:

Event sponsors and media partners include: Consumer Electronics Association, GameStop Digital Ventures, Zong, Vindicia, ClickandBuy, Switch and Data, PaymentOne, Davis, Wright & Tremaine LLP, RightScale, E3, IGDA, Fusicology, Pearl Research, Parks Associates, YPulse, Casual Games Association, Mary-Margaret Network, Mashable, Social Radius, Terpin Communications, TAG Strategic, PRNewswire, and MultiView.

For complete agenda, registration and event details please visit:

http://lagamesconference.com/

Other prominent Digital Media Wire events include NY Games Conference, Future of Television Forum, Digital Music Forum East & West, Digital Media Insider @ CES and Digital Media Conference East and West.

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