The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences has posted its first speakers for its fourth-annual DICE Europe event. Among the speakers at conference include CCP chief executive Hilmar Veigar Pétursson.
The AIAS is a professional game industry group that puts on the annual DICE Summit in Las Vegas. The event in Barcelona, Spain, will focus on the theme of “world builders” and runs September 11 to September 13. It will focus on gamemakers, communities, and players and how they create explore new worlds. Pétursson’s CCP has come up with one of the most fascinating worlds in gaming with Eve Online, giving players the freedom to craft their own stories and massive battles and factions while providing a connected world for them to do so.
The speakers include Clive Downie, the chief marketing officer at Unity; James Mitchell, the chief strategy officer and senior executive vice president at Tencent; Alex Nichiporchik, the CEO of TinyBuild and acting producer on games like Punch Club and SpeedRunners; and Pétursson of CCP Games, the maker of games such as Eve: Valkyrie and Eve Online.
“In the past of couple years, DICE Europe has truly evolved into its own unique brand of conference experience – an unparalleled setting with the right number of attendees, intelligent conversations, and relaxed networking,” said Martin Rae, the president of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, in a statement. “We are excited to see how speakers and attendees rally around the theme world builders and all it encompasses.”