Do's and Don'ts of building a Mobile Game

(everything you wanted to know, but were too afraid to ask ). 

  Email me ANY questions you have about mobile games and I will be sure to ask our panelist during the session (there are no dumb questions!). [masked]

Come join us...

When:Thursday, July 28th

Time: 6:30-9:30pm

Where: @pariSoma lofts. 169 11th st, SF

What: for a night of drinks, learnings, questions, and networking fun! (and someone asking our panelists any scary/embarrassing questions about building mobile games!)

Panelists Include:

Saurin Shah: VP Social Games, Digital Chocolate 

Chris Williams: VP & GM of Moble, Playfirst

Charles Hudson:  Founder, Bionic Panda

Hernan Pelassini: CTO, Nextive

About:

Saurin Shah : Vice President of Social Games at Digital Chocolate.  Saurin is an veteran of social and virtual goods games with experience from casual games like Diner Dash to virtual worlds like Gaia Online.  At Digital Chocolate, Saurin helped successfully launch the iPhone business (which included five #1 titles in a row) and the Facebook business.  He has played a variety of leadership roles from product management to analytics infrastructure to  studio development.  Currently, Saurin is actively building Digital Chocolate’s social game for mobile business.

Charles Hudson :  Venture Partner with SoftTech VC and the CEO and Co-Founder of Bionic Panda Games, a mobile games company based in San Francisco, CA. Previously he was the VP of Business Development for Serious Business, a leading producer of social games.  Zynga acquired Serious Business in February of 2010. Additionally, he founded Third Power LLC, a conference and events company that was acquired by WebMediaBrands (NASDAQ:WEBM) in late 2009. Charles continues to produce events on their behalf, including the Virtual Goods Summit, Social Gaming Summit, Freemium Summit, and Smartphone Games Summit

Hernan Pelassini   CTO of Nextive. Hernan weathered the .com crash by founding and running a IT services company for the Healthcare Industry. In 2008, eager to put his CS degree to good use, he  co founded Nextive, offering software development services for mobile devices and social web. Nextive works  with 3 of the top 5 social game developers among many other companies.

Please feel free to email me ANY questions in advance that you have about mobile games and I will be sure to ask our panelist during the session (there are no dumb questions!). [masked]