ACM - SF Chapter Meeting: Enterprise Gamification

Enterprise Gamification - Exploiting people by letting them have fun

*** Venue ***
HP Palo Alto, 1501 Page Mill Road

Speaker: Speaker: Mario Herger, SAP
"I help organizations making work more fun."

MARIO HERGER is a Senior Innovation Strategist at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, California and Global Head of the Gamification Initiative at SAP. He has worked in the past as developer, development manager, architect, product manager and other roles on a series of new SAP products. He has been driving communities for more than 15 years, including innovative topics at SAP, like Visual Composer, Business Process Experts, mobile and gamification.
In his work as head of the Gamification Initiative at SAP he has encountered and supported gamification efforts in the enterprise from multiple levels and departments, like Sustainability, On Demand, Mobile, HR, Training & Education, Banking etc. He has driven the awareness around gamification inside and outside SAP by organizing and leading innovation events around this topic, holding full day gamification workshops, working with gamification platform- & service-providers and game studios, consulting and advising organizations, and by incorporating gamification into SAP's strategy.
He has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Vienna University of Technology and an undergraduate degree in International Business Management from the Vienna University of Economy.
He recently played through all levels of the iPad game Air Attack and currently works with his five year old son on reaching the final level of Angry Birds in Space.
http://www.sfbayacm.org/event/enterprise-gamification-exploiting-people-letting-them-have-fun

Book

He is the author of the upcoming book "Enterprise Gamification - Exploiting people by letting them have fun" that will be available February 2013, and the co-author of the book Gamification @ Work: Designing Engaging Business Software (available April 2013).