hi5 founder and Chief Product Officer, Ramu Yalamanchi, will be a featured participant at the Game Developers Conference this week in Austin, Texas. Ramu will join several of his colleagues in the "Monetization 2.0 Forum" -- a half-day tutorial that will focus on new revenue streams for online businesses.Session Description
What monetizes on social networks? What monetizes in virtual worlds and MMO's? What monetizes in casual games? What monetizes on mobile? How are the platforms getting into the action? Who are the big success stories and what are the pitfalls you need to avoid? How do you convert more free users to paying customers and drive higher revenue? How do you get your paying customers to spend more? How do you create and protect your most valuable customers? How do you protect from massive fraud and chargebacks that could take your company down? Through lively panel discussions, case-studies and on-stage demos, you'll take away the critical insights you need to make your games into real money makers.
Participants:- Sebastien de Halleux, COO & Co-Founder, Playfish
- Tom Hale, Chief Product Officer, Linden Lab
- John Pleasants, CEO, Playdom
- Jason Oberfest, SVP of Business Development, MySpace
- Lance Tokuda, CEO, Rockyou
- Charles Hudson, VP, Business Development, Serious Business
- Johannes Mang, Business Development Director, EA Games - Europe
- Cary Rosenzweig, CEO, IMVU
- Damon Hougland, Senior Director, PayPal
- Ned Sherman, CEO, DIGITAL MEDIA WIRE
- Robert Norton, Managing Director, North America, King.com
- Fernando Paiz, Executive Producer, Turbine
- Jim Crowley, President & CEO, Turbine, Inc.
- Peter Relan, Founder and Chairman, Aurora Feint
- Jessica Altar, Director of Business Development and GM Platforms, Bebo
- Timo Soininen, CEO, Sulake Corporation Oy
- David Helgason, CEO, Unity Technologies
- Nanea Reeves, Senior Vice President, Electronic Arts - Los Angeles
- Ramu Yalamanchi, Founder and Chief Product Officer, Hi5
- Robert Goldberg, Senior Vice President of Business Operations, Zynga
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 from 2:00 - 7:00pm
Location (room): Austin Convention Center, Room 18CD