SENSE OF WONDER NIGHT

Screening Committee *Alphabetical Order

Entries will be fairly screened by the Screening Committee.

GMO Internet
Michimoto Tadakuma
GMO Social Apps Initiative Producer

Producer, GMO Social Apps Division. Mr. Tadakuma joined GMO Internet in 2004. After sales manager for internet advertising, he was assigned to ”APPLI　YAROUZE!　project"（joint game development program with GMO）, as a social game development consultant. He performed many great feats,so he was promoted to the producer of ”GMO Social Apps Division" In 2011

GREE
Shinpei Yashima
Group Leader/Contents Director
Global Developer Relations Creative & Consulting Group
Marketing&Developer Relations Department

 

IGDA Japan
Kiyoshi Shin
Vice Coordinator

Born in 1970, Hiroshima, Japan. Graduated from the Keio University Business and Commerce Faculty and Faculty of Environmental Information. He is Journalist (Video Game / IT). He has weekly column “Kiyoshi Shin’s Analyze Game Industry” in Nikkei.com for 6 years and many articles (Famitsu.com etc). And he is the vice coordinator and the founder of the Japan chapter of International Game Developers Association. He is also the lecturer at Ritsumeikan University College of Image Arts and Science.

Microsoft Japan
Akihiro Tashiro
Group Senior Manager Developer Network Group Interactive Entertainment Business

Mr. Tashiro joined Microsoft in 1997. He offered technial suppport for developers of Xbox 360, Windows, and Windows Phone in Developer Network Group. His coverage areas extends into an investigation of problems and suggestions of solution, and improvement of the performance for Microsoft game platform. Mr. Tashiro is currently the manager of technical section for entertainment fields.

NHN JAPAN
Kazuaki Baba
Executive Officer and Senior Manager
Game Business Division
Smartphone Game Production Department

Mr. Baba joined NHN Japan in 2004 as game server programmer. Since he was responsible for Game Development Division and Game Business Division at the company, Mr. Baba is currently assigned as Executive Officer and Senior Manager for Smartphone Game Production Department. He has developed expertise planning and directing in game development.

UBM TechWeb Game Network
(GDC events, Independent Games Festival, Indie Royale.)
Simon Carless

Simon is the EVP of UBM TechWeb’s Game Network, meaning that he manages products such as Game Developers Conference - both the San Francisco mothership and satellite shows in Austin, Germany, China and Canada. He also oversees the double Webby award-winning Gamasutra website and the Maggie award-winning Game Developer magazine, as well as prominent sister sites such as IndieGames.com. Carless is also Chairman Emeritus of the yearly ‘Sundance Festival for games’, the Independent Games Festival, which holds its awards at Game Developers Conference yearly, helping to program the Independent Games Summit and several other summits at the San Francisco show and other shows such as GDC China (IGF China) and GDC Europe (Independent Games Summit). He's also been involved in founding and helping to operate prominent 'indie bundle' website IndieRoyale.com in recent months.