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Meet the Keynote Speakers for the 2012 East Coast Game Conference

The East Coast Game Conference is an annual event held in Raleigh, North Carolina that brings together some of the most prominent professionals in the gaming industry. Keynote speakers for the event that will be held from April 25-26, 2012 are Bioware Senior Creative Director Paul Barnett and Zynga East Coast Executive Producer Paul Stephanouk. You'll want to check out this event if you get the chance, so read on for more details!

From the Official Press Release

ECGC is the leading forum for game industry professionals on the East Coast to share expertise, network, and build careers. Along with exploring the core theme of content > platforms, professionals from around the nation will also be leading panels, lectures, and discussions on everything from programming to social and mobile games. “We’re pleased to have two of the industry’s best and brightest join us at this year’s conference,” said John Austin, Co-Founder of the East Coast Game Conference. “This region has a long history of quality game creation, and we’re looking forward to having these two leaders provide their perspective on where we’ve been, and more importantly, where we’re headed.” Paul Barnett has over twenty years experience in the games industry, and in that time he’s worked on a range of online games from old-school multi-user text adventures to MMOs like Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. He has contributed creatively to a host of EA games, and is currently tasked with putting BioWare in a browser. He’ll be sharing his views on where he thinks games are, where they might go, and their impact on the world, and this will probably involve wearing white sunglasses at some point. Paul Stephanouk is the Executive Producer at Zynga’s East Coast studio in Baltimore, which he helped establish. Paul led the production of online hit FrontierVille and is currently working on an unannounced project. Before building social games, Paul produced and designed video games for consoles, PC, and web including the award-winning titles Rise of Nations and Catan.

For more information on the event and its speakers, visit the official East Coast Game Conference website.

You can also learn more about the event by checking out the East Coast Game Conference on Twitter and Facebook.

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