I will be presenting insights from my master thesis research in the session Making it Personal – Towards a Personalized Experience for Impact Games.

I´m honored to be invited as a speaker to the Europeana for Education and Creative Industries event which will take place in early spring in Riga on occasion of Latvias 2015 EU Presidency. The Europeana Foundation aims at creating new ways for people to engage with their cultural history, whether it’s for work, learning or pleasure thus helping citizens understand the creative and and economic value of cultural diversity.

The State of the Art in Visual Communications – an overview of the state of the art, discussion by a panel of experts and all participants. Panelists: Associate Professor Mark Sagar (Laboratory for Animate Technologies), MS, MFA, PhD Jacquelyn Morie (All These Worlds), Katharina Tillmanns (Games 4 Change Europe) Moderated by Don Levy, Founder, Smith Brook Farm

We have inherited a collection of extremely dystopian visions from Snowcrash, the Matrix, Total Recall, and others. Immersive technologies can be isolating, and can override our sense of the real world. But these technologies can also bring us together, and expand our perceptions. What is the future of truth and politics in a digitally mediated world? Panelists: Ken Perlin (NYU), Juan DiazB (Gatoencerrado films), Inga von Staden (Filmakademie), Katharina Tillmanns (Games 4 Change Europe)

Edutain Me! ist eine initiative der GameZone auf dem ITFS in Zusammenarbeit mit der Landesanstalt für Kommunikation Baden-Württemberg. Die Veranstaltung richtet sich schwerpunktmäßig an Verantwortungsträger und Multiplikatoren der LFK-Gremien des Landeselternbeirats und ähnliche Einrichtungen. Ziel soll es sein die lokale Spielebranche zu fördern.

Panelists: Victoria Alonso (Marvel), Diana Arellano (Filmakademie), Andrea Block (LUXX), Simone Kraus (Trixter), Katharina Tillmanns (Games 4 Change Europe)

Lecture & Workshop with Simon Bachelier, Katharina Tillmanns The project ::gamejam::ps:: focuses on video games from a cul tural and technical aspect. The project will be the first of its kind in Palestine with the aim to provide professional, educational and entertaining approch to the cration of video games.

With Games for Change Europe, we will be hosting two jam-packed days about the technology, art and science of Impact Games. For the first time in the history of Games for Change, games aimed at social impact are not only considered important cultural artifacts but also prove commercial success. With acclaimed titles like Valiant Hearts (Ubisoft), Never Alone(E-Line Media) and This War of Mine (11bit Studios) and Papers, Please! (Lucas Pope), hundreds of thousands of players around the globe have…

Cultural Heritage at Play: Co-creation, business and audiences

Although videogames are primarily products of the entertainment industry, over the last few years, they have come to convey political messages in the same way as movies and television. We are witnessing the emergence of “independent games” dealing with such “serious” subjects as ecology, civics and cybersecurity. In the paradoxical context of “gamization” of society, how do videogames manage their social role differently than other media? What is their world view? Panel moderated by Olivier Mauco (Games in Society) In…

I am co-curator of The Beyond Reality! – New Perspectives in Game Development Summit, host of the Social Design Roundtable and host of the Main Conference Day. http://www.clashofrealities.com/

In this session, Katharina Tillmanns, festival director and co-curator of The Notgames Fest trilogy (2011-2015) will share her thoughts on how to present games in a public context.