Game Education Summit Europe

Inga von Staden is based in Berlin, Germany. She studied Agricultural Science in Jerusalem and Film in New York and has since worked in the media business. 1995 she migrated into software-based media holding a wide range of jobs as author, conceptor, creative producer, consultant and lecturer on games, internet and mobile applications. 1999 she set up projectscope (www.projectscope.de), a media consultancy. After founding and directing the European MEDIA funded programme, the academy of converging media (www.academy-of-converging-media.com) at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie, Berlin in 2001, she joined the regional media council, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (www.medienboard.de) in 2004 to coordinate their activities in support of the new media sectors until 2007. Today Inga von Staden works as a media expert, innovation facilitator and dialogue moderator. She directs the four-year-studies programm Interactive Media at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (www.filmakademie.de) training students to work for and with all media platforms. Her special interests are the impact of digital technology on business and society, how to utilize digital technology to enhance media business as well as looking at media to empower sustainable action. She is also directs the MEDIA training programme Multi-Platform Business School (mpbs.mediaschool.es) at the Media School, Spain targeting media professionals. Inga von Staden has written, published and lectured on subjects as ”The Story That Writes Itself – On Artificial Intelligence”, “Games - Where Media and Technology Meet”, ”User Generated Content - Community Based Media“ (www.dadiu.dk/seminar/free/programme.htm) or ”Limitless – Animation Meets the WWW“ among other. She is an assessor for software-based media projects with the funding programme proFIT of the Investionsbank Berlin (www.investionsbank.de) and is on the program board of the fmx, the International Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Digital Media (www.fmx.com) and moderates conferences on and around media.