October 2006
FuturePlay
London, Ontario
Lecture: "Gender Inclusive Game Design:
One hour keynote presentation on the topic of gender inclusive design.
August 2006
GenCon
Indianapolis, Wisconsin
Lecture: "What if the player is female?"
One hour lecture for the paper game industry. This lecture is a variation on my normal gender inclusive design talk, only it is slanted toward the paper game industry and talks more about things like conflict resolution and response to error rather than how to get women into the industry.
July 2006
ACC Summer Institute
Lunch keynote
Lecture: Gender Inclusive Design:
Expanding your Audience
One hour lecture based on my book with prinicples applied to attracting students to a program.
June 2006
Sex in Video Games Conference
Keynote
Lecture: Gender Inclusive Game Design and the "M" rated Game
One hour lecture based on my book, but with principles applied to developing adult titles. WARNING: Some adult content in this presentation.
March 2006
Game Developers Conference
Panel: Diversity - a Reachable Goal
This very brief talk was my part in a general diversity panel. The high points were what steps you can take right now to increase diversity in your workplace
March 2006
South X Southwest Interactive
Festival
Lecture: Gender Inclusive Design, What it is and why we need it
This was a brief talk in which I layed out the vicious cycle of women don't play games so women don't make games so women aren't interested in games so women play games...etc. I talked about what causes each point and how we can break the cycle.
July 2005
Austin Community College - Game Development
Summer Lecture Series
Lecture: Gender Inclusive
Game Design: Expanding the Market
One hour lecture based on my book, Gender
Inclusive Game Design: Expanding the Market