Day and Time Session Speakers Track/Format Notes    
Monday, March 20th
Monday, 10:00am - 6:00pm Game Design Workshop Marc LeBlanc, Robin Hunicke, Tim Stellmach, Steve Librande, Randy Smith, Jonathan Hamel, Andrew Leker, Art Min, Frank Lantz, Austin Grossman Game Design / Tutorial Poke head in to say hi to Steve L. 
Emotion Boot Camp: Putting More Emotion into Play Nicole Lazzaro, Katherine Isbister Game Design / Tutorial
Monday, 10:00am — 6:00pm Do-It-Yourself Usability: How to Use User Research to Improve your Game Marcos Nunes-Ueno, John Davis, Kevin Goebel, David Quiroz, Charles Harrison, Philip Hove, Tracey Sellar Game Design / Tutorial Grab notes/handouts from this one - anyone I know going?
Tuesday, March 21st
 Tuesday, 10:00am - 6:00pm Game Design Workshop Marc LeBlanc, Robin Hunicke, Tim Stellmach, Steve Librande, Randy Smith, Jonathan Hamel, Andrew Leker, Art Min, Frank Lantz, Austin Grossman Game Design / Tutorial
Game Curriculum Workshop: The Shape of Things to Come Katie Salen, Katherine Isbister, Tracy Fullerton, Warren Spector, Robin Hunicke, Susan Gold, Frans Mäyrä, Jesse Schell, Rob Catto, Jeroen van Mastrigt, Drew Davidson, Marinka Copier, Yotam Gingold, Nick Fortugno IGDA / Tutorial
Wednesday, March 22nd
Wednesday, 9:00am — 10:00am How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days
Game Design Considerations for Alternate Controllers Greg LoPiccolo, Ryan Lesser - Harmonix Game Design
IGF - State of Independent Games Roundtable Simon Carless Production / Roundtable
Wednesday, 12:00pm — 1:00pm Building a Better Battlestar Ronald Moore Vision
Counter-Intuitive Creative Direction Harvey Smith Game Design / Roundtable
IGDA Writer's Special Interest Group Presents: Write Club Edward Kuehnel, Matthew Entin Game Design / Roundtable
Wednesday, 2:30pm — 4:30pm Experimental Gameplay Sessions Jonathan Blow Game Design / Panel
Wednesday, 4:00pm — 5:00pm Valve's Design Process for Creating Half-Life 2 Brain Jacobson, David Speyrer Production / Lecture
Thursday, March 23rd
Thursday, 9:00am — 10:00am Advanced Prototyping Chaim Gingold, Chris Hecker Game Design / Lecture
Designing Tabula Rasa Richard Garriott Game Design / Lecture
Game Developers' Bill of Rights Jason Della Rocca IGDA / Roundtable
Thursday, 10:30am — 11:30am Disrupting Development Satoru Iwata Vision / Lecture
Thursday, 12:00pm — 1:00pm What's Next in Design Will Wright Game Design / Lecture Overview: Why are you still reading this? It's Will Wright.
Thursday, 2:30pm — 3:30pm The Game Design Challenge: The Nobel Peace Prize Eric Zimmerman, Cliff Bleszinski, Harvey Smith, Keita Takahashi Game Design / Panel This has to take the cake, though there are a couple interesting sessions here - Prototyping for Civ 4, Odd vs. Odd - a Lanning/Jaffee interview
Thursday, 4:00pm — 5:00pm Spore: Preproduction Through Prototyping Eric Todd Production / Lecture
Thursday, 5:30pm — 6:30pm Building Community Around Pollinated Content in Spore Caryl Shaw Game Design / Lecture
Burn Baby, Burn: Game Developers Rant Eric Zimmerman, Frank Lantz, Jessica Mulligan, Chris Crawford, Seamus Blackley, Jonathan Blow IGDA / Panel
Friday, March 24th
Friday, 9:00am — 10:00am Physical Gameplay in Half-Life 2 Jay Stelly Programming / Lecture
Friday, 10:30am — 11:30am Inspirations for Next Generation Designs Peter Molyneux Game Design / Lecture IGDA Academics Group Gathering if Molyneux stinks it up again
Friday, 12:00pm — 1:00pm Advanced MMO Economies Sam Lewis Game Design / Roundtable
Coffee Stains: Rights and Responsibilities of Video Game Creators Daniel Greenberg IGDA / Roundtable
Friday, 2:30pm — 3:30pm Counter-intuitive Creative Direction Harvey Smith Game Design / Roundtable
IGF - State of Independent Student Games Roundtable Simon Carless Production / Roundtable
Friday, 4:00pm — 5:00pm The Game Studies Download: Top 10 Research Findings Jane McGonigal, Mia Consalvo, Ian Bogost Game Design / Lecture
Future Character Design: Out of the Lab and Into Your Game  Katherine Isbister Game Design / Lecture
Creating Stubbs the Zombie with the Wideload Model Alexander Seropian Business and Management / Lecture