1. Feb 26th Health and Well-Being 10:00 – 16:00 (Registration from 09:30)
Venue :- Clephan Building Room 3.0 De Montfort University
FREE Registration at :- http://dmugamesfeb26.eventbrite.com/#
Speakers :-
Time Speaker Topic
10:00 David Wortley Welcome Introductions and Hosting
David Wortley is a Research Fellow at De Montfort University
co-ordination the Games Alliance Middle England (GAME)
project. He was the founding Director of the Serious Games
Institute and is also a freelance consultant on the strategic
use of immersive and emerging technologies such as serious
games, virtual worlds and social networks.
His mission is to help organisations and individuals, leverage
the power of these technologies for competitive advantage
and business/personal development
10:15 Lucia Pannese Virtual Environments for Games Based Reflective Learning
focused on health applications
Lucia Pannese has more than 15 years management
experience in innovation & research projects with a special
focus on technology enhanced learning solutions. She is the
Founding Director of imaginary, a leading European Serious
Games developer where she acts as CEO and manager for
international (research) activities. Lucia is heavily involved in
European research around Serious Games and digital
interactive technologies for learning and training across
several sectors, particularly health and care, smart cities and
societies, culture and business.
With numerous Italian and international publications and
presentations about Serious Games, learning and training,
she is often invited at international conferences dealing with
the Serious Games and digital interactive technologies topics.

2. 10:45 Jacqueline Cawston Drugs or Games? – a look at the development of
Games for Health
Jacqueline Cawston’s role is to develop global and national
consortiums in the new digital media arena. She manages a
multi million pound portfolio of projects, linking industry with
academics and cutting edge digital media companies.
Working with serious games, virtual worlds, augmented
reality and related digital media technologies for pc, mobile
and tablet she has developed a wide range of projects in
health, education, arts and heritage including health games
for autism and dating violence and cultural projects with the
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and the Robben Island Museum
in South Africa about the story of Nelson Mandela.
11:15 David Fried Virtual Rehab: Interactive Technologies in Healthcare
David Fried is the General Manager of Virtualware UK, a
company within the Virtualware Group that designs and
develops interactive and immersive installations for a wide
variety of sectors.
As a trained architect, he worked in Canada, the UK and
Spain before deciding to open his own company specializing
in interactive marketing solutions in 2003.
David joined Virtualware Group in 2011 bringing a decade of
know-how and real world experience of touch technologies
and interactive content development to the company. Since
then he has headed up the company Innodevices which
develops proprietary interactive solutions for Virtualware
Group as well as being responsible for the UK market.
11:45 Duncan Lawson Putting gaming into healthcare , what can we learn ?
Duncan Lawson , born and educated in Scotland, graduated
with Bsc Hon,s Degree in Plymouth , and went windsurfing
building one of top teams in the UK in the early ‘80’s , where
he learnt many of his marketing and business skills.
He is the Founder of Fithealth Ltd and purchased Instyle
Aerobiking, and rebuilt the company to fund the
development of what has become the Webracing™ concept.
Developing integrated cardio fitness products that link in
virtual world over web, with ability for activity data to be
recorded and collated on central server database.
He recently combined his medical knowledge with interactive
fitness to kick off research into Parkinson’s disease.
12:15 Lunch and Networking

3. 14:00 Tre Azam Using brainwave technology in serious games
Tre Azam is founder and CEO of MyndPlay; a London based
brainwave technology and immersive media solutions
company and creator of the World's first mind controlled
interactive video and movie platform.
Tre has always had a passion for the mind and qualified as a
therapist in 2010; which is how he came to combine his 2
passions of media and the mind to create MyndPlay.
Tre however is most famous for his part in the BBC
Apprentice in 2007 and his subsequent radio show on LBC.
14:30 David Burden Virtual Worlds for healthcare training
David Burden (aka Second Life’s Corro Moseley) is one of the
world’s most respected developers of virtual world
applications, particularly in Second Life. His fantastic
knowledge and understanding of the potential of virtual
world technologies is perfectly matched with his modesty
and generosity of spirit in supporting the activities of the
Serious Games Institute. David’s company, Daden Ltd has
pioneered and developed many important applications for
virtual worlds, including the ability to visualise real world
data in three dimensions through the Datascape virtual
control room application within second Life. David is a
deserved winner of a number of international awards for his
work and his evangelising for virtual worlds has played an
important role in developing the West Midlands global
presence in this sector.
15:00 Cat Oxley and Kate Developing an immersive 3D sling and hoist simulation
Owen
Cat Oxley, Learning Innovations Lead at Great Ormond Street
Hospital (GOSH). In 2007 Cat established GOLD – GOSH’s
Online Learning & Development portal, enabling all staff to
have access to learning and educational resources 24/7, at
work or home.
Her role involves the design, development and
implementation of online learning, games-based learning and
the use of social media/collaborative learning within the
NHS. Cat’s passion for online learning encourages staff to use
and experiment with the emerging technologies bringing into
their day-to-day activities learning as part of the Trust’s
educational strategy.

4. Kathleen (Kate) Owen, Back Care Advisor has worked at
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) since August 2005. She
trained as a nurse, qualifying many years ago in adult general
nursing. Kate’s current role is to devise and undertake
appropriate moving and handling training and training
programmes for all GOSH employed staff, to undertaken on-
site and small group training.
Another dimension to Kate’s role is to advise and give
assistance regarding complex moving and handling issues
along with product information and advice.
Kate also develops the Trust’s policy, procedures and
guidelines for moving and handling, along with investigations
of moving and handling accidents and incidents when
required.
15:30 Panel Session The future of immersive technologies and games for
health
16:00 Close and Networking