Thanks to Blitz for posting this news in the forum. I've heard of this event a while ago, but had completely forgotten to post about it...
IE2004 Australian Workshop on Interactive Entertainment - 13 February 2004: Workshop
The computer game and interactive entertainment industry has grown to become a multi-billion industry pushing the limits of current computer technology on multiple fronts in a relatively brief period.
The aim of the Workshop on Interactive Entertainment is to bring together academic and industry researchers, developers, designers and practitioners to discuss research and development issues in interactive entertainment and computer games. In particular the conference wishes to investigate the design and engineering of mass market interactive entertainment.
Invited Speakers:
Andrew Gordon, The Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California
Chris Crawford, one of world's most famous game designers, author of "The Art of Computer Game Design"
You can register for a place at http://research.it.uts.edu.au/creative/ie , although they have a pretty limited number of seats left~