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Mr Ian Livingstone, OBE Product Acquisition Director, Eidos Ian Livingstone is Product Acquisition Director at Eidos and a leading pioneer of interactive entertainment. In 1975 he founded Games Workshop Ltd with Steve Jackson and launched Dungeons & Dragons in Europe and the Games Workshop retail chain.

In 1977 he launched White Dwarf, the UK’s first interactive games magazine, and was its editor for 5 years. In 1982, again with Steve Jackson, he devised Fighting Fantasy, the series of interactive gamebooks that sold over 15 million copies in 23 languages. He wrote more than 20 books in the series including his best-selling Deathtrap Dungeon.

He has also invented many board games. In 1992 he became Deputy Chairman of computer games company Domark. In 1995 he was instrumental in the merger and flotation of Domark with technology company Eidos and served as Executive Chairman of the Board of the new interactive entity Eidos plc until 2002.  At Eidos - the UK's leading developer and publisher of video games - he has helped to secure many of the company's major franchises including Tomb Raider, Championship Manager and Hitman. In 2000 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Technology by the University of Abertay Dundee. In 2002 he was awarded the BAFTA Special Award for his outstanding contribution to the interactive entertainment industry. In 2003 he was appointed Creative Industries advisor to the British Council.

In 2004 he was made a Creative Industries Luminary for London. In 2004 he was appointed Non-Executive Chairman of Bright Things plc. In 2005 he was appointed Chair of the Computer Games Skills Forum. In 2005 he was appointed Non-Executive Director of Skillset, the Sector Skills Council for the Audio Visual Industries. He was awarded an OBE in the 2006 New Year’s Honours List for his contribution to the Computer Games Industry.

Mr Shane Walter Director, onedotzero Shane Walter established onedotzero limited as co-director of the project and company in late 1997 and has solely directed the organisation since 2001. the festival has become a global phenomenon, reaching over 60 cities worldwide and thousands of people.

He has drawn on his diverse background and experience as a producer and director across a range of media and industries from publishing and computer gaming to theatre and contemporary art to make onedotzero the leading organisation in the new moving image field in the world. He began in new media in the early 90’s and has worked on multimedia projects with such properties as Lara Croft and Tombraider for Eidos and 007 for MGM as well as producing award nominated online sites for The Edinburgh International Festivals and The London Marathon.

In addition to the festival Shane has produced and directed the standout TV series onedottv and the 12-part onedottv_global for the UK’s Channel 4. Other production work includes award winning short films, interactive media, installations and live AV event productions and commissions.

In 2001 he launched the onedotzero dvd label that now distributes and sells around the world. Shane produced and co-edited the top selling book and accompanying DVD, Motion Blur, graphic moving image makers published in the UK, Netherlands and USA in mid 2004. The book has now gone into a reprint with a new edition out September 2005.

He is currently researching and preparing new publications due in 2007 including motion blur2 book + dvd.

Shane’s previous photographic work has been published in national newspapers and specialist magazines including The Times, The Independent, Variety, and Time Out. For a number of years he was producer of critically acclaimed mixed-media theatre company 606, which spawned the multi-awarding winning comedians The League of Gentlemen.

He participates as a speaker, judge and presenter at many international events, festivals and arts institutions which includes: Victoria + Albert Museum London, SFMOMA San Francisco, Centre for Contemporary Culture Barcelona, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Moderna Museet Stockholm, ICA London, and Taipei Golden Horse, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, London, Flanders, Taipei, Vienna, Zurich and Melbourne international film festivals amongst others. He has regularly spoken at industry festivals and conferences too including Promax Europe and The Urban Space conference.

黃宏達 萬寬電腦藝術設計有限公司董事 黃宏達於1989年在美國華盛頓大學畢業，修讀電腦科學及機電工程。他並對視覺藝術深感興趣。為達成其理想職業，他與弟弟黃宏顯於1990年創辦萬寬電腦藝術設計有限公司。 運用科技和亞洲藝術及西方文化的融合，加上先進的圖像和虛擬實境技術，讓萬寛成功在數碼視像效果和立體動畫製作上奠定領導的地位。黃氏有超過10年的電腦設計經驗，並擁有卓越的管理才能。在過去10年，他曾參與數百個廣告的特別效果製作，得到香港、美國和日本廣告界和電腦界的一致讚賞。黃氏曾導演多個國際電視廣告和香港的音樂錄像。近期，他是超過30部電影的特別效果指導。

Vernie Yeung Director Vernie Yeung was born in Hong Kong, though based in London since the age of 16, it’s somewhere he spends a lot of time working. Making movies is in his genes, his mother was a film producer and going to the movies was something he did from the word go, so it’s no wonder he created his first film at the age of 16: a drama called Yellow Tofu.

During his MA in Communications and Design at London’s prestigious St Martin’s College of Art and Design, he created two short films, the intriguingly-titled animation Chicken Bomb and Skyscape, shot in his native Hong Kong. When the band Radiohead was sourcing new directors for a project called Radiohead TV, he contributed both. It was a pivotal moment, both were used. He was then subsequently introduced by Dilly Gent, the commissioner of Radiohead to Ridley Scott’s Black Dog films and was signed immediately as a director.  His first music video Biting Tongues for Faultline was created while he was still a student at Central St Martin’s.

Naturally the work kept on coming, he was then spotted by Joel Chu from Communion W Hong Kong to create 5 spots for Citibank I.T. Visa card, his first TV commercials, which received 10 awards at HK4A Creative Awards. His artistry can be seen on commercials for Citibank, Canon, Netvigator Broadband, Diesel, Sony Bravia, Levi’s; music promo for Edison, Faultline, Josie Ho and Kylie.

The 28 year old director likes to mix real-life footage with computer-generated effects with dazzling results. He also edits all his work, and enjoys working closely with sound designers. As a result, in 2005 he received a Sound Design award together with DJ Tommy at BTA (British Television Advertising) Craft Awards for a TV commercial for Netvigator, a Broadband company in Hong Kong.

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香港數碼娛樂協會主席

於積理博士分別在1987年和1993年於加州大學柏克萊分校學士和博士畢業。在博士畢業後，他在南加州大學任教，並與尼凱斯(Max Nikias) 成立了綜合多媒體系統中心。

在1996年移居香港，在香港科技大學任教並合力成立教育促進中心。在1999年，他加入香港理工大學並成立多媒體創新中心。他現時是香港理工大學設計學院的數碼娛樂及遊戲發展總監。他曾在國際會議演說中，促進遊戲發展及數碼娛樂在商業和教育上的運用。