Keynote 5

 9.10am Friday 31 May 

The Future Will Be Playful 

ABSTRACT:  Games and playfulness are kind of a big deal. This year it is estimated that the games industry will be worth $140 billion USD, which is bigger than both the film and music industry combined. And this is just games for entertainment, and does not include gamification, serious games or other adjacent industries or technologies, such as virtual and augmented reality (now being called XR).

At the same time, schools are finding that children no longer know how to play. All the while organisations are struggling to innovate and foster creativity to keep up with the massive changes happening in all aspects of society and business thanks to disruptive technologies.

In this talk, I will show how understanding and leveraging games as a culture, a mindset and as a process are critical to preparing for the future. Overall, we’ll uncover why we need playfulness now more than ever.