By all counts, the IGDA’s first official self-run conference, the IGDA Leadership Forum, was a huge success. While we still have to tabulate the eval forms, anecdotal feedback has been hugely positive.

In it encouraging to see how well setting a narrow focus can work. We overtly designed the Leadership Forum to appeal to producers, team leads and studio directors. And, that’s pretty much exactly who showed up - over 300 of them. This allowed the content to stay focused and start at a higher level (given the assumed common base/understanding of the audience) and made the networking that much more stimulating.

Also, was very pleased with how well the “live blogging” idea worked out. A dutiful team of volunteer attendees wrote up summaries of each session. And, I heard that some developers were following the action, “live”, from there desk. Now, we just need to figure out how to stream videos live ;)

Anyway, was meaning to post on this way sooner, but got distracted by a side-trip to Australia - more on that later…