The Enterprise Gets Gamified: Lessons from the Front Line. As Gen-Y’ers and older people in organizations show dwindling rates of productivity and collaboration, forward thinking companies are turning to gamification as a solution. Many people are resistant to this change, finding that games trivialize serious work and that there is no budget for gamification implementation. This enterprise gamification panel will feature a group of experts who have all faced these problems but still successfully employed gamification into their organizations. Listen to this engaging panel discussion and find out how to leverage gamification for your cause and where to implement it in your organization."
Bio
Tyler Altrup
Senior Social Media Engagement Manager at EMC Corporation
Adam Bosworth
CEO of Keas
Mario Herger
Mario Herger is a Senior Innovation Strategist at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, California and global head of the Gamification Initiative at SAP. He has worked in the past on a series of new SAP products and drives several communities around innovative topics at SAP. He has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Vienna University of Technology and an undergraduate degree in International Business Management. He recently played through all levels of the iPad game Air Attack and currently works with his four year old son on reaching the final level of Angry Birds. Follow Mario on Twitter @mherger
Dannette Veale
Dannette Veale is the Digital Engagements and Technology Strategist, Cisco Sales and Partner Engagements and Recognition Programs at Cisco. Dannette lives and breathes new media. Prior to her role on the GSX and VPS team Dannette lead the creation and drove the strategy for the award winning Cisco Live and Networkers virtual program. Dannette has also managed global online and virtual programs for a variety of Cisco groups; most notably emerging markets. When she’s not evangelizing the use of virtual environments to extend the reach of an event and broaden the overall audience demographic participating, you’ll find Dannette engaged in such varied hobbies as producing streaming media, designing Web sites, or watching classic films such as Blade Runner. Outside of her daily immersion in the bleeding edge of collaborative media, Dannette’s also been known to partake in such real world activities as gardening, baking, and knitting; while watching cyberpunk anime, of course. Follow Dannette on Twitter @dveale