Panels

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Taking your local gaming community to the next level

Speaker:

• Jason Montoya, Co-Founder of the NVGA and Chapter Leader of the X-topia Chapter
  
  
• Morris Hunter, Co-Founder of the NVGA and Chapter Leader of the DFW Games Chapter
  
• Lance Randall, Co-Director of Operations and Makretingr of the Colorado Cutthroat Connection Chapter

Did you start as a clan or a person looking to find more games in your favorite game. From just some friends looking to grow their game community to game centers wanting to grow the local gaming community.

What are the tips, tricks, marketing, and items to get your community to grow from one person, to 20, 30, 40 and keep growing. Tips also on how to leverage the NVGA relationship to help your local community grow. Come join in the open discussion guided by Jason Montoya, and input from some of the most successful chapters and people in the NVGA!!

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NVGA Web Skills: Your Local Community Website – 10 Easy steps to improving your site.

Speaker:

• Saif Khan, NVGA Chapter Leader of Okgamers and Graphic Designer

Are you running a community for local or online interest, but don’t really know what’s going on with SEO, forums, or blogs? Have you heard the phrase “RSS feed” and had no clue what’s going on? Come join OKgamers.com founder, and professional web and graphic design consultant Saif Khan as we walk through the 10 easy steps he provides to take your basic community home page to the next level! Improving your Google and search engine ranking with SEO tips, get your website to pay you for traffic, learn what free and easy Forum solutions are out there, and how you can get a blog up and running in a matter of a few minutes! Bring your laptop and follow along!

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Publishing Anime and Manga

Speaker:

• TBA

Come learn the ends and outs of publishing anime and manga on a local, national and international level.

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A Career and Life in Professional Gaming

Speaker:

• Morris Hunter, Jason Montoya, Master, Vanessa, Don Martin, Gregory Richardson, Lance Randall, sWooZie

This NVGA panel will discuss and answer questions about the what it's like to be a professional gamer, sign on with an agent, work full-time in the industry, become a star, lose a pro gaming job and return to a normal job and then about the possible future of professional gamers.

The pro-gamers and organizers on the panel have fantastic experience having worked with pro gaming organizations and even directly with many big professional gamers including the world famous Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel, pros from games like counter-strike and many more. They can share from their own experiences as well as experiences from working with other pro gamers, organizers, stars, gaming agents, mega gaming events, national and international travel, gaming television shows etc.

Come out and ask any questions you have about what it's like to pursue and have a career in professional gaming.

• What's it like to become and live full time as a professional gamer?
  
  
• What was it like to go back to a normal job and life afterward?
  
  
• What's the future of professional gaming as a career?