The 4th annual Mobile Game Conference will take place on July 13-14, 2006 in Seattle. Only a limited number of passes are available for working media, so if you don't want to lose a spot, head on over to Game Initiative's website to register.

A list of speakers have already been mentioned in this article with the addition of:

• Chris Early, Studio Manager, Microsoft Casual Games Group
• Mitch Lasky, Senior, Vice President, EA Mobile
• Kosei Ito, Vice President and Producer of Mobile Products, Square Enix North America
• Trip Hawkins, Chairman & CEO, Digital Chocolate
  

And I guess being in the American Idol era, there will also be a contest for game developers, indie game developers and publishers to present their nights-and-weekend designs in front of a panel of mobile games executives who can bring them to market. The winning presenters, will have 5 minutes to pitch their game to a select panel of judges like Kris Davis, Games Product Marketing Manger (Sprint), Andrew Stein, Sr. Product Manager (Cingular) and Paul Nakayama, Sr. Director, Content Programming (Amp'd Mobile).

The 4th Annual Mobile Game Conference which will take place in Seattle on July 13 and 14 has been announced to have speakers from big companies which include Digital Chocolate's Trip Hawkins and Square Enix's Kosei Ito.

Game Initiative has announced other speakers for the said conference, most from leading developers, publishers and operators all over the world. Game Initiative is a producer of conferences for professionals in the computer and video game industry. The confirmed list of conference speakers are

• Alex Bloom, Vice President, Content and Developer Services, Motricity
• Andrew Stein, Sr. Product Manager, Cingular
• Andre Vahsen, COO, Machineworks NW LLC
• Are Traasdahl, Founder and CEO, Thumbplay
• Chris Early, Studio Manager, Microsoft Casual Games Group
• Eric Goldberg, Managing Director, Crossover Technologies
• Jason A. Ford, Vice President, Strategy & Planning, Namco Networks America Inc.
• Jason Spero , SVP Marketing , Digital Chocolate
• Jill Braff, GM North America & SVP Worldwide Marketing, Glu Mobile
• John Cahill, General Manager, Mobile Games, Yahoo
• John Szeder, CEO, Mofactor
• Julian Corbett, Vice President of Business Development and Brand Partnerships, In-Fusio
• Kanishka Agarwal, Vice President of New Products, Telephia
• Kris Davis, Games Product Marketing Manger, Sprint
• Kyu Lee, President, GAMEVIL USA, Inc.
• Neil Halder, Vice President Content Programming & Strategy, SkyZone
• Mark Pierce, CEO, Super Happy Fun Fun, Inc.
• Matthew Bellows, General Manager, Floodgate Entertainment
• Mike Yuen, Senior Director, Gaming Group, QUALCOMM
• Misha Lyalin, CEO, Reaxion
• Paul Foster, President/CEO, Pick Up and Play
• Paul Nakayama, Sr. Director, Content Programming, Amp'd Mobile
• Ron Czerny, Founder & CEO, Play Phone
• Randy Shepherd, founder & director of business development, werd interactive inc.
• Scott Edison, Director-Mobile, Oberon
• Seamus McAteer, Chief Product Architect & Senior Analyst, M:Metrics
• Steve Hoffman, North American Studio Head, Infospace, Inc.

The 4th Annual Mobile Game Conference where the latest innovations in the mobile games industry will be showcased will focus on the themes Design, Construction and Potential.