BigDoor Media is a Seattle startup founded by Keith Smith and Jeff Malek focused on developing a virtual economy platform that helps developers and digital publishers add game mechanics to their site or app. The digital world has a tendency to be a bit boring, so let’s make it more fun! To get more information or to sign up for BigDoor's beta, click here.

Bunchball is the leading provider of online gamification solutions, used to drive high value participation, engagement, loyalty and revenue for some of the world’s leading brands and media. Customers including Warner Bros, Comcast, Victoria’s Secret PINK, USA Network, LiveOps, and Hasbro use Bunchball’s Nitro gamification platform to create compelling, meaningful and enjoyable experiences for consumers, employees, and partners. Based in Silicon Valley and founded in February 2005, Bunchball’s investors include Granite Ventures and Adobe Systems Incorporated. For more information, visit Bunchball online at www.bunchball.com.

Cynergy Systems is an industry-leading software product concept, design, and development agency with 15 years of proven success.  We help companies to imagine what their software products could be like, to design how users will experience and interact with that software, and to develop those ideas and designs into complete software products. Using our proven ThinkFirst approach to product strategy, and our award winning LookFirst approach to the design and development process, Cynergy has concepted, designed and developed over 300 software products for companies including Microsoft, Adobe, eBay, Bank of America, SAP and CBS/Paramount and our work has been covered by CNN, Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes and the BBC.

Pillsbury’s multidisciplinary Virtual Worlds & Video Games team, the first of its kind, includes nearly 30 attorneys around the world working at the forefront of emerging business and legal issues relating to virtual worlds, mirror worlds, augmented reality, virtual goods, virtual currency and other social media. The team, which can assist clients with venture capital and private equity funding, mergers and acquisitions, legal and business strategies for virtual goods and currency, intellectual property strategies, implementation and enforcement, preparation of key agreements and policies, including: terms of service agreements; development agreements; DMCA policies, compliance and enforcement; data protection and privacy policies; COPPA policies; and much more, has represented both the largest players in the industry such as Activision Blizzard, Playfish, A&E Inc., and some of the most promising emerging companies. The team also hosts a dedicated blog www.virtualworldlaw.com, to address relevant legal issues.

IActionable measures and motivates user engagement through game mechanics. We can help you understand how people use your site or application and work with you to determine how game mechanics can be applied to motivate and reward your users. Our powerful API delivers advanced gamification features in real time Check us out at www.iactionable.com

M2 Research is a market intelligence and strategic consulting company covering the gaming and entertainment markets. With a focus on emerging trends, demographics, technology, and consumer preferences, M2 Research publishes industry reports and works with companies to help them define their strategic positioning, market strategies and analysis. For further information contact us or visit us at www.m2research.com.

Casual Connect is the educational component of the Casual Games Association, the international trade association for casual games professionals. Casual Connect encompasses online news, a regular magazine and yearly conference series in Kyiv, Europe and Seattle.

Creatosity is about innovation and evaluating business start up ideas. We provide information, tools and resources, and profile innovative people and companies. www.creatosity.com

The Distributed Computing Industry Association (www.DCIA.info) is a Washington, DC based international trade organization with more than one-hundred Member companies including cloud computing, P2P, and social networking software developers and distributors, Internet service providers (ISPs), content rights holders, and service-and-support companies. As a non-profit trade association, the DCIA is focused on commercial development of distributed computing technologies. The DCIA is engaged in supporting innovative business models and developing standards-and-practices to advance this new consumer-based distribution channel.

Digital Media Wire, Inc. launched in early 2000 with a simple yet compelling proposition to provide busy executives with a daily briefing of the most important news stories about the business of digital media. On July 20, 2000, we published the first issue of Digital Media Wire Daily — our daily email newsletter dedicated to objective coverage of news stories about the convergence of media, entertainment and technology. Today, we are a full scale media company that owns and produces 8 major conferences, publishes daily newsletters and directories, and operates the popular www.dmwmedia.com news and community portal.

The Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA) is the non-profit membership organization that represents consumers of interactive entertainment in the US and Canada. The association was founded to give gamers a collective voice with which to communicate their concerns, address their issues and focus their advocacy efforts. As such, the ECA is committed to a host of public policy efforts, empowering and enabling the membership to effect change. Additionally, the organization provides members substantial affinity benefits including discounts on games-related purchases and rentals, as well as community and educational initiatives. You can also check our Gameculture site where we discuss what’s currently happening in the gaming world.