Game Developers Conference (GDC)

Annually around Feb/March - San Francisco www.gdconf.com

Thriving in today's interactive entertainment landscape requires developers to anticipate publisher needs and consumer desires to produce polished games with extremely high production quality. At GDC 2005, you will be equipped with practical tools to handle these and other obstacles along your road, and you will be exposed to future vision catalysts -- empowering you to create tomorrow's game today.

D.I.C.E. Summit

Annually around Jan/Feb - Las Vegas www.dicesummit.org

The 2008 D.I.C.E. Summit (Design, Innovate, Communicate and Entertain), is a high-level interactive entertainment industry conference that brings together the top video game designers and developers from around the world and business leaders from all the major publishers to discuss the state of the industry, its trends and the future. The three-day event will be held February 7, 2008 at Red Rock Casino & Resort in Las Vegas, NV.

GC - Developers Conference (GCDC)

Annual European conference - Leipzig, Germany www.leipziger-messe.de/gcdc

GCDC is the international Games Developer Conference for developers in Europe. The GCDC offers a high level of international knowledge transfer, specialised workshops and future-orientated talks for professionals.