The Serious Games Summit DC 2005 is slated for October 31 through November 1st in Crystal City.
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The Serious Games Summit DC 2005 is slated for October 31 through November 1st in Crystal City.
Man, who’s going to give me six benjamins to go to the serious games summit?
Seriously, what’s with that price tag? 🙂
Yeah, I really don’t know. I mean, the last DC Summit was enjoyable, but the only reason I went was because my employer kindly picked up the tab. It’s not like the ham & cheese sandwiches for lunch made up for the $600 tab either.
My guess? Exclusivity: the conference organizers are using that whopper cost to measure just how serious the attendees will be. No *Dance Dance Revolution* fans here.
It’s actually not out of line with other corporate/industry/tech conferences. Like flying first class, the assumption there is it’s always on someone else’s dime.
Which is why academics don’t fly first class.
Or think about “serious games”. 😉
It does make one wonder how skewed towards military/business the Summit’s emphasis will be, rather than education… which might increase the number of “sales pitch” presentations over earnest research presentations.
But Matt – true enough – 600 clams is not out of range for the business/govt types.
Why the flat fee? Maybe someone should petition them for a student/education rate?