Andy graduated with first class honours in Informatics in 2010 before undertaking a Masters degree in Computer Animation and Visual Effect at the National Centre for Computer Animation at Bournemouth University.  Whist studying at Coventry Andy released the ‘Roll It!’ app for iPhone which went on to sell 6000 units.  Andy has recently
released Meteora, a mobile game which utilises a version of the gesture recognition library that he developed for his final year project at Coventry.  Andy now works as a software engineer at The Foundry – The world leading innovator of visual effects and image processing technologies for the motion picture industry.

Read about Andy on www.aaweb.ch

Dan graduated with first class honours in Ethical Hacking in 2011. W ith two other co-founders he bootstrapped a start-up company;Host My Portfolio Ltd. The company now has two social content platforms HostMyPortfolio.com and Hobzy.com, both built on a proprietary software platform developed by the trio. The online start-up are now pursuing Series A investment of £200,000 to aid their rapid growth. Dan will be talking about the highs and lows of running a technology start-up, and how to convince somebody your company is worth a million when it's yet to make a penny.

Michael was one of the first graduates of the Creative Computing department in 2008, finishing with a 1st in Multimedia.  More recently Mike has undertaken a MSc by research in the fabulously murky world of the use of games for education - which is what his talk will be about.  Mike is currently a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Computing at Coventry University where hes affectionately known by all the students as 'Awesome Mike'.

Manny graduated with 2.1 honours in Multimedia Computing in 2009.  He is now a partner in DreamMotions: a video, graphics and photography company utilising the skills he gained on his degree course.  Manny will be talking about the issue of setting up in business as a young entrepreneur as well as showing examples of his work. Check out Manny's site: www.dreammotions.co.uk

Ben Graduated with first class honours in Creative Technologies in 2009. He will be talking about the game development cycle, from ideation and pitching to the detailed design, prototyping and final implementation. He will also talk about the developer roles in small, high pressure development company: http://www.fishinabottle.com/

Justyna Graduated with a first class honours degree in Games Technology in 2010.  She is now a programmer for a games development company in London called Playerthree, making flash games, iphone apps and psp games. 

Graduated with first class honours in Multimedia in 2008. Worked at Warwick University specialising in rich media development using Flash, Flex and AIR. Now runs YAY! Media; an interactive design and development agency specialising in Adobe Flex, AIR and Flash, Appcelerator Titanium and Wowza Media Server. Working at the cutting edge of these platforms creating unique experiences for web, mobile and the desktop that use the capabilities of each to its fullest.