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CEDEC Steering Committee

(In principle, what each body belongs to is correct as of April 16, 2011. The expression used by the company to which it belongs takes priority.)

CEDEC Steering Committee

Designs fundamental conference policies as well as planning, management, operation and account balance. The Steering Committee consists of members of CESA Technology Committee, the Advisory Board and the Secretariat, and if necessary, it sets up Working Groups.

■ Chairperson

  • Naoto Yoshioka

    Naoto Yoshioka

    SQUARE ENIX

■ Vice-chairperson

  • Naohiro Saito

    Naohiro Saito

    NAMCO BANDAI Games

■ CEDEC Fellow

  • 松原　健二

    Kenji Matsubara

    Zynga Japan K.K.

Program Working Group

Review received applications and manages invited sessions to enable better conference. This working group appoints a session producer for each field, who is a business expert in that particular field.

■ Leader

  • Takashi Shoji

    Takashi Shoji

    SEGA

■ Programming (PG)

  • Masao Watanabe

    Masao Watanabe

    CyberConnect2

  • Kazunobu Uehara

    Kazunobu Uehara

    NAMCO BANDAI Games

■ Visual Arts (VA)

  • Takashi Mizutani

    Takashi Mizutani

    Sony Computer Entertainment

  • Toshiyuki Kamei

    Toshiyuki Kamei

    Dimps

■ Sound (SND)

  • Yoshinori Tsuchida

    Yoshinori Tsuchida

    SQUARE ENIX

  • Tetsukazu Nakanishi

    Tetsukazu Nakanishi

    NAMCO BANDAI Games

■ Online / Network (NW)

  • Kengo Nakajima

    Kengo Nakajima

    MMOG Developer

■ Game Design (GD)

  • Masanobu Endoh

    Masanobu Endoh

    MOBILE & GAME STUDIO

■ Production (PD)

  • Akihiro Tashiro

    Akihiro Tashiro

    Microsoft

■ Business and Management (BM)

  • Takechika Tsurutani

    Takechika Tsurutani

    POLYGON MAGIC

  • Mikio Fujimura

    Mikio Fujimura

    Konami Digital Entertainment

■ Academic (AC)

  • Masahiko Inami

    Masahiko Inami

    Keio University

  • Koji Mikami

    Koji Mikami

    Tokyo University of Technology

■ International Track

  • Julien Merceron

    Julien Merceron

    Square Enix Group

Interactive Session Working Group

Designs and operates interactive sessions that are further developments of CEDEC 2010 “Posters Program”. It works closely with the Program Working Group.

■Leader

  • Takashi Imagire

    Takashi Imagire

    GREE

■Member

  • 粉川　貴至

    Takashi Kokawa

    SEGA

CEDEC CHALLENGE Working Group

Designs and operates a participation-based event “CEDEC CHALLENGE”. It works closely with the Program Working Group.

■Leader

  • Naoto Yoshioka

    Naoto Yoshioka

    SQUARE ENIX

■Member

  • Yoichiro Miyake

    Yoichiro Miyake

    SQUARE ENIX

CEDEC AWARDS Working Group

Designs and operates CEDEC AWARDS ceremony given to engineers and developers who have　made a remarkable contribution to the advance of computer entertainment　development.

■Leader

  • Naohiro Saito

    Naohiro Saito

    NAMCO BANDAI Games

■Member

  • Naohito Kano

    Naohito Kano

    DeNA

CEDiL Working Group

Designs and operates the CEDEC Digital Library (abbreviated as CEDiL), which provides data and other materials released at CEDEC in a library format.

■Leader

  • Naohiro Saito

    Naohiro Saito

    NAMCO BANDAI Games

■Member

  • Kazunobu Uehara

    Kazunobu Uehara

    NAMCO BANDAI Games

  • Tsutomu Horikawa

    Tsutomu Horikawa

    Sony Computer Entertainment

  • Hiroshi Matsuyama

    Hiroshi Matsuyama

    CyberConnect2

PR Working Group

Designs public relation strategies to communicate the value of CEDEC more widely, deeply and simply.

■Leader

  • Akira Sugiyama

    Akira Sugiyama

    OLM Digital

■Member

  • Mio Ishida

    Mio Ishida

    NAMCO BANDAI Games

Sponsor Working Group

Designs sponsor schemes that are more effective for both the sponsors who provide commercial technologies, which are a vital element of present computer entertainment development, and CEDEC participants.

■Leader

  • Terumasa Kodaka

    Terumasa Kodaka

    Web Technology

■Member

  • Toshimasa Ebina

    Toshimasa Ebina

    HUDSON SOFT

  • Hiroaki Kondo

    Hiroaki Kondo

    Dolby Japan

CEDEC Official Web Working Group

Designs the CEDEC Official Web.

■Leader

  • Yoshinari Sunazuka

    Yoshinari Sunazuka

    True Grit

■Member

  • Atsushi Fukuda

    Atsushi Fukuda

    Konami Digital Entertainment

Advisory Board

Operates CEDEC upon cooperation request of the Chairperson of the Committee or a Working Group member.

■Member

  • Ken Anjo

    Ken Anjo

    OLM Digital

  • Takayuki Itagaki

    Takayuki Itagaki

  • Yukifumi Okamoto

    Yukifumi Okamoto

    Lyles

  • Yutaka Koga

    Yutaka Koga

    TECMO KOEI GAMES

  • Takaki Kobayashi

    Takaki Kobayashi

    SmileBoom

  • Yukiharu Sambe

    Yukiharu Sambe

    TAITO

  • Jumpei Tsuda

    Jumpei Tsuda

    TECMO KOEI GAMES

CEDEC Supporters

These collaborators support a part of the actual operation upon request of the CEDEC Steering Committee.

Mitsunori Fujimoto,SEGA
Ryuta Yazawa, Freelance game translator

Observers

These people give broad advice on the sidelines for the CEDEC.

Shun Arai , Game developer
Hiroyuki Kawanishi, Microsoft
Kiyoshi Shin, IGDA Japan
Takahito Tejima, Polyphony Digital
Nobuyuki Matsushima, CAPCOM