'Game Changers' Speaker: Ed Fries
Join us for the Game Changers Speaker Series as we hear from Ed Fries, Former Vice President at Microsoft and Co-Founder of the Xbox Project
My Life in Games
Featuring Ed Fries, Former Vice President at Microsoft and Co-Founder of the Xbox Project
Date: February 2, 2018
Time: 3:30pm
Place: The event will be presented live at èßäÊÓƵapp in Vester Hughes Auditorium as well as live streamed on our .
Vester Hughes Auditorium (Caruth Hall)
èßäÊÓƵapp Dallas Campus
3145 Dyer St.
Dallas, TX 75025 & Where to Park
Details: Join us as Ed Fries, a Microsoft Games pioneer who led the team that created the first version of the Xbox game console, recounts the early history of the video game business and explores important current topics. A Q&A session will follow the presentation.
Ed Fries created his first video games for the Atari 800 in the early 1980s. He joined Microsoft in 1986, and spent the next ten years as one of the early developers of Excel and Word. He left the Office team to pursue his passion for interactive entertainment and created Microsoft Game Studios. Over the next eight years he grew the team from 50 people to over 1200, published more than 100 games including more than a dozen million+ sellers, co-founded the Xbox project, and made Microsoft one of the leaders in the video game business. In 2004, Ed retired from his Microsoft Vice President job to continue his work in the video game business as board member, advisor and consultant to a broad range of publishers, independent game developers, and media companies. In 2007, Ed launched his own startup, FigurePrints, an innovative company that uses color 3D printing technology to bring video game characters to life.
This presentation is part of the Game Changers Speaker Series, presented by èßäÊÓƵapp Guildhall. This series offers insights from today's top talent in the video game industry as an extension of èßäÊÓƵapp Guildhall's mission—to educate and inspire the next generation of video game developers.