Marty Poulin
President, Social Sage

Marty is founder of SocialSage, a team of innovators working to extend and redefine social media and games. Marty is a game industry veteran, developing and architecting online social platforms for market leaders such as Disney's Interactive Studios (Director of Online), Sony (SCE-RT online platform group) and as CTO of the MMOG "World War II Online".

Along the way Marty worked on a number of titles including Turok, Spectrobes, Warhawk, Socom 3, NBA 06 and WorldWar2Online. Before joining the game industry, Marty focused on engineering robust fault tolerant systems in the roles of lead engineer, Director of R&D and eventually founding his own control systems company.

Marty maintains interests in virtual worlds, social networks, data/event driven architectures, AntiCheat/Security (published article in MMP Game Dev2) as well as agile development practices. He has also chaired, coordinated and participated in numerous committees including the IGDA’s Artificial Intelligence Interface Standards Committee (ASIIC).

Moderator: Scaling on a Dime, Thursday, 10:30 AM, Harbor

Panelist: Tuning the Money Funnel: Customer and Process Metrics in Online Games, Thursday, 2:00 PM, Harbor

Moderator: Catching The Next Wave in Games and Virtual Worlds, Thursday, 3:30 PM, Harbor