Book before September 25 to take advantage of early-bird savings for Montréal International Game Summit.

Taking place November 16-17 at the Palais des congrés de Montréal, the third edition of MIGS brings together game developers from Québec, Canada and the US east coast.

Despite the local focus, the event’s programme is hardly parochial: Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada will deliver a keynote on fostering cultural diversity in game development – a natural fit for a publisher that has opened its games catalogue so broadly over the past few years.
 
Valve director of business development Paul Holden will discuss how the internet has changed the face of videogames as entertainment. Expect good insights into Steam. Media Molecule’s Paul Holden will talk about the technical challenges of testing and creating tools for user-generated games.

Elsewhere you can catch Jakub Dvorsky, the man behind Amanita Design and Machinarium, Edge’s own Randy Smith, David Sirlin, who knows rather more about how Street Fighter works than most (he recently retooled Super Street Fighter 2 for XBLA and PSN), Zynga’s Scott Jon Siegel on designing games for social networks, Jason Graves postmorteming his music for Dead Space, and expect various close looks at such forthcoming Montréal-developed games as Avatar and Assassin’s Creed 2.

It’s an eclectic and fulsome list. Visit MIGS’ website to find out more and reserve your pass.