Professor Game Podcast

Ahmed Hossam is The International Gamification Confederation (Gamfed) Ambassador in Egypt. He is a keynote speaker, consultant, designer and facilitator on gamification. He is currently the president of Gamification Egypt and the founder of Gampact. Ahmed is one of the of the top pioneers in gamification in the Middle-East, he has been in the ·Global Gamification Gurus Power 100· since 2015 and in July 2017 he was rated #2. He has helped a variety of companies, from seed stage startups to Fortune 500 companies such as HP, Oracle, Vodafone, AUC, Abudawood and many more· Ahmed has been interested in the concept of Gamification ever since 2005.

Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos is the founder of the Strategic Innovation Lab, where they create solutions for innovation using gamification, systems thinking and their own frameworks to deliver results for their clients.

Scott is a 7th and 8th grade teacher and is one of the pioneers in implementing a fully gamified classroom. Just going into the room lets you know you are in a different place, it is themed as a medieval adventure!

Vasilis Gkogkidis was an organizer of Gamification Europe 2017 and is also a gamification designer at Gamification +. He started his gamification journey with Pete Jenkins coming right out of his Masters degree.

Sabrina Bruehwiler is a gamification designer and consultant at the Octalysis Group. She has a lot of experience with user experience (UX) and holds creativity as her superpower. Listen to this episode and get amazing insights she has gathered along her journey.

In this episode we talk with Bernardo Letayf, a gamification expert who created Blue Rabbit, a software to create gamified environments for education. For his work, he was recently awarded the gamification software of the year at Gamification Europe.

This is a special episode where instead of having a guest I will go over my own experience at the conference Gamification Europe. In the show notes at professorgame.com/podcast/010 you will also find pictures and links to the videos of the talks.

Erik is a writer and works bot hon his own books and with The Octalysis Group. He uses gamification in his daily life and has awesome stories to tell us!

In this episode we have learning gamification guru Monica Cornetti give us deep examples of how gamification has failed either because she didn't know the audience or an app that just got it wrong, but also how she's achieved amazing things using gamification.

Listen to Tony Chan talk about game development to get the best ideas for the gamification of your learning experience. Tony's podcast GameDev Loadout talks about the challenges of game developers.