Dear ID@Xbox partners,

On February 26th, 2019 the ID@Xbox Team is hosting an “ID@Xbox Developer Day” in the Microsoft Austin Office.

Tara Larson, ID@Xbox Strategic Partner Manager and key members of the Microsoft Gaming Team will present the opportunities offered by the ID@Xbox program across Xbox One and Windows 10 and provide an update on gaming at Microsoft.







Agenda

9:00am - 10:00am Registration

10:00am - 10:30am Opening key note - ID@Xbox Team

10:30am - 11:00am Marketing Insights for Digital Publishers on Xbox - ID@Xbox Marketing

An examination of the latest data and trends for Independent and digital-only games published on the Xbox platform. Learn what’s working, what isn’t and how best to help our customers find your game.



11:00am - 12:00pm Game Development with Live Game Operations - PlayFab Team



For the increasing number of games that are always online, managing live operations are essential. At PlayFab, we provide the complete, real-time backend platform for live games. In this talk, you will learn how to boost revenue, engagement, and retention through our comprehensive LiveOps tools, while lowering your costs and risk.

12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch Break

1.00pm - 2.00pm Game Pass : Year One And Beyond - Game Pass Team

In this session members of the Game Pass team will share key observations and business insights from the first year of the service. As well as sharing what we’ve learned the team will be providing a view in to future plans for Game Pass. Case studies on member engagement, marketing best practice, franchise upsell and more will answer all the questions you might have about Game Pass and if they don’t …there will be plenty of time for Q+A



2:00pm - 2:30pm Game development: Show off your latest project - all devs

We will take a break from presentations and play some games! This tends to happen throughout the day, but this time is set aside specifically to let others get their hands on your latest projects; receive insights and feedback from other devs and the ID@Xbox team.

2:30p,-3:30pm Release Management - SPM Team

Learn the Top 10 Certification Issues to look out for when applying for certification with Xbox, to make one of the last parts of the process as seamless as possible.

3.30pm - 4.30pm End of event Q&A

Some important housekeeping info:

Registrations will close on Friday the 22nd of February.

A maximum of 10 people per company are allowed (we recommend at least one production/technical and one business representative).

Tickets will be allocated on a "first come first serve" basis.

Please let us know in advance if you have any special dietary or other requirements.

Hope to see you on the 26th of February!

All the best.

ID@Xbox Team

For any queries please contact Tara - taral@microsoft.com.

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