Opportunities in Video Game Development in Puerto Rico

Yamille Moralesymorales@microsoft.comNew Technologies Solutions DirectorMicrosoft Puerto Rico

• By 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets.• By 2012, Facebook will become the hub for social

network integration and Web socialization• By 2014, most IT business cases will include carbon

remediation costs• In 2012, 60 percent of a new PC's total life greenhouse

gas emissions will have occurred before the user first turns the machine on.

• Internet marketing will be regulated by 2015, controlling more than $250 billion in Internet marketing spending worldwide

• By 2014, over 3 billion of the world's adult population will be able to transact electronically via mobile or Internet technology.

• By 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide

Microsoft® Confidential

KinectCreating new entertainment experiences

You are the controller.

www.dreamspark.com

Imagine Cup 2011Step Up to the Challenge!

Microsoft Imagine Cup• The Imagine Cup is the world’s premier student technology

competition. • Now in its ninth year, the Imagine Cup has grown to be a

truly global competition focused on finding solutions to real world issues.

• Every year the Imagine Cup invites students to meet a challenge around a social cause. The current Imagine Cup competition theme is Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems.

• The Imagine Cup started in 2003 with only 1,000 competitors

• In 2010, more than 325,000 of the world's most influential students from over 120 countries/regions registered for the Imagine Cup.

“I wish there had been an Imagine Cup when I was growing up. It gets people involved in seeing that

software is changing the world.“- Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation 12

5 competitions…Software Design

Embedded DesignGame DesignDigital Media

Open Competition (TBD)

Plus IT Challenge (more Challenges to be announced soon)

…one theme“Imagine a world where technology helps solve the

toughest problems”

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2010 Imagine Cup Worldwide Finalists Warsaw, Poland

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Robotics Example

Yamille Moralesymorales@microsoft.comNew Technologies Solutions DirectorMicrosoft Puerto Rico

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