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Alan Gershenfeld
President & Cofounder, E-Line Media & Creator, Never Alone & World Games
Biography
Alan Gershenfeld has spent the last twenty years at the intersection of entertainment, technology, and social entrepreneurship. He is currently President and Cofounder of E-Line Media, a publisher of digital entertainment that engages, educates and empowers— with a core focus on computer and video games. Alan has worked on impact game projects with the Gates Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the National Science Foundation, USAID, DARPA, the White House OSTP, the California Endowment, the Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Games for Change, Google, Sesame Workshop, the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, and the ASU Center for Games and Impact. Prior to E-Line, he was CEO and Cofounder of neomat, a leader in mobile and web community solutions.
Alan Gershenfeld
President & Cofounder, E-Line Media & Creator, Never Alone & World Games
SPEAKER FILM
Alan Gershenfeld and Amy Fredeen— World Games
    Alan Gershenfeld and Amy Fredeen— World Games

    Indigenous cultures often celebrate a rich heritage of storytelling, cultivating traditions and knowledge over millennia. But unless their stories adapt to our changing media, they risk being lost forever. Games industry veteran Alan Gershenfeld and his company E-Line Media partnered with Amy Fredeen of the Cook Inlet Tribal Council in Alaska to transform the IÐupiaq tribe's stories into a video game starring a young girl and her Arctic fox, who team up to stop an eternal blizzard. Never Alone (Kisima In_itchu_a), which premiered in 2014 to widespread acclaim, teaches players how to survive harsh environments by sharing knowledge and stories across generations. At FoST, Fredeen and Gershenfeld will discuss how to synthesize old and new storytelling methods to create something commercially and culturally meaningful.