On this episode of Global Victoria Tech Talks, host Varun Duggirala is joined by Daniel Visser, Founder, Managing Director and Executive Producer at Wicked Witch, an Australian independent video game development studio with over 20 years of experience. Varun and Daniel talk a ton about the video game industry - Daniel’s interest in video games from a very early age, how he started writing simple basic programmes of 'text adventures' in primary school, then moving onto make better games in high school with better graphics, learning programming by himself at a time with no internet or even CD-rom drives, doing business programming in college, and more.

They also discuss Daniel’s incorporation of his own game development studio, hiring people from World of Warcraft, impact of mobile phones in the gaming ecosystem, game development for Nokia phones back in the day and comparing it to the industry today. The discussion then shifts to Melbourne as a hub for gaming and the ecosystem there that helped Wicked Witch tremendously over the years, and lots more.

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On this episode of Global Victoria Tech Talks hosted by Pavan Srinath, Pavan is joined by Jason Kimberley, Managing Director at Cool Australia, a leading education not-for-profit organisation that leads on democratising the education sector through technology. About 90% of Australian schools and 40% of Australian teachers use resources created by Cool Australia.

In this episode, Pavan talks to Jason about Cool Australia’s inception, the platform’s impact on reducing student disengagement, the support for overloaded and under-resourced educators, and much more. They also discuss about Cool Australia’s curriculum designs to ensure students are engaged holistically while also assisting the teachers in the dynamic mode of communication. Jason also elaborates on the vital role of technology in EdTech, Victorian Government’s support to this particular growth sector, Cool Australia’s expansion model to include parents during the pandemic and the talent required for content creation. Tune in for this and a lot more.

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This second episode is hosted by Varun Duggirala. On this episode, Varun is joined by Ross Symons, Founder & CEO, Big Ant Studios based out of Melbourne, Victoria in Australia. Varun talks to Ross about the gaming ecosystem, the kinds of changes Ross has seen come about in the gaming space, what got him interested in the gaming space in the first place, the challenges that come when translating a sport to a video game, how they decide what aspects of the sport should be playable, how Big Ant's journey has been from its inception, and lots more. They also talk about how more than half of the Australian gaming industry is in Melbourne. how the Victoria government helps nurture the industry, the kinds of career opportunities that one can see in this space, the future of jobs in this space, Ross experiences with the IPL and the prospect of possibly making games for the IPL, how streaming has affected the medium, and lots lots more. Tune in for an extremely informative conversation.

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