MUMBAI: What does the future hold in the US for interactive entertainment?.That is the question that The Game Developers Conference (GDC) will seek to answer.

The event takes place from 7-11 March 2005 in San Francisco.

The seminar aims at bringing to life the 2005 theme Future Vision . There will be series of talks dedicated to the road ahead for interactive entertainment. The vision track will include progressive leaders in the fields of music, video games, design and technology.

GDC director Jamil Moledina says, "The vision track is designed to provoke innovation among developers and set the stage for the future of interactive entertainment. In a business environment where finishing the current project is the foremost priority, our goal is to provide an environment that fosters the innate creativity of game developers, and empowers each of them to establish their own long-term vision of the next decade of games."

The speakers include J Allard who is a founding member of the Xbox platform project. He is recognised as e of the most promising young leaders of the entertainment industry. In 1993 he was named in Hollywood Reporter's Top 35 Entertainment Execs under 35. Allard's session is entitled The Future of Games: Unlocking the Opportunity.

Another speaker is Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. In his session The Heart of a Gamer he will assess where the game business stands today as well as predicting how it will develop over the next several years.