Check out our developer talks at the Google Booth @GDC 2016

We’re excited to be at the Game Developers Conference next week. Come visit the Google booth (612 in Zone 1) to learn how to build great games with AdMob, AdWords, Cardboard, Cast, Cloud Platform, Play and Tango. We’ll also be doing talks throughout the day covering a wide range of topics from developing an app and growing users to monetization. The talks are 20 minutes long and open to anyone to drop in. Seating is limited so be sure to come 5 minutes early to the talk you want to hear. We hope to see you there!
Wednesday, March 16
10:00am-10:20amHere Be Dragons: 4 years of DragonVale and Google Cloud Platform
Chris Goody from Backflip Studios is going to talk to us about his experience building and running a top grossing mobile game on Google Cloud Platform for the past four years.
11:00am-11:20amGaming with Project Tango
Schell games show their tango apps and talk about their experience building w/ Tango.
11:30am-11:50amThe Purple Ocean Strategy" Cross-Platform Opportunities
The Purple Ocean Strategy talk explores how Google technologies make it feasible to reach our enormous (1.4 billion Android users) installed base of potential gamers, AND explore exciting new technologies like our VR, Project Tango, Cast Games, Android TV and more, simultaneously.
12:30pm-12:50pmPeopleFun and Google Cloud Platform
Leon from PeopleFun will be discussing their experiences build mobile games using Google Cloud Platform
1:00pm-1:20pmApp Promotion 
Insights and best practices on how mobile-first companies are using Google's app promotion solutions to take their apps to new levels.
1:30pm-1:50pmOptimize your ads stack
Learn more about AdMob as a smart mediation platform and how it can optimize your yield across formats, regions, and third-party ad networks.
2:00pm-2:20pmRealtime Multiplayer with Firebase and Unity
This talk will cover how Firebase’s new Unity plugin can be used to enable real-time date synchronization across your Unity based games.
2:30pm-2:50pmExploring Open Data in the Cloud with BigQuery
Robert Kubis, a Developer Advocate on Google Cloud Platform, will show you how cloud computing makes it easier to explore big data. You'll leave knowing how to use the cloud to effectively explore all that valuable data you've been logging.

Thursday, March 17

10:00am-10:20amPeopleFun and Google Cloud Platform
Leon from PeopleFun will be discussing their experiences build mobile games using Google Cloud Platform
10:30am-10:50amBringing Multiplayer Social Game Experiences to the Big Screen
Learn how to bring multiplayer social game experiences to the big screen through Google Cast, and find out about the many cool interaction models you can implement.
11:00am-11:20amPromo Codes and You: A Love Story
Overview, best practices, Q&A on self service promo codes now and into the future
11:30am-11:50amEngage more users with better ad formats
See some of the exciting new ad formats AdMob is bringing to apps, including Native Ads, Interactive Interstitials, and playable Trial Run Ads
12:00pm-12:20pmRealtime Multiplayer with Firebase and Unity
This talk will cover how Firebase’s new Unity plugin can be used to enable real time date synchronisation across your Unity based games.
12:30pm-12:50pmGaming with Project Tango
iguanabee, Eike Consulting introduce 'Raise' and 'Slingshot Islands'. 10 min each on their tango apps - talk about their experience building w/ Tango.
1:00pm-1:20pmApp Promotion
As the Team Lead for Google’s App Developer Sales, Beth will share insights and best practices on how mobile-first companies are using Google's app promotion solutions to take their apps to new levels.
1:30pm-1:50pmOptimize your ads stack
Learn more about AdMob as a Smart Mediation platform and how it can optimize your yield across formats, regions, and third party ad networks.
2:00pm-2:20pmView-driven interactive storytelling for mobile and VR
Concepts and techniques for sequencing nonlinear immersive stories, understanding the audience engagement and reacting to it in real time.
2:30pm-2:50pmExploring Open Data in the Cloud with BigQuery
In this session Jen Tong, a Developer Advocate on Google Cloud Platform, will show you how cloud computing makes it easier to explore big data. She'll use Google BigQuery to poke around some really big data sets including the GDELT news database, Wikipedia logs, and weather data going back to 1929.

Friday, March 18
10:00am-10:20amReal-time Gaming with Containers and gRPC
Look at how gRPC can be used as a performant real time communication framework that works across platforms such as mobile and embedded devices as well as languages, such as Go, Node.js and Java. We will also combine this with Kubernetes’ powerful ability to orchestrate containers at scale, handling and coordinating large amounts of traffic from all these users.
11:00am-11:20amLightsaber Escape Chrome Experiment
We’ll discuss how the Lightsaber Escape Chrome Experiment (lightsaber.withgoogle.com) was built. Combining WebGL, WebRTC, WebSockets and Google Cloud Platform, this application lets you wield a lightsaber in a daring escape from the clutches of the First Order.

Even if you can’t attend this year, you’ll be able to stay in the loop. We’ll be live tweeting and sharing the event on our Twitter and Google+ channels, using the hashtags #Google #GDC16.

Posted by Henry Wang
Product Marketing, AdMob

Source: Inside AdMob