Luke Hohmann: Creating Breakthrough Products through Collaborative Play

Luke Hohmann’s talk at Business of Software 2009.


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Luke Hohmann

Luke Hohmann

Luke Hohmann is the Founder and CEO of The Innovation Games® Company and a former National Junior Pairs Figure Skating Champion.

The author of three books, Luke’s playfully diverse background of life experiences has uniquely prepared him to design and produce serious games. Luke graduated magna cum laude with a B.S.E. in computer engineering and an M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan.

In addition to data structures and artificial intelligence, he studied cognitive psychology and organizational behavior. He is also a certified aerobics instructor. In his spare time, Luke likes roughhousing with his four kids and his wife’s cooking. He also enjoys long runs in the Santa Cruz mountains to burn off his wife’s cooking.

Luke’s a bit of an old school Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Instead of building a company to flip, he’s building a company to change the world. You can join him by playing games here or at Games for Democracy.

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