David Wortley
David Wortley is Director of the Serious Games Institute (SGI) at Coventry University. He is responsible for the development of the Institute as a brand new self-financing initiative to establish a centre of excellence for the emerging serious games application area. Working with academics, regional development agencies and leading computer games companies, David aims to make the SGI a thought leader and focal point for games based learning, simulation and immersive 3D virtual environments.
David’s career began with a university scholarship from British Telecom to study electronic and electrical engineering at Birmingham University. After graduation, his commercial career has been spent in the converging technologies of telecommunications (British Telecom – where he also spent time as a Management Tutor at the BT Management Training College), computing (IBM – corporate sales), and digital media (Mass Mitec) with a focus on technology for competitive advantage, education and business communications.
David’s consultancy was recognised by Microsoft as the first UK Powerpoint Presentation Centre of Excellence and was also accredited by Lotus, Software Publishing and Corel. In 1992, David set up the National Presentation Digital Imaging Network in partnership with Prontaprint Ltd, providing digital imaging services to over 100 retail outlets across the UK and Ireland.
In 1998, David won a major award under the UK DTI Multimedia Demonstrator Program for a project known as the Community Commerce and Knowledge Network (ComKnet) and followed this up with an even bigger award for a Community Learning project known as the Harborough Community Learning Network. Subsequently, David has spoken at many international conferences on the Information Society, Globalisation and the use of technology for sustainable social and economic development.
In 2005, David moved to De Montfort University to set up and run the New Technology Initiative (NTI) Creative Industries Centre for Knowledge Exchange. David moved to the Serious Games Institute in November 2006.
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