The Serious Games Summit GDC 2007 schedule and first keynote have been announced. I'll be presenting a lecture called Persuasive Games: Introduction to Procedural Rhetoric. Other pics include Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern on next-gen conversational characters; Dave Gilbert on his rabbinical graphical adventure The Shivah; David Shaffer on learning and games; Santiago Siri on drama games; and Phin Barnes on exercise games.

Notably, the first keynoter is Ichiro Otobe, Chief Strategist of Square Enix (yes, that Square Enix). The company recently founded SG Lab, a serious games oriented joint venture with a Japanese textbook publisher.