GEM 2018 - Games Entertainment & Media Conference 2018 (IEEE)

The Games, Entertainment and Media (GEM) Conference began in London 2009, and moved various venues in the US and Canada until 2016.For 2018 the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society will re-boot GEM outside of North America for the first time in nearly a decade. The conference will take place at the National University of Ireland Galway and is hosted in collaboration with the University of Limerick.
Situated on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean the West of Ireland has traditionally been the site of the first trans-Atlantic air-flights and there are many historic links between Ireland and the US and Canada stretching back to the times of the Irish famine.