Sandbox, an ACM Videogame Symposium
drew writes "ACM is hosting a two-day videogame symposium on July 29-30 in 2006, co-located with SIGGRAPH 06 in Boston, MA, USA. The symposium will consist of keynotes, panels and papers. In addition, a 'Hot Games' session will preview unreleased titles from major game companies and indie developers."
Wow, just cram in another paragraph and you could fit the whole "article" into the summary.
And yes, I did check the the other links on the page, but they didn't lead to much more information.