Game Developers Conference
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Dates of meeting:
March 17-21, 2014
Goals and objectives of the meeting
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is the world's largest and longest-running professionals-only
game industry event.
Number of attendees 24,000+
Number of hotel rooms used and hotel package
50+ hotels
Including rooms found in audit: 34,926 total room nights
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History (past cities/rotation)
GDC does not rotate. It is held annually in San Francisco
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Future meeting sites
GDC has dates on hold at Moscone through 2030
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Moscone Center usage
GDC is a full facility show, using North South and West Buildings
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Food & Beverage issues
We had a possible food poisoning situation on site, with multiple volunteers and an attendee reporting
falling ill after eating catering provided lunches.
Moscone catering took the problem very seriously while onsite, but was unable to verify the source or
the validity of the claims.
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Vendors
 General Service Contractors - GES
 Production Companies – ETS AudioVisual
 Security – Maloney Security
City Report
 Safety and Security
Moscone reached out to use approx. a month before move-in to make us aware of increased theft activity
both at Moscone and at surrounding hotels.
UBM worked with Maloney to increase security presence at our event, yet still we had an unprecedented
number of theft incidents. During the week of GDC we had a dozen thefts. Incidents ranged from:
o Macbook swiped off an attendees’ table in concession area
o Plasma TVs stolen (in boxes still) from the expo hall during move-in
o Recording cameras stolen out of session rooms
o Laptops stolen out of session rooms
o Pallet of floral stolen out of expo floor
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Moscone’s security cameras were useless. Several were broken, or inoperable at the time of the
incidents. The reviewing of the security tapes took days, as they appeared to be unable to fwd to a
particular period of time.
Areas for improvement: Focus on area(s) such as people, products, services, experiences, infrastructure etc.
which could be improved and would make a material improvement to the San Francisco meeting experience.
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Security – see above
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Advertisements within Moscone (along the lower corridor between North and South Halls) for
Gentleman’s clubs. UBM has adopted a “Code of Conduct” at all of our events, that bans and graphics
that overly objectify woman or could be deemed offensive. We had multiple complaints both from GDC
management and GDC attendees that the advertisements were not in line with our Code of Conduct.
However per Moscone mgmt., we were unable to take the adverts down or cover them up.