State of Play V: Speakers' Bios

Ken Brady KEN BRADY
Director of International Strategies
Centric - Agency of Change

Profile

With offices in Shanghai and Tokyo, Ken helps Centric's clients take
advantage of emerging opportunities in Asia and beyond. He splits his
time between China, Japan, and California, and is often in Taiwan, Hong
Kong, Singapore, Thailand and Dubai. Before joining Centric, Ken worked
in the software, education, and motion picture industries, notably at
Walt Disney Pictures and Teaching Strategies.

Ken is also a professional science fiction writer, with stories in eight
languages, in publications such as Analog, Strange Horizons, Writers of
the Future, Weird Tales, Ideomancer, Rosebud, Darker Matter, Fortean
Bureau, Science Fiction World in China and various anthologies. He has
sold stage plays to Playscripts, a screenplay to Miramax, and produced
an award-winning feature film. Ken has a Masters of International
Management from Portland State University.

Centric is the "Agency of Change" -- guiding companies through the
changing media landscape of video podcasts, YouTube and Flickr mash-ups,
online contesting, social media strategies and marketing, and virtual
world work, from strategy and design to building, scripting, event
management and marketing.

Centric is partnered with Metabirds, the first and largest virtual world
developer in Japan, working on projects in Second Life and HiPiHi.

In Second Life, Ken is Neko Longduk. In HiPiHi, he is Neko

Web Presence

Centric - Agency of Change