Next weekend the Austin Game Developers Conference will be playing host to “She Got Game”, a conference presented by Women in Games International on Saturday the 8th that looks at the experiences of women in the gaming industry. The keynote speaker for the event will be Dona C. Bailey, a Professor at the University of Arkansas who is known in gaming circles as the first woman to create an arcade game. In 1980 Bailey designed and programmed the arcade classic Centipede along with Ed Logg, and her keynote will focus on women in the industry cultivating and communicating powerful ideas. “I’m hoping to be helpful to someone now who may be in a situation similar to the one I was in at Atari, said Bailey, ” I often wish there had been a group of WIGI colleagues back then from whom I could have gotten advice!”

Other topics to be discussed at the conference included the importance of diversity in development teams and how to expand MMO content and game play for women. More details after the jump.