What do LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, Amazon and Waterford’s Casey Games have in common? They
will all be speaking at the world’s largest conference for entrepreneurs in the
U.S.
on May 17th and18th.
Jordan Casey is the 13 year old Waterford
student who rose to fame last year as the youngest person in Europe
to develop an app for sale on the Apple App Store.
Following a year of worldwide seminars, conferences, innovation awards
and four further successful game launches Jordan
has been invited to speak at the prestigious 20th Annual TiEcon
conference, to be held in Santa Clara,
California. Jordan is the youngest entrepreneur
ever to speak at the Conference and will address the 4,000 delegates on the
topic, “Things I learned the hard way as a young CEO.”
TiE is a global not for
profit organisation focused on fostering and enabling entrepreneurship through
mentoring, education and networking and is the world’s largest conference for
entrepreneurs. The main speakers include Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn; Sajai
Krishnan, GM of Amazon Web Services; Satya Nadella, President of Server & Tools Business at Microsoft,
while other speakers are from Net flicks, Pay Pal, IBM, Intel, ESPN, Facebook,
Twitter and Ericsson.
Since the age of
9 Jordan
has been putting content on the web. In January 2012 he released the app,
‘Alien Ball vs. Humans’, described by Apple executives as a version of the
classic ‘Space Invaders’ and was the first step on the ladder for this talented
young developer.
In October 2012
he released a game called “Save the Day”; it was the official game for National
Children’s day in Brazil.
His first ‘complex’ game was called Greenboy Touch and was released in November
2012. It is based on a boy who finds himself lost in a forest. In early January
this year he launched a multiplayer game called ‘Food World’ while in March he
started working on his next game, ‘My Little World’ an adventure game about a
tiny creature named JC who lives in a back garden and wants to see the real
world. He is aiming for a June release.
Jordan is constantly in
demand as a conference speaker, over the past few months he has spoken in Germany,
England, France and India. He is just back from Amsterdam where he was invited to both the Festival of
Games and the TNW Europe conference, labelled Europe’s
most influential tech event. And while in California
he has been invited to visit Adobe headquarters in San Jose.
At first Jordan’s
parents, Clyde and Louise did not recognise the talent they had under their
roof, “We are very of proud Jordan
considering he taught himself how to code and write the programmes. He has
worked so hard on this, but also gets lots of support. For instance Waterford
City Council, Enterprise Ireland and
Waterford City Enterprise Board are all supporting our trip to the States. We
really could not have gone without their help,” said Clyde Casey.
So, what’s next for Jordan? As well as more games to be
developed and launched, another aspect of the company is to encourage young
kids to code. Jordan
explained, “I’m just one of many young programmers in Waterford, I believe that if kids think
‘Coding is Cool’ they may develop an interest in increasing their own
programming skills. Kids from seven years of age can learn some coding and
programming themselves because of the technology available, however, coding and
programming are not being taught as a subject in schools. I would like to make
kids aware of coding and promote it.”
For more details on Casey Games follow Jordan’s blog on
www.caseygameswebsite.blogspot.ie
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