Register now for the 7th Annual Games for Change Festival, New York City, May 24 - 27, 2010.

Registration rates go up after May 13th. You can register here.

Take a few moments to check out the Festival Website.

This year's keynotes:

The first-ever U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra (May 25th)
The Honorable Sandra Day O'Connor, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (Ret.) (May 26th)

Other featured speakers include:

Clay Shirky, Internet expert and author of Here Comes Everybody

Nick Bilton, Specialist at The New York Times R&D Lab and author of the forthcoming book, I Live In The Future And Here's How It Works

Katie Salen, Executive Director of NYC's innovative "game school" Quest To Learn

Neal Baer, 5-time Emmy nominated executive producer of Law and Order

Dr. James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Arizona State University

Army Brig. Gen. Loree K. Sutton

Laird Malamed, SVP of Production, Guitar Hero

Alan Kay, pioneering computer scientist

Sara DeWitt, Senior Director, PBS KIDS Interactive,

Stephen Duncombe, author of Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy

Micah Sifry, co-founder TechPresident.com and Personal Democracy Forum

Kurt Squire, Associate Professor of Educational Communications and Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Constance Steinkuehler, Assistant Professor in the Educational Communication & Technology program in the Curriculum & Instruction Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Omar Wasow, Ph.D. candidate in African American studies and Government at Harvard University

Clive Thompson, contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, Wired, and Fast Company

Ze Frank, Internet humorist

Special Events (You may register for these events separately or in combination with the entire festival):

"The Power of Design: Youth Making Social Issue Games" - Monday, May 24th

"Let the Games Begin: 101.5 Workshop on Making Social Issue Games" - Monday, May 24th

"Games for Learning: Research and Design Innovation at NYU" - Thursday, May 27th

The event is sponsored by the Games for Learning Institute at New York University.

The Games for Change Festival is the only festival dedicated to the exciting new movement of Digital Games for Social Change exploring real-world impact, the latest games, and a variety of funding strategies. The festival is being hosted in New York City by Parsons The New School for Design and The Games for Learning Institute at NYU.