May 01 2013
Michael Acton-Smith Web Technology Speaker
Founder, CEO & Creative Director of Mind Candy and Web Technology Speaker
Michael Acton-Smith is the CEO, Creative Director and founder of online games studio Mind Candy. The company created the online hit Moshi Monsters which has over 65m players online and is now expanding offline into books, toys, music, trading cards, TV and film. Mind Candy’s first project was a global treasure hunt called Perplex City that played out across different media including websites, text messages, magazines, live events, skywriting and multiple helicopters.
“One of the UK’s most successful web entrepreneurs”
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