Minecraft developer Chris van der Kuyl to give talk on Dundee’s video games industry

Chris van der Kuyl one of the leading figures in Dundee’s much-vaunted video games industry will deliver the next instalment of the Saturday Evening Lecture Series at Dundee University.

The entrepreneur, whose expertise combines the start-up, development and market-listed business in the technology, media and entertainment sectors, will deliver a talk, entitled ‘Putting the 4th J into Dundee: The rise and rise of the video games industry’.

It takes place at the Dalhousie Building on Saturday and will see him discuss his own career, as well as the industry generally.

As chairman of both the Tayforth Group and 4J Studios, he helped develop Minecraft, the fastest selling and most successful Xbox Live Game in history which is now being developed for Xbox One, PS3 and PS4.

He is fully committed to building the next generation of business people by encouragingenterprise education in schools, colleges and universities.

His lecture begins at 6pm. Free tickets are available from events@dundee.ac.ukor by calling 01382 385564/385108.