XNAFEST 2009, The Microsoft XNA Academic Summit (XNAFEST 2009) will be held at the University of Ulster, Magee Campus on the 28th-29th May 2009.  The summit is jointly organised and hosted by the Intelligent Systems Research Centre and the School of Computing & Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Computing and Engineering and co-sponsored by the University of Ulster, Office of Innovation Knowledge Club Program. The summit has an International line-up of speakers from Italy, Belgium, UK and Ireland with a wealth of practical experience of XNA/game development in industry and teaching. The summit is for academics currently using or considering using XNA as part of a games development course and the event will provide practical advice, tutorials and demonstrations from educators and industrial experts in this area. The objective of the summit is to raise awareness of the benefits of using XNA for teaching and to highlight the range of resources already available to educators.