Located at the GDC Festival of Gaming
Awards Jury
Audio Committee
Paul Lipson
President
Arrival
Skylar Chen
Sr. Technical Sound Designer
Riot Games
Christopher Hegstrom
Audio Director
Stealth Startup
Antigone Nastos
Co-founder and producer
No Sequels Cooperative
Ryan Ike
Composer
Ryan Ike Audio, LLC
Fabrício Modesto
Audio Director
R2R Audio Studios
Jon Bellini
Game Developer
Laura Intravia
Composer, Vocalist, Instrumentalist
Freelance
Cameron Britton
Mr., Treyarch
Sebastian Lopez Bossi
Composer & Sound Designer
Freelance
Ryan Sim
Technical Audio Supervisor
Warner Brothers
Akash Thakkar
Sound Designer
Thakkar Audio
Layla Maurer
Attorney
Odin Law and Media
Star Victoria Power
Composer
Slide20XX
Keith Arem
CEO
PCB Productions
Randy Greer
Sound Designer/Composer
Scary Good Studio
Jamie MacRae
VP, Business Development
Materia Music, Inc
Alexander Ling
Senior Scene Technician
University of California, Davis
Alexey Menshikov
CEO
FORTELL GAMES
Frank O'Connor
Creative Director
Bit Bot Media
Ian Phillips
CEO
Delirium Factory Inc.
Richard Vogel
President
Fighting Dragon Entertainment
Robert Percival
Director of Development
Self Employed
Design Committee
Jeferson Valadares
Co-founder and CEO
partNerd
Nicolas Eypert
Lead Tech Game Designer
Netflix
Andrew Santos
Design Director
Blind Squirrel Games / Power-Up Games
Trevin York
Game Director
Dire Lark
Jose Monge
Creative Technical Director / Master Chicken
Headless Chicken Games
Dharmawan Santosa
Incubation Lead
Garena (NYSE: SE)
Andrew Eiche
CEO
Owlchemy Labs
Mark Sample
Founder
Own It Studios
Kyle Bardiau
Lead Game Designer
Ubisoft
TSZ WAI LAM
Publishing Producer
Full Metal Bagel Games
Justin Bortnick
President
Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation
Julian Gerighty
Creative Director
Electronic Arts / DICE
Rachel Heleva
Executive Director (Lead Curator) / Portfolio Operations / Events Lead
The MADE / TopHat / GamesBeat
Vaishnavi Palleda
Founder & CEO
Vault Productions LL
Xalavier Nelson Jr.
Studio Head
Strange Scaffold
Marla Goecker
CEO/Lead Designer
IceVayne Games
Jakin Vela
Executive Director
International Game Developers Association
Adrian Novell
Senior Game Designer
Electronic Arts
Walt Destler
Self-Employed (CEO)
Walternate Realities
Louise Blain
Creative Director
Blumhouse Games
Devon Carver
Senior Design Manager
ArenaNet
Jivitesh Dhaliwal
Senior Technical Game Designer
That's No Moon Entertainment Inc.
Elaine Gomez
Game Director
Midnight Hour Games
Dan McKague
Manager, Player Experience Team
Jam City
Bradley Olson
Principal Systems Engineer
Firaxis Games
Cheryl Platz
Creative Director
Ideaplatz, LLC
Ian Schreiber
Systems Designer
Freelance
Debut Committee
Feras Musmar
Product Director
TTK Games
Ricardo Flores
Managing Partner
Codfish Academy
Lucien Parsons
COO
OpsCat/ Dragon Snacks Games
Alice Rendell
Narrative Design Consultant
Alice Rendell Consultancy
Aleksandr Kudishov
Executive Producer
ESDigital Games
Olivier Carlot
Head of video game division
Piktura
Kenji Ono
Secretory General
IGDA Japan
Evan Berman
Global Community Lead
Bungie
Astrid Refstrup
CEO
WINGS
Matt Webster
Founder & CEO
Fuse Games
Alex Newman
Director of Games / Advisor, Bandai Namco (America and Europe)
Sony Pictures Entertainment, other AI and game tech, self-employed
Alex Duplessie
Games Marketing
Xbox
Alyssa Harrison
Head of Publishing
Panic
Michael Fertitta
Content Creator/Journalist
Mike The Ferret
Destin Bales
Director of Development Management
Insomniac Games
Rudi Bonaparte
VP, Head of Strategy
LEGO Digital Play
Alex Delamaire
Director of Business Development & Strategy
Blackbird Interactive (BBI)
Scott Fine
Senior Systems Designer
Paramount Games (Formerly known as Skydance Interactive)
Harold Kim
SVP Business Development
Smilegate Inc.
Alyssa Kollgaard
COO
Akupara Games
Joseph Maris
Senior Creative Director
Behaviour Interactive
Anne Marko
Head of Commercial, Digital Games
Wizards of the Coast
Erika Olsen
Director of Production
Midwest Games
Juan Vaca
Story Director
The Coalition Studio
Matthew White
CEO
Whitethorn Games
Shijie Xue
Head of Corporate Development
thatgamecompany
Brian Klotz
Head of Global Communications
Snail Games USA
Innovation Committee
Don Daglow
President
Sausalito Games Inc.
Tyler Coleman
Founder / Indie
Ludo Systems Inc / Retora Games LLC
A K Affran Ullah
Managing Director
Arclite Systems Ltd.
Ole Goethe
Professor
Engaged
Suresh Manthena
COO
Liquidnitro Games
Michael John
Designer
Self-employed
Nicklas Bihary
Head of Epic Games Publishing
Epic
Laia Barboza
Co-Founder
Pincer Games
Theresa Pudenz
Business Development and QA Manager
Nimble
KATHYA FRANCO
Chief of INGENIA
Video Game and Digital Creation Center, Zapopan Jalisco Government
Bryan Flores
Producer
Alhajillo
Hsi Lin
Game Designer, System
Visual Concept
Joshua Kermond
Production Director
J D'Arc Studios
Alireza Seddighi
Software Consultant (AI/ML Research Engineer) and Game Development Professor
NuevoSono Inc. / Independent Game Development / WestCliff University
Mike DeLaet
President
Ares Interactive
Yue Zhang
Senior Editor
IGN China
Fitzgerald Lewis
CEO & Game Director
Condition Zero
Lynette Fernandes
Associate Chair
Bradley University
Celia Zimmermann
Head of Player Experience
SYBO
Michael Romero
Engineering Director
Quiet Lattice, Inc.
Dennis Adams
Director of Production
Scopely Inc.
Alan Dang
Senior Producer
Meta (Oculus)
Honey Hamilton
Sr. Director
Zebra Partners
AJ Glasser
Sr. Business Developer & Director
Global Game Jam Board, Self-Employed
Narrative Committee
Deborah D'Antonio
Game Writer
United Tech
Rafal Szrajber
Associate Professor
ZTGK Challenge, Lodz University of Technology, Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts Lodz
Cara Ellison
Senior Narrative Designer
Gravity Well
Zhenghua "Z" Yang
Founder & Executive Director
Serenity Forge
Austin Grossman
Game Writer
Ghost Story Games
Liz Anderson
Senior Writer & Editorial Lead
Jackbox Games
Jocelyn Monahan
Business Planner / Narrative Writer
Ashley Poprik
Senior Writer, Freelance
Uni Dreams and Strange Scaffold
Rowan Williams
Senior Narrative Writer
Riot
Adam Dolin
Narrative Lead
Turtle Rock Studios
Alexa Ray Corriea
Expert Writer
Gearbox
Sam Winkler
Expert Writer
Gearbox Software
Ramazan Samat
Creative Director, Founder
Oina Studio
Jennifer Lee
Narrative Designer
Freelance
Maëlle Viaouët
Narrative Producer
CD PROJEKT RED
Sam Butin
Creative Director
On The March
Mark Davis
Production Director
Certain Affinity
Allen Murray
Head of Studio
ZA/UM Studio
Jaclyn Seto
Senior Game Writer
Respawn Entertainment
Megan Spurr
Senior Social Media Manager
Xbox
Karla Zimonja
Designer
Crows Crows Crows
Elio Filho
Founder CEO
LusoBR Consulting Portugal
Michael Fitch
Director of Game Development
Mona Ibrahim
Founder
Word Witch Consulting
Bill Roper
CEO
Lunacy Games
Richard Rouse
Studio Creative Director
FarBridge
Social Impact Committee
Rachel Kowert
Founder
Psychgeist
Julian Waddell
Professor
Oakwood University
Thomas Welsh
Narrative Director/Studio Founder
Ion Lands/Box of Greebles
Peter Smith
Professor x Game Design Lead
UCF x Limbitless Solutions
Thomas Shiva
Founder, CEO & Creative Director
Digital Realm Entertainment® Inc.
Jonathan Hamel
Founder & CEO
Consolidated Joy Distribution Company LLC
Kate Edwards
CEO & Principal Consultant / CXO & Cofounder
Geogrify / SetJetters
Yiyi Zhang
Community & Operations Manager
Medal.tv
Founder
Women in Games NYC, Medal.tv | Women in Games NYC
Brooke Morrill
Senior Director of Education
Schell Games
Asia Mleczak
Founder, CEO
Mana Translation, Fluffy Creatures Studio
Matthew Ott
Senior Director, Slate Development
Scopely
Dani Merrithew
Lead Quest Designer on World of Warcraft
Blizzard
Yuki Katayama
Game Lab Project Chief
Kodansha Ltd.
Colby Morgan
Head of Publishing / Technical Director
Mighty Coconut
Sarah Malcom
Owner - 3D artist
3 Frog Studio LLC
Nahir Fajardo
CEO & Producer // Social Worker
Dreams of Heaven Games
Parker Wallace
Communications Manager
Women in Games International
Kimberly Hieftje
Co-director/Co-founder, XRPediatrics at Yale
Yale Center for Immersive Technologies in Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine
Menno Deen
Social Impact Game Designer | Senior Researcher | Event Organizer
Super Menno Monster | HAN University | Courage.Events
Cassie Baralis
Senior Director of Marketing & Communications
Games for Change
Godavari Hughes
Community Builder
GLITCHED - Women In Game Dev
Sabrina Mah
Consultant
Freelance
Annabelle Cook
Gaming Associate
GLAAD
Laila Shabir
CEO
Girls Make Games
Jennifer Lane
Founder and Principal Product Consultant
Strategic Lane Consulting LLC
Technology Committee
Pol Jeremias Vila
Staff Engineer
Netflix
Ciro Mondueri
Co-founder
Kalio
Keith Turkowski
Game Designer
Lazy 8 Studios, self-employed, freelance
Hannah Gamiel
Development Director
Cyan Worlds, Inc.
Pedro Marangon
Indie Game Developer
Self-employed
Rob Kay
Independent Developer & Design Consultant
Rob Kay LLC
Reuben Brenner-Adams
Senior Game Design & Development Engineer
Brian Pang
Founder & Executive Director
Asians In Gaming (formerly 20 years at Electronic Arts)
Damian Isla
Founder and Creative Director
Davy Lamp
Sami Mylly
Lead Game Developer
Fingersoft LTD
Raymond Graham
Director of Engineering, Engine
CD Projekt Red
Rema Alyahya
Vice President of Investments
Merak Capital
Shaun Peoplws
Sr. Technical Director
Scopely
Mark James
CEO
Bottled Lightning Studios
Eric Chang
CTO /Mentors and Industry Consultants
(formerly)XPEC Entertainment Inc. / (now)NCKU Phoenix Entrepreneurship Platforms
Sasha Menscikova
Product Designer Engineer XR/AI
GG Women Professionals (GGWP)
Stephen Dona
Senior Technical Game Designer
WB Games
Joel Gonzales
Senior User Interface Engineer
iRacing
Joe Houston
Staff Software Engineer
Riot Games
Jonathan Jennings
Gameplay Engineer II
Owlchemy Labs
John Brandstetter
Creative Director
Fte
Tyler Coleman
Founder / Indie
Ludo Systems Inc / Retora Games LLC
Tian Lim
Retired Game Industry Veteran
Heather Mace
Technical Designer
Elfworks 3D Construction Co.
Muhammad A.Moniem
Engine/Graphics Programmer
Pablo Cardoso
Lead Programmer
Montraluz
Visual Art Committee
David Luong
Art Director
Couch Heroes
Marko Šašić
Director
RigX Digital Technologies DOO
Zakia Khan
Senior Character Artist
Blazing Griffin
Mateo Alayza
Game Director
Hermanos Magia
Leopoldo Aizersztein
Game Director & Founder
Round 2 Games
Matt Stott
Lead Environment Artist
Sumo Digital
Alexis Sanchez
Lead Technical Artist
DALOAR
Adelle Bueno
CEO & Founder, Creative Director
Independent
Kshiraj Telang
Studio Art Director
Moon Active
Jawharah Al Abdulqader
CEO & Co-founder
Nomadroid
Ricardo Graham
Lead Character Artist
Zenimax Online Studios
Marcin Makaj
Indie Game Developer and Assistant Professor
The Moonwalls (as indie), Academy of Art in Szczecin (as assistant professor)
Chloe Ouellet-Anctil
3D Environment Artist
Paralives
Shawn Wagner
Head of Art / Art Director
Satish Goda
Pipeline Technical Director
Netflix Animation Studios
Kara Zisa
Senior UI Artist
Insomniac Games
Francesca Jassir Noguera
3D Animation Lead
Whalefall, LLC
Eduardo Mosena
Game Director
Square-Enix
Truman Simpson
Technical Artist
Zynga
Lisette Montgomery
Co-Founder
Cornerstone Interactive Studios
Carrie Sloane
Lead 3D Artist
Vinci Games
Michelle Huttunen
Art Director
Coin Crew Games
Ashley Pinnick
Creative Director
TV Dinner Studios
Ray Barnholt
Director
Bipedal Dog
Monica Fan
Game Designer
Pipeworks Studio
Game Launch Committee
Karl Stewart
SVP. Global Marketing and Head of IMAGINE AI
IGN Entertainment
Justen Andrews
Production Manager
Acclaim, Inc.
Xuan Li
Founder & CEO
Thermite Games
Tony Won
CEO
Player Support
David Andrade
Co-founder, Game Director
Theory Studios
Kate Hall
Co-Founder / Senior Game Marketing Gremlin
PlayIndies
Asia Mleczak
Founder, CEO
Mana Translation, Fluffy Creatures Studio
Kristian Wingfield-Bennett
Director
Future Friends Games
Levi Buchanan
Sr. Dir. of Strategic Partnerships
Ares Interactive
Sylvia Cristina Amaya
Head of Events
Makeshift
Robert Manuel
Curator/Developer Relations
The Game Club
Radek Grabowski
Global PR Director
CD PROJEKT RED
Vanessa Fernandez
Director of Marketing
Owlchemy Labs
Alyssa Kollgaard
COO
Akupara Games
Anne Marko
Head of Commercial, Digital Games
Wizards of the Coast
Jon Grande
Director of Product Management
Freelance
Callie Jenkins
Head of Product Marketing
Ares Interactive
Tadhg Kelly
CEO
TK Game Design
Thomas Mir
Executive Producer
Frima Studio
Richard Vogel
President
Fighting Dragon Entertainment
Gaming Tech Committee
Kinshuk Sunil
Co-Founder & CEO
Second Quest
Robin-Yann Storm
Tool Designer
RYStorm
Hannah Gamiel
Development Director
Cyan Worlds, Inc.
Dorothy Ferguson
Director of Product Development
Impact Reality
Neranjan Bissoon
Senior Business Development Manager
DDM
Mark James
CEO
Bottled Lightning Studios
Poojitha Ponakala
Senior Software Engineer
Netflix (Netflix Games)
Raymond Graham
Director of Engineering, Engine
CD Projekt Red
Johannes Vermandois
CEO
Tesana
Eric Chang
CTO /Mentors and Industry Consultants
(formerly)XPEC Entertainment Inc. / (now)NCKU Phoenix Entrepreneurship Platforms
Graham Pentheny
Senior Engineer
Spry Fox
Dana Ware
CEO and Founder / Creative Advisor
Hidden Realities / The VOID
Theresa Pudenz
Business Development and QA Manager
Nimble
Yair Shafir
Director of Business Development
Overwolf
Garrett Fredley
Staff Archive Engineer - IP Preservation
Sony Interactive Entertainment
Vivek Vidyasagaran
Principal Engineer (Games and AI)
Lando Interactive
Sasha Menscikova
Product Designer Engineer XR/AI
GG Women Professionals (GGWP)
Paul Topping
Chief Commercial Officer
Exient Ltd
Lucas Wall
Chief Operating Officer
Nimble Giant Entertainment
Liko-Paul Pinsonnault
CEO
Soliton Interactive