GDC Summit Advisors are distinguished industry professionals who volunteer their time to help develop the GDC Summit program. Their work is critical to ensuring that the highest quality and most relevant content is shared in the GDC Summits.
Advanced Graphics Summit Advisor
Jeremy Ong
Independent Game Developer
Julien Merceron
Bandai Namco Studios
AI Summit Advisors
Ahmed Khalifa
Insitute of Digital Games at University of Malta & Modl.ai
Andrea Schiel
Worlds Edge Studio (Microsoft)
Duygu Cakmak
Creative Assembly
Animation Summit Advisors
Lana Bachynski
Riot Games
Michael Jungbluth
BioWare
Michala Braker
Rockstar Games
Art Direction Summit Advisors
Andrew Maximov
Promethean AI, LLC
Keith Self Ballard
Blizzard Entertainment
Audio Summit Advisors
Community Management Summit Advisors
Grace Carroll
Payload Studios
Nick van Vugt
Behaviour Interactive
Victoria Tran
Innersloth
Educators Summit Advisors
Katherine Isbister
UC Santa Cruz
Michael Mateas
UC Santa Cruz
Miguel Sicart
IT University of Copenhagen
Fair Play Alliance Summit Advisors
Carlos Figueiredo
Two Hat
Natasha Miller
Blizzard Entertainment
Free to Play Summit Advisors
John Welch
Making Fun
Seth Sivak
Proletariat Inc.
Katrina Wolfe
Kongregate
Nika Nour
Genvid Entertainment
Frank Cartwright
Microsoft Casual Games
Lindsey Williamson Christy
Phoenix Labs
Steve Meretzky
PeopleFun
Future Realities Summit Advisors
Dana Ware
The VOID
Daniel Aasheim
Independent
Lauren Domingo
HP Inc.
Aaron Lemke
The Wave VR
Pete Isensee
Oculus Research
Ethan Stearns
MWM Immersive
Game Design Workshop Advisor
Game Narrative Summit Advisors
Richard Dansky
Crytek
Sam Maggs
Wizards of the Coast
Susan O'Connor
The Narrative Department
Tom Abernathy
Independent
Independent Games Summit Advisors
Des Gayle
Altered Gene
Felix Kramer
The Game Band
Hannah Nicklin
Die Gute Fabrik
Justin Ma
Subset Games (There Goes Design)
Kaitlin Tremblay
Capybara Games
Sunni Pavlovic
Independent
Wren Brier
Witch Beam
Xalavier Nelson Jr.
Strange Scaffold
Level Design Summit Advisors
Machine Learning Summit Advisors
Julien Merceron
Bandai Namco Studios
Olivier Pomarez
Ubisoft La Forge
Math in Game Development Summit Advisors
Fletcher Dunn
Valve Software
Squirrel Eiserloh
The Guildhall at SMU
Online Game Technology Summit Advisors
Open Source Game Development Summit
Wouter van Oortmerssen
VoxRay Games
Nathan Riemer
Independent / tgstation
Production Essentials Summit Advisors
Storytelling Fundamentals Workshop Advisor
Tabletop Summit Advisors
Banana Chan
Game and a Curry
Geoff Engelstein
Mind Bullet Games
Sen-Foong Lim
allbutpublished.com
Soren Johnson
Mohawk Games
Technical Artists Summit Advisors
Tools Summit Advisors
Game UX Summit Advisors
Anouk Ben-Tchavtchavadze
Riot
Celia Hodent
Game UX Consultant
Rebecca Cohen Palacios
Sledgehammer Games
Visual Effects Summit Advisor
Claudio Perez
VFX Apprentice
Jason Keyser
VFX Apprentice
Veer Sharma
ProbablyMonsters
