Summit Advisors
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 Advisors
Jeremy Ong
Wildlight Entertainment
Julien Merceron
Bandai Namco Studios
Animation Summit Advisors
Lana Bachynski
Riot Games
Michael Jungbluth
Compulsion Games
Myk Braker
JALI Research
Art Direction Summit Advisors
Andrew Maximov
Promethean AI, LLC
Keith Self-Ballard
Bungie
Audio Summit Advisors
Damian Kastbauer
Audiokinetic
Scott Selfon
Meta Reality Labs Research
Community Management Summit Advisors
Grace Carroll
Payload Studios
Clara Sia
Devolver Digital
Nick van Vugt
PopCap Games
Educators Summit Advisors
Gillian Smith
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Katherine Isbister
UC Santa Cruz
Michael Mateas
UC Santa Cruz
Miguel Sicart
IT University of Copenhagen
Future Realities Summit Advisors
Dana Ware
The VOID
Ethan Stearns
MWM Immersive
Pete Isensee
Oculus Research
Game AI Summit Advisors
Ahmed Khalifa
Insitute of Digital Games at University of Malta & Modl.ai
Andrea Schiel
Ubisoft
Duygu Cakmak
Creative Assembly
Tommy Thompson
AI and Games
Steven Rabin
DigiPen Institute of Technology
Game Narrative Summit Advisors
Richard Dansky
Crytek
Sam Maggs
Wizards of the Coast
Susan O'Connor
The Narrative Department
Tom Abernathy
Crystal Dynamics
Independent Games Summits Advisors
Des Gayle
Altered Gene
Felix Kramer
Independent
Hannah Nicklin
Die Gute Fabrik
Kaitlin Tremblay
Soft Rains
Mariel Kinuko Cartwright
Second Dinner
Marina Diez
btf Games
Rachel Hwang
Liminal Experiences
Sunni Pavlovic
Independent
Wren Brier
Unpacking
Level Design Summit Advisors
Blake Rebouche
Guerrilla
Miles Tost
CD Projekt Red
Seth Marinello
Double Fine
Live Service Games Summit Advisors
Lindsey Williamson Christy
Phoenix Labs
Seth Sivak
Proletariat Inc.
Steve Meretzky
PeopleFun
Nika Nour
Genvid Entertainment
Machine Learning Summit Advisors
Julien Merceron
Bandai Namco Studios
Olivier Pomarez
Ubisoft La Forge
Tabletop Summit Advisors
Banana Chan
Read/Write Memory
Geoff Engelstein
Mind Bullet Games
Sen-Foong Lim
allbutpublished.com
Soren Johnson
Mohawk Games
Technical Artist Summit Advisors
Barak Moshe
Ben Cloward
Unity Technologies
Thriving Players Summit Advisors
Natasha Miller
Blizzard Entertainment
Kimberly Voll
Brace Yourself Games
Tools Summit Advisors
David Lightbown
Ubisoft Montreal
Geoff Evans
Nvidia
UX Summit Advisors
Steph Chow
XAMA Creative
Celia Hodent
Independent
Rebecca Cohen Palacios
Sledgehammer Games
Visual Effects Summit Advisors
Bryan Venzen
Let's Make FX
Bryanna Lindsey
Insomniac Games
Keith Guerrette
Beyond-FX & RealtimeVFX
Paulina Miciulevičiūtė
Tuatara
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