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Michael Strautmanis
Obama Foundation
Chief Engagement Officer
Jessica Brillhart
Vrai Pictures
Founder
Leo Olebe
Facebook
Global Games Partnerships
Nanea Reeves
TRIPP, Inc.
CEO & Co-Founder
Nichol Bradford
Transformative Technology Lab
Executive Director & Co-Founder
Tricia Katz
Magic Leap
Developer Evangelism Lead
Dr. Anantha Duraiappah
UNESCO MGIEP
Director
Jordan Shapiro
Little Brown Spark
Author
Leslie Pirritano
AMD
Your Best Friend
James Vaughan
Ndemic Creations
CEO & Founder
Don McGowan
Pokémon Company International
Chief Legal Officer and Business Affairs
Robin Hunicke
Funomena
Cofounder & CEO
Christine Harada
i(x) investments
President
Eric Zimmerman
NYU
Game Designer & Professor
Nancy Baker Cahill
4th Wall
Founder
Brent Bushnell
Two Bit Circus
CEO
Tracy Fullerton
USC Game Innovation Lab
Director
Gabe Zichermann
Failosophy
CEO
Celia Hodent
Independent Game UX Consultant
Kent Bye
Voices of VR Podcast
Producer
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Carrie Able
Visual Artist / Poet / Musician / VR Creator
Brian Alspach
E-Line Media
Executive Vice President
Roger Altizer
Queensland University of Technology
Director, Therapeutic Games and Apps Lab
Amanda Armstrong
Learning Games Lab, New Mexico State University
Games Lab Coordinator
Linnette Attai
PlayWell, LLC
President
Chris Aviles
Fair Haven School District
Teacher
Zoe Bai
Carnegie Mellon University
UX Designer
Mark Barlet
AbleGamers Charity
Founder and Executive Director
Charli Battersby
Writer
Gordon Bellamy
University of Southern California
CEO
Tami Bhaumik
Roblox Corporation
VP of Marketing & Digital Civility
Sharang Biswas
Independent Game Designer, Writer, & Artist
James Blaha
Vivid Vision
CEO & Founder
Amir Bozorgzadeh
Virtuleap
CEO
Reuben Brenner-Adams
Smithsonian Institution
Interactive Developer
Dr. Philipp Busch
GIZ
Project Manager
Dr. Michael Casale
STRIVR
Chief Science Officer
Lisa Castaneda
foundry10
Co-Founder & CEO
Anne del Castillo
MOME
Commissioner
Cédric Ceulemans
Butterfly Works
Learning Experience Designer
Dr. Todd Chang
Keck School Of Medicine, University Of Southern California
Associate Medical Director for the Simulation Laboratory
Yunhee Chi
Aspring Overwatch Pro
Nokafu Sandra Chipanta
Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University
Program Officer II
Sougwen Chung
Artist
Jan Cieślar
Failcore
Founder
Naomi Clark
NYU
Assistant Arts Professor / Co-Chair
Emma Cofer
Google
Lead Brand Strategist, Platforms & Ecosystems
Scott Cole
NBA 2K League
Broadcaster
J Collins
Liminal Data
CEO
Dr. Mia Consalvo
Concordia University
Professor
Philip Courtney
Urban Arts Partnership
Chief Executive Officer
Amy Coveny
Quake Capital
Managing Partner (NYC)
Luke Crane
Kickstarter
Head of Games
Matt Dalio
Endless
Founder
Jennifer Dalsen
UW-Madison
UX Researcher
Jesse Damiani
VRScout
Editor-at-Large
Paul Darvasi
Royal St. George's College/York University
Educator
Drew Davidson
ETC @ CMU
Director
Mark DeLoura
Level Up Games
Executive Director
Brendan Donohue
NBA 2K League
Managing Director
Rori DuBoff
Accenture Interactive
Managing Director, Head of Content Innovation & XR Strategy
Jennie Dul
Logixhealth
Assistant Manager
Stuart Duncan
Autcraft
Owner
Kelli Dunlap
iThrive Games
Director of Mental Health Research and Design
Eric Espig
Northwestern University in Qatar
Digital Media Specialist
Libby Falck
MIT
Graduate Student
Dr. Matthew Farber
University of Northern Colorado
Assistant Professor
Anna Feigenbaum
Bournemouth University
Senior Lecturer in Digital Storytelling
Claudia-Santi Fernandes
play2PREVENT Lab, Yale Center for Health & Learning Games
Associate Director
Elin Festøy
Teknopilot AS
Producer & CEO
Robert Fine
International Virtual Reality and Healthcare Association (IVRHA)
Executive Director
Anne Gaines
Parsons School of Design at the New School
Dean for the School of the Arts, Media, and Technology
Tyler Gates
Brightline Interactive
Managing Principal
Elisabeth Gee
Arizona State University
Professor
Razan Ghalayini
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Producer
Susan Gold
The Global Game Jam
Interim Director, Founder
Harold Goldberg
New York Videogame Critics Circle
President, Editor in Chief
Anastasia Goodstein
The Ad Council
SVP, Digital Product Management
Eric Gordon
Engagment Lab at Emerson College
Professor
Owen Gottlieb
Rochester Institute of Technology/ConverJent
Assistant Professor
Jenny Gottstein
IDEO
Experience Design Lead in the Play Lab
Lindsay Grace
University of Miami
Knight Chair
Dr. Walter Greenleaf
Stanford University Virtual Human Interaction Lab
Distinguished Scholar
Joshua Hafkin
Game Gym
Founder
Dr. Leah Hanes
Two Bit Circus Foundation
Executive Director
Cortney Harding
Friends with Holograms
Founder
Greg Haynes
AbleGamers Charity
Lead Games User Researcher
Brittan Heller
Harvard Kennedy School
Technology + Human Rights Fellow
Jessica Ochoa Hendrix
Killer Snails
CEO & Co-Founder
Justin Hendrix
NYC Media Lab and RLab
Executive Director
Dr. Kimberly Hieftje
play4REAL Lab at the Yale Center for Health & Learning Games
Director
Tristin Hightower
IGDA
Director of Global Chapter & SIG Operations
Dr. Bruce Homer
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Associate Professor
Steve Isaacs
William Annin Middle School
Teacher
Steve Jamison
Archer's Mark
Founder / MD
Marcie Jastrow
Technicolor
SVP of Immersive Media
Andrea Jetten
War Child Holland
Sr. Advisor Quality Assurance Can't Wait to Learn
Dr. Ting Jiang
Center for Advanced Hindsight
Principal
Barry Joseph
Girl Scouts
VP, Digital Experience
Daniel Kelley
Anti-Defamation League
Associate Director, Center for Technology and Society
Vassiliki Khonsari
iNK Stories
Co-Founder / Director / Producer
Reeran Kim
Esports Mom
David Kleeman
Dubit
SVP, Global Trends
Maya Kushner
Game Gym
COO
Noa Lahav
Ministry of Education Israel
Community Manager
Saumya Lahera
Carnegie Mellon University
Programmer - (GPUSW)
Kevin Lee
Carnegie Mellon University
Co-Producer
Zachary Leonsis
Monumental Sports & Entertainment
Senior VP, Strategic Initiatives
Dr. Heather Leutwyler
UCSF School of Nursing
Associate Professor
Nathan Lindberg
Twitch
Sr. Director, Global Sponsorships
Boyi Liu
Carnegie Mellon University
Experience Designer
Lynn Lizotte
Massachusetts Department of Correction
Deputy Superintendent
Julia Trujillo Luengo
Office of Economic Opportunity
Director
Dumeetha Luthra
Take-Pause
Founder
Yannis Mallat
Ubisoft Canadian Studios
CEO
Jessica Maslin
Mieron, Inc
Co-founder & COO
Mickey McManus
Autodesk
Fellow, Office of the CTO
Jenn McNamara
BreakAway Games
Vice President Serious Games & Strategic Partnerships
Ianthe Mellors
Fit XR
Head of Fitness
Shannon Frederick Meneses
Learning Games Network
Executive Producer
Morgan Mercer
Vantage Point
CEO
Dr. Edward Metz
US Department of Education
SBIR Program Director
Kevin Miklasz
BrainPOP
VP, Data and Prototyping
Dr. David Miller
National Institutes of Health
Program Director
Heather Miller
GRID- Gaming Revolution for Inspiring Development
Creative Director
Michelle Miller
Games and Learning
Co-Founder
Noelle Millholt
BEGIN
Co-founder & CRO
J Milligan
Two Moos
Creative Executive Producer
Marjan Moghaddam
LIU Brooklyn
Professor
Brooke Morrill, PhD.
Schell Games
Senior Director of Education
Agnieszka Mulak
Warsaw University / MoaCube (Game Developer Studio)
PhD Student
Naomi Mwasambili
Chanua
CEO
Elizabeth Newbury
The Wilson Center
Director of the Serious Games Initiative
Tera Nguyen
Carnegie Mellon University
Product Manager / Producer
Ben Nichol
NYXL
Head of Events and Business Development
Tom O'Connell
Mouse Inc.
Chief Partnerships Officer
Maria Burns Ortiz
7 Generation Games
CEO and Co-Founder
Jessica Outlaw
The Extended Mind
Head of Research
Steve Oyer
i(x) investments
Managing Director
Matt Parker
NYU Game Center
New Media Artist / Game Designer / Professor of the Arts
Lucien Parsons
International Game Developers Association
Chairman/Interim Exec Dir
Trista Patterson
GRID-Arendal / UN Environment Collaboration Center
NewMedia Lab Director
Tamara Patton
Princeton University
PhD Candidate
Ken Perlin
New York University
Professor of Computer Science
Andy Phelps
Rochester Institute of Technology
Professor
Stan Pierre-Louis
Entertainment Software Association
President & CEO
Julia Pilgrim
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Education for Justice (E4J) Team Leader
Susanna Pollack
Games For Change
President
Karina Popp
Freelance Designer & Instructor
Barry Pousman
Institute for the Future
Director of Content Marketing and Digital Strategy
Michael Preston
Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop
Executive Director
Clara Prieto
Google
Global Brand Marketing Manager
Joost Raessens
Utrecht Center for Game Research, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Full Professor and Chair of Media Theory
Eduardo Ramírez
Green Lava Studios
CEO
Brielle Randall
The ROC Network for Learning
Girl Scout Ambassador/STEM Educator
Stephen Reid
Immersive Minds
Director
Dr. Susan Rivers
iThrive Games
Executive Director & Chief Scientist
Jamie Rosen
WayBetter
Founder & CEO
Rebecca Rufo-Tepper
Level Education at Northeastern University
Director of Learning
Katie Salen
UC Irvine
Professor
Meggan Scavio
Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Foundation
President
Tammie Schrader
NEWESD 101
Science Coordinator
Dr. Karen Schrier
Marist College
Associate Professor & Director of Games
Kris Severson
HTC Viveport
Director, Global Content Partnerships
Ryan Seymour
Smithsonian Science Education Center
Education Technology Specialist
Arana Shapiro
Institute of Play
Former Executive Director
Carrie Shaw
Embodied Labs
CEO & Founder
Peggy Sheehy
Suffern Central School District
Game Master
Aldis Sipolins
Draper Laboratories
Immersive Technology Research Lead
Vít Šisler
Charles University
Assistant Professor
Gerald Solomon
Samueli Foundation
Executive Director
Ben Spieldenner
Ashland City Schools
Game-Based Learning Specialist
Aaron Stanton
VR Health Institute
CEO
Peter Stidwill
FableVision Studios
Executive Producer
Benjamin Stokes
American University Game Lab
Assistant Professor
Bronwyn Stuckey
Innovative Educational Ideas
Director
Santhosh Kumar Subramanian
The Gamification Republic
Principal Designer
Illya Szilak
Cloudred
Writer & Director
Anna Szylar
Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Digital Cultures Program Manager
Mingqi Tan
Carnegie Mellon University
Programmer
Melissa Teng
Engagement Lab, Emerson College
Project Manager
Adaora Udoji
RLab
Director of Innovation and Venture Programs
Emperatriz Ung
Independent Game Designer
Reynaldo Vargas
MATH 180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Product Manager
Skye Von
Howl For Change & little GIANT Wolf
Founder & CEO
Margaret Wallace
KijiCo
Founder
Justin Warren
Emerson College
Media Design Recruiter
S. Craig Watkins
The University of Texas at Austin
Professor
Adam Werbach
Planet 10B
CEO
Dan White
Filament Games
CEO
Zachary Whitten
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Director of Innovation, Content Creator Development
Cezara Windrem
AARP Innovation Labs
Innovation Catalyst, Head of VR
Robin Yang
CodeCombat
Senior Product Manager
Pierre Zandrowicz
ATLAS V
Co-Founder / Creative Producer
Jakub Zgierski
FINA (National Film Archive–Audiovisual Institute, Poland)
Coordinator of Games for Impact Warsaw
Amy Zimmerman
Unity Technologies
Producer, M&E Innovation Group