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
AI Summit Advisors
Ahmed Khalifa
Insitute of Digital Games at University of Malta & Modl.ai
Andrea Schiel
Ubisoft
Duygu Cakmak
Creative Assembly
Animation Summit Advisors
Lana Bachynski
Riot Games
Michael Jungbluth
BioWare
Myk Braker
JALI Research
Art Direction Summit Advisors
Andrew Maximov
Promethean AI, LLC
Keith Self Ballard
Blizzard Entertainment
Audio Summit Advisors
Damian Kastbauer
Audiokinetic
Scott Selfon
Meta Reality Labs Research
Community Management Summit Advisors
Grace Carroll
Payload Studios
Nick van Vugt
PopCap Games
Victoria Tran
Innersloth
Educators Summit Advisors
Gillian Smith
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Katherine Isbister
UC Santa Cruz
Michael Mateas
UC Santa Cruz
Miguel Sicart
IT University of Copenhagen
Fair Play Alliance Workshop 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
Critical Role
Susan O'Connor
The Narrative Department
Tom Abernathy
Crystal Dynamics
Independent Games Summit Advisors
Des Gayle
Altered Gene
Felix Kramer
Polytron
Hannah Nicklin
Die Gute Fabrik
Kaitlin Tremblay
Soft Rains
Rachel Hwang
Liminal Experiences
Sunni Pavlovic
Windflower Games
Wren Brier
Independent
Level Design Summit Advisors
Machine Learning Summit Advisors
Julien Merceron
Bandai Namco Studios
Olivier Pomarez
Ubisoft La Forge
Production Essentials Workshop Advisors
Charu Desodt
Interior Night
Dave Ranyard
Dream Reality Interactive
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
Game UX Summit Advisors
Anouk Ben-Tchavtchavadze
Riot
Celia Hodent
Game UX Consultant
Rebecca Cohen Palacios
Visual Effects Summit Advisors
Bryan Venzen
Let's Make FX
Bryanna Lindsey
Insomniac Games
Keith Guerrette
Beyond-FX & RealtimeVFX
Sarah Grissom
FXVille, Inc.