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
AI Summit Advisors
Aleissia Laidacker
Magic Leap
Emily Short
Spirit AI
Steve Rabin
DigiPen Institute of Technology
Animation Summit Advisors
Lana Bachynski
Blizzard Entertainment
Michael Jungbluth
Bioware
Art Direction Summit Advisors
Audio Summit Advisors
Board Game Design Summit Advisors
Soren Johnson
Mohawk Games
Geoff Engelstein
Mind Bullet Games
Community Management Summit Advisors
Nova Barlow
Microsoft (Experis)
Troy Hewitt
MetaArcade
Grace Carroll
Creative Assembly
Educators Summit Advisors
Katherine Isbister
UC Santa Cruz
Michael Mateas
UC Santa Cruz
Miguel Sicart
IT University of Copenhagen
Esports Summit Advisor
Free to Play Summit Advisors
Frank Cartwright
Independent
David Edery
Spry Fox
Juan Gril
Xbox Game Studios
Steve Meretzky
Independent
John Welch
Making Fun
Katrina Wolfe
Kongregate
Game Design Workshop Advisor
Game Narrative Summit Advisors
Tom Abernathy
ArenaNet
Lev Chapelsky
Blindlight
Richard Dansky
Ubisoft/Red Storm
Susan O'Connor
Susan O'Connor Writing Studio
Independent Games Summit Advisors
Ryan Clark
Brace Yourself Games
Tanya X. Short
Kitfox Games
Steve Swink
CubeHeart Games
Level Design Summit Advisors
Machine Learning Summit Advisors
Olivier Pomarez
Ubisoft La Forge
Julien Merceron
Bandai Namco Studios
Math in Game Development Summit Advisor
Online Game Technology Summit Advisors
Production Essentials Summit Advisors
Jessica Brunelle
Ember Entertainment
Ruth Tomandl
Facebook Reality Labs
Storytelling Fundamentals Workshop Advisor
Technical Artists Summit Advisors
Tools Summit Advisors
Game UX Summit Advisors
Anouk Ben-Tchavtchavadze
Independent
Celia Hodent
Game UX Consultant
Visual Effects Summit Advisor
VRDC Advisors
Daniel Aasheim
Independent
Ikrima Elhassan
Kite & Lightning
Chet Faliszek
Stray Bombay
Robin Hunicke
Funomena
Pete Isensee
Oculus Research
Aaron Lemke
The Wave VR
Alex Schwartz
[unnamed next venture]
Ethan Stearns
MWM Immersive
Summit Advisory Board Emeritus
- Lilian 'Lil' Chen
YouTube Gaming - Mary DeMarle
Eidos Montreal - Tracy Fullerton
USC - Susan Gold
- Sulka Haro
Makielab
- David Kalina
Tiger Style - Frank Lantz
Area/Code, NYU Game Center - Miguel Bernal Merino
Roehampton University - Fabio Minazzi
Binari Sonari - Daniel Pagelina
Double Fine Games
- Donna Prior
Catan Studio - Chris Pruett
Robot Invader - Brenda Romero
University of Limerick & Romero Games - Kellee Santiago
Google - Ian Schreiber
Rochester Institute of Technology
- Saralyn Smith
Blizzard Entertainment - Steve Swink
CubeHeart Games - Mario Vasquez
EA - Ben Wibberley
VMC Game Labs - Matthew Wegner
Flashbang Studios
VRDC Advisory Board Emeritus
- Dan Hurd
Playful Corp.
- Colin Northway
Northway Games
