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
Tommy Thompson
AI and Games
Emily Short
Independent
Steve Rabin
DigiPen Institute of Technology
Animation Summit Advisors
Art Direction Summit Advisors
Audio Summit Advisors
Board Game Design Summit Advisors
Soren Johnson
Mohawk Games
Geoff Engelstein
Mind Bullet Games
Sen-Foong Lim
allbutpublished.com
Community Management Summit Advisors
Nova Barlow
RedLens Games, Inc
Troy Hewitt
MetaArcade
Grace Carroll
Payload Studios
Educators Summit Advisors
Katherine Isbister
UC Santa Cruz
Michael Mateas
UC Santa Cruz
Miguel Sicart
IT University of Copenhagen
Esports Summit Advisor
Fair Play Alliance Summit Advisors
Kimberly Voll
Stray Bombay
Carlos Figueiredo
Two Hat
Elise Lemaire
Rovio
Free to Play Summit Advisors
Frank Cartwright
Independent
Lindsey Williamson Christy
Phoenix Labs
Steve Meretzky
Independent
Game Design Workshop Advisor
Game Narrative Summit Advisors
Tom Abernathy
ArenaNet
Richard Dansky
Ubisoft/Red Storm
Susan O'Connor
The Narrative Department
Independent Games Summit Advisors
Hannah Nicklin
Die Gute Fabrik
Justin Ma
Subset Games (There Goes Design)
Kaitlin Tremblay
Capybara Games
Xalavier Nelson Jr.
Strange Scaffold
Felix Kramer
The Game Band
Des Gayle
Altered Gene
Level Design Summit Advisors
Joel Burgess
Capybara Games
Dana Nightingale
Arkane Studios Lyon
Jim Brown
Epic Games
Machine Learning Summit Advisors
Olivier Pomarez
Ubisoft La Forge
Julien Merceron
Bandai Namco Studios
Math in Game Development Summit Advisors
Squirrel Eiserloh
The Guildhall at SMU
Fletcher Dunn
Valve Software
Online Game Technology Summit Advisors
Open Source Game Development Summit
Production Essentials Summit Advisors
Storytelling Fundamentals Workshop Advisor
Technical Artists Summit Advisors
Tools Summit Advisors
Game UX Summit Advisors
Anouk Ben-Tchavtchavadze
Riot
Celia Hodent
Game UX Consultant
Visual Effects Summit Advisor
Future Realities Summit Advisors
Daniel Aasheim
Independent
Dana Ware
Independent
Lauren Domingo
HP Inc.
Robin Hunicke
Funomena
Pete Isensee
Oculus Research
Aaron Lemke
The Wave VR
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
- Nicolas Thibieroz AMD
- Aleissia Laidacker
- Patrick Miller Riot Games
- David Edery Spry Fox
- John Welch Making Fun
- Lev Chapelsky Blindlight
- Christina Wun Riot Games
- Juan Gril Apple
- Ryan Clark Brace Yourself Games
- Tanya X. Short Kitfox Games
- Sarah Grissom FXVille
- Jessica Brunelle Ember Entertainment
- Ruth Tomandl Facebook Reality Labs
- Clint Hocking Ubisoft
- Chris Oat Rockstar Games
- Jonatan van Hove Independent
- Akira Thompson RainBros
- Ikrima Elhassan Kite & Lightning
- Dan Hurd Playful Corp.
- Colin Northway Northway Games
- Alex Schwartz
- Chet Faliszek Bossa Studios
