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
Julien Merceron
Bandai Namco Studios
Chris Oat
Rockstar Games
AI Summit Advisors
Tommy Thompson
AI and Games
Emily Short
Independent
Steve Rabin
DigiPen Institute of Technology
Animation Summit Advisor
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
Independent
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
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
Juan Gril
Xbox Game Studios
Steve Meretzky
Independent
Seth Sivak
Proletariat Inc.
Katrina Wolfe
Kongregate
Game Design Workshop Advisor
Game Narrative Summit Advisors
Tom Abernathy
ArenaNet
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
Hannah Nicklin
Die Gute Fabrik
Akira Thompson
RainBros
Jonatan Van Hove
Independent
Kaitlin Tremblay
Capybara Games
Xalavier Nelson Jr.
Strange Scaffold
Level Design Summit Advisors
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
Production Essentials Summit Advisors
Jessica Brunelle
Ember Entertainment
Charu Desodt
Interior Night
Ruth Tomandl
Facebook Reality Labs
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
VRDC Advisors
Daniel Aasheim
Independent
Dana Ware
Independent
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
- Nicolas Thibieroz AMD
- Aleissia Laidacker
- Michael Jungbluth Bioware
- Patrick Miller Riot Games
- David Edery Spry Fox
- John Welch Making Fun
- Lev Chapelsky Blindlight
- Christina Wun Riot Games
VRDC Advisory Board Emeritus
- Dan Hurd Playful Corp.
- Colin Northway Northway Games
- Ikrima Elhassan Kite & Lightning
