Category: Conference Speaker

Head of Design at Aurora Punks https://www.aurorapunks.com/ You can listen to Johannes’ talk “Assumptions, guesstimations and cutting yourself short – a guide on establishing a scope” on Saturday, 27th of May at 16.00 in Donnerska Huset. After almost two decades in the game development industry, Visby’s prodigal son returns.

Head of Communications for Developer/Publisher Those Awesome Guys and Head of Community Development for Player XP You can listen to Jenesee’s talk “Game Designers and Community Managers: When Pixels and People Party.” on Sunday, 28th of May at 15.00 in Donnerska Huset. Hello! I’m Jenesee Grey. A speaker, writer, podcaster, and Indie Games Community specialist.…

Product Manager at Kolibri Games Matias’ LinkedIn You can listen to Matias’ talk “Efficient Feature Implementation in Free-to-Play Live Games: Insights along the Development Cycle” on Saturday, 27th of May at 15.00 in Donnerska Huset. Experienced in leading mobile free-to-play game development teams, specializing in product management, production, and design, from the initial ideation phase…

Head of Scouting & Developer Relations at Kinda Brave Publishing https://www.kindabrave.com/ You can listen to Milton’s talk “How to get your game published (industry secrets unveiled)” on Saturday, 27th of May at 16.00 in Rosa Huset. Milton (he/him) has been working with everything from game journalism, teaching, organizing events, and diversity efforts to programming, project…

QA Lead at Paradox Interactive Marcel’s LinkedIn You can listen to Marcel’s talk “Leadership and the secret sauce to kickstart your career in the gaming industry” on Saturday, 27th of May at 14.00 in Rosa Huset. Marcel is a QA Lead and Scrum Master that has worked on mobile games at Kolibri Games (a Ubisoft…

Game Designer at Eat Create Sleep https://eatcreatesleep.net/ You can listen to Alex’s talk “Transitioning From School to Industry as a Game Designer” on Sunday, 28th of May at 16.00 in Rosa Huset. Game Designer at Eat Create Sleep, Vancouver Film School alumni, Kept making games until somebody said ‘We’ll pay you for this.’

Associate Professor at Södertörn University http://hartmutkoenitz.com/ You can listen to Hartmut and Mirjam‘s talks “Understanding Interactive Digital Narrative – how to overcome outdated concepts and create meaningful narrative experiences for the 21st century” on Saturday, 27th of May at 13.00 in Donnerska Huset and their talk “When the hive mind goes to town with multi…

Associate Professor at Stockholm University http://www.mimmi.net You can listen to Mirjam and Hartmut‘s talks “Understanding Interactive Digital Narrative – how to overcome outdated concepts and create meaningful narrative experiences for the 21st century” on Saturday, 27th of May at 13.00 in Donnerska Huset and their talk “When the hive mind goes to town with multi…

Head of Content at Team BDS https://www.alexsinn.com/ You can listen to Alexander’s talk “From a Local Esports Community to a Leading Esports Organisation: Should You Do It Too? (The Answer Might Surprise You!)” on Sunday, 28th of May at 14.00 in Donnerska Huset. Hi! My name is Alex. I am an internationally awarded Game Design…

Chief Creative Officer at Taralumen Games You can listen to Allison’s talk “Inspiring Awareness Through Play: Adventures in Mental Health” on Saturday, 27th of May at 15.00 in Rosa Huset. Allison Funk is a writer and historian with degrees from Bard College, Tufts University, and Northeastern University. As Chief Creative Officer, Allison brings to Taralumen…