GDC 2025 Session Viewer
View, browse and sort the ever-growing list of sessions by pass type, track, and format. With this Session Viewer, you can build your schedule in advance and access it during the show via export or with the Mobile App, once live. Sessions do fill up and seating is first come, first serve, so arrive early to sessions that you would like to attend.
"Database-Oriented Design": Why We Built Our MMORPG Inside a Database (Presented by SpacetimeDB)
Sponsor Speaker: Tyler Cloutier (Clockwork Labs)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Speakers: Laia Bee (Pincer Games), Javiera Sepulveda (Kolibri), Kate Edwards (Geogrify/SetJetters), Morgan Baker (Electronic Arts), Liana MacKenzie (Valorous Games, LLC), Hanan Makki (Qindeel Studio)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Panel
"From Symphony to Scoundrel": Adaptive Music in 'Star Wars: Outlaws'
Speaker: Wilbert Roget (RogetMusic)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
'Alan Wake 2': Audio Systems in a Game of Two Halves
Speakers: Joshua Bell (Remedy Entertainment), Gulli Gunnarsson (Remedy Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
'Alan Wake 2': Developing an Audio Vision
Speaker: Richard Lapington (Remedy Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
'Assassin's Creed Shadows' Music: An Artistic and Tech Journey
Speakers: Jerome Angelot (Ubisoft), Roberto Bender (Ubisoft), Jullian Hoff (Ubisoft)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
'Delta Force': Performant High-Quality Terrain and Biome Technology for PC and Mobile
Speakers: Hang Jiao (Tencent Games), Lichuan Wang (Tencent Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
'Diablo Immortal': Sharing Insights on AAA Quality Mobile Game Audio International Collaboration
Speaker: Hana Zhao (NetEase Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
'Eggy Party' UGC Map Recommendation System: The Art of Innovation and Balance
Speaker: Xingchen Zhou (Netease)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
'Prince of Persia:The Lost Crown': Making a Modern Metroidvania Both Challenging and Accessible
Speaker: Remi Boutin (Ubisoft)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
'Where Winds Meet': Building the Unique Chinese Wuxia Sound Experience
Speaker: Jiale Yang (NetEase Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
'A Cup Of Liber-Tea': Scoring Satire with Sincerity in 'Helldivers 2'
Speaker: Wilbert Roget (RogetMusic)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
'Apex Legends': Preventing Exploits and Shipping Risky Features Using... NavMesh??
Speaker: Ian Holstead (Respawn Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
'Arranger': A Conventions-Breaking Art Direction
Speaker: David Hellman (Furniture & Mattress)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
'Avowed' Branching Narratives: Shifting from QA Testing to Analyzing
Speaker: David Benefield (Obsidian Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
'Balatro': Turning Low Resolution into High Praise
Speaker: Wout van Halderen (Playstack)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
'Cyberpunk 2077': "Hacking" the Secrets of Its Cinematic Animation
Speaker: David Cordero Iglesias (CD PROJEKT RED)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
'DREDGE' and Yarn Spinner: Building Narrative with Open Source
Speaker: Jon Manning (Secret Lab)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
'Diablo Immortal': Pioneering 8-Player Boss Raids with Commonsense Cooperative Play
Speaker: Shuai Qiao (NetEase Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
'Eggy Party': Server Architecture and Optimization Practices Supporting 40 Million DAU
Speakers: Mengfei Li (NetEase Games), Tong Sun (NetEase Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
'Frostpunk 2': Speaking in Systems
Speaker: Jakub Stokalski (11 bit studios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
'Helldivers 2': Capturing Lightning in a Bottle
Speaker: Johan Pilestedt (Arrowhead Game Studios AB)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
'Honkai: Star Rail': Reimagining RPGs for Mass Audiences and Broad Appeal
Speaker: Chengnan An (HoYoverse)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
'Monument Valley 3': Understanding the Past to Create a Modern Sequel
Speaker: Emily Brown (ustwo games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
'Pacific Drive' Under the Hood: Survival Fundamentals, Systems Design, and Speeding Past Tropes
Speaker: Seth Rosen (Ironwood Studios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
'South Of Midnight': Musicality Beyond Music
Speakers: Chris Fox (Compulsion Games), Olivier Deriviere (Ameo Prod)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
'The Witcher 3' REDkit: Lessons Learned Bringing an In-House Engine to the Public
Speakers: Oleg Shatulo (CD PROJEKT RED), Bence Hambalkó (Yigsoft)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
2025 GDC State of the Game Industry Panel
Speakers: Roshelle "Ro" Patterson (Extraordinary Friends), Elaine Gómez (Latinx in Gaming), Gordon Bellamy (Gay Gaming Professionals), Bryant Francis (Game Developer), Beth Elderkin (Game Developers Conference (GDC))
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Panel
2025 New Unreal Engine Developer Crash Course (Presented by Epic Games)
Sponsor Speaker: Matt Oztalay (Epic Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Design
Format: Sponsored Session
Speakers: Tom Poole (JUCE / ADC), Dave Berol (Surfaceink Product Design & Development), Pat Scandalis (moForte Inc), Athan Billias (MIDI2Marketing), Steve Horowitz (IASIG/GAI)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Special Event
Format: Special Event
A Bloody Mess: The Implementation of Cleaning in The WereCleaner (Presented by Unity)
Sponsor Speakers: Levi Pinkert (The WereCleaner), Cameron Gomez (The WereCleaner)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Design, Independent Games
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
A Code of Ethics for the Game Industry
Speaker: Celia Hodent (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Lecture
A Matter of Perspective: Mixing Sound in 'Split Fiction'
Speakers: Joakim Enigk Sjoberg (Hazelight Studios), Philip Eriksson (Hazelight)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
A New Way to Approach Media & Content Creators: Using Discord for AAA and Indie Games
Speaker: Enrique Garcia (ICO)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
A Sabacc Journey: Crafting Mini-Games in 'Star Wars Outlaws'
Speaker: Jean-Baptiste Siraudin (Ubisoft)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
A Score for Wizardry: World-Building Through Music
Speaker: Winifred Phillips (Generations Productions LLC)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
AAPI in the Games Industry Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speakers: Mika Dilig (Amazon Games Studios / AAPI in Gaming SIG / Gay Gaming Professionals), Shavonne Yu (Meta Reality Labs / AAPI in Games SIG)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
AI Executive Panel: Exploring What's Next in AI for Gaming (Presented by EPAM)
Sponsor Speakers: Stef Corazza (Roblox), Vitalii Vashchuk (EPAM), Haiyan Zhang (Xbox)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Sponsored Session
Speaker: Neil Kirby (The Ohio State University)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Roundtable
Speaker: Neil Kirby (The Ohio State University)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Roundtable
Speaker: Neil Kirby (The Ohio State University)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Roundtable
AI Tools, IP Rules: Who Owns the Content?
Speaker: David Kocan (Nixon Peabody, LLP)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
AI-Generated 3D Assets: No Joke, They're (Getting) Production-Ready (Presented by Meshy)
Sponsor Speakers: Ethan Hu (Meshy), Josh Loveridge (Stratton Studios), Mike Ull (PhantyForge)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Game Narrative
Format: Sponsored Session
Accessibility by Design Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speakers: Tara Voelker (Netflix, IGDA GASIG Member), Morgan Baker (Electronic Arts)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Accessibility for Everyone in Gaming: When Games Are Accessible, Everyone Can Be Part of the Story
Speakers: Se Jin Kim (Smilegate), Kyoung Jin Lee (Smilegate)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Lecture
Achieving AI Teammates in 'NARAKA: BLADEPOINT' Mobile PC Version (Presented by NVIDIA)
Sponsor Speakers: Bill Zhao (NVIDIA), Tangjie Lyu (Fuxi Lab)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Adaptive Game Performance with Samsung Galaxy (Presented by Samsung Electronics)
Sponsor Speakers: Michael Barnes (Samsung Electronics), Jeffrey Jose (Google)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Adobe Developer Summit: Adobe Substance 3D Keynote (Presented by Adobe)
Sponsor Speakers: Wes McDermott (Adobe), Jérémie Noguer (Adobe), Valeria Gerontopoulos (Adobe), Gio Nakpil (Adobe)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Sponsor Speaker: Romain Lemaire (Arrowhead Game Studios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Adobe Developer Summit: Layer by Layer: Texturing with Intent in Substance 3D (Presented by Adobe)
Sponsor Speaker: Kasita Wonowidjojo (Digital Domain)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Advanced Graphics Summit: 'Marvel Rivals': Creating a Real-Time Interactive Dr. Strange's Portal
Summit Speaker: Tieyi Zhang (Netease Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Advanced Graphics Summit: From Myth to Reality: Full Ray Tracing Inside 'Black Myth: Wukong'
Summit Speaker: Xueqing Yang (NVIDIA)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Advanced Graphics Summit: Revolutionizing Texture Pipelines: EA's Journey with Texture Sets
Summit Speaker: Martin Palko (Electronic Arts (SEED))
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Advanced Physics in 'ASTRO BOT'
Speaker: Takumi Yoshida (Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design, Programming
Format: Lecture
Advances in RTX (Presented by NVIDIA)
Sponsor Speaker: John Spitzer (NVIDIA)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Sponsored Session
All In: Paving the Way for Female and Non-Binary Game Entrepreneurs
Speakers: Vania Castagnino Ugolotti (Science Park Skovde/ Sweden Game Arena), Jenny Brusk (Science Park Skövde / Sweden Game Arena)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Lecture
Ambience Design and Acoustic Systems in 'Senua's Saga: Hellblade II'
Speakers: Alessio Mellina (Ninja Theory), Pablo Canas Llorente (Ninja Theory)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
Amplifying Player Voices with LLMs in Game Development
Speakers: Joshua Koen (Blizzard Entertainment), Ian Livingston (Blizzard Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
An Inclusive Soundscape: Diversity in Game Audio Roundtable Day 1
Speakers: Star Victoria Power (Slide20XX), Winter McFarland (Aggro Crab), Katelyn Isaacson (Independent), Chase Bethea (Chase Bethea), Noa Beazley (Berklee College of Music), Jamie Lee (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Roundtable
An Inclusive Soundscape: Diversity in Game Audio Roundtable Day 2
Speakers: Star Victoria Power (Slide20XX), Winter McFarland (Aggro Crab), Katelyn Isaacson (Independent), Chase Bethea (Chase Bethea), Noa Beazley (Berklee College of Music), Jamie Lee (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Roundtable
An Inclusive Soundscape: Diversity in Game Audio Roundtable Day 3
Speakers: Star Victoria Power (Slide20XX), Winter McFarland (Aggro Crab), Katelyn Isaacson (Independent), Chase Bethea (Chase Bethea), Noa Beazley (Berklee College of Music), Jamie Lee (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Roundtable
Analytics and Data Science Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speaker: John Hopson (IGDA Analytics and Data Science SIG)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Speakers: Euna Park (That's No Moon), Shayna Moon (Sanzaru Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Roundtable
Speakers: Euna Park (That's No Moon), Shayna Moon (Sanzaru)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Roundtable
Speakers: Euna Park (That's No Moon), Shayna Moon (Sanzaru)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Roundtable
Animation Summit: 2D Character Rigging in UE for Realtime Animation or MoCap
Summit Speaker: Meghdad Asadilari (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Animation Summit: Animating Leaders in 'Civilization VII': A Case Study
Summit Speakers: Chandrahas Tanguturi (Firaxis Games), Rue Taylor (Firaxis Games), Keenan Nishi-Manely (Firaxis Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Animation Summit: Bones and Booleans: Microtalks
Summit Speakers: Frank Gordon (That's No Moon), Max Gariepy (That's No Moon)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Panel
Animation Summit: Starting Over: Building a Game Animation Team at a New Studio
Summit Speaker: Hector Antunez (Bit Reactor)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Animation Summit: Stop Motion Southern Gothic: Animating 'South of Midnight'
Summit Speakers: Vincent Schneider (Compulsion Games), Remi Edmond (Compulsion Games), Sebastien Dussault (Agora Studio), Mike Jungbluth (Compulsion Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Are You Missing 10% of the Market?
Speaker: Elina Arponen (Quicksave Interactive)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
Arm Developer Summit: AI Coaching in MOBA Games: A Case Study With Honor of Kings (Presented by Arm)
Sponsor Speaker: Wenxi Zhu (Tencent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Design, Programming
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Sponsor Speakers: Lisa Sheckleford (Arm), Philip Garcia (Arm)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Sponsor Speaker: Kai Qin (Tencent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Design, Programming
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Sponsor Speakers: Clay John (Godot Foundation and W4 Games), Ian Bolton (Arm)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Sponsor Speakers: Stefana Simion (Arm), Professor Tim Bates (https://thegodfatheroftech.com/), David Sena (Natural Motion)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Arm Developer Summit: Unreal Engine for Mobile Game Development (Presented by Arm)
Sponsor Speaker: Arvind Neelakantan (Epic Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Art Directing a Cultural Joyride through Modern India
Speaker: Shalin Shodhan (Masala Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Art Direction Summit: 'Angry Birds' and AI in Practice: Finding Our Own Way
Summit Speaker: Tatu Petersen-Jessen (Rovio Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Art Direction Summit: 'LEGO Horizon Adventures': Bringing the World to Life, Brick by Brick!
Summit Speakers: James Charlick (Studio Gobo), Rich Court (Studio Gobo)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Art Direction Summit: AAA Art at Scale: Getting Quality Results from External Partners
Summit Speaker: Andrew Silver (Wild Blue Studios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Art Direction Summit: Breaking Out of the Comfort Zone: A Journey from AAA to Indie Development
Summit Speaker: Sebastien Primeau (Yellow Brick Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Art Direction Summit: Saving Your Gameplay Feedback Through Art Direction
Summit Speaker: Sarah Robinson (Behaviour Interactive)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Format: Lecture
Art Leadership Roundtable Day 1
Speaker: Keith Self-Ballard (PlayStation Studios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Roundtable
Art Leadership Roundtable Day 2
Speaker: Keith Self-Ballard (PlayStation Studios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Roundtable
Ask Game Lawyers Anything Roundtable Day 1
Speakers: Ryan Black (DLA Piper (Canada) LLP), Brandon Huffman (Odin Law and Media), Angelo Alcid (Microsoft Corp.), Yan Perng (Netflix)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Roundtable
Ask Game Lawyers Anything Roundtable Day 2
Speakers: Ryan Black (DLA Piper (Canada) LLP), Micaela Mantegna (Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University), Brandon Huffman (Odin Law and Media), Angelo Alcid (Microsoft Corp.), Yan Perng (Netflix)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Roundtable
Ask Game Lawyers Anything Roundtable Day 3
Speakers: Ryan Black (DLA Piper (Canada) LLP), Micaela Mantegna (Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University), Brandon Huffman (Odin Law and Media), Angelo Alcid (Microsoft Corp.), Yan Perng (Netflix)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Roundtable
Audio Adventures in a Multiplayer VR Social World: 'Dimensional Double Shift' Audio Post Mortem
Speakers: Daniel Perry (Owlchemy Labs), Michael Kim (Owlchemy Labs)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
Audio Summit: Audio with Intent: A Creative Framework for Communicating Gameplay Information
Summit Speaker: Robin Butel (Demute)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
Audio Summit: Beyond the Booth: Creative Voice Recording and Performance Design
Summit Speakers: Mathieu Lavoie (Side Global), Anthony Hales (Side Global)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
Audio Summit: Bringing the Party Home: Designing Audio for Mixed Reality
Summit Speaker: Crystal Lee (Schell Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
Audio Summit: Creating Believable Worlds with Ambience
Summit Speaker: Malin Arvidsson (Massive Entertainment – a Ubisoft Studio)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
Audio Summit: Lunchtime Surgeries
Summit Speakers: Dillan Schmitz (King Aurorus Music), Robin Butel (Demute), Mathieu Lavoie (Side Global), Anthony Hales (Side Global), Crystal Lee (Schell Games), Malin Arvidsson (Massive Entertainment – a Ubisoft Studio), Fei Guo (NetEase Games), Michelle Auyoung (Obsidian Entertainment), Cody Matthew Johnson (Emperia Sound and Music)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Special Event
Audio Summit: Maintaining Musical Integrity (When Working with Clients)
Summit Speaker: Dillan Schmitz (King Aurorus Music)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
Audio Summit: The Impact of 'Marvel Rivals': Real-Time Sound Mixing in the Gaming Experience
Summit Speaker: Fei Guo (NetEase Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
Audio Summit: Understanding Game Audio Programming and How I Got There
Summit Speaker: Michelle Auyoung (Obsidian Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
Audio Summit:'Star Wars Outlaws': Diegetic Music as a Tool for World Building and Authenticity
Summit Speaker: Cody Matthew Johnson (Emperia Sound and Music)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
Sponsor Speaker: Alex Alex Ferreira Simoes (Riot Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership, Visual Arts
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Sponsor Speaker: Sriranjani Parthasarathy (Larian Studios)
Track: Production & Team Leadership, Visual Arts
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Sponsor Speaker: Chunyi LIU (LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Sponsored Session
Automated Testing Roundtables Day 1: Process
Speaker: Andrew Fray (Studio Enso)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Roundtable
Automated Testing Roundtables Day 2: Legacy
Speaker: Andrew Fray (Studio Enso)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Roundtable
Automated Testing Roundtables Day 3: Implementation
Speaker: Andrew Fray (Studio Enso)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Roundtable
Automating Optimization: The Power of Continuous Performance Monitoring (Presented by VIRTUOS)
Sponsor Speakers: Stephen Cavanagh (Black Shamrock - A Virtuos Studio), Marios Michaelides (Virtuos)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Format: Sponsored Session
Avoiding the Historical Accuracy Trap: Lessons from Five Thousand Years of Fun
Speakers: Angus Mol (Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities), Aris Politopoulos (Leiden University)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Babygirls, Daddies, and Himbos: Updating Archetypes for Compelling Characters
Speaker: Alexa Ray Corriea (Cliffhanger Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Bear Hugs and Dev Tears: Building Stories for 'Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit'
Speakers: Alicia Fortier (Spry Fox, Netflix Games), Jamie Antonisse (Spry Fox, Netflix Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Beating the Competition: Competitive Intelligence in Gaming
Speaker: Aliaksandr Nenadavets (SciPlay)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
Behind a Hundred Million Mini-Games: Why Everyone Loves Creating Games in 'Eggy Party'
Speaker: Teng Shao (NetEase Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Behind the Screens: Optimizing Production for Remote Teams Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speakers: Ashley Phipps (Borderless Studios), Sophie Galley (Distance Over Time Studio)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass, Friday Only Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Being an Effective Ally Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speaker: Josh Samuels (Raindrop Games / Allies SIG)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Best Practices with 2D Workflows in Unity 6 (Presented by Unity)
Sponsor Speaker: Rus Scammell (Unity)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming, Visual Arts
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Beyond the Hype: Real-World Applications of Google AI in Gaming (Presented by Google)
Sponsor Speakers: Jetha Chan (Google DeepMind), Ju-yeong Ji (Google DeepMind), Ishan Sharma (Google)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Design
Format: Sponsored Session
Big Swings, Big Hits: Building a Profitable Business in VR/MR (Presented by Meta)
Sponsor Speakers: Kimberly Unger (Meta), Shainiel Deo (Halfbrick Studios), Anand Agarawala (Wooster Games/Spatial)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: VR/AR
Format: Sponsored Session
Sponsor Speakers: Ben Ackland (Meaning Machine GB), Thomas Keane (Meaning Machine GB)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Design
Format: Sponsored Session
Building 'Penny's Big Breakaway' with Beef, a New Programming Language
Speaker: Hunter Bridges (Evening Star)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Building AAA Content with Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) (Presented by Epic Games)
Sponsor Speaker: - (-)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Design
Format: Sponsored Session
Building AI Assistants to Help a Gamer’s Journey (Presented by NVIDIA)
Sponsor Speakers: Anjul Patney (NVIDIA), Ambrish Dantrey (NVIDIA)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Building Big Impact, One Brick at a Time: Marginal Gains in 'LEGO Horizon Adventures'
Speaker: Adam Russell (Studio Gobo)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
Building Games with Unreal Engine Horde on AWS (Presented by Amazon Web Services)
Sponsor Speaker: Gabriel Batista (Amazon Web Services)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Building the Natural World One Hex at a Time: The Procedural Environment Art of 'Civilization 7'
Speaker: Dean Scott (Firaxis Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Building the Perfect Vertical Slice: Essential Strategies for Developers
Speaker: Aaron Ludlow (Playstack)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
Building, Scaling, and Maintaining 'Sea of Thieves' Live Services
Speaker: Matt Cavanagh (Rare Ltd)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Summit Speaker: Jad Deeb (Jin&Jaw LTD / Omeda Studios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Capabilities: Coding ALL the Gameplay for 'Split Fiction'
Speaker: Ylva Werner (Hazelight Studios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Capturing Game History Bits by Bits
Speakers: Audun Sorlie (Limited Run Games), John Linneman (Digital Foundry), Mike Chi (RetroTINK LLC), Mike Mika (Digital Eclipse), Dimitris Giannakis (Limited Run Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Panel
Career Microtalks: External Game Development as a Career Path
Speakers: Monica Fan (Pipeworks Studios), Jess Kappeler (Pipeworks Studios), Joshua Good (Lost Boys Interactive), John Bond (Tea Witch Games), Anna Nguyen (Blind Squirrel Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Game Career Development
Format: Panel
Case Study: Managing a #MeToo Moment in the (Post-)Nuclear Age
Speaker: Brooke Branch (Arrowhead Game Studios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Lecture
Charting the Course of 'Starship Home': Designing Mixed Reality's First Narrative Adventure
Speaker: Mark Schramm (Creature)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Charting the Future: Layoffs, Recovery, Job Trends and Community Impact
Speakers: Dean Takahashi (VentureBeat), Amir Satvat (Tencent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Panel
Sponsor Speakers: Steve C. Martin (LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS), Hideaki Itsuno (LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Sponsored Session
Comedy and Games: The Why's, How's and Huhs?
Speaker: Heather Woodward (Respawn Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Community Management Summit: 'Aggro' Your Community Manager
Summit Speaker: Paige Wilson (AGGRO CRAB)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
Community Management Summit: A 'Palworld' Roller Coaster: Surviving the Drop
Summit Speaker: John Buckley (Pocketpair)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
Community Management Summit: Oh No! Your Post Reached the Wrong Audience
Summit Speaker: Bryce Riley (Electronic Arts)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
Community Management Summit: Rise of a Cult: Impact of Community on Unreleased Games
Summit Speaker: Karan Chhabra (SuperGaming)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
Community Management Summit: Social Media Microtalks: Authenticity from You and the Business "We"
Summit Speakers: Cindy Tran (Obsidian Entertainment), Antonio Cara (DeNA Corp.), Harper Jay MacIntyre (Double Fine Productions Inc), Livvy Hall (Xbox Game Studios Publishing), Megan Spurr (Microsoft)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Panel
Community Management Summit: What to Do When Your Community Is Journalists
Summit Speaker: James Bartholomeou (Renaissance PR)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
Community Management Summit:Graphic Design 101 for Community Managers
Summit Speaker: Catherine Litvaitis (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
Company Building: Top 10 Learnings from Becoming a Cross Platform Studio
Speaker: Ian Fielding (Super Evil Megacorp)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
Controlled Chaos in the Writer's Room of '1000xRESIST'
Speaker: Remy Siu (sunset visitor)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Speaker: Hannah Mackintosh (Cerebralfix)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Cosplaying Games: Exploring the Culture from Character Design to Marketing
Speaker: Lisa Kneidl (ICO Partners)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
Cracking the Code: How Top Roblox Creators Build Thriving Games (Presented by Roblox)
Sponsor Speaker: Justin Sousa (Roblox)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Game Career Development, Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Speakers: Brittney Morris (Insomniac Games), Jarory de Jesus (Coquito Games), Zaire Lanier (Compulsion Games), Curtis Baxter (Electronic Arts), Mia Ginae Watkins (Riot Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Panel
Crafting Compelling Performances: The Actor-Director Partnership in Performance Capture
Speakers: Steve Kniebihly (Independent), Neil Newbon (Performance Captured Ltd London)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Crafting Worlds, Building Teams: The Power of Culture in Game Development
Speakers: Kate Edwards (Geogrify/SetJetters), Tina Merry (Simply Sweet Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Lecture
Crafting the Future: Materials and Texturing in Modern Game Development
Speakers: Hugh Chew (Playstation Studios Visual Arts), Javier Perez (Playstation Studios Visual Arts), Trevor Cotich (Digital Extremes), Martin Pietras (Bethesda Game Studio), Kurt Kupser (That's No Moon)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Panel
Creating Long-Term, Sustainable Franchises
Speaker: Marco Alessandro Minoli (Slitherine)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
Creating Next-Gen Agents in Krafton's InZOI (Presented by NVIDIA)
Sponsor Speakers: Evgeny Makarov (NVIDIA), Kangwook Lee (KRAFTON)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Creating Real World Heroes: Leveraging Games to Positively Activate Audiences
Speakers: Wonder Stormbreaker (Undead Labs), Jenny Lamping (American Red Cross), Jordan Grainger (Xbox)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Lecture
Creating Safer Digital Playgrounds Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speakers: Jackie Tancredi (IGDA Child Safety SIG Co-Chair), Kenna Lindsay (IGDA SIG Child Safety Co-Chair)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Creating a Procedural Textile Generator in Substance Designer
Speaker: Laura Gallagher (Outgang)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Creative Sobriety: On Originality in Game Development
Speaker: Fawzi Mesmar (Ubisoft)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Crossing the Uncanny Valley with RTX Neural Face Rendering (Presented by NVIDIA)
Sponsor Speakers: Damien Bataille (NVIDIA), Bernado Antoniazzi (NVIDIA), Nathan Hoobler (NVIDIA)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Cultural Fusion in Game Design: A Perspective from India
Speaker: Zainuddeen Fahadh (Ogre Head Studio)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Cybersecurity Challenges in Modern Game Development (Presented by Denuvo by Irdeto)
Sponsor Speakers: Mark Mulready (Irdeto), Thomas Goebl (2K Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy, Advocacy
Format: Sponsored Session
Decoding Light: Neural Compression for Global Illumination
Speaker: Luyan Cao (LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Speaker: Sini Downing (Side)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio, Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
Design Strategies to Support Nurturers
Speaker: Nina Kim (Rare Ltd.)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Sponsor Speakers: Kevin Call (Camouflaj / Meta), Ryan Darcey (Camouflaj / Meta)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Designing 10,000 Handcrafted Puzzles for 'Islands of Insight'
Speaker: Elyot Grant (Lunarch Studios Inc.)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Speakers: Moritz Lehr (CD PROJEKT RED), Pawel Ochocki (CD PROJEKT RED)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Designing Relationships: How to Make Compelling RPG Companions
Speakers: Lis Moberly (Disney: 20th Century Games), Kate Dollarhyde (Obsidian Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Speaker: Alexei Pepers (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Developing 'Metaphor: ReFantazio' and the Potential of RPG Command Battle Systems
Speaker: Kenichi Goto (Atlus)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Speakers: Jennifer Miller Hammel (Radio Station Classical KUSC-Arcade), Steve Horowitz (IASIG/GAI)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Discord For Game Devs: Build Where The World Plays (Presented by Discord)
Sponsor Speakers: Jason Citron (Discord), Tom Jacques (Discord), Emory Irpan (Discord), Sally Huang (Discord)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Sponsored Session
Doing It Live: Prototyping in 'MARVEL SNAP'
Speaker: Kent-Erik Hagman (Second Dinner Studios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Dressed to Quest: Achieving Dynamic, Efficient Characters in 'Kingdom Come: Deliverance II'
Speaker: Gabor Molnar (Warhorse Studios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Dynamic Destruction in UE5 with the Chaos Destruction System (Presented by Epic Games)
Sponsor Speakers: Jim VanAllen (Epic Games), Cedric Caillaud (Epic Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Economic Policy and Ecosystem Workshop
Speakers: Jason Della Rocca (Execution Labs), Kristian Roberts (Nordicity), Per Stromback (Dataspelsbranschen), Hugo Obi (Maliyo Games), Chantelle Cole (NZ On Air), Rik Leenknegt (Flanders Game Hub), Rodrigo Carneiro (AbraGames)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Workshop
Educators Summit: Cup of Tea: Cozy Design in a Game, Course and Community
Summit Speaker: Melissa Kagen (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Educators
Format: Lecture
Educators Summit: Educator Soapbox
Summit Speakers: Nina Feng (University of Utah), Jim Huntley (University of Southern California, Interactive Media & Games Division), Ian Schreiber (Independent), Robert Yang (Grapefruit Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Educators
Format: Lecture
Educators Summit: Game Professor Help Desk
Summit Speakers: John Sharp (The New School), Jose Zagal (University of Utah), Mia Consalvo (Concordia University), Kishonna Gray (University of Michigan), Katherine Isbister (UC Santa Cruz), Emma Westcott (OCAD University)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Educators
Format: Panel
Educators Summit: Preparing Students for the Worst: Layoffs, Contract Work and More
Summit Speaker: Tyler Coleman (Retora Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Educators
Format: Lecture
Educators Summit: Sketchbooking and Visual Analysis in the Game Design Classroom
Summit Speaker: Christopher Totten (Kent State University/Pie for Breakfast Studios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Educators
Format: Lecture
Educators Summit: Teaching Games with Games IX: Climate Crisis
Summit Speakers: Patrick LeMieux (University of California, Davis), Stephanie Boluk (University of California, Davis), Ben Abraham (AfterClimate), Katherine Buse (University of Chicago), Alenda Chang (University of California, Santa Barbara), Pablo Quarta (Matajuegos), Bart Simon (Concordia University)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Educators
Format: Panel
Educators Summit: Your School's Secret Weapon: Fostering Game Development Clubs
Summit Speakers: Innes Aitken (Abertay University), Allyssa De La Torre (Independent), Anastasia Naydina (CSUN), Jonah Ryan (University of California Santa Cruz), Tad Leckman (University of California Santa Cruz)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Educators
Format: Lecture
Effortless Game Testing with Planning Agents (Presented by Filuta AI)
Sponsor Speaker: Filip Dvorak (Filuta AI)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Sponsor Speakers: Ashwin Raghuraman (Amazon Web Services), David Press (Riot Games), Brian Miller (Riot Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Embracing Neurodiversity and Leadership in the Game Industry
Speakers: Nathalie Mathe (Northeastern University), Sara M.E. Ventura (Zynga), Stuart Massie (SEGA), Anna Nguyen (Blind Squirrel Games), Alexander Brazie (Game Design Skills.com)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Panel
Empathy and Horror: Creature Audio of 'Still Wakes the Deep'
Speakers: Daan Hendriks (The Chinese Room), Francesco Del Pia (The Chinese Room)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
Empower QA Teams With Multi-Modal AI (Presented by NVIDIA)
Sponsor Speakers: Logan Herche (NVIDIA), Natasha Anisimova (NVIDIA)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Sponsored Session
Empowering All Genders: The Future of Inclusive Gaming Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speakers: Liz Schulte (Spy Hop Productions / WIG+ SIG), Audrey Perera (ZeroSpace / WIG+)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Enhancing 3D Building Asset Creation: Machine Learning Meets Procedural Generation
Speaker: Qiang Dai (LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming, Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Entities and Bricks: The Building Blocks of 'Hitman'
Speaker: Kasper Fauerby (IO Interactive)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Epic Games Store: A Vision for the Future of Games Distribution (Presented by Epic Games)
Sponsor Speakers: Steve Allison (Epic Games), Kyle Billings (Epic Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Sponsored Session
Evil By Design: Understanding Bias Through Game Creation
Speakers: Tanjulia Akter (Electronic Arts), Natashia Tjandra (Electronic Arts), Faith McGee (Electronic Arts)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Lecture
Speakers: Marielle Fox (Red Hook Studios), Colin Towle (2Blocks)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Sponsor Speakers: Karun Channa (Roblox), Kiran Bhat (Roblox)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Expanding Reach: Grow your Business with Meta Horizon Worlds on Mobile and VR (Presented by Meta)
Sponsor Speaker: Kristen Mann (Meta)
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Sponsored Session
Speakers: Liz Ryerson (ella guro), Alistair Aitcheson (The Incredible Playable Show), Adam Robinson-Yu (Whippoorwill), Justin Smith (Independent), Patrick Collin Eye (Et Al Games), Carol Mertz (Independent), Arvi Teikari (Hempuli), Jenny Jiao Hsia (Hexecutable), AP Thomson (Hexecutable), Jonathan West (Hobbyist), Chia Amisola (Independent), Hanford Lemoore (Graceful Decay, LLC), Mike Jasoni (Graceful Decay, LLC), Cadence Phoenix (WATERBOX), K.K. Dream (WATERBOX), Akuma Kira (KIRA LLC)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Panel
External Development (Outsourcing) Roundtable Day 1
Speaker: Carl Schmidt (Zynga)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Roundtable
External Development (Outsourcing) Roundtable Day 2
Speaker: Carl Schmidt (Zynga)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Roundtable
F.A.C.U.L.: The First FPS AI Companion Who Understands Human Language
Speaker: Elvis Liu (Tencent Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Farm Merge Valley: How CoolGames Maximized Game-Platform Fit on Discord (Presented by Discord)
Sponsor Speakers: Ann-Marie Harbour (Discord), Laurens Rutten (CoolGames)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Sponsored Session
Fascinating Rhythm: Bending the Power of Groove To Your Will
Speakers: Jason Graves (Jason Graves Music. Inc.), Krisin Naigus (Field of Reeds), Eli Bishop (Independant)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
Feel the World: The DualSense™ Experience Behind ASTRO BOT (Presented by Sony)
Sponsor Speaker: Masayuki Yamada (Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Audio, Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Flex and Fun: Graphics Magic in 'ASTRO BOT'
Speaker: Tai Yamaguchi (Team ASOBI, Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming, Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Flexible Proceduralism for Gamedev Artists (Presented by Houdini)
Sponsor Speaker: Cody Spahr (SideFX)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Sponsored Session
Forever Games: An Economics Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speaker: Eric Guan (Second Dinner)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Sponsor Speaker: Seb Bergeron-Raposo (Epic Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Freelancers and Independent Contractors Roundtable Day 1
Speakers: Toiya Kristen Finley (Schnoodle Media, LLC), Souha Al-Samkari (Truant Pixel, LLC)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Freelancers and Independent Contractors Roundtable Day 2
Speakers: Toiya Kristen Finley (Schnoodle Media, LLC), Souha Al-Samkari (Truant Pixel, LLC)
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
From 'Persona' to 'Metaphor: ReFantazio': Creating a Visual Identity for a New Series
Speaker: Koji Ise (Atlus)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
From Players to Creators: A Guide to User-Generated Content Success in 'Arma Reforger'
Speaker: Natalia Agafonova (Bohemia Interactive)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
From Vision to Vive'n: Supervive's Discord-Driven Development Strategy (Presented by Discord)
Sponsor Speakers: Sally Huang (Discord), Jon Belliss (Theorycraft Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Sponsored Session
Funding Futures Series: Chasing Unicorns: How Venture Funding Really Works
Speakers: Jason Della Rocca (Execution Labs), Sigurlina Ingvarsdottir (Behold Ventures), Kelly Wallick (1Up Ventures), Jonathan Lai (Andreessen Horowitz/a16z), Are Mack Growen (London Venture Partners)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing, Production & Team Leadership
Format: Panel
Funding Futures Series: Inception Publishing: The Shift to Indie Self-Publishing
Speakers: Jason Della Rocca (Execution Labs), Victoria Tran (Innersloth), Genevieve St-Onge (popagenda), Kirsten-Lee Naidoo (Landfall), Soren Lundgaard (Ghost Ship Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing, Production & Team Leadership
Format: Panel
Funding Futures Series: The Evolving Role of Publishers
Speakers: Jason Della Rocca (Execution Labs), Snow Rui (Hooded Horse), John Buckley (Pocketpair), Steve Escalante (Digital Bandidos), Matt Charles (Cooldown Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing, Production & Team Leadership
Format: Panel
Future Realities Summit: A New Kind of 'House Party': Designing for Multiplayer MR
Summit Speakers: Joey Ziolkowski (Schell Games), María Laura Mirabelli Jimenez (Gensler)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: VR/AR
Format: Lecture
Future Realities Summit: Coming Home in Mixed Reality: Arguments At Our Dinner Table
Summit Speakers: Bernard Yee (Windup Minds), Austin Grossman (Windup Minds), Benjamin Vance (Windup Minds), Jonathan Hamel (Another Axiom), Laura Warner (Nerd Ninjas)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: VR/AR
Format: Panel
Future Realities Summit: Constructing the World of Purdan in 'Alien: Rogue Incursion'
Summit Speaker: Alexander Silkin (Survios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: VR/AR
Format: Lecture
Future Realities Summit: Creating a Martial Art in VR: The 'Broken Edge' Case
Summit Speaker: Guillaume Perreault Roy (TREBUCHET)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: VR/AR
Format: Lecture
Future Realities Summit: Entering the Omniverse: The 'Dimensional Double Shift' Postmortem
Summit Speaker: Andrew Eiche (Owlchemy Labs Inc)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: VR/AR
Format: Lecture
Future Realities Summit: VR Multiplayer Mayhem: Unique Solutions to Challenges at VRCAVE
Summit Speaker: Nathaniel Rossol (VRCAVE)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: VR/AR
Format: Lecture
Summit Speakers: Colby Morgan (Mighty Coconut), Jazmin Cano (Owlchemy Labs)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: VR/AR
Format: Lecture
Summit Speakers: Jim Squires (Freelance), Ryan McCaffrey (IGN), Maeva Sponbergs (Beyond Frames Entertainment), Stephanie Greenall (Cake or Death), Amy Pantea (Polyarc)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: VR/AR
Format: Panel
Speakers: Jason Hayes (Another Axiom Inc.), Andrew Brassell (Sound Lab a Keywords Studio), Edouard Brenneisen (EB Music LLC), Paul Lipson (Formosa Group), John Robert Matz (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Panel
G.A.N.G. Demo Derby: Sound Design
Speakers: Nick Hartman (Sound Lab), Scott Gershin (Sound Lab), Charles Deenen (Source Sound Inc), Gary Miranda (Injected Senses Audio), Brian Farr (Blizzard Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Panel
Speaker: Brian Schmidt (Brian Schmidt Studios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Audio, Special Event
Format: Special Event
GDC Main Stage: A Developer's Concert
Speaker: Austin Wintory (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Special Event
Format: Special Event
Sponsor Speakers: Aubrey Quinn (Entertainment Software Association), Paul Amadeus Lane (Amadeus 4th Corp), Amy Lazarus (Electronic Arts), Dara Monasch (Google), Anna Waismeyer (Microsoft/Xbox), Steven Evans (Nintendo of America), David Tisserand (Ubisoft)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy, Special Event
Format: Sponsored Session
Speakers: Jason Della Rocca (Execution Labs), David Martinez (Raw Fury), Snow Rui (Hooded Horse), Victoria Tran (Innersloth)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Business & Marketing, Special Event
Format: Special Event
Speakers: Anlu Liu (Kowloon Nights), Rebekah Saltsman (Finji), Justin Woodward (Media Indie Exchange), Jason Della Rocca (Execution Labs)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Business & Marketing, Special Event
Format: Special Event
GPU Raytracing for Audio in Snowdrop
Speakers: Kasparas Eidukonis (Massive Entertainment - a Ubisoft Studio), Alexis Crickx (Ubisoft Annecy)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Game AI Summit: 'LEGO Horizon Adventures': Building Rawwsome Combat Gameplay with Robot Dinosaurs
Summit Speaker: David Wilson (Studio Gobo)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Game AI Summit: Combining GOAP and MBTs to Create NPCs' Behaviors for 'Kingdom Come: Deliverance II'
Summit Speaker: Matej Marko (Warhorse studios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Game AI Summit: Delivering a Novel Abstract AI System in a AAA 4X Game
Summit Speaker: Will Smith Chambers (Oxide Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Game AI Summit: Designing Emotions in 'Star Wars Outlaws' Gamblers NPC
Summit Speaker: Jean-Baptiste Siraudin (Ubisoft)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Game AI Summit: Growing an AI Director into a Full Adventure Director
Summit Speaker: Marie Mejerwall (Mejerwall Consulting)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Game AI Summit: LLM as Core Gameplay: Co-Creative Storytelling in '1001 Nights'
Summit Speaker: Yuqian Sun (Ada Eden)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Game AI Summit: Multiagent Planning for Large-Scale Narrative Content
Summit Speaker: Trevor Santarra (Bitpart AI)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Game AI Summit: Navigating Expansive Worlds: Implementing Custom Large World Support in Unreal
Summit Speaker: Richard Kogelnig (Havok)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Game AI Summit: Possibilistic Logic Use in Game AI Architecture
Summit Speaker: Braeden Warnick (Inworld AI)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Game AI Summit: Simulating the Perfect Organism in 'Alien: Rogue Incursion'
Summit Speaker: Eugene Elkin (Survios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Game AI Summit: Techniques for Visualizing the Output Diversity of Generative Systems
Summit Speaker: Oliver Withington (Intelligent Games and Games Intelligence CDT)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Game AI Summit: The History of Game AI: From Rule-Based to Deep Learning
Summit Speaker: Youichiro Miyake (SQUARE ENIX)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Game AI Summit: The Human Cost of Generative AI
Summit Speaker: Rez Graham (Independent)
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Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Game AI Summit: The Simplest AI Trick in the Book
Summit Speakers: Jonathan Martin (IO Interactive), Rez Graham (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Game AI Summit: Walking in Circles: Using the Corridor Map Method for Faster Pathfinding
Summit Speaker: Tobias Karlsson (Respawn Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Game Art: A Legal Guide to Navigating the AI Landscape Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speakers: Joeli Niva (DLA Piper Finland), Chris Solarski (Solarski Studio)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Game Audio Programmer Roundtable Day 1: Game Integration
Speakers: Guy Somberg (Echtra Games), Tomas Neumann (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio, Programming
Format: Roundtable
Game Audio Programmer Roundtable Day 2: Low-Level Topics
Speakers: Guy Somberg (Echtra Games), Tomas Neumann (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio, Programming
Format: Roundtable
Game Audio Programmer Roundtable Day 3: Free-for-All
Speakers: Guy Somberg (Echtra Games), Tomas Neumann (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio, Programming
Format: Roundtable
Speaker: Alonso Canales-Echeverria (Smarto Club)
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Track: Game Career Development
Format: Lecture
Game Career Seminar: Career Trees: Growing Your Career Towards Your Goals
Speaker: Jarryd Huntley (Owlchemy Labs)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass, Friday Only Pass
Track: Game Career Development
Format: Lecture
Game Career Seminar: How to Apply for an Indie Game Job
Speakers: Brandon Sheffield (Necrosoft Games), Jennifer Schneidereit (Nyamyam), Leyla Johnson (Mohawk Games), Shawn Alexander Allen (NuChallenger), Nathan Bosia (Work With Indies)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass, Friday Only Pass
Track: Business & Marketing, Game Career Development
Format: Panel
Game Career Seminar: Industry at a Crossroads: Union Experiences in Video Games
Speakers: Samuel Cooper (Blizzard Entertainment), Taylor Welling (Bethesda Game Studio), Tom Smith (Communications Workers of America), Simon Prefontaine (Bethesda Game Studio), Autumn Mitchell (Zenimax/Bethesda)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass, Friday Only Pass
Track: Game Career Development
Format: Panel
Game Career Seminar: Introduction to Performance Optimization
Speaker: Rez Graham (Independent)
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Track: Game Career Development
Format: Lecture
Game Career Seminar: Killer Portfolio or Portfolio Killer Part 1: Advice from Industry Artists
Summit Speaker: Greg Foertsch (Bit Reactor)
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Track: Game Career Development
Format: Panel
Game Career Seminar: Killer Portfolio or Portfolio Killer Part 2: Portfolio Reviews
Summit Speaker: Greg Foertsch (Bit Reactor)
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Track: Game Career Development
Format: Special Event
Game Career Seminar: Multiclass Your Career in Games
Speakers: Amanda Farough (F-Squared), Son M (Perfect Garbage), Abubakar Salim (Surgent Studios), Liam Esler (Summerfall Studios), Fawzi Mesmar (Ubisoft)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass, Friday Only Pass
Track: Game Career Development
Format: Panel
Game Career Seminar: Paint Me a Picture, Sell Me a Story
Speaker: David Ventura (Ichigoichie)
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Track: Game Career Development
Format: Lecture
Game Career Seminar: Pave Your Path and You Can Eat Ramen Every Day
Speakers: Tyler Coleman (Retora Games), Melody Geiger (Merge Conflict Studio)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass, Friday Only Pass
Track: Game Career Development
Format: Lecture
Game Career Seminar: Personal North Star
Speaker: Ted DiNola (Meta)
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Track: Game Career Development
Format: Lecture
Game Career Seminar: STR, DEX and INT: A Genre-Spanning Way to Think About Gameplay
Speaker: Joseph Shely (Blizzard Entertainment)
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Track: Game Career Development
Format: Lecture
Game Career Seminar: The Japanese Game Industry: Getting Your Foot in the Door
Speaker: Taichiro Miyazaki (CyberConnect2 Co.,Ltd.)
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Track: Game Career Development
Format: Lecture
Game Career Seminar: You Belong Here: Breaking In and Thriving in a Challenging Job Market
Speakers: Dr. Jenn Killham (TVETM Institute), Josh Delson (Unexpected Accessories LLC), Sanjay Madhav (University of Southern California (USC)), Feras Musmar (TTK Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass, Friday Only Pass
Track: Game Career Development
Format: Lecture
Speakers: Marc LeBlanc (Riot Games), Eleanor Todd (Fablegate), Kellee Santiago (E-Line Media), Geoffrey Marsi (Riot Games), Samuel Villanueva (Villains Creative), Jeb Havens (Brainium), Stone Librande (Riot Games), Andy Ashcraft (Giantsdance Games / New York Film Academy), Frank Lantz (Everybody House Games), Marcus Montgomery (Microsoft)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Design
Format: Workshop
Speakers: Marc LeBlanc (Riot Games), Kellee Santiago (E-Line Media), Geoffrey Marsi (Riot Games), Samuel Villanueva (Villains Creative), Jeb Havens (Brainium), Stone Librande (Riot Games), Andy Ashcraft (Giantsdance Games / New York Film Academy), Frank Lantz (Everybody House Games), Eleanor Todd (Fablegate), Marcus Montgomery (Microsoft)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Design
Format: Workshop
Game Intelligence: Bringing the Player Voice to the Developers
Speaker: Louise Jackson (Massive Entertainment – a Ubisoft Studio)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
Game Narrative Roundtable Day 1: Getting and Keeping the Job
Speaker: Richard Dansky (Romero Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Roundtable
Game Narrative Roundtable Day 2: Doing the Job
Speaker: Richard Dansky (Romero Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Roundtable
Game Narrative Summit: #Goals: Mission Writing in #BLUD
Summit Speaker: Gregory Lane (Tin Heart Interactive)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Game Narrative
Format: Lecture
Game Narrative Summit: Black Centered Stories for Everyone
Speaker: Charles Beacham (Afrime Studios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Game Narrative
Format: Lecture
Summit Speakers: Cat Manning (Firaxis), Rue Taylor (Firaxis), Nell Raban (Firaxis), Andrew Johnson (Firaxis)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Game Narrative
Format: Panel
Summit Speaker: Olga Kellner (Owlcat Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Game Narrative
Format: Lecture
Game Narrative Summit: By Any Other Name: A Linguist's Approach to Namecraft
Summit Speaker: Gerben Grave (Multiverse Narratives)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Game Narrative
Format: Lecture
Game Narrative Summit: Creating Playable Stories: Approaches for Integrating Mechanics and Narrative
Summit Speaker: Lauren Bond (Wizards of the Coast)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Game Narrative
Format: Lecture
Game Narrative Summit: Game Narrative Review Competition Winners: Poster Analysis
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Game Narrative
Format: Special Event
Game Narrative Summit: Get Serious About Writing Tools
Summit Speaker: Jurie Horneman (Half Mermaid Productions)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Game Narrative
Format: Lecture
Game Narrative Summit: Ghosts on the Airwaves: Caring About Unseen Characters in 'Pacific Drive'
Summit Speaker: Karrie Shirou Shao (Pacific Drive / Ironwood Studios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Game Narrative
Format: Lecture
Game Narrative Summit: Heartthrobs and Heartaches: Creating Truly Irresistible Love Interests
Summit Speakers: Andrew Shvarts (Candlelight Games), Megan Schwarz (Candlelight Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Game Narrative
Format: Lecture
Game Narrative Summit: It's Not in the Writer's Manual: A Q&A Session for New Writers
Summit Speakers: Toiya Kristen Finley (Schnoodle Media, LLC), Nessa Cannon (Freelance), Michelle Clough (Talespinners), Emily Short (Independent), Ashley Ruhl (Broadsword Online Games), Adanna Nedd (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Game Narrative
Format: Panel
Game Narrative Summit: Labor of Love: The Story of "Date Night" in 'Star Wars: The Old Republic'
Summit Speaker: Ashley Ruhl (Broadsword Online Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Game Narrative
Format: Lecture
Game Narrative Summit: My OC Writes IP: How Fanfiction Primes Us for Established Franchises
Summit Speaker: Emma Kidwell (Firaxis)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Game Narrative
Format: Lecture
Game Narrative Summit: Prepare Recording Scripts like a Pro
Summit Speaker: Ayesha Khan (Ubisoft Reflections)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Game Narrative
Format: Lecture
Game Narrative Summit: Sex Or Death: Achieving Satisfying Midpoints in Interactive Narratives
Summit Speaker: Amy-Leigh Shaw (Sweet Baby Inc)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Game Narrative
Format: Lecture
Summit Speaker: Maria Borys-Piatkowska (Flying Wild Hog)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Game Narrative
Format: Lecture
Game Narrative Summit: Storytelling Through Systems: A Narrative Designer's Approach
Summit Speaker: Adam Dolin (Independent)
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Track: Game Narrative
Format: Lecture
Game Revenue Growth: Insights from Top Monetization Events
Speaker: Oxana Fomina (Gradient Universe S.L.)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
Game Studio Principles: A Case Study
Speaker: Jesse Schell (Schell Games LLC)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
Speakers: Derek Lieu (Derek Lieu Creative), Caoimhe Carty (Independent), Matthew Strack (Raven Software), Saim Siddique (Independent), Jason White (Buddha Jones), Katrina Dodge (Evolve Originals), Emily Kolm (Evolve PR), Ashley Ruhl (Broadsword Online Games), Christopher Bennison (DualNorth Studios), Dino Tarvainen (Trailer Goblin)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Panel
Games Industry Mentoring 101 for Mentors and Mentees
Speakers: Alexa Ray Corriea (Cliffhanger Games), Natalie Checo (Future Friends Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Game Career Development
Format: Lecture
Games User Research Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speaker: Mei Cheng (Independent)
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Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Games and Research: Collaborations with Academia Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speakers: Attila Szantner (Massively Multiplayer Online Science), Matthew Lee (Serious Games SIG)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Gaming Reimagined: Mobile's Impact on Play Today (Presented by King)
Sponsor Speakers: Todd Green (King), Paula Ingvar (King)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Sponsored Session
Gaussian Splatting with Unreal Engine
Speaker: Adam Andrzejczak (Black Drakkar Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Generalized Stylized Post-Processing Outline Scheme
Speakers: Shengwen Zheng (PerfectWorld), Zhe Zhong (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming, Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Sponsor Speakers: Stephen Peacock (Keywords Studios), Nicolas Liorzou (Keywords Studios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Sponsored Session
Get Into Game Dev: Crafting a Bespoke Resume and Portfolio
Speaker: Matthew Ventures (Ventures Ventures LLC)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Game Career Development, Programming
Format: Lecture
Glitter, Fur and Shadows: Character Rendering Technology of 'Sky: Children of the Light'
Speaker: Oliver Castaneda (thatgamecompany)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Global Illumination in 'Once Human': A Hybrid Approach for 16km Open World
Speakers: Maode Shi (NetEase Games), Lele Pan (NetEase Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Going Beyond Traditional Leadership: Embracing the Modern Team Landscape
Speaker: Cristina Vega (IO Interactive)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
Green Light: Unleashing Squid Game on Amazon GameLift (Presented by Amazon Web Services)
Sponsor Speakers: Richard Musser (Netflix), Paris Butterfield (Netflix)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Grid Topology vs Game Mechanics: Which Grid For You?
Speaker: Randy Smith (Waves All Day)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Harnessing the Power of Innovation to Achieve DAU Growth in 'Ace Racer'
Speaker: Yuyuan Jiang (Netease Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Heat, MaxTac and Blockades: Expanding the Police System in 'Cyberpunk 2077'
Speaker: Maciej Celmer (CD PROJEKT RED)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
How AI is Reshaping Hiring and Interviewing Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speaker: Strider Agostinelli (LiveArena Technologies & AI SIG)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Speaker: Konrad Grzegory (CD PROJEKT RED)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
How Tabletop Design Helped Shape 'UFO 50'
Speaker: Jon Perry (Quibble Media, LLC)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
How Valve Became Valve: An Insider's Account
Speaker: Monica Harrington (Valve)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
How to Build a Game World with Systems and Story
Speakers: Anna Megill (CD PROJEKT RED), Emily Short (Independent), Kaitlin Tremblay (Soft Rains)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
How to Choose the Perfect Server Hosting Setup for your Multiplayer Game (Presented by servers.com)
Sponsor Speaker: Jarrod Palmer (servers.com)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Sponsored Session
How to Design and Build Production-Ready Game UI (Presented by Rive)
Sponsor Speaker: Guido Rosso (Rive)
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Track: Design, Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
How to Improve Benchmarking Using Steam Tags
Speaker: Stephane Kaufmann (PulluP Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
How to Optimize Android Mobile Games on Arm (Presented by Arm)
Sponsor Speakers: Peter Harris (Arm), Daniel Baines (Arm)
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Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
How to Write an Asynchronous Multithreaded Audio Engine
Speaker: Guy Somberg (Echtra Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio, Programming
Format: Lecture
Hybrid and Remote Work Roundtable Day 1: Hybrid
Speakers: Jessica Damerst (Unknown Worlds Entertainment), Amanda Sweaton (Epic Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Roundtable
Hybrid and Remote Work Roundtable Day 2: Remote
Speakers: Jessica Damerst (Unknown Worlds Entertainment), Amanda Sweaton (Epic Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Roundtable
Speakers: Jakin Vela (International Game Developers Association), Parker Wallace (International Game Developer Association (IGDA)), Suzanne Freyjadis (International Game Developers Association)
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Track: Advocacy, Special Event
Format: Special Event
IGDA Mentor Cafe (Presented by the IGDA)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass, Friday Only Pass
Track: Advocacy, Special Event
Format: Special Event
Improving Live Service Monetization Through Player Telemetry Enabled Marketing
Speaker: Richard Goldsmith (Deloitte Consulting)
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Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
Inclusive Gaming AI: Red Teaming for Accessibility and Disability
Speaker: Brannon Zahand (Microsoft)
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Track: Advocacy
Format: Lecture
Incubation Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speaker: Sho Sato (iGi / IGDA Incubation SIG)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Independent Games Summit: 'Bird': Developing a Game from Both Sides of a Prison Wall
Summit Speaker: Spencer Bambrick (Entanglement Interactive)
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Track: Independent Games
Format: Lecture
Independent Games Summit: 'The Crush House': Fresh Gameplay Inspired By The Real World
Summit Speaker: Nicole He (Independent)
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Track: Independent Games
Format: Lecture
Independent Games Summit: Comedy Through Patterns (How to Structure a Funny Video Game)
Summit Speaker: Tanat Boozayaangool (Tan Ant Games)
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Track: Independent Games
Format: Lecture
Independent Games Summit: Content-Ready Game Development
Summit Speaker: Matt Hackett (Valadria)
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Track: Business & Marketing, Independent Games
Format: Lecture
Independent Games Summit: Creating a Handcrafted Game: 'Harold Halibut' Postmortem
Summit Speakers: Onat Hekimoglu (Slow Bros. GmbH), Ole Tillmann (Slow Bros. GmbH)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Independent Games
Format: Lecture
Independent Games Summit: Developing at 5mb per Year: The Making of 'Animal Well'
Summit Speaker: Billy Basso (Shared Memory)
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Track: Independent Games
Format: Lecture
Independent Games Summit: Fostering a Culture of Clear Communication in Game Dev
Summit Speakers: Akash Thakkar (Thakkar Audio LLC), Ryan Ike (Independent), Charlie Harper (Ironwood Studios/ Co-op Kitchen/ Lucky Tree Studios), Jess Erion (Lucky Tree Studio / Independent), Ziyad Duron (Schell Games / Co-op Kitchen)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Independent Games
Format: Lecture
Summit Speaker: Walt Destler (Walternate Realities)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Independent Games
Format: Lecture
Independent Games Summit: Funding a Sustainable Cooperative Indie Studio in the Apocalypse
Summit Speakers: Ty Underwood (Lake Washington Institute of Technology), D. Squinkifer (Soft Chaos), Jess Rowan Marcotte (Soft Chaos Cooperative; QGCon)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Independent Games
Format: Lecture
Independent Games Summit: Fundraising Bootcamp: Legal and Business Considerations
Summit Speakers: Jon Loiterman (Foundation Law Group LLP), Steven Lee (Foundation Law Group, LLP)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Independent Games
Format: Lecture
Independent Games Summit: Gameplay System Design for Indies Microtalks: A Soapbox
Summit Speakers: Monica Fan (Pipeworks Studios), Damien Crawford (Cannibal Interactive), Jakub Kasztalski (Unbound Creations), Scott Fine (Skydance Interactive), Nat Loh (Independent), Joe Quadara (Recurver Consulting, Lunar Lunchbox)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Independent Games
Format: Lecture
Summit Speakers: Jenny Windom (Ivy Road), Dana Trebella (Spoke & Wheel Strategy)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Independent Games
Format: Panel
Independent Games Summit: How to Plan for Audio as a Developer
Summit Speaker: Em Halberstadt (A Shell in the Pit)
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Track: Independent Games
Format: Lecture
Independent Games Summit: Marketing Your Game Under the New Steam Rules
Summit Speaker: Chris Zukowski (How To Market A Game)
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Track: Independent Games
Format: Lecture
Summit Speaker: Michelle Olson (Banana Bird Studios)
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Track: Independent Games
Format: Lecture
Independent Games Summit: Microtalks: Solving Production Problems
Summit Speakers: Jen Costa (Uken Games), Shahrin Khan (Visai Games), Kaitlin Smith (Capybara Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Independent Games
Format: Lecture
Independent Games Summit: Sex Sells! Or Does It? Making Top Quality Adult Games
Summit Speaker: HotPink (HotPink Games)
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Track: Independent Games
Format: Lecture
Independent Games Summit: The Intricate Web of Relationships: Indigenous-Centered Design
Summit Speakers: Mary (waabishkiimiigwan) Hermes (Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia), Anangookwe Hermes-Roach (Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia), Renee Nejo (GIM), Joshua Herron (Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia), Steve Zimmerman (Eline Media), Jennifer Estaris (ustwo games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Independent Games
Format: Panel
Summit Speakers: Dana Trebella (Spoke & Wheel Strategy), Derek Leiu (Derek Lieu Creative)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Independent Games
Format: Lecture
Independent Games Summit: What Even is 1.0?: Indefinite Early Access and Live Development
Summit Speakers: Tanya X. Short (Kitfox Games), Tarn Adams (Bay 12 Games), Jason Grinblat (Freehold Games), Alexandra Orlando (Kitfox Games), Daniel Fedor (Blue Bottle Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Independent Games
Format: Panel
Indie Dev Guide to Video Ads: When You Can't Afford an Agency (Yet)
Speaker: Dillon Becker (Airtraffic)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
Insider Secrets: How Game Studios Quietly Out-Test the Competition (Presented by PickFu)
Sponsor Speaker: Heather De Bernardi (Bazooka Tango)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Business & Marketing, Design
Format: Sponsored Session
Insights for Devs: Engage and Grow Your Audience on Discord (Presented by Discord)
Sponsor Speakers: Robinson Eaton (Discord), Timothy Lu (Discord)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass, Friday Only Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Sponsored Session
Sponsor Speaker: Jiaxin Chen (Parametrix.ai)
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Track: Game Narrative, Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Sponsor Speaker: Sergio Alapont Granero (Arm)
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Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Invisible UI: How thatgamecompany Designs Interfaces for Emotional Immersion
Speaker: Dylan Faust (thatgamecompany)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Is Diversity a Dirty Word in 2025? Supercell's 4-Pillar Approach to DEI
Speakers: Deborah Mensah-Bonsu (Supercell), Casey Manning Jr (Supercell)
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Track: Advocacy
Format: Lecture
It's Gonna Hurt: Metagame Management in 'War Robots'
Speaker: Boris Burangulov (MY.GAMES)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Jazz Platforming in 'Penny's Big Breakaway'
Speaker: Esteban Fajardo (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Justifying Absurd Expenditures on Fonts and Other Silly Features
Speaker: Joshua Sawyer (Obsidian Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
KWS: Scaling Parental Consent and Verification in Fortnite and Beyond (Presented by Epic Games)
Sponsor Speaker: Dan McNeil (Epic Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Sponsored Session
Kids-as-Devs: How to Lead a Kids Game Jam Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speaker: Krystal Cooper (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass, Friday Only Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
King: Enhancing Mobile Audio with Accessibility and Inclusion
Speaker: Eduardo Broseta (King)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
Latinx in Games Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speaker: Elaine Gomez (Latinx in Gaming)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass, Friday Only Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Leaders Working at the Heart of the Team 2025
Speakers: Grant Shonkwiler (Shonkventures), Yash Kulkarni (Mighty Yell Studios Inc.), Lulu LaMer (Gravity Well), Trent Kusters (League of Geeks), Gina Hope (Riot Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
Speaker: Paul Lanois (Fieldfisher / Legal SIG Chair)
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Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Less Coding, More Booty Shakes: A New 'Peridot' Animation System
Speaker: Ashley Rosenbaum (Niantic, Inc.)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Let's Talk: Neurodiversity in the Games Industry Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speakers: Monica Fan (Pipeworks Studio), Lyn Dang (Noodle Cat Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Level Design Summit: 'Silent Hill 2': The Mystery of the Remake
Summit Speaker: Anna Oporska-Szybisz (Bloober Team)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Level Design Summit: Fostering Exploration: 15 Ways to Encourage Open World Engagement
Summit Speaker: Cameron Williams (Absurd Ventures)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Level Design Summit: From 'Skyrim' and 'Fallout' to Solo Dev: Creating 'The Axis Unseen'
Summit Speaker: Nathan Purkeypile (Just Purkey Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Level Design Summit: How Narrative Design Can Align Level Design and Art Around Themes & Tone
Summit Speaker: Lauryn Ash (Undead Labs)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Level Design Summit: Level Design in a Galaxy Far Far Away: 'Star Wars: Hunters'
Summit Speaker: Leonard Mah (NaturalMotion)
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Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Level Design Summit: The Unusual Level Design for 'Tactical Breach Wizards'
Summit Speaker: Steve Lee (Half Mermaid)
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Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Leveling Up Impact: How to Improve KPIs Through Purposeful Play
Speakers: Mathias Gredal Norvig (SYBO), Lisa Pak (United Nations Environment Programme), Jennifer Estaris (ustwo games)
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Track: Advocacy
Format: Panel
Leveling Up: How to Spec for Technical Leadership
Speaker: Zacariah Litton (The Believer Company)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
Live Service Games Summit: Anatomy of a Hit Word Game: 'Wordscapes Solitaire' Postmortem
Summit Speakers: Steven Meretzky (PeopleFun), Theodore McCormick (PeopleFun)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Live Service Games
Format: Lecture
Live Service Games Summit: Big BaaS Fishing
Summit Speaker: David Fox (Double Coconut)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Live Service Games
Format: Lecture
Live Service Games Summit: From Anchors to Zeigarniks: A-Z of Behavioural Psychology in F2P
Summit Speaker: Tim Shepherd (Metacore)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Live Service Games
Format: Lecture
Live Service Games Summit: How To Survive Your First Launch: A Community Manager's Guide
Summit Speaker: Lynn Richter (Velan Studios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Live Service Games
Format: Lecture
Summit Speakers: Margaux Diaz (King), Roberto Kusabbi (King)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Live Service Games
Format: Lecture
Live Service Games Summit: One Billion Plays: The Next Generation Meets 'Sonic' on 'Roblox'
Summit Speaker: Joe Ferencz (Gamefam)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Live Service Games
Format: Lecture
Live Service Games Summit: Reinventing 'Candy Crush Soda' for the Next 10 years
Summit Speakers: Abigail Rindo (King), Paul Hellier (King)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Live Service Games
Format: Lecture
Live Service Games Summit: Survey Says... Don't Waste My Time!
Summit Speaker: Linda Carlson (Arise Gaming)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Live Service Games
Format: Lecture
Live Service Games Summit: The Untapped Future and Opportunities of Free-To-Play
Summit Speaker: Mika Tammenkoski (Metacore)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Live Service Games
Format: Lecture
Live Service Games Summit: The Year in Live Service Games
Summit Speakers: Steven Meretzky (PeopleFun), Dave Rohrl (Mobile Game Doctor Inc.), Scott Hartsman (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Live Service Games
Format: Lecture
Summit Speaker: Peter Whalen (Riot Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Live Service Games
Format: Lecture
Live Service Games for the Modern Web: 'Dojo Islands'
Speaker: Brian Cronin (ClassDojo)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
LoG's Leadership Shortcut: A Decade of Hard-Won Lessons in Creative Leadership
Speaker: Trent Kusters (League of Geeks)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing, Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
Local Game Community Organizers Roundtable
Speakers: Michael Lee (Another Axiom), Sandra Castro Pinzon (Tan Grande y Jugando), Daniel Lin (Schell Games), Nickie Maxine (SIDIA - Institute of Science and Technology)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Localization Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speaker: Julia Gstoettner (exp:lore / Co-Chair Localization SIG)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass, Friday Only Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Machine Learning Summit: 'Rainbow Six Siege': Operation Bots
Summit Speakers: Joshua Romoff (Ubisoft), Alex Busby (Ubisoft)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Machine Learning Summit: Behind the Platform: Deploying ML for Voice Safety
Summit Speakers: Kiran Bhat (Roblox), Hannes Heikinheimo (Roblox)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Machine Learning Summit: Developing a Stats-Based Anti-Cheat Framework for 'Rainbow Six Siege'
Summit Speaker: Bettina Hein (Ubisoft Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Machine Learning Summit: Enhancing Development with LLMs and Multimodal Retrieval in 'Call of Duty'
Summit Speaker: Lorant Mikolas (Infinity Ward, Activision)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Machine Learning Summit: Fitting Armor Assets in 'World of Warcraft' with Deep Learning
Summit Speaker: Zhen Zhai (Blizzard Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Machine Learning Summit: Machine Learning Aimbot Detection in 'Call of Duty'
Summit Speakers: Haleema Sheraz (Activision (Microsoft)), Mathew Varghese (Activision (Microsoft))
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Machine Learning Summit: Next-Gen Infrastructure for Scalable AI/ML
Summit Speakers: Wah Loon Keng (Electronic Arts), Xin Gao (Electronic Arts)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Machine Learning Summit: SIMA: Developing General AI Agents with Video Games
Summit Speakers: Alexandre Moufarek (Google DeepMind), Piermaria Mendolicchio (Google DeepMind)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Machine Learning Summit: Twitch Chat Safety: Scalable and Personalized Moderation with Deep Learning
Summit Speaker: Linda Liu (Twitch)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Make your Game Available ANYWHERE with Xbox Cloud Gaming (Presented by Microsoft)
Sponsor Speakers: Harrison Hoffman (Microsoft), Jordan Cohen (Microsoft)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Sponsored Session
Making Black Hair Creation Accessible in Computer Graphics
Speaker: Isaac Olander (Tallgran)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Speaker: Joe Morrissey (The Believer Company)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Making Delightful Tools for Sustainable Small-Team Development
Speaker: Isadora Rodopoulos (Coldblood Inc.)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Making Games for Kids Roundtable Day 1
Speaker: Carla Engelbrecht (Betweened)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Roundtable
Making Games for Kids Roundtable Day 2
Speaker: Carla Engelbrecht (Betweened)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Roundtable
Making Jewish Games Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speaker: Amanda Sharkey (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Making Player Data Work in Post-Launch Roundtable Day 3
Speaker: Seb Long (Player Research)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Roundtable
Making Player Data Work in Pre-Production Roundtable Day 1
Speaker: Seb Long (Player Research)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Roundtable
Making Player Data Work in Production Roundtable Day 2
Speaker: Seb Long (Player Research)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Roundtable
Making of a Brawler: Character Creation for 'Brawl Stars'
Speaker: Fernanda Oliveira (Supercell)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Massive Sound: The Art of Music Supervision for AAA and Indie Games
Speakers: Mia Ginae Watkins (Riot Games), Justin Hawkes (Independent), Nadia Wheaton (Independent), Jackie Palazzolo (Riot Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Panel
Masterworking Systems: Lessons Learned from the Engineering of Season of Loot Reborn in 'Diablo IV'
Speaker: Patrick Ferland (Blizzard Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Melting Hearts and Quenching Thirst Roundtables: Romance in Games Day 1
Speakers: Michelle Clough (Talespinners), Souha Al-Samkari (Truant Pixel, LLC)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Roundtable
Melting Hearts and Quenching Thirst Roundtables: Sex in Games Day 2
Speakers: Michelle Clough (Talespinners), Souha Al-Samkari (Truant Pixel, LLC)
Track: Design
Format: Roundtable
Mental Maps, Mastery, and Metacognition: Game Design Lessons from Education
Speaker: Ben Schneider (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Meta Quest MR: Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond (Presented by Meta)
Sponsor Speaker: Chris Pruett (Meta)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Business & Marketing, VR/AR
Format: Sponsored Session
Monetizing Through Game Art: Creating Engaging Decors in 'Good Pizza, Great Pizza'
Speaker: Keyan Zhang (TapBlaze)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
Moving Files and Managing Assets at Naughty Dog
Speaker: Ezra Goss (Naughty Dog)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Moving to Mobile: Workflows for Unreal Engine Mobile Development (Presented by Epic Games)
Sponsor Speaker: Arvind Neelakantan (Epic Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Multiclassing: Switching from Lead Designer to Executive Producer
Speaker: Brett Norton (Oxide Interactive)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
Muslims in Games Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speaker: Osama Dorias (Brass Lion Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Sponsor Speakers: Ryan Mrazik (Perkins Coie LLP), Natasha Almani (Perkins Coie LLP)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Business & Marketing, Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Sponsor Speaker: Kent Keirsey (Invoke)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Sponsored Session
Open Source Licensing and Games Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speaker: Stephen Jacobs (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Opening a Billion Doors with Xbox (Presented by Microsoft)
Sponsor Speakers: Leo Olebe (MIcrosoft), Chris Charla (Microsoft)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Sponsored Session
Optimizing Continuous Physics in Box2D
Speaker: Erin Catto (Unannounced Studio)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
PUBG MOBILE: Creating A Fully Destructible World On Mobile (Presented by LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS)
Sponsor Speaker: Chao Yuan (LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Path Tracing Nanite in NVIDIA Zorah (Presented by NVIDIA)
Sponsor Speakers: Adam Marrs (NVIDIA), Evan Hart (NVIDIA), Jiayin Cao (NVIDIA)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Power of the Press: A Guide for Whistleblowing to Investigative Journalists
Speaker: Bryant Francis (Game Developer)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Lecture
Preempting Challenges in AAA Unreal Engine Development (Presented by Epic Games)
Sponsor Speaker: Chris Murphy (Epic Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Preserving the Past for the Future: A PlayStation Case Study
Speaker: Garrett Fredley (PlayStation)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Lecture
Prismatic People: Queer Narratives Beyond Romance
Speakers: Adanna Nedd (Independent), Dani Lalonders (Independent), Sena Bryer (Akupara Games), Nessa Cannon (Independent), Geneva Heyward (Dreamyard Project)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Panel
Procedural Generation with Design in Mind for 'LEGO® Horizon Adventures'
Speaker: Michael Boyle (Studio Gobo)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Procedural Stadium Creation for 'EA Sports College Football 25'
Speaker: Mat Suarez (Electronic Arts)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Process Lite: Less Time on Process, More Time on Development
Speaker: Anna Nguyen (Blind Squirrel Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
Production Traps: How Producers and Leaders Get Stuck
Speaker: Benjamin Carcich (Valarin, Inc., Building Better Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
Production Workshop: An In Depth Guide to Solving Tough, Real World Production Problems
Speakers: Charu Desodt (Interior Night), Dave Ranyard (Dream Reality Interactive), Fleur Marty (Ubisoft)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Workshop
Productive and Pragmatic Prototype Programming
Speaker: Andrew Fray (Studio Enso)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Sponsor Speakers: James Roadley-Battin (Electric Square, Keywords Studios), Jon Gibson (Electric Square A Keywords Studio)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Design, Production & Team Leadership
Format: Sponsored Session
Quality of Life in 'Call of Duty: Warzone': New Framework to Champion Players
Speakers: Francesco Galletti (Raven Software), Karl Beauregard (Beenox)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
Queers in the Games Industry Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speaker: Sarah Slovak (Lunacy Studios / IGDA LGBTQ+ SIG)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass, Friday Only Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Speaker: Mariusz Gasiewski (Google)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
RTX Neural Shading: Practical Techniques and Applications (Presented by NVIDIA)
Sponsor Speakers: Alexey Panteleev (NVIDIA), Alexey Bekin (NVIDIA)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Rapid and Creative Gameplay Prototyping in 'ASTRO BOT'
Speaker: Masayuki Yamada (Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design, Programming
Format: Lecture
Reaching Billions: Multiplatform Strategies and Performance Tools for Android (Presented by Google)
Sponsor Speakers: Simon Cooke (Google), Aly (Google), Gerald Li (Google), Patrick Martin (Google), Maximiliano Rodriguez (Gameloft)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Speaker: Katie Chironis (Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Game Career Development
Format: Lecture
Reimagining High Fantasy: The Score to 'Eternal Strands'
Speaker: Austin Wintory (Austin Wintory)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
Reimagining Leaders for 'Civilization VII'
Speakers: Chandrahas Tanguturi (Firaxis Games), Rue Taylor (Firaxis Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design, Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Rendering 'Assassin's Creed Shadows'
Speaker: Nicolas Lopez (Ubisoft)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Rewriting Your Game Career Love Story (Taylor's Version)
Speaker: Sonia Michaels (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Game Career Development
Format: Lecture
Roblox Luau – Weapons-Grade Scripting for Gameplay Programmers (Presented by Roblox)
Sponsor Speaker: MrChickenRocket (Roblox)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Rules of the Game 2025: Uncommon Techniques from Insightful Designers
Speakers: Richard Rouse III (FarBridge), Harvey Smith (Independent), Alisha Thayer (Crystal Dynamics), Chandana Ekanayake (Outerloop Games), Carla Engelbrecht (Betweened), Noah Falstein (The Inspiracy)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Scale Up Ray Tracing in Games With RTX Mega Geometry (Presented by NVIDIA)
Sponsor Speakers: Juha Sjöholm (NVIDIA), Adam Marrs (NVIDIA), Manuel Kraemer (NVIDIA), Jan Schmid (NVIDIA)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Sponsor Speaker: Kylan Gibbs (Inworld AI)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
See the UNSEEN: Revealing the Art and Animation of 'KEMURI'
Speakers: Liam Wong (UNSEEN Inc.), Raul Ibarra (UNSEEN Inc.)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Serious Games Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speaker: Matthew Lee (Serious Games SIG)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Serving Players' Needs: A New Look at What Players Want
Speaker: Andrew Pappas (RenGen Marketing)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
Six Pillars of Impactful Onboarding
Speaker: Lindsay Thacker (Riot Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
Skins in the Game: Indigenous Storytelling in Cyberspace
Speakers: Nancy Townsend (Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace), Vanessa Racine (Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace), Maxime Perreault (Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace), Destiny Chescappio (Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace), Taylor McArthur (Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace), Margaret Summers (Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Lecture
Speaker: Nadia Thorne (Black Salt Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
Smash the Scene in 'Marvel Rivals'
Speaker: Xiaosheng Li (NetEase Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
So You Have a Fandom: Respecting and Understanding Fan Communities
Speaker: Megan Roche (Pocket Gems)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing, Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
Spatial Audio for VR: 'Batman: Arkham Shadow'
Speakers: Ryan David Kull (Meta Platforms, Inc.), Pete Stirling (Meta Platforms, Inc.), Julian Korzeniowsky (Meta Platforms, Inc.)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
Speed Up Game Development Using an AI Copilot for Game Engines (Presented by Coplay)
Sponsor Speaker: Jos (Coplay)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Design, Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Stick to It: Creating a UI Identity for 'LEGO Horizon Adventures'
Speaker: Chris Francis (Studio Gobo)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Stories of Studio Stability Roundtable Day 1
Speaker: Jesse Schell (Schell Games LLC)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Roundtable
Stories of Studio Stability Roundtable Day 2
Speaker: Jesse Schell (Schell Games LLC)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Roundtable
Storytelling Fundamentals Workshop
Speaker: Evan Skolnick (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Game Narrative
Format: Workshop
Streamlining Bot Development in 'For Honor' with ML Automation
Speakers: Philippe Marcotte (Ubisoft), Tarik Azzouni (Ubisoft)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Sponsor Speaker: Calvin Gu (LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Sponsored Session
Surface Gradients: The New Normal in Realtime Bump Mapping Workflows
Speaker: Sean Sherwin (Unity Technologies)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Tabletop Summit: 'Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread'
Summit Speakers: Ira Fay (MIT), Cody Miller (Far Off Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Tabletop Summit: Beyond the Rulebook: Innovations in Board Game Teachability and Learnability
Summit Speaker: Emma Larkins (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Summit Speaker: Ian Clayman (Exploding Kittens, Inc.)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Tabletop Summit: Early-Access Tabletop: How Adapting Digital-Game Methods Built Arcs
Summit Speakers: Cole Wehrle (Leder Games, Wehrlegig Games), Josh Yearsley (Leder Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Tabletop Summit: From Cardboard to Pixels: The Challenges and Rewards
Summit Speakers: Krzysztof Zarczynski (Monster Couch), Theresa Duringer (Temple Gates Games), Scott Martins (Dire Wolf), Cole Wehrle (Leder Games / Wehrlegig Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Design
Format: Panel
Tabletop Summit: Sustainable Design: Lessons from 25 Years of 'Duel Masters'
Summit Speaker: Richard Zapp (Wizards of the Coast)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Tabletop Summit: Unveiling 'Blood on the Clocktower': Risky Social Game Design
Speaker: Steven Medway (The Pandemonium Institute)
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Tackling Climate Issues and Stress in the Games Industry Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speaker: Clayton Whittle (Sustainable Forestry Initiative / IGDA Climate SIG)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Taking Risks and Raising Emotional Stakes: The Music of 'Still Wake The Deep'
Speaker: Jason Graves (Jason Graves Music. Inc.)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
Tales from Project Polaris: Solutions to Game Design's Toughest Problems
Speakers: Ian Schreiber (Independent), JC Lau (ProbablyMonsters), Alexander Martin (Droqen), Rosa Carbo-Mascarell (Improbable), Theresa Duringer (Temple Gates Games), Jurie Horneman (Half Mermaid Productions), Rayla Heide (Scopely)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Panel
Teaching First-Time Level Designers for 'Infinity Nikki'
Speaker: Kentaro Tominaga (Infold Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Design, Game Career Development
Format: Lecture
Teaching Nix to Behave in 'Star Wars Outlaws'
Speakers: Simon Abou Assi (Massive Entertainment – a Ubisoft Studio), Sarah Schulze (Massive Entertainment – a Ubisoft Studio), Juan Miguel Lechuga Pérez (Massive Entertainment – a Ubisoft Studio)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Technical Artist Roundtable Day 1
Speaker: Jeff Hanna (NVIDIA)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Roundtable
Technical Artist Roundtable Day 2
Speaker: Jeff Hanna (NVIDIA)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Roundtable
Technical Artist Roundtable Day 3
Speaker: Jeff Hanna (NVIDIA)
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Roundtable
Technical Artist Summit: 'Dragon's Dogma 2': The Hidden World of Rigging and Cloth Simulation
Summit Speaker: Petr Zapotocky (Capcom)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Technical Artist Summit: 'LEGO Horizon Adventures': An Approach to Cinematics
Summit Speaker: Andrea Zanelli (Studio Gobo Ltd.)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Technical Artist Summit: 'LEGO Horizon Adventures': Procedural Optimizing
Summit Speaker: Simon Verstraete (Studio Gobo)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Technical Artist Summit: Crafting Seamless Level Transitions in 'Star Wars Outlaws'
Summit Speakers: Ricardo Silva (Massive Entertainment - A Ubisoft Studio), Martin Kulig (Massive Entertainment - A Ubisoft Studio)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Technical Artist Summit: Practical Applications of Object Oriented Programming in Technical Art
Speaker: Muhammad Bin Tahir Mir (Naughty Dog)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Sponsor Speaker: Katsuki Noda (Algomatic)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Format: Sponsored Session
Speakers: Carl Varnado (Rancho Solano), Kim Belair (Sweet Baby Inc), Pamela Iluore (PlayStation), Jabari Alii (Hidden Genius), Jarory de Jesus (Coquito Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Panel
The Challenges in Developing an Innovative Battle System for 'Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth'
Speaker: Teruki Endo (Square-Enix)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Speakers: Grant Shonkwiler (Shonkventures LLC), Trevin York (Dire Lark), Paula Angela Escuadra (Microsoft / Xbox), Jennifer Estaris (ustwo games), Arnaud Fayolle (Ubisoft)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Workshop
The Discovery of the Perfect NavMesh
Speaker: Ben Sunshine-Hill (Havok)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
The ECS Behind 'Space Marine 2'
Speaker: Sergei Avdeev (Saber Interactive)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Speaker: Beom-jun Lee (NEXON Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Sponsored Session
The Four One-Page Design Docs You Need (And How to Use Them)
Speaker: Ian Schreiber (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
The Future of Gaming: The Next 1,000 Days (Presented by GlobalStep)
Sponsor Speakers: Leah Hoyer (Level Headed Games), Jason Chapman (Konvoy Ventures), Ryan Filsinger (Iron Fox Games), Luke Takeuchi (Night Garden Studio), Jeff Pobst (Hidden Path Entertainment), Tim Fields (Cloudmine Software)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Format: Sponsored Session
The Game Maker's Zodiac: A Team-Building Tool
Speaker: Isaque Sanches (Ubisoft)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design, Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
The Great Engine Debate Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speaker: Daya Singh (PlayEveryWare / Engineering SIG Board Member)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass, Friday Only Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
The Impact of Implementing Core Values
Speakers: Colin Walder (CD PROJEKT RED), Marta Wozniak (CD PROJEKT RED)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
The Magic Behind Ray-Traced Lighting in Star Wars Outlaws (Presented by NVIDIA)
Sponsor Speakers: Paula Jukarainen (NVIDIA), Quentin Kuenlin (Massive Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Speaker: Nicolas Doucet (Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design, Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
The Product Manager's Guide to Strategic Game Teardowns
Speaker: Oindrila Mandal (Electronic Arts)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
The Secret to Narrative-Driven and Short-Term Development in 'Like a Dragon'
Speakers: Ryosuke Horii (SEGA), Eiji Hamatsu (SEGA)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design, Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
The State of PC and Console Games in 2025
Speaker: Ben Porter (Newzoo)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
The Synthesizer Plugins of 'COCOON'
Speaker: Jakob Schmid (Geometric Interactive)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio, Programming
Format: Lecture
The Ultimate Guide to Optimize Vulkan & Ray Tracing Android Games (Presented by Samsung Electronics)
Sponsor Speakers: Jungwoo Kim (Samsung Electronics), Darius Bozek (Samsung Electronics), Munseong Kang (Samsung Electronics)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
The Universal Scene Description (USD) Roundtable Day 1: Workflows
Speaker: Robin-Yann Storm (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Roundtable
The Universal Scene Description (USD) Roundtable Day 2: Tech
Speaker: Robin-Yann Storm (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Roundtable
The Voice Designer’s Toolbox: Dialogue in 'Star Wars Outlaws'
Speaker: Charles Pateman (Massive Entertainment – a Ubisoft Studio)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
The Voices of 'Senua's Saga: Hellblade II': From Binaural Recording to Creative Manipulation
Speaker: Daniele Galante (Ninja Theory)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
Speaker: Hiroyuki Masuno (CRI Middleware Co., Ltd.)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
Three Mindset Shifts to Lead a World-Class Team
Speaker: Kristie Fisher (PlayStation Studios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
Thriving Players Summit: Avoiding Toxic Positivity in Games for Emotional Well-Being
Summit Speaker: Hannah C. Gunderman (Lumi Interactive)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Lecture
Thriving Players Summit: Bringing the "Outside" In
Summit Speakers: Bria Davis (Young Horses), Maria Beck (Sweet Baby, Inc.), Coby West (Independent), Colin McInerney (Independent), Jay Justice (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Lecture
Thriving Players Summit: Expanding Player Impact in Social Spaces
Summit Speaker: Andreia Goncalves (EA)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Lecture
Thriving Players Summit: It's Okay to Slow Down
Summit Speakers: Tim Nixon (thatgamecompany), Atlas Chen (thatgamecompany)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Lecture
Speakers: Jonathan Cheng (Riot Games), Nicolas Grenon-Godbout (Ubisoft)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Lecture
Thriving Players Summit: Prosocial Design Workshop
Summit Speakers: Natasha Miller (Blizzard Entertainment), Weszt Hart (Riot Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Workshop
Thriving Players Summit: The Greenheart Way: Designing for Presence Without Intrusion
Summit Speaker: Lucas Johnson (Silverstring Media Inc.)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Lecture
Thriving Remotely: Growing a Successful Video Game Studio in a Virtual World
Speaker: Trisha Stouffer (Stoic)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing, Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
Tool Design Roundtable Day 1: Design and UX
Speaker: Robin-Yann Storm (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Roundtable
Tool Design Roundtable Day 2: Production & Strategy
Speaker: Robin-Yann Storm (Independent)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Roundtable
Tool Design Roundtable Day 3: User Research
Speaker: Robin-Yann Storm (Independent)
Track: Design
Format: Roundtable
Tools Roundtable Day 1: Engineering
Speaker: Geoff Evans (NVIDIA)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Roundtable
Tools Roundtable Day 2: Assets
Speaker: Geoff Evans (NVIDIA)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Roundtable
Speaker: Geoff Evans (NVIDIA)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Roundtable
Tools Summit: A Series of Microtalks About Spreadsheets
Summit Speakers: Guillaume Pierre (Magic Fuel Games), Nathan Harling (EA Maxis), Russ Fan (Independent), Lauren Scott (Double Fine), Tyler Coleman (Ludo Systems Inc.), Tomo Moriwaki (Hyperkinetic Studios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Tools Summit: Designing Extensibility for EA’s Submission Tool CheckMate
Summit Speaker: Byron Mayne (Electronic Arts)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Tools Summit: Mission Kontrol: Revolutionizing Combat Testing for 'Mortal Kombat 1'
Summit Speaker: Etienne Palmer-Campbell (NetherRealm Studios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Tools Summit: Nodes and Native Code: DECIMA's Visual Programming for Every Discipline
Summit Speaker: Bryan Keiren (Guerrilla)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Tools Summit: Unlocking Hidden Value: UX Behind the Final Product, the CDPR Way
Summit Speaker: Anna Nojek (CD PROJEKT RED)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Lecture
Translating Between Business and Creativity as a Games Producer
Speaker: John Lau (ustwo games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
Turning Around a Playerbase in Crisis: A 'Destiny 2' Case Study
Speaker: Alan Blaine (Bungie)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Lecture
Sponsor Speakers: Karl Kohlman (Pacific Drive), Kendall Wix (Ironwood Studios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Design
Format: Sponsored Session
Twitch Integration Basics: How to Make Your Game Stand Out on Twitch
Speaker: Thomas Tuts (Streaming Toolsmith)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
UX Summit: Designed to Scale: Optimizing Game UX for Cross-Platform Audiences
Summit Speaker: Jonathan Bieda (VRChat)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
UX Summit: From Dark Patterns to Fair Play: Ethical Game Design Solutions
Summit Speaker: Marie Potel-Saville (Amurabi)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
UX Summit: Making the World Playful: The Importance of Accessible Mobile Games
Summit Speaker: Emilio Jeldrez (King)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
UX Summit: Mastering Player Engagement: The Dark Side of Game Psychology
Summit Speaker: Reine Abbas (Wixel Studios/SpicaTech)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
UX Summit: Mind Over Mechanics: Using Cognitive Science to Enhance Game Development
Summit Speaker: Vanessa Hemovich (Digipen Institute of Technology)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
UX Summit: UX Writing: A New(ish) Craft in Mobile Games
Summit Speaker: Patricia Gomez (King)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
UX Summit: VR Is for Everyone: Designing Comfortable Virtual Reality
Summit Speaker: Tabby Rose (Mighty Yell Studios)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Unions in Gaming: The Past, Present, and Future
Speakers: Jason Schreier (Bloomberg News), Tom Smith (Communication Workers of America)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Panel
Sponsor Speakers: Esteban Enrique Maldonado Cabán (Unity), Laurent Gibert (Unity)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Unity Developer Summit: Building Fear: The Tech Behind Phasmophobia (Presented by Unity)
Sponsor Speaker: Benjamin Lavender (Kinetic Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Design, Independent Games
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Sponsor Speaker: Scott Menzer (Unity)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Business & Marketing, Programming
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Unity Developer Summit: Getting Dredge to Look Great and Run Cool on Mobile (Presented by Unity)
Sponsor Speaker: Joe Cruz (Unity)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Sponsor Speakers: Elad Damian Nachman (Unity), Mathieu Muller (Unity)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming, VR/AR
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Sponsor Speakers: Andy Biar (Unity), Matt Schoen (Unity)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming, VR/AR
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Unity Developer Summit: Performance Tips & Tricks from a Unity Consultant (Presented by Unity)
Sponsor Speaker: Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo (Unity)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Sponsor Speakers: Franco Spina (Unity), Eric Bolitho (Metacore)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Business & Marketing, Design
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Sponsor Speaker: Jorge Martinez Vargas (Scopely)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Production & Team Leadership, Programming
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Unity Developer Summit: The Unity Engine Roadmap (Presented by Unity)
Sponsor Speakers: Marc-André Ferguson (Unity), Laurent Gibert (Unity)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Unlock the Full Potential of your Game with Vulkan and ADPF (Presented by Google)
Sponsor Speakers: Nate Trost (Google), Dohyun Kim (Google), Jungwoo Kim (Samsung)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Unlocking Gamer Motivations: Insights from 1.75+ Million Players Over a Decade
Speaker: Nick Yee (Quantic Foundry)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
Unlocking Revenue: The Future of In-Game Purchases (Presented by Worldpay)
Sponsor Speakers: Hesper Huang (Worldpay), Luis Silva (Mastercard)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Sponsored Session
User Generated Compassion in 'Sky: Children of the Light'
Speaker: Kyle Holdwick (thatgamecompany)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Using ARGs to Communicate What Makes 'Animal Well' Special
Speaker: Dan Adelman (Shared Memory)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
VFX Storytelling: How 'Hearthstone' Breathes Life into Hundreds of Cards
Speaker: Alex Cortes (Blizzard Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Vehicle Audio in 'Cyberpunk 2077': All About the Players
Speakers: Michał Pukała (CD PROJEKT RED), Adam Dyrszka (CD PROJEKT RED)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
Video Games and Crowdfunding: Best Practices from Successful Campaigns
Speaker: Thomas Bidaux (ICO)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
Visceral Sound on Tiny Speakers: The VR Audio of Indie Game 'UNDERDOGS'
Speaker: Idan Egozy (One Hamsa)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
Visual Effects Roundtable Day 1
Speakers: Jason Keyser (VFX Apprentice), David Johnson (Undertone FX)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Roundtable
Visual Effects Roundtable Day 2
Speakers: Jason Keyser (VFX Apprentice), David Johnson (Undertone FX)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Roundtable
Visual Effects Roundtable Day 3
Speakers: Jason Keyser (VFX Apprentice), David Johnson (Undertone FX)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Roundtable
Visual Effects Summit: Approaching Embergen!
Summit Speaker: Dan Paynter (Beyond-FX)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Visual Effects Summit: Are You Visually Literate? Crafting Clear and Satisfying VFX
Summit Speaker: Rachel Quitevis (Beyond-FX)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Visual Effects Summit: Math, but Make It Cute
Summit Speaker: Chih-Yu Hsieh (Tuatara)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Visual Effects Summit: Redefining Physical VFX Systems
Summit Speaker: Igor Chiang (Havok)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Summit Speakers: Shaoyong (Abel) Zhang (Funplus games), Yongchao Wen (Funplus Games), Jinghua Jiang (Funplus Games), Chenlin Tong (Funplus Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Visual Effects Summit: VFX Tricks that Might Save Your Life
Summit Speaker: Bruno Afonseca (Tuatara VFX)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
Visualizing Next-Gen Games With RTX Neural Rendering and Unreal Engine 5 (Presented by NVIDIA)
Sponsor Speakers: Richard Cowgill (NVIDIA), Kelsey Mihalatos (NVIDIA)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Sponsored Session
Voice-Over Pipeline of 'Avowed' for the Weird and Wondrous Living Lands
Speakers: Kaitlin Long (Obsidian Entertainment), Daniel Chamberlin (Obsidian Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
Weaving the Systemic Soundscape of 'Eternal Strands'
Speaker: Alex Davies (Yellow Brick Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
What Indies Need Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
Speaker: Robert Madsen (SynaptixGames, Chair IGDA Indies Sig)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
What Publishing a Book Taught Me About Publishing Video Games
Speaker: Karah Sutton (PikPok)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
What Was That Noise?! Creative UI Sound Design with Intention
Speaker: Jonathan Bell (Formosa Interactive UK)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Track: Audio
Format: Lecture
What's New in Game History: 2025
Speakers: Laine Nooney (New York University), Phil Salvador (Video Game History Foundation), Kendra Albert (Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic), Henry Lowood (Stanford University Libraries), Jason Scott (Internet Archive)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Panel
Speakers: Reed Devany (Reed Devany Writing Associates), Nico Valdivia Hennig (Niebla Games), Celeste Sangiorgio (Rochester Institute of Technology), Nick Ballou (University of Oxford)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Advocacy
Format: Panel
When Animation Is Simply Not Enough
Speaker: Richard Lico (CorAnimus LLC)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Visual Arts
Format: Lecture
When Playtesters Are Children: Lessons in Patience and Play
Speaker: Kelly Tran (The Believer Company)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Design
Format: Lecture
Why Build with Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) (Presented by Epic Games)
Sponsor Speakers: Heather Storm (Epic Games), Josh Grant (Epic Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Design
Format: Sponsored Session
Windows Productivity Tools for Game Developers (Presented by Microsoft)
Sponsor Speakers: Demitrius Nelon (MIcrosoft), Kayla Cinnamon (Microsoft)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Track: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Working Abroad in Game Dev, Is It for You?
Speakers: Joseph Knox (Free Range Games), Lena Machul (Naughty Dog), Lisa Kretschmer (IO Interactive), Jonathan Martin (IO Interactive), Gareth Richards (Sledgehammer Games)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Track: Game Career Development
Format: Panel
