View, browse and sort the ever-growing list of sessions by day, time, pass type, topic, and format. With this Session Viewer, you can view session and speaker details for Game Developers Conference 2024.
You will be able to build your schedule with the GDC Mobile App. The GDC 2024 app will be available for download in Apple Apps and Google Play late February 2024.Sessions do fill up and seating is first come, first serve, so arrive early to sessions that you would like to attend. Adding a session to your schedule does not guarantee you a seat.
Speakers: Daniel Homan (Respawn Entertainment), Patrick Wren (Respawn Entertainment)
Location: Room 2016, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Topic: Game Narrative
Format: Session
'Diablo IV': The Art of Open World Sanctuary
Speakers: Mahreen Fatima (Blizzard Entertainment), Sam Gao (Blizzard Entertainment), Justin Whitehead (Blizzard Entertainment)
Location: Room 2005, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Topic: Visual Arts
Format: Session
Making the Most of the Magic of Meta Quest (Presented by Meta)
Sponsor Speaker: Ben Walker (Meta)
Location: Room 2024, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Topic: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Closing the Gender Gap in Game Audio Design
Speakers: Debbie Gonzalez (The Sound Lab a Keywords Studio), Kat Wenske (Team Audio), Monet Gardiner (Sony Interactive Entertainment PlayStation), Alexandra Takei (Ruckus Games), Gina Zdanowicz (Serial Lab Sound)
Location: Room 3002, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Topic: Advocacy, Audio
Format: Session
Title: Senior Environment Artist
Company: Blizzard Entertainment
Mahreen Fatima is a Senior Environment Artist on Diablo IV at Blizzard Entertainment. She focuses on worldbuilding, level art, and environment art direction. Her previous experiences include working at studios such as 343 Industries, Oculus, and Amazon and has contributed to various projects including Halo Infinite. Her main passion in environment art is storytelling and art direction and appreciates any opportunity to tell a story with environments.
Title: Dialogue Designer
Company: Sony Interactive Entertainment PlayStation
Monet Gardiner is a Sound Designer with 10+ years of experience in video games, film, television, music, and multimedia. As a Sound Design graduate from Savannah College of Art and Design, Monet has worked with 343 Industries at Microsoft on Halo Infinite and Electronic Arts on NBA Live 19 and NBA Live 20. Noteworthy achievements include Production Mixer & Supervisor on Emmy award-winning live sitcom “The BUZZ”, multiple MPSE Golden Reel Nominations for Sound Editing, and Dialogue Designer on 2023 BAFTA Best Audio and EE Game of the Year “God of War:Ragnarok”. Recently in addition to her work on God of War: Ragnarok, Monet has been working on titles such as The Last of Us 2 Remastered and Death Stranding 2 as a Dialogue Designer with Sony Interactive Entertainment PlayStation. Monet's impact continues to reverberate through the industry through her commitment to giving back to the game audio community by fostering diversity and inclusion as a proactive board member of the Game Audio Diversity Alliance, a non-profit charity which aims to provide career advancement opportunities for underrepresented voices through education, mentoring, and financial support.
Title: Developer Relations Engineer
Company: Meta
Ben Walker’s career has spanned from 5-person teams, where he led development of Wintermoor Tactics Club, to 500-person teams, where he programmed Forge mode at 343 Industries. Now he talks to programmers working on the Meta Quest, trying to help small teams use hardware well and help Meta meet developer desires.
Title: Senior Encounter Designer
Company: Respawn Entertainment
Patrick Wren is currently a Senior Encounter Designer at Respawn Entertainment and helped ship Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. He has worked in the game industry for over a decade, designing content at LucasArts and 343 Industries on the Star Wars and Halo franchises, respectively. In addition, Patrick has helped support the Game Developers Conference over the years as a Conference Associate volunteer, to connect with game developers and mentor the next generations of designers.
