View, browse and sort the ever-growing list of sessions by day, pass type, topic, and format. With this Session Viewer, you can view GDC 2023 session details and speakers, and share your favorites via social media. You will be able to build your schedule and access it during the show via export or 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.
Future Realities Summit: Building Better Digital Ethics and Laws: Meatspace meets Metaverse
Speakers: Ryan Black (DLA Piper (Canada) LLP), Gaetano Dimita (Queen Mary University, QMUL School of Law), Micaela Mantegna (Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University)
Location: Room 209, South Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Topic: VR/AR
Format: Panel
Web3 Forum: Real BUIDL: Ultimate Scaling Solution for Web3 Gaming (Presented by NodeReal)
Sponsor Speakers: Julian DiCarlo (NodeReal), Stefan Colins (Venly), Connor Oshea (BNB Chain), Kerf Chang (Particle Network)
Location: Room 3009, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Business & Marketing, Programming
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Xsolla Developer Summit: Enjoy the Game: Industry Statistics and Trends 2023 (Presented by Xsolla)
Sponsor Speaker: Chris Hewish (Xsolla)
Location: Room 2024, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Business & Marketing
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Wemade Developer Summit: The Future of Gaming: Inter-game Play and Beyond (Presented by Wemade)
Sponsor Speaker: Henry Chang (Wemade)
Location: Room 2000, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Business & Marketing
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Sponsor Speakers: A.J. Warner (Arbitrum), Karel Vuong (Treasure)
Location: Room 3009, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Business & Marketing, Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Sponsor Speaker: Alun Evans (Freeverse)
Location: Room 3009, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Business & Marketing
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Free-to-Play Summit: Tales from the Crypto
Speaker: David Fox (Double Coconut)
Location: Room 2016, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Topic: Free-to-Play
Format: Lecture
Sponsor Speaker: Nayana Singh (ConsenSys)
Location: Room 3009, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Understanding the Audio Needs of a Game and Its Audience
Speaker: Adele Cutting (Soundcuts Ltd)
Location: Room 3002, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Topic: Audio
Format: Lecture
New Legacies and Joining Forces in Web3 (Presented by Polygon Labs)
Sponsor Speakers: Annu Shekhawat (Polygon Labs), Luke Paglia (AMGI Studios), Johnny Casamassina (Plai Labs (Champions Ascension)), David Johannsson (Blocklords)
Location: Room 3020, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Sponsored Session
The Next Generation of Blockchain Gaming. Where Fun Meets Functional. (Presented by SKALE Labs)
Sponsor Speakers: Jack O'Holleran (SKALE Labs), Topper Bowers (Crypto Colosseum), Ezgi Cengiz (Consensys), Kwame Bryan (ChainSafe), Domenik Maier (iBLOXX and 0xBattleGround)
Location: Room 2000, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Business & Marketing
Format: Sponsored Session
Sponsor Speaker: Ezgi Cengiz (ConsenSys)
Location: Room 2011, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: VR/AR
Format: Sponsored Session
The Current and Future Ethical Challenges in Games: XR and the Metaverse
Speakers: Celia Hodent (independent), Gaetano Dimita (Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London), Albert Fox Cahn (Surveillance Technology Oversight Project), Micaela Mantegna (Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University), Ryan Black (DLA Piper (Canada) LLP)
Location: Room 207, South Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Advocacy
Format: Panel
Title: Head of Marketing + Community
Company: Venly
Stefan is the Head of the Marketing + Community at Venly, a developer-friendly blockchain technology provider specialized in Wallet, NFT and Marketplace solutions.
As a strategic and technology professional he has a great passion for Metaverses, (blockchain) gaming, NFTs & new technologies. Stefan is convinced that creating the right Metaverse strategy will be one of the biggest challenges for many games, companies and brands.*
He strongly believes in the powerful combination of blockchain, gaming technology and cryptocurrency. Blockchain gaming in "the metaverse" will become huge the upcoming years...and it's here to stay.
Title: Audio Director
Company: Soundcuts Ltd
Adele Cutting is a BAFTA award-winning audio professional with 20+ years’ experience in directing actors, audio direction, designing sound, music editing and casting and covering 'all things audio' across games, TV, installations, mobile, VR and Audio Drama. In 2011, Adele founded audio production company, Soundcuts Ltd, winners of both Develop and TIGA awards. Soundcuts work with clients across the UK and Worldwide examples include: Supermassive Games, Netflix, Nickelodeon, Stellar Entertainment, Interior Night, Fireproof Games and Microsoft. Before Soundcuts, Adele trained at the NFTS and worked briefly in film before spending15 years at EA, working her way up the ranks from Junior Sound Designer to Senior Audio Director, working on blockbuster titles plus well known cult classics Populous the Beginning and Theme Park World. Adele regularly sits on juries for various sound awards (BAFTA, MAS and the Game Audio Network Guild) and regularly talks at Universities and Game Industry events.
Title: Affiliate, Video Game Policy Research
Company: Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
Known as the "Abogamer", Micaela Mantegna is a leading expert in the emerging field of video game policy, ethical AI, XR, and the governance of the Metaverse. An activist of gaming as an instrument of social change, she is co-founder and board member of Women In Games Argentina (WIGAr), a non-profit working towards a more inclusive gaming industry; and a Women in Games International (WIGJ) Ambassador. She is an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard, leading the Video Game Policy Group. Her research covers: *gaming and digital rights, *governance of virtual worlds and the Metaverse, *NFTs and artificial scarcity, *generative AI and copyright law, *ethical implications of AI, gaming, and XR technologies, *streaming as a negative area of intellectual property, *content moderation in gaming environments, *monetization practices, *games industry regulatory challenges. She holds a Master's degree in Intellectual Property from San Andres University /WIPO, and a specialist degree in Computer Law from Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) with a dissertation on ethical algorithmic governance. She is an affiliate professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation at Universidad de San Andres; the AI Governance and Ethics professor at the Center for Technology and Society (CETyS), and the recipient of the 2017 Google Policy Fellowship for her research on algorithmic governance. Due to her intersectional expertise on ethics, AI, Internet governance and innovation, she was invited by the Argentinian government to draft the chapter of AI ethics and regulation for Argentina's national AI Plan. An experienced public speaker, she has lectured at international conferences such as More Than Just a Game, RightsCon, AI World Korea, Vancouver Biennale, Internet Freedom Festival or MozFest; as well as being a media correspondent at E3, The Game Awards, GDC and other industry-related events. In 2016 she founded Geekylegal, an outreach initiative on topics related to law and tech policy explained through the lenses of pop culture. In one full circle moment of her career as Abogamer, she was chosen to be the face of EA's Mass Effect Community Tribute video worldwide, and a DEI speaker on the Xbox Series X/S launch event for Argentina. Her first book: "ARTficial Intelligence: computer creativity and copyright" is being published by CDyT, and she is currently finishing "I am not a Robot: AI for humans".
Title: General Manager, Product
Company: ConsenSys
Nayana Singh is a General Manager/Head of Product at ConsenSys responsible for the developer strategy for NFTs, Higher level API’s, SDK and other developer investments. Before ConsenSys, she worked at Microsoft for 10+ years in Product Management and Product Planning focused on building new products/businesses from scratch including blockchain services. She has nearly two decades of experience in product management and software development. She holds an MS in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and an MBA from University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Title: Co-Founder & COO
Company: Treasure
Karel Vuong is the Co-Founder & COO at Treasure, a crypto-native game publisher and ecosystem connected by games, resources, and infrastructure. Before Treasure, Karel worked in VC and was a founding member of several exited startups. Karel has been in crypto since 2019 and NFTs since 2021 and is also a university dropout, lifelong gamer, former PM and software engineer, and a proud Canadian.