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.
Sponsor Speaker: Peng Sun (NetEase Games)
Location: Room 2000, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Topic: Design
Format: Sponsored Session
Sponsor Speakers: Kwan Cheng (NetEase Games), Tony Liu (NetEase Games)
Location: Room 3009, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Topic: Design
Format: Next-Gen Tech Forum
Art Direction Summit: Nature's Language: Symbolism-Based Secrets of Dynamic Creatures
Speaker: Michael V. Eppinette (NetEase Games)
Location: Room 3016, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Topic: Visual Arts
Format: Session
Sponsor Speaker: Hazel Zhang (AELF)
Location: Room 3009, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Topic: Advocacy
Format: Next-Gen Tech Forum
A Deeper Understanding of Chinese Game Studios: How They Operate
Speakers: Zechen Xu (NetEase), Yongcheng Liu (NetEase)
Location: Room 301, South Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass
Topic: Game Career Development
Format: Session
Title: Eggy Party Producer and General Manager of Eggy Studio
Company: NetEase Games
Eggy Party Producer and General Manager of Eggy Studio at NetEase Games
Title: Sr. Concept Artist
Company: NetEase Games
Michael Eppinette is a Professional Creature Designer and Concept Artist who began working in the film industry in 2016. Michael has always loved creatures, both real and imaginary. As a student, he was a volunteer zookeeper at the Houston Zoo. Upon winning a creature design contest with the Stan Winston School of Character Arts during his final year of high school, he flew to Los Angeles to see his first creature design transformed into a 7 ft tall monster suit. From there, he was introduced to Alec Gillis at Studio ADI, who let him cut his teeth sketching for an early design phase of Shane Black's "The Predator". In the following years, he worked as a designer and modeler on many other properties and Studio ADI projects, including "Prey", the most recent installment of the Predator franchise in 2022, where he was charged with designing and modeling the titular monster. Since then, Michael has moved to the videogame industry as a Senior Concept Artist for NetEase Games, where he has continued to this day designing creatures, monsters and characters for fantasy and scifi properties.
Title: Producer and UX leader
Company: NetEase
Yongcheng Liu is in charge of NetEase Game UX department. He leads a UX department of 100 people, including data technology, UI/UX, user research, community management and so on. He has been involved in the development of a large number of successful NetEase Games products and is highly influential in the UX area of the Chinese gaming industry. Recently, he has also been the producer of the console version of Naraka: Bladepoint.
Title: Head of Investments
Company: AELF
Hazel Zhang serves as the Head of Investment at aelf, where she brings her extensive investment experience in bulge brackets, big tech and venture capital to the blockchain ecosystem. She is responsible for implementing aelf’s vertical and stage-agnostic investment strategy including sourcing and structuring new investment opportunities around emerging projects and businesses bridging Web2 to Web3. Prior to her role at aelf, Hazel was heading Web3 investments in NetEase Games, driving global investments in the pan-entertainment and blockchain space. Hazel is also an Advisor at Stanford AI & Web3 Research Lab Association and holds a Master’s degree in Financial Economics from the University of Oxford.
