GDC 2025 Session Viewer
Analytics and Data Science Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)
John Hopson (SIG Chair, IGDA Analytics and Data Science SIG)
Location: Room 304, South Hall
Date: Wednesday, March 19
Time: 10:30 am - 11:30 am
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Track: Advocacy
Format: Roundtable
Vault Recording: Not Recorded
Audience Level: All
The theme for this year’s IGDA Analytics and Data Science roundtable is “Change”. Join industry leaders and analytics experts in a free-flowing discussion exploring the evolving role of data in the games industry. We’ll start by talking about how the role of analysts and data scientists has developed over time and how we think it might change in the future. Next, we’ll cover how the status and organization of analytics teams has grown, how we’ve adapted to meet the needs of our games and how we relate to the rest of the development team. Finally, we’ll dig into where we think the profession is going in the future, with a particular focus on how new AI tools will affect how we work.
Takeaway
Attendees of the IGDA Analytics and Data Science roundtable will leave with a broader understanding of the role data currently plays in the games industry and how it is changing.
Intended Audience
The intended audience for this session includes those who currently work with data in games, those who want to partner more closely with data practitioners, and those who wish to join the field.
