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March 9-13, 2026
Moscone CenterSan Francisco, CA

Speakers

Moritz Baier-LentzPartner; Head of Gaming & Interactive MediaLightspeed Venture Partners

Moritz is a senior partner and the head of gaming & interactive media at Lightspeed, a globally leading VC firm with 13 offices, $43 billion in assets, and over 200 exits across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. An advocate for world models, he is also a founding member of General Intuition, a research lab that trains spatiotemporal agents on proprietary video game data and raised a $133.7 million Seed round in 2025.


Prior to that, Moritz founded and led the firm’s global gaming practice at Goldman Sachs. A lifelong gamer, he spent his teenage years competing in Blizzard’s Diablo II, culminating in a #1 ranking among over 12 million players in 2003.


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