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.
Sonia Michaels, Career Development Coach / Consultant, Independent
Sonia Michaels is a game industry educator, speaker, and career coach who has spent the majority of her 30+ year career working at the intersection of the Liberal Arts and Game Development education. She is deeply committed to preparing game developers at all levels to build longer, healthier careers, avoid burnout, push back against crunch and toxicity, and change the industry from within. Sonia has presented at GDC (2015, 2017, 2019, 2023), PaxDev (2015, 2016, 2019), PAX (2023), GeekGirlCon (2017), and the New Directions in the Humanities International Conference (2018, 2019), among others. (Her GDC 2023 talk was the highest-ranked career focused talk of the conference!) In April 2023, she completed a three-year elected term on the Board of Directors of the IGDA (International Game Developers Association), and in June 2023, she was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award at the IndieCade Horizons Showcase (a partnership between IndieCade and HEVGA, the Higher Education Video Game Alliance).
