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.
David Ortiz Lapaz, Chief Operating Officer, ICO Partners
David Ortiz Lapaz (@kroniksan on Twitter) is a Spanish computer engineer and marketing executive with 20 years of experience in the video games industry. He’s currently COO at UK-based self-publishing agency ICO Partners, where he’s launched dozens of games in the last four years. In this period he has also scaled the company 2.5x, achieved a Gi.biz Best Place to Work award for ICO in 2021 and launched integrated marketing services as a key commercial product. He has worked on some of the world’s most beloved and critically-acclaimed games, from top AAA to top tier indies including Tunic, Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Baldur’s Gate 3, Chicory or Lies of P. He has previously been a GDC 2020 (virtual) speaker with the talk “Making Your Game Influencer Ready: A Marketing Wishlist for Developers”. Prior to ICO, David held roles in software development and communications before joining NCSOFT where he was part of the marketing team launching Guild Wars 2 and Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns. During his five years with the company, he built ArenaNet’s state-of-the-art influencer marketing programs and led the community team in Europe. The program was generating six-digit revenue figures through affiliation within the first year, and became one of the pioneers of its kind in the industry. He then moved briefly to consumer electronics handling Kano Computing’s content marketing, PR and influencer marketing efforts, taking the company to the world’s #2 in FastCompany’s top 10 most innovative companies, He has been responsible for campaigns delivering over 30M views on YouTube, managing seven-digit marketing budgets and delivering world-class activations within the toy, parenting and games space.
