Speakers
Amir Satvat, Founder, Always Supporting Games Community (ASGC) and BD Director, Tencent Games
I'm a Business Development Director at Tencent Games in North America, with 20 years of experience across Amazon, Veeam, VMware, Dell EMC, and Goldman Sachs. At Amazon, I led business development and strategy for Prime Gaming and was a Principal Producer for Amazon Games. I'm best known as the founder of ASGC (Always Supporting the Games Community), the largest career support initiative in games. ASGC helps game developers through layoffs and career transitions. Supported by nearly 2,500 volunteer coaches, the community has facilitated almost 90,000 coaching conversations. Through 13 free job-seeking resources across LinkedIn, Discord, and other platforms, the community has helped more than 4,500 people secure jobs. The guiding principle is simple: we help gamers get hired. Zero profit, infinite caring. In 2023, this work was recognized when I was named a LinkedIn Top Voice in Video Games and received the International Special Industry Achievement Award from the Australian XR Festival. In 2024, it was further honored with the inaugural Game Changer Award at The Game Awards. In 2025, the community's efforts during industry layoffs were recognized with the Giving Award from Games for Change and the inaugural Industry Impact Award from Game Dev Heroes. At the External Development Summit (XDS), this work was also honored with the Unsung Hero Award. Across 40+ global events, ASGC has distributed more than 3,000 free tickets. For their 2025 and 2026 events, our community partnered with GDC and gamescom to provide over $500K in free passes. In addition to my role at Tencent, I serve as an advisory network member at Vivrato and as a special advisor to the Zero Abuse Project. Our community annually supports Gamers for CHOC, benefiting CHOC Children's. ASGC has been featured by Business Insider, Bloomberg, NPR, CBC, The Los Angeles Times, Epic, IGN, GamesBeat, PC Gamer, Polygon, The Fourth Curtain, Naavik, and more. I've spoken at GDC, DICE, GamesBeat, MIGS, XP Games Summit, and served as a keynote speaker at XDS. Follow for practical career support, industry context, and real help for people working in games. I hold an MBA from the Wharton School, an MB in Biotechnology from the University of Pennsylvania, an MPA in Policy and Management from NYU, and a BS in Finance from Boston College, where I was a Rhodes Scholarship finalist and named a top 10 graduate.