2025 Speakers

Attila Szantner is CEO and co-founder of the Swiss citizen science / videogame innovator start-up Massively Multiplayer Online Science (mmos.ch), recipient of the Innovation Award of the University of Geneva. Attila has dedicated his last decade to bring scientific research and videogames closer together, setting up major collaborations between academia and the videogame industry, like Borderlands Science and EVE Online's Project Discovery engaging almost 7 million players to manifest the enormous potential in games to be a force for good, a benefit for the broader society and a powerhouse to help scientific research. Attila is also an adjunct professor at the SoCS McGill University.

Presenting:

• Games and Research: Collaborations with Academia Roundtable (Presented by the IGDA)