2025 Speakers
Nancy Townsend, Associate Director, Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace
Nancy Townsend has always had a passion for games that promote change or tell stories from unique perspectives. As a bachelor’s student, she took a job as a Ubisoft tester and later founded and directed the first student organization for game development at Concordia University in 2008 as a large-scale independent study, since there were no game-related classes at the time. This club was the catalyst for the school creating a game development minor program. She also authored articles for the IGDA (International Game Developers Association) newsletters. After a stint in the high-stress indie gaming industry, working for Minority Media and taking various 3D modeling and video editing contract, she returned to Concordia as a producer for multiple Indigenous, creative new media projects, including building and maintaining virtual gallery, VR artworks, games, workshops and more while also directing the Skins Workshop series. She currently leads the research lab as Associate Director of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace.
