Conference Guest List (2023)

Keynote Speaker

Tim Stuart

CVP, CFO Xbox

Panel: Esports

Abe Stein

Head of Innovation, Sports Innovation Lab

Erik Anderson

Head of Esports, FaZe

Murphy Vandervelde

Co-founder/CEO, Oxygen Esports

Panel: Storytelling

Dr. Clara Fernandez-Vara

NYU Game Center

D. Fox Harrell

Professor, MIT (Nebula Award Nominee)

Jeremiah Cohn

Chief Marketing Officer, CD Projekt Red

Karthik Bala

Founder/CEO, Velan Studios

Panel: Creator Economy - Audience Interaction

Dr. TL Taylor

Director, MIT Games Lab

Jesse Sell

Sr. Director of Games & Esports Business Dev, Twitch

Lester Chen

Partner, a16z Gaming Creators

Clare Schmidt

Lead Creative Strategist, Tiktok Gaming

Panel: Creator Economy - User-Generated Content

Mel Alleyne

MIT Sloan MBA (Moderator)

Catharina Lavers Mallet

VP/GM of Maxis & The Sims, Electronic Arts (EA)

Nick Tornow

VP of Engineering, Creator, Roblox

Sahar Lewenstein

Creative Marketing Director, Overwolf

Kayla Kinnunen

Principal Product Manager, Mojang Studios (Minecraft)

Panel: Generative AI

Jack Soslow

Partner, a16z

Jon Radoff

CEO, Beamable

Hilary Mason

Co-founder, Hidden Door

Cory Li

Founder, Spellbrush

Irena Pereira

Founder, Unleashed Games

Panel: Mobile

Patrick Stewart

MIT Sloan MBA (Moderator)

Michael Martinez

Co-founder/CEO, Funcraft

Richard Cleveland

Head of Production and Marketing, Digital Gaming, Mattel

David Hottal

Head of Product, Demiurge Studios

Stephen Sullivan

General Partner, 2 Punks Capital

Brian Griffith

Director of Product, WB Games Boston

Panel: Entrepreneurship

Greg Boyd

Co-Chair of Interactive Entertainment Group, Frankfurt Kurnit

Guha Bala

President, Velan Ventures & Velan Studios

Seth Sivak

VP at Blizzard, Co-Founder of Proletariat

Drew Smith

Founder/CEO, The Nameless Corporation

Jason Torfin

VP of Product & Publishing, Wildlight Games

Vadim Polikov

CEO, Legends of Learning

Panel: Venture Capital

Dr. Andy Wu

Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School

Lia Zhang

Investor, Makers Fund

Jackson Vaughan

Managing Partner, Konvoy Ventures

Carlos Pereira

Partner, Bitkraft

Panel: Web3 / Blockchain

Joost van Dreunen (SuperJoost)

Adjunct Assistant Professor, NYU Stern

Anderson Ferminiano

CEO, Lootrush

Desiree Dickerson

CEO, Thndr Games

Kevin Kim

COO, Monarch Nascent (Genopets)

Pierre Villenave

Senior BD, Immutable

Alejandro Ura

Solutions Engineer, Immutable

Panel: Metaverse

Daniel Pillis

MIT Media Lab

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Head of Gaming, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Cy Wise

Co-founder/COO, Tangle

Sarah Gilarsky

Head of Telco Partnerships, Niantic

Kaspar Tiri

Co-founder, Ready Player Me

Worldbuilding Workshop

Eric Monacelli

Sr Director of Franchise Development, Marvel Entertainment