Camilla Avellar

Camilla Avellar is a game designer at Supercell, currently working on one of the games that has taken the company to international success, Hay Day. Prior to that, she worked in other game studios, like Wooga Games in Berlin, becoming particularly well-versed in developing casual games, mobile games and virtual worlds.

Born in Brazil, Camilla graduated from Pernambuco University in 2007 with a degree in Graphic Design.

Sam Lake

Sam Lake, Remedy’s Creative Director, is a well-known creative force and writer in the gaming industry. Lake has been with Remedy since the first game published in 1996.

He’s been in a key role in defining Remedy’s creative DNA and storytelling brand, and the creation of all of Remedy’s game brands (incl. Max Payne, Alan Wake, Quantum Break and Control).

Lisa Spano

Lisa Spano, Ph.D. is the VP of Consumer insights at leading mobile entertainment studio, Jam City. With a deep background in social psychology, Spano leads the company’s Research Department, which encompasses consumer insights, usability research and competitive intelligence. Surfacing player motivation, industry trends and opportunities in the gaming sector, this department informs decisions across the organization, from game development to brand and marketing strategy.

Celia Hodent

Celia Hodent is an expert in the application of cognitive science and psychology to product development. Celia holds a Ph.D. in psychology and has over ten years of experience in the development of user experience (UX) strategy in the entertainment industry, and more specifically with videogame studios through her work at Ubisoft, LucasArts, and as Director of UX at Epic Games (Fortnite). Celia is the author of The Gamer’s Brain: How Neuroscience and UX can Impact Video Game Design. Currently, she leads an independent UX consultancy, working with a wide range of international media and enterprise companies, helping studios increase the likelihood of their games to be engaging and successful.

Mundi Vondi

From fashion design and production, graphic design, and directing short films, to painting and performance art, Mundi has been running his own creative business since he was 19. In 2013, he co-founded Berlin-based game development studio, Klang Games, which is currently developing the MMO Simulation, Seed. Klang’s mission is to produce deep and meaningful massively multiplayer experiences that bring people closer together from all across the world.

Simon Allaeys

At Epic Games, Simon is working on launching Epic Online Services to the game development community. He co-founded Kamu, which was acquired by Epic in October 2018. Kamu was the company behind Easy Anti-Cheat which he grew as CEO to become the market leader for online multiplayer games. He is an engineer by craft, with a passion for videogames and service design esthetics.

Anastasiia Tsaplii

Anastasiia Tsaplii has been a game developer for 9 years, most recently as a senior gameplay programmer for BAFTA-winning Bossa Studios – a London-based games developer and publisher, known for their category-defining games played by millions worldwide. She is now part of a team concentrating on UGC-based gameplay for a new unannounced title, where she develops core features and provides expertise to establish and expand in-game multiplayer UGC Creation Tools.

Prior to that, Anastasiia led a prototyping team at Goodgame Studios (Hamburg, Germany) where she was responsible for a small team working on mobile multiplayer titles, creating network solutions for multiple free-to-play competitive titles and exploring alternative solutions for peer-to-peer games. Graduated in Computer Science, she spent the first few years working for small game studios in Kyiv, Ukraine, mostly specializing in gameplay development for both PC and mobile games, before moving to Germany.

Maxwell Zierath

Maxwell is a Senior Producer at Riot Games leading a variety of studios to further explore the League of Legends universe and IP. He has spent the past four years in research and development creating new Riot experiences for players.

Prior to Riot, Maxwell led multiple development teams at Filament Games, creating unique and playful games that provide valuable real-world skills and knowledge with a broad spectrum of partners including Smithsonian, McGraw Hill, Department of Education, and National Science Foundation. He believes games have a positive and meaningful impact on players.

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Harri Manninen

Harri Manninen is a Founding Partner of Play Ventures, a $40M early stage gaming fund investing the best gaming entrepreneurs and teams globally. Previously he co-founded Rocket Pack which was acquired by Disney in 2011. He is also a co-founder of Matchmade (Shark Punch). Play Ventures has done 12 investments to date, including Redhill Games, Reworks & Mainframe Industries among many others. Harri is also an active angel investor in tech & games, having invested in companies such as Astralis Group, FitXR, School Day, Starberry Games and Mighty Bear.