SPEAKERS & ROUND TABLES
Jörg Tittel
CEO of RapidEyeMovers (UK)
Jörg is a director, writer, producer and publisher of games, films, stage and more. Projects include VR and console game "The Last Worker" (the only game in competition at the 78th Venice Film Festival), the Golden Joystick nominated PlayStation VR game "C-Smash VRS" and the upcoming painted animated feature "A Winter's Journey" starring John Malkovich. He hosts Directional, a podcast on games and the creative rebellion, with Chantal Ryan.
Masahiko Murakami
CEO of Skeleton Crew and Organizer of BitSummit (Japan)
Masahiko Murakami is the organizer of Bitsummit, Japan's most important indie games show. Masahiko will present the Japanese indie game market and give advices to Western studios wishing to distribute their games there.
Business & marketing
28 Oct 2023 | 16:30 - 17:30
Business & marketing
28 Oct 2023 | 16:30 - 17:30
Mélissandre Monatus
Marketing and Communications Professional
Mélissandre Monatus is a marketing and communication professional from the Video Game industry with more than 15 years experience. She worked 8 years in London for major publishers at an international level (Activision, Capcom, Wargaming...), then for indie studios.
Business & Marketing
28 Oct 2023 | 14:30 - 15:30
Business & Marketing
28 Oct 2023 | 14:30 - 15:30
Raphaël Villegas
Art Director at Abrakam
Raphaël Villegas is a versatile digital artist with a rich background in the visual arts, the result of a highly diverse career. He has worked as an illustrator, co-founded an independent video game studio, served as a Creative Director in the communication field, acted as the Lead Concept Artist for “Appeal Studios”, and most recently, held the position of Art Director at “Abrakam Studio”.
This array of roles has allowed him to explore a wide range of artistic skills.
Art & Creativity
28 Oct 2023 | 14:30 - 15:30
Art & Creativity
28 Oct 2023 | 14:30 - 15:30
Sindi Breshani
Co-founder of Episod Studio
Sindi Breshani is the co-founder of “Episod Studio”, a mission-led developer of games that interpret socio-political and climate topics. Their game in development “Race for the Arctic” is the first commercial video game built entirely to promote the fight against climate change. Future titles include an open-world about dictatorship and a multiplayer game about propaganda. The studio is supported by the “UK Games Fund” and “InnovationRCA Incubator”.
Culture & Society
28 Oct 2023 | 10:00 - 11:00
Culture & Society
28 Oct 2023 | 10:00 - 11:00
Guergana Guintcheva
Professor of Marketing
Guergana Guintcheva is professor of Marketing at EDHEC Business School. She holds a PhD degree in Marketing from the University of Montpellier. Her academic research and personal passions revolve around entertainment marketing (cinema, museums and video games). Her current research projects study sustainable culture and diversity issues in the entertainment sector. She works on a regular basis with audio-visual arts institutions.
Culture & Society
28 Oct 2023 | 12:00 - 13:00
Culture & Society
28 Oct 2023 | 12:00 - 13:00
Michael Liebe
Founder and CEO of Booster Space
Michael Liebe is founder and CEO of Booster Space, the company that started gamesweek Berlin as well as Womenize! Games and Tech and offers consultancy gigs around Twitch, community and fundraising. Through Booster Space, Michael represents Kickstarter as Outreach Games Europe. Since 2022, he is Director of Development for the non-profit multi-media initiative, Tales of Us. Educational references include teaching at University of Potsdam, UE Germany, MDH Berlin.
Business & Marketing
28 Oct 2023 | 12:00 - 13:00
Business & Marketing
28 Oct 2023 | 12:00 - 13:00
Chloé Boels
Streamer, founder of Stream'Her and TV chronicler
Chloé is a French-speaking Belgian streamer on Twitch. She is 26 years old and shares her passion for video games with her followers, every morning of the week. She is also the founder of Stream'Her, the community of female streamers. Moreover, she works in the video game industry as a jury member for calls for projects (Centre Pompidou Paris, Wallonia Brussels Federation, Belgian Games Awards, Belgian Streamers Awards). Finally, she is also a TV chronicler (LN24 and RTBF IXpé).
Culture & Society
28 Oct 2023 | 14:30 - 15:30
Culture & Society
28 Oct 2023 | 14:30 - 15:30
Aymeric Castaing
CEO of UNANIMATION
With over 15 years experience in the entertainment industry, Aymeric Castaing specializes in transmedia content and shares his expertise through various activities: he is the founder and president of the transmedia cluster COBO and a founding member of the national transmedia association PXN.
Always interested in new ways of telling and producing stories, he founded and now runs UMANIMATION, an XR group developing a catalog of narrative and immersive content.
Tech & Production
28 Oct 2023 | 14:30 - 15:30
Tech & Production
28 Oct 2023 | 14:30 - 15:30
Andrea Di Stefano
Game Director
Andrea Di Stefano is the Game Director of Gangs of Sherwood, Appeal Studios' upcoming AA online action game that will be released November 2nd. He is a former VR Game Director at Donuts Games (Tokyo), founder of Brotaru, the monthly meetup in Brussels, co-founder of Mode4 studio and the Belgian Games Pavilion. He is also a gamedev lecturer and consultant.
Tech & Prod
28 Oct 2023 | 10:00 - 11:00
Tech & Prod
28 Oct 2023 | 10:00 - 11:00
RUSLANA KRUCHEK
Co-Founder / Brand Resonance Gal at VP Production
Ruslana Kruchek co-founder, brand manager and art director of VP Production (Odessa, Ukraine), an independent audio agency that crafts sonic identities for games, brands, and apps. Ruslana is responsible for VP Production’s work pipelines and unique data-driven approach to creating game audio.
Tech & Production
28 Oct 2023 | 11:00 - 12:00
Tech & Production
28 Oct 2023 | 11:00 - 12:00
EMMERICH Will
CEO of Shed of Ideas
Graduated from a Bachelor’s degree in Production Engineer and Civil Engineer, from a graduate degree in Digital Games Development and from an Harvard Manage Mentor Program (Certified Mentee), Will is someone who is always seeing opportunities in problems, to challenge himself and exercise his ability and competence in solving them.
Art & Creativity
28 Oct 2023 | 10:00 - 11:00
Art & Creativity
28 Oct 2023 | 10:00 - 11:00
Stéphane Rappeneau
CFO & Creative Producer of Hawkswell Studios
After 20 years in Investment Banking, Stéphane returned to his first love : the game industry, and the desire to support indies in everything business & finance related. As a day-job, he is CFO & Creative Producer for Hawkswell Studios. At night, he works on Indie Plaza project and fights the urge to play more Baldur's Gate 3.
Business & Marketing
28 Oct 2023 | 10:00 - 11:00
Business & Marketing
28 Oct 2023 | 10:00 - 11:00
CÉDRIC BABOUCHE
Founder of UN JE NE SAIS QUOI
Cédric Babouche graduated in art and animation.After two acclaimed animated short films, he developed and produced animated feature films and TV series in his first company Dandelooo until 2017.In 2018, he founded UN JE NE SAIS QUOI and joined Umanimation, a transmedia production company.
Art & Creativity
28 Oct 2023 | 11:00 - 12:00
Art & Creativity
28 Oct 2023 | 11:00 - 12:00
Federica Nocerino
Marketing Consultant
Federica Nocerino is a Marketing Consultant in the tech and video games industry. She also serves as a Women in Games (WIG) and a Google WomenTechmakers Ambassador. Federica collaborates with video game development studios and shares her expertise as a keynote speaker, all while championing diversity and inclusion in the tech and gaming sectors.
Business & Marketing
28 Oct 2023 | 11:00 - 12:00
Business & Marketing
28 Oct 2023 | 11:00 - 12:00
Kurt McClung
Narrative Designer - CCO
Kurt McClung is a writer and world designer best known for his work in video games where he has written and developed over 50 games for three dozen different studios. Lead writer on the AAA titles Might & Magic, Ghost Recon, Beyond Good and Evil and Skull & Bones as well as world developer and writer on the Indie hits, Greedfall, Curse of the Dead Gods, the Surge, and Masters of Anima, Kurt has also worked as a script doctor and world doctor for several publishers, including Focus Entertainment and Ubisoft.
Tech & Production
28 Oct 2023 | 12:00 - 13:00
Tech & Production
28 Oct 2023 | 12:00 - 13:00
Sébastien Croteau
Vocalist / President of The Monster Factory
Metal vocalist since 1991 (Necrotic Mutation) and throat singer (Tibetan, Mongolia and Inuit throat-singing) since 1996, Sébastien Croteau masters an impressive number of extreme vocal techniques. He began teaching metal voices and throat-singing 15 years ago. Since then, he trained hundreds of metal vocalists and voice talents around the world and he is renowned to be an expert in vocal distortion, extreme sounds and creature voice design.
Art & Creativity
28 Oct 2023 | 12:00 - 13:00
Art & Creativity
28 Oct 2023 | 12:00 - 13:00
Adrian Laubisch
Partner & Director of Aiyra
Founding partner of Aiyra, Adrian has 17 years of market experience. Ahead of his company, has served as Producer / Executive Producer and New Business Director in more than 100 game projects that Aiyra has already developed, specializing in External Development for Companies and Intellectual Properties. Bachelor in Computer Science, Adrian has a published paper about an unique methodology for game projects management, published on SBGames..
Business & Marketing
28 Oct 2023 | 15:30 - 16:30
Business & Marketing
28 Oct 2023 | 15:30 - 16:30
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Streamers
Hiuuugs
Journalist who has worked in the written press, radio and TV, Hiuuugs finally found the medium that suits him best on Twitch. Every day from 10.30am until 5pm he covers video game news and uses this medium, which he is passionate about, to get people interested in broader subjects (geopolitics, macroeconomics, society, etc.).
28 Oct 2023 | 16:30 - 17:30
28 Oct 2023 | 16:30 - 17:30