Speakers

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.

During the International Meetings on the 26th October, we’re pleased to welcome 3 Digital Art and Game Dev College Schools from France 🇫🇷, our 2023 Guest of Honor:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.