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Dawn Laguens
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Executive Vice President & Chief Brand and Experience Officer
Luke Crane
Kickstarter
Head of Games
Anjali Bhimani
Actress
Voice of Symmetra in Overwatch
Andrea Toyias
Blizzard Entertainment
Senior Casting & Voice Director
Megan Smith
3rd U.S. CTO, Entrepreneur, Engineer
Paolo Pedercini
molleindustria
Luc St-Onge
Ubisoft
Associate Producer
Alan Lewis
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
Vice President, Corporate Communications & Public Affairs
Craig Hagen
Electronic Arts Inc
Global Head of Government Affairs
Speakers
Brian Alspach
E-Line Media
Executive Vice President
Junior Alvarado
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School
Student, 10th grade
Rachel Alves
NORAD - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
Digital Strategist
Yun-Jo An
University of West Georgia
Associate Professor
Seth Andrew
REV: Revolutionary Education Ventures
Founder
Michael Angst
E-Line Media
CEO
Gabo Arora
LightShed
Founder & President
Jacqueline Assar
Coresights
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Amar C. Bakshi
Shared_Studios
Founder & Creative Director
Paul Ballas
Tiro Enterprises, LLC
Founder
Jeanne Batalova
Migration Policy Institute
Senior Policy Analyst
Seth Bleecker
Kognito
Instructional Designer
Adam Blumenthal
Brown University
Virtual Reality Artist-in-Residence
Ted Brodheim
Samsung Business
Vice President, Vertical Business
Allen Brooks
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Interactive Content producer
Jordan Budisantoso
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School
Teacher, Computer Science
Asi Burak
Power Play
CEO
Caitlin Burns
Producers Guild of America, New Media Council
Vice Chair
Ciara Bush
Girl Scouts of the USA
UX Researcher
Gemma Busoni
Discovr LBS
COO
Melissa Carlson
WGBH
Senior Digital Producer
Moran Cerf
Kellogg School of Management
Professor
Barbara Chamberlin
NMSU Learning Games Lab
Game Designer, Professor
Heather Chaplin
Journalism+ Design at The New School
Founding Director
Kevin Chen
Nuclear Fishin' Software
Director
Cathy Cheo-Isaacs
All Access Labs
Educational Technology Specialist
Jaehee Cho
Stitchbridge
Creative Director
Leigh Christie
Isobar
Isobar NowLab Americas
Katerina Cizek
MIT Co Creation Studio
Seth Cooper
Northeastern University
Assistant Professor
Sara Cornish
Games for Change
Senior Director, Programs & Strategy
Dave Culyba
Carnegie Mellon University
Assistant Teaching Professor
Sabrina Haskell Culyba
Schell Games
Principal Designer
Cecilia D'Anastasio
Kotaku
Senior Reporter
Jennifer Dalsen
Gear Learning, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Drew Davidson
Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center
Director & Teaching Professor
Randall Deich
Lauderhill 6-12 STEM-MED/ SBBC
STEM Coordinator
Mark DeLoura
Level Up
Games and Education Consultant
Jax Deluca
National Endowment for the Arts
Media Arts Director
Natasha Desai
CanFigureIt
Director of Math Pedagogy
Anjali Deshmukh
Independent Artist and Nonprofit Consultant
Graeme Devine
Magic Leap
Chief Game Wizard
Ram Devineni
Priya's Shakti
Producer
Manolo Diaz
Yogome
CEO
Marguerite Dibble
gametheory
Founder / CEO
Nick DiCarlo
Samsung Electronics America
VP, Immersive Products and Virtual Reality
Min Seok Do
GamBridzy
CEO
Sophia Dominguez
SVRF
CEO/Co-founder
Clorama Dorvilias
Code for America
UX Interaction Designer
Svetlana Dragayeva
Fountain Digital Labs
CEO
Louise Dubé
iCivics
Executive Director
Kelli Dunlap
Psychologist
Mohini Dutta
Antidote Games
Narrative Designer
David Edery
Spry Fox
CEO
Kat English
Ad Council
Director of Digital
Debra Everett-Lane
ELF Productions
Matthew Farber
University of Northern Colorado
Assistant Professor
Maggie Farley
American University
Fellow
Mike Farley
University of Toronto Schools and ChangeGamer
High School Teacher and Director of ChangeGamer
Ruthe Farmer
CSforAll Consortium
Chief Evangelist
Ira Fay
Fay Games
CEO
Elin Festøy
Teknopilot
Producer
Bergur Finnbogason
CCP Games
Senior Development Manager
Mary Flanagan
Tiltfactor Lab, Dartmouth College
Director
Nicholas Fortugno
Playmatics
CCO/Co-Founder
Tracy Fullerton
USC Game Innovation Lab
Professor and Director
Michael D. Gallagher
Entertainment Software Association (ESA)
President and CEO
Adam Gazzaley
Neuroscape
Founder & Executive Director
Mitch Gelman
The Newseum
CTO
Alice Lloyd George
RRE Ventures
Principal
Mark German
E-Line Media
President, E-Line Education
Leah Gilliam
Girls Who Code
VP, Strategy & Innovation
Ron Goldman
Kognito
Co-Founder & CEO
Lindsay Grace
American University Game Lab
Founding Director and Associate Professor
Christopher Graves
Ogilvy Center for Behavioral Science
President & Founder
Tracy Gray
The Sankofa Global Project
Founder and President
Amy Green
Numinous Games
Writer and Game Designer
Ryan Green
Numinous Games
Co-Owner / Narrative Designer
Maurice Grela
Rosetta Stone (formerly)
Game Designer
Jamir Grier
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School
Student, 10th grade
Marina Guiomar
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Museum Educator, Evaluation
Raul Gutierrez
Tinybop Inc
CEO
Jessica Hammer
Carnegie Mellon University
Assistant Professor
Fernanda Herrera
Stanford University
PhD Candidate
Geneva Heyward
High School of Art & Design
Heather Hibner
Elizabeth Forward School District
School Administrator
Kimberly Hieftje
Yale Center for Health & Learning Games, play2PREVENT Lab
Deputy Director
Celia Hodent
Epic Games
Director of User Experience
Russell Cohen Hoffing
UC Riverside
Erin Hoffman-John
Sense of Wonder
CEO
Jason Horne
GSV Acceleration
Principal
Mikei Huang
Parsons School of Design
Designer/VR Dev
Jerome Foster II
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School
Student, 10th grade, Founder & CEO of TAU VR
Steve Isaacs
William Annin Middle School, Basking Ridge, NJ
Teacher, Game Design and Development
Edna Ishayik
Civic Nation
Director of Civic Engagement Initiatives
Sandra Jacobo
Yogome, Inc.
Director of Education
Lauri Järvilehto
Lightneer
CEO
Jennifer Javornik
Filament Games
Vice President of Sales
Barry Joseph
American Museum of Natural History
Associate Director for Digital Learning
Konstantin Kaiser
planpolitik
Game Designer
Hassan Karaouni
Facebook
Engineering Manager
Cody Karutz
Facebook
Software Engineer
Shelley Kaufeld
Triseum
Creative Director
Leena Kejriwal
Missing Link Trust
Founder
Kevin-Ken Kempis
Isobar
Creative Consultant / Professional Nerd
Shoshana Kessock
Phoenix Outlaw Productions
CEO
Zohar Kfir
Testimony
Navid Khonsari
iNK Stories
Founder/Creative Director
Sungyoung Kim
Rochester Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor
Thomas Knowlton
New York Public Library
School Outreach Librarian
Joseph Koziak
Amblyotech Inc.
CEO
Grace Lau
Global Nomads Group
Director of Virtual Reality
Richard Lemarchand
USC Games
Associate Professor
Marc Lesser
Mouse
Senior Director | Learning Design
Nadya Lev
Aconite
Co-Founder
Jessica Lindl
Unity Technologies
Global Head of Education
Kate Machtiger
Luminary Labs
Strategist
Colleen Macklin
Parsons School of Design
Professor
Elizabeth Maler
Accidental Queens
Co-founder
Peter Manuelian
Harvard University
Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology
Erik Martin
Unity
Senior Education Program Manager and VR for Change Curator
Malvina Martin
Black Dot Films VR
Executive Producer
Ani Martinez
Remake Learning
Community Manager
Jenn McNamara
BreakAway Games
Vice President Serious Games
David Miller
National Institutes of Health
Program Director
Jennifer Miller
Illinois Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor
Michelle Miller
Games and Learning
Co-Founder
Dimitri Moore
Digital Promise
Video Producer & Digital Storytelling Coach
Rhonda Moore
US Department of Health and Human Services
Medical Anthropologist
Sandhya Nankani
Literary Safari
Founder
Nicole Neal
Noodle Markets
CEO
Madeline Di Nonno
Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
CEO
Ben Norskov
Antidote Games
Systems Designer
Aaron Norstad
Unity Technologies
Head of Product Development
Daniel Norton
Filament Games
Chief Creative Officer
Nika Nour
Entertainment Software Association
Director, Federal Government Affairs
Kevin O'Hanlon
Entertainment Software Association
Director, Federal Government Affairs
Austin Olney
White Plains Public Library
Digital Media Specialist
Ola Ozernov-Palchik
Tufts University
Albert Palacios
U.S. Department of Education
Education Program Specialist, Office of Career, Technical, and Adult...
James Pallot
Emblematic Group
Co-Founder
Brandon Pittser
Filament Games
Director of Marketing & Licensing
Lucie Pohl
Actress
Voice of Mercy in Overwatch
Susanna Pollack
Games for Change
President
Samantha Quick
The New York Times
360 Editor
Hilmi Quraishi
ZMQ Development
Co-Founder & Director Social Initiatives
Subhi Quraishi
ZMQ Development
CEO
Courtney Radsch
Committee to Protect Journalists
Advocacy Director
Meenoo Rami
Minecraft: Education Edition
Manager
Carolina Ravassa
Actress
Voice of Sombra in Overwatch
MacKenzie Rawcliffe
ISTE
Digital Marketing Manager
Jane Robinson
First Book
CFO/CSO
Leslie Robinson
Trance4mation Games
Founder & CEO
Marc Ruppel
National Endowment for the Humanities
Lead, Digital Projects for the Public / Senior Program Officer
Nicole Rustad
Vortovia
Chief Impact Officer
Michael Saiger
University of Strathclyde
Max Salomon
Black Dot Films VR
Executive Producer
Jesse Schell
Schell Games
CEO
Tammie Schrader
Northeast Washington Education Service District 101
Computer Science Coordinator
Karen Schrier
Marist College
Assistant Professor/Director of Games
Jed Segovia
Parsons The New School for Design
Aaron Seitz
UCR Brain Game Center for Mental Fitness and Well-being
Lee Sheldon
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Professor of Practice
Neal Shenoy
BEGiN
CEO & Co-Founder
Bill Shribman
WGBH
Senior Executive Producer & Director of Digital Partnerships
Rachel Sibley
Leap Motion
VP
Seven Siegel
Global Game Jam, Inc.
Executive Director
Ingrid Simone
Toca Boca
Executive Editor
Aldis Sipolins
IBM Research
Head of Virtual Reality and Game Design
Sinem Siyahhan
California State University
Assistant Professor
Felipe Marlon Soares
PushStart Studio
CEO
Anastasia Staten
ESA Foundation
Executive Director
Constance Steinkuehler
University of California, Irvine
Professor
Amy Sterling
Eyewire
Executive Director
Bron Stuckey
Innovative Educational Ideas
Khalilah Sutton
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School
Student, 10th grade
Attila Szantner
Massively Multiplayer Online Science
CEO & co-founder
André Thomas
Triseum LLC
CEO
Olivia Thomas
Vincent Thomasino
Kognito
CTO
Mia Tramz
TIME Magazine
Managing Editor, LIFE VR
Emily Treat
Games for Change
VP Production Services
Greg Trefry
Gigantic Mechanic
Partner & Game Designer
Adaora Udoji
The Boshia Group
Producer
Laycca Umer
New York Hall of Science
Research Assistant/Program Coordinator
Jesse Vigil
USC School of Cinematic Arts Interactive Media & Games Division
Faculty/Game Innovation Lab Research Lead
Lance Vikaros
Lumosity
Director of Game Systems Design
Ralph Vituccio
Entertainment Technology Center
Associate Professor
Margaret Wallace
Playmatics
Chief Executive Officer
Tony Wan
EdSurge
Managing Editor
Edward Wang
PlayMada
Science Pedagogy Director
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