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Rajesh Anandan
UNICEF USA
Senior Vice President UNICEF Ventures
Mimi Ito
University of California, Irvine
Director, Connected Learning Lab
Constance Steinkuehler
University of California, Irvine
Professor
Jeffrey Burrell
Riot Games
Head of Corporate Social Responsibility
Kamal Sinclair
Sundance Institute
Director, New Frontier Labs
Tom Furness
Virtual World Society
Founder & Chairman
Joanna Popper
HP
Global Head of Virtual Reality for Location Based Entertainment
Walter Greenleaf, PhD
Stanford University
Distinguished Visiting Scholar
Maxime Durand
Ubisoft Montréal
Franchise Historian for Assassin's Creed
Ken Perlin
New York University
Professor of Computer Science
Katie Salen
University of California, Irvine
Professor
Gabriel Stricker
Niantic, Inc.
Vice President of Communications
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EMiSpicer
Feminist Frequency
Social Media Manager
Libe Ackerman
Boo Aguilar
Blank Canvas
Director
Shawn Allen
Nuchallenger
Jesse Ayala
Fovrth Studios
Creative Director
Dan Ayoub
Microsoft
General Manager - Mixed Reality Education
Harley Baldwin
Schell Games
Vice President of Design
Ed Barton
Curiscope
CEO
Adam Bellow
Breakout EDU
Co-Founder
Daniel Braunfeld
Facing History and Ourselves
Senior Program Associate for Special Projects
Asi Burak
Power Play
CEO
Lauren Burmaster
Oculus
PM, VR for Good
Nick Bush
Moonray Studios
Project Lead
Francesca Carletto-Leon
Girls Make Games
Ambassador and Coordinator
Kara Carpenter
Teachley
Cofounder
Shannon Carroll
Vivid Story
Creative Director
Lisa Castaneda
foundry10
Co-Founder & CEO
Evelyn Chan
Smileyscope
Founder and CEO
Jung Yeon Choe
Teachers College, Columbia University
Stuart Claggett
Dig-iT! Games LLC
COO/CTO
Trish Cloud
Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools
Coordinator of School Partnerships
Courtney Cogburn
Columbia University
Assistant Professor
Kristin Cook
Sesame Workshop
Producer
Bradley Crooks
BBC Studios
Head of Digital Entertainment & Games
Dave Culyba
Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University
Assistant Teaching Professor
Jax Deluca
National Endowment for the Arts
Media Arts Director
Gaia Dempsey
7th Future
Founder & CEO
Tracy Dennis-Tiwary
Personal Zen
Founder
Rori Duboff
Accenture Interactive
Managing Director, Head of Content Innovation / XR
Charlotte Duncan
Curriculum Associates
Producer
Kelli Dunlap
iThrive Games
Mental Health and Games Manager
Nathaniel Eddy
Free Library of Philadelphia
Strategy Coordinator
Kate Edwards
Geogrify
CEO & Principal Consultant
Lakita Edwards
National Endowment for the Arts
Arts Education Specialist
Joey Egger
Two Moos
Executive Producer
Richard Ellenson
Cerebral Palsy Foundation
CEO
Tom Emrich
Super Ventures
Partner
Marc-André Éthier
Université de Montréal
Professor
Clay Ewing
University of Miami
Assistant Professor, Department of Interactive Media, School of...
Matthew Farber
University of Northern Colorado
Assistant Professor
Clara Fernandez-Vara
New York University
Associate Arts Professor
Nicholas Fortugno
Playmatics
Co-Founder/CCO
Gonzalo Frasca
DragonBox
Chief Design Officer
Chris Fuge
Sequoia Middle School
Teacher
Anne Gaines
Parsons School of Design at the New School
Dean for the School of Arts, Media, and Technology
Michael D. Gallagher
ESA
President & CEO
John Gardiner
Highmark Interactive
COO
Alan Gershenfeld
E-Line Media
President/Co-Founder
Sam Gill
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Vice President/Communities & Impact, Senior Adviser to the President
Natalie Gillard
FACTUALITY, LLC
Creator and Facilitator
Harold Goldberg
New York Videogame Critics Circle
President, Founder, Editor-in-Chief
Anastasia Goodstein
The Ad Council
SVP, Digital Innovation
Eric Gordon
Engagement Lab at Emerson College
Director and Professor
Lindsay Grace
American University Game Lab
Director
Marie Graham
Mount Vernon School
Educator, VR Lab Coordinator
Erin Hawley
The Geeky Gimp
Web Content Producer
Jessica Ochoa Hendrix
Killer Snails
CEO & Co-Founder
Beth Hobbs
Minecraft Education Edition
Minecraft Global Mentor
Robert Hone
American University
Professor
Adam Horowitz
MIT Media Lab / Blank Canvas
Scientific Storyteller
Erik Huey
Entertainment Software Association
Senior Vice President, Government Affairs
Steve Isaacs
Bernards Township Public Schools
Teacher, Game Design and Development
Kyle Jackson
Talespin
CEO
Bryce Johnson
Microsoft
Inclusive Designer
Barry Joseph
American Museum of Natural History
Former Associate Director of Digital Learning
James Kane
Two Bulls
CEO
Fares Kayali
Vienna University of Technology
Assistant Professor
Mitu Khandaker
Spirit AI
Creative Partnerships Director
Jaehyun Kim
Teachers College
Graduate Student
Hannah Kirk
TALI Health
Chris Kujawski
Microsoft
Senior Designer, Microsoft Device Design Team
David Langendoen
WNET/THIRTEEN/Electric Funstuff
Founder & Executive Director
Elizabeth LaPensée
Michigan State University
Assistant Professor
Margaret Laws
Hopelab
President and CEO
David Lefrançois
Universite du Quebec en Outaouais
Professor
Marc Lesser
Mouse
Senior Director, Learning Design
Sarah Ita Levitan
Columbia University
Graduate Student, Department of Computer Science
Allisyn Levy
GameUp, BrainPOP
VP
Laura Levy
Interactive Media Technology Center, Georgia Tech
Research Scientist II
Debra Lieberman
University of California, Santa Barbara
Director, Center for Digital Games Research
Thomas Lilge
Humboldt University
Head of gamelab.berlin
Jullia Suhyoung Lim
Teachers College, Columbia University
Philip Loew
NYC Regional Innovation Node
Associate Director
Vangelis Lympouridis
Applied VR
CDO
Asad J. Malik
1RIC
Founder
Florent Maurin
The Pixel Hunt
President
Lual Mayen
Junub games
Founder and Developer
Kalonda McDonald
Detroit Public Schools Community District and Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow
STEM Coordinator
Jennifer McNamara
BreakAway Games
Vice President Serious Games
Carol Mertz
PixelPop Festival
Executive Director
Edward Metz
Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education
Program Manager for Small Business Innovation Research and SBIR and...
David Miller
National Institutes of Health
Program Director, National Cancer Institutes
TM
Tristan Miller
Wil Monte
Millipede
Founder and Director
Jim Munroe
Game Arts International Network
Director`
Jeremiah Okal-Frink
DellEMC
Manager of Education Strategy
CO
Christina Oliver
Classroom, Inc.
VP, Chief Program Officer
Adrian Olmedo
Anaheim Union High School District
Educator
Tamara Patton
Princeton University
Doctoral Candidate
Stacie Pierpoint
Annenberg Learner
Senior Coordinator, Marketing and Communications
AP
Andrew Pilkington
Judith Pintar
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Director of E-Lit & Literacies Lab, Illinois Informatics
David Polgar
Funny as Tech
Tech Ethicist
Susanna Pollack
Games for Change
President
Zoran Popović
University of Washington
Director, Center for Game Science
Leah Potter
WNET/THIRTEEN/Electric Funstuff
Senior Instructional Designer
Cosima Prahm
Medical University of Vienna
Research Assistant
James Protheroe
Darran Park Primary School
Joost Raessens
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Full Professor and Chair of Media Theory
Meenoo Rami
Microsoft
Manager
Vijay Ravindran
Floreo Inc.
CEO
Angel Rich
WealthyLife
CEO and Founder
Anne Richards
Cracking Wise Interactive
Founder and Creative Director
Derek Ritzenberg
Montgomery County Public Schools
Technology Project Specialist
Graham Roberts
The New York Times
Director of Immersive Platforms Storytelling
Marc Ruppel
National Endowment for the Humanities
Director, Digital Projects for the Public
Aya Saket
Queen Rania Foundation for Education and Development
Research and Program Development Officer
Kellee Santiago
Google
Senior Producer Apps & Games, VR/AR
Jesse Schell
Schell Games
CEO
Karen Schrier
Marist College
Associate Professor/Director of Games
Gilson Schwartz
Games for Change Latin America
President
Ryan Seashore
Emerging Technologies & EdTech
Consultant
Suzanne Seggerman
Games for Change
Co-Founder
Arana Shapiro
Institute of Play
Co-Executive Director
Resham Sidhu
AKQA
Creative Director
Ed Solis
City of San Jose
Recreation Superintendent
Gerald Solomon
Samueli Foundation
Executive Director
Liridona Sopjani
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Researcher
Allan Soutaris
Head of Technical Innovation
SecondMuse
John Spinale
JAZZ Venture Partners
Partner
KS
Kurt Squire
Anastasia Staten
ESA Foundation
Executive Director
Benjamin Stokes
American University
Assistant Professor
Jennifer Stone
STEM of Hollywood
Technology Director/Computer Science Teacher
Trevor Stricker
Mightier
Cofounder and Vice President of Technology
Phil Stuart
Preloaded
Creative Director
Deborah Sturm
College of Staten Island (CUNY)
Associate Professor
Chris Szymczak
UNICEF
VR/AR Lead, UNICEF Innovation
Tash Tan
S1T2
Co-Founder
Robert Torres
Teach the World Foundation
Chief Strategy Officer
Mia Tramz
TIME Magazine
Editorial Director of Enterprise
Emily Treat
Mad*Pow
Director Experience Strategy
Tom Turner
Orange County Department of Education
Director
Rachelle Vallon
Quest to Learn
Guidance Counselor
Alejandra Villanueva
New York University
Student
Victoria Van Voorhis
Second Avenue Learning
Founder and CEO
Maja Vujinovic
OGroup
CEO
Amanda Warner
Game and Learning Creator
Angela Washko
Carnegie Mellon University
Assistant Professor of Art
Sisi Wei
ProPublica
Deputy Editor
Matthew Weise
Empathy Box
CEO
Martina Welkhoff
WXR Fund
Founding Partner
Jackson Westenskow
Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts
Assistant Director
Dan White
Filament Games
CEO
Kelly Whitney
iCivics
Chief Product and Partnerships Officer
Erin Winick
MIT Technology Review
Associate Editor, Future of Work
Alexander Winn
Edgeworks Entertainment
Founder & CEO
Sophie Wright
Human Interact
COO/Co-Founder
Devin Young
Classcraft
Co-founder and President