Schedule

This collaborative, audience-driven workshop is about sharing candid stories of mistakes made and lessons learned - and levelling each other up in the process  Hosted by Dave Sanderson in his 10th year at XDS and 5th year on the XDS Advisory Commit......

Enjoy a light afternoon snack and some coffee in The Hub, brought to you by Amber Studio......

Today, studios are under constant pressure to produce more content, faster, without scaling teams One of the best answers lies in enabling UGC at scale When players become active co-creators, studios can offload part of the content creation process, ......

Enjoy a hot cup of tea, brought to you by Neobards......

Sharing details of Level Headed's deep use of external development, along with other industry anecdotes, this session will highlight the strong benefits and potential pitfalls of external development for smaller projects and studios As a studio with ......

This session features 9 different Table-Topics Seats are limited, book early......

Join Story Kitchen co-founders Dmitri M Johnson and Mike Goldberg, producers behind Sonic the Hedgehog, Tomb Raider, and more, alongside BAFTA North America board member and games committee chair Julia Bianco, for a focused round-table on expanding g......

Outsourcing has evolved, we are no longer just sending a list of assets to be done, Co-development is becoming the standard This brings a new set of challenges such as fully allowing external teams into your ecosystem and being a part of your team Ho......

External development is no longer just about outsourcing—it’s about building strategic, long-term partnerships that drive innovation and production stability Emerging markets, such as Southeast Asia, have evolved beyond cost-efficient labor pools......

In an era of increasingly complex pipelines and distributed teams, AI isn’t just a buzzword, it’s a competitive advantage This session explores how External Development Managers and Directors can harness AI tools to streamline vendor collaboratio......

Over the past decade, the appetite from traditionally underrepresented players to see characters like them in the games they play has grown As studios and their Ex Dev partners look to meet this need by adapting this diverse reality into their games,......

Whether you're a large publisher working with multiple external partners or a small studio offering specialized development services, effectively evaluating, engaging, and managing external development is both an art and a scienceIn this practica......