Advisory Committee

Carla is a video games industry veteran with over 20 years of experience, specializing in External Development for more than a decade She has held key roles at Xbox (The Coalition, Lionhead), EA (XDI), and Behaviour Interactive Her passion for proce......

External Development veteran and XDS Advisory Committee member who started in the games industry as an artist Began working with external teams at Sumo Digital in 2007, before becoming Outsource Manager; successfully guiding Sumo’s fledgling India ......

Isabelle Bismuth has been with Ubisoft for over 20 years, where she has consistently championed collaboration across teams and studios with passion and purposeAfter several years as a Co-Development and Outsourcing Project Manager for Ubisoft’s......

Guillaume began his video game industry career early at Ubisoft where he worked on several famous AAA titles In 2009, with his knowledge in marketing and business development, Guillaume joined and later became the COO of Glass Egg Digital Media - one......

With over 15 years of production experience in the games industry Toby serves as the VP of Global Production for the up-and-coming studio That’s No Moon EntertainmentHe is responsible for the identification, contracting, onboarding, relationshi......

Game Dev is JC's 2nd career - it was an easy switch from Energy to games in 2005 Ever since, he has been expanding and enhancing BioWare 's ability to create the biggest character driven story-based games in the world through global partnerships in a......

Philip Dennison is a Senior External Development Manager at Epic Games, facilitating partnerships to support content and co-dev across Epic’s first-party teams He has more than 20 years in the industry including roles in art and production, but the......

Carl got his start in games in 1994 Carl has worked at small and large companies alike from a buyer and a service provider perspective, most notably Michael Crichton’s Timeline Entertainment, Nvidia, Electronic Arts and his current role as Senior D......

With over 20 years of global leadership in games and VFX, Arun Honne-Gowda is a strategic expert in external development and production, currently serving as the External Development Director at Supercell He has successfully scaled high-performance t......

Nikki aims to transform content in innovative ways for innovative applications through real-time technology Drawing from a background in gymnastics, diving, and climbing, she specializes in capturing creativity and translating movement into immersive......

Walter de Torres is a Founding Partner at Pixel Mafia, an art services studio based in the Philippines With over 15 years of experience leading AAA game development teams at Microsoft and Electronic Arts, he transitioned to the services side of the i......

Dave Sanderson is a 20-year veteran of the entertainment industry, and has specialized in external development since 2015 Dave has held lead roles in business and creative development across the spectrum of games, film, and television, most recently ......