The first speakers of White Nights Amsterdam 2020 have been announced

On January 23-24, a conference for game developers White Nights will be held in the capital of the Netherlands. Recently, its first speakers became known.

According to the organizers of the event, representatives of Global Game Jam, EA Dice, FunPlus, Super Evil Megacorp, Tilting Point and Square Enix confirmed their participation.

Let’s take a closer look at some of the guests.

Kate Edwards
One of the most prominent officials of the Western gaming industry.

For eight years she headed the International Association of Game Developers (IGDA). Now he is the executive director of The Global Game Jam, the central organizer of game jams. In addition, she heads the Geogrify founded by her. This is a consulting firm that helps businesses to take into account local cultural peculiarities when entering new markets. At their service in the development of Dragon Age II and Star Wars: The Old Republic resorted to Bioware.

Alberto Custodio Martinez
Martinez has been working for the British division of Square Enix for the last year, where he is responsible for a new mobile project as a product lead.

Prior to that, he spent almost six years at Social Point. In this Barcelona studio, he was first responsible for operating Dragon City, and then headed the development of Monster Legends (the total box office of both mobile projects is about $ 300 million).

Taewon Yun
In the gaming industry since 1995.

Tywon worked at Electronic Arts, was one of the directors of Blizzard‘s Korean branch, co-founded Red 5 Studios, known for FireFall, and then helped Blizzard develop its business in China. For the past five years, Tywon has been responsible for the development of the Super Evil Megacorp business. With his participation, the company has raised $55 million since August 2015.

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Representatives of TikTok, Google, SuperScale, Snapchat, Xiaomi, Facebook Audience Network and others will also perform in Amsterdam.

Hurry up to register. So far, tickets for White Nights start at €250. After the announcement of the program, their cost will increase.