Speakers – India GDC

Be the Voice That Sparks the Next Generation of Game Creators.

At IGDC, the stage belongs to dreamers, pioneers, and changemakers. For 17 years, our speakers have inspired the community with bold visions and transformative ideas that push the boundaries of what’s possible in gaming.

If you have a story that can inspire, knowledge that can empower, or insights that can shape the future, we invite you to take the spotlight. Your voice could spark the next big leap in India’s game development journey.

2025 Speakers

Aakash Kumar

Managing Director

Z47 & DeVC

Aayush Ailawadi

TV Host & Content Creator

TV Host & Content Creator

Abhir Das

Founder / CBO

PlaySuper

Abiram Shanmugam

Managing Partner / Design Director

3MG Productions

Aditya Swamy

Managing Director

Google

Ahmed Khan

Art Director | Founder

AKSOA (Ahmed khan school of arts)

Akash Badrinath

Senior Game Designer

Electronic Arts

Akash Dhangar

Founder & CEO

AA Gaming

Akash Menon

Head, Gaming

Tulsea

Alexander Bodrov

Vice President of the Video Game Industry Development Organization.

VIDO

Aman Bohra

Senior Developer (Emerging Tech & XR)

DJXLabs

Amit Agrawal

President

Techno Digital

Amit Purohit

Vice President

Primus Partners Pvt Ltd

Anand Mishra

Founder & CEO

THRYL by Glazer Games

Anand Ramachandran

Head of Design

Hitwicket

Aneesha Dhar

Head in Google Play Ecosystem - India

Google

Anil Srinivasan

CEO, Co-Founder

Kruu

Ankit Gupta

Head of Apps Partnerships and Acquisitions, India Sellside

Google

Annelies Wisse

Experience & Play designer

Independent

Anuj Sahani

Head of Krafton Incubator Program & Associate Director Publishing

KRAFTON India

Anumukonda Ramesh

Educator and Global Engagement Manager

XR Experiential Technology Innovation Centre

Anupriya Sinha Das

Head Of Corporate Development

Nazara

Anuradha Chowdhary

Founder & CEO

ZeroTo3 Collective

Anurag Choudary

CEO

Felicity

Arvind Neelakantan

Product Management | SA/TAM/Evangelist

Epic Games

Ashish Kulkarni

Founder

PUNNARYUG ARTVISION PVT LTD

Ashwin Shanker G

Head of R&D

Psypher Interactive

Atri Dave

Technical Director, Animation

Ubisoft Toronto

Austin Davis

Faculty, Play Experience Design

National Institute of Design, India

Bejoy Arputharaj

Founder & CEO

Phanton-FX

Bill Vo

Chairman & Co-founder

Amanotes Vietnam

Bradley Crooks

Chief Content Officer

Curve by Nazara

Chandradip Rana

Creative Head

DJXLabs

Chetan Chandgude

CEO

GodLike ESports

Chirayuu Pandharpurkar

CEO

Arkattia

Cyril Barrow

Head of Games

Yarnhub Animation Studios

Daniel Robson

Cheif Editor

IGN

Deepak M V

Head of Strategy

Nazara

Desirée Brathwaite

Production Director

King

Dhananjai Hari

Founder

Qila Games

Etsuko Horie

Director, Investment Strategy Dept

SEGA CORPORATION

Gauri Dutt

Strategic Partnerships Manager

Google

Gourab Das

Partner - Gaming

WPP Media (Mindshare Fulcrum)

Harish Rao

Global Director, Production

HARVIK LLC

Haritha Mellacheruvu

Game Producer

Jagex

Hrishi Oberoi

Founder & CEO

Photon Tadpole Studios

Imtiaz Hussain

Co-Founder & COO

Fanime

Jakes Bejoy

Music Director

Mindscore Music

James Lewis

Director, Developer Acceleration

XBOX

Jawad Shakil

Tech Manager - QC

Ubisoft Pune

Jaydev Dhakan

H.O.D Game Design

Whistling Woods International

Jazno Francoeur

Associate Professor

Department of Animation and Production, DigiPen Institute of Technology

Jens Hilgers

Founding General Partner

BITKRAFT Ventures

John Park

Head of Business Development

Xsolla

Joseph Burchett

Staff Partner Engineer

Unity Technologies

Joseph Kim

CEO

Lila Games

Juha Huhtakallio

CEO

Edugametion

Justin Will

Art Director

Art Director

Karan Dugal

Head of Casual Gaming & eServices

Google

Karan Parikh

CEO and Unreal Authorized Instructor

Green Rain Studios LLP

Kaustubh Jadhav

Co-founder

LVL Zero

Keerti Singh

Co-Founder, VP Growth

Hitwicket

Kostia Liakhov

Game Director & Head of Art

Spoonful of Wonder

Krish Anurag

Founding and Managing Partner

Chimera VC

Kundavai A

Founder & CEO

Eduzo Games India Pvt Ltd

Laksh Sharma

Investment Associate

Eximius Ventures

Laxmi Khanolkar

Co-founder and CEO

Apar Games

Leonardo Spoladore

Sr Art Director

Gameberry Labs

Manali Kanungo

Co-Founder

MindYourLogic Studios

Manan Shastri

UEFN Specialist and Unreal Authorized Instructor

Green Rain Studios LLP

Manav Arya

Founder & CEO

Tetrafolia Games

Manivannan Muniyandi

Professor

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Mario Royston

Co Founder & Managing Director

Weloadin

Mark Schoennagel

Sr. Manager of Advocacy

Unity Technologies

Mayank Rajpoot

Studio Head

Lakshya Digital

Michelle Menard

Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer

Dragon Snacks Games

Mike Fischer

Professor of Interactive Media

University of Southern California

Mithun Sacheti

Founder

CaratLane

Mohsin “Mozzy” Ahmed

Director of Product

King

Mukund Sagar Vasishta

Director Of Client Relations

Lakshya Digital

Munjal Shroff

Director & COO

Graphiti Multimedia Pvt Ltd

Musab Zaman

Head of Communication & Content

MetaNinza Gaming Pvt. Ltd.

Naga Rohith

Co-Founder

Airoclip

Nikhil Maurya

Technical Game Designer & Developer

Independent

Nirav Doshi

APJ Games' Specialist SA

AWS

Nitish Mittersain

CEO

Nazara

Padmanaban Sridhar

Business Owner

Gaming on Wheels

Parth Chadha

CEO

Stan

Pooja Raj

Senior UA Manager

Nazara Technologies Ltd

Prabhakaran Rajendran

Product Owner

Gaming on Wheels

Pranab Punj

Strategic Advisor

Xsolla

Prashanth Krishnan

CPO & Co-founder

Highbrow Interactive

Prateek Jadhwani

Founder / Game Developer

Destroyer Doggo

Prince Thomas

Co-Founder & CEO

MetaShot

R Rajesh Krishnan

Senior Software Engineer

Sony India Software Centre Pvt Ltd

Raj Gambhava

Founder & CEO

JBM360

Rajan Navani

Founder & CEO

JetSynthesys

Raju Patil

Studio Head

Lakshya Digital

Past Speakers from 2024

Matthew Farber

Ed.D., Associate Professor

University of Northern Colorado

Bryce Johnson

Co-inventor

Microsoft

Jordan Weisman

CEO

Endless Adventures Incorporated

Jaeho Hwang

Game Director of Dave the Diver

MINTROCKET

Paolo Abela

Lead Engineer @ Fatus Games & Independent Multiplayer Consultant

Fatus Games

Yasushi Komori

General Partner

GFR Fund

Marco Pisanu

Lead Game-Tech Programmer

Remedy Entertainment Plc.

Abhijeeth Swaminathan

Creative Director

Visai Games

Tim Morten

CEO

Frost Giant Studios

André Rocca

Art Lead

Moonactive

Willem Delventhal

Headmaster

Indie Game Academy

John Kelly,

CEO

Aged Dice Studios.

Karan Parikh

CEO

Green Rain Studios

Benjamin Carcich

Valarin, Inc. & Building Better Games

Chris Smith

BIGR Social

BIGR Social

Mala Sen

Director, Artist

Niku Games Studio

Prateek Jadhwani

Founder / Game Developer

Destroyer Doggo

Chirag Chopra

Director

Lucid Labs

Tara Phillips

Art Service Line Director

Keywords Studios

Chirag “Tito” Morab

Technical Director - Graphics

Ubisoft Montreal

Álvaro Fernández García

UI Lead - Monopoly Go!

Scopely

Shubham Rajanwar

Director

Madmantragames

Ankit Garg

Founder & Mentor - Zombie Art School

Zombie Art School (Founder & Mentor)

Kiran Kumar P

Director and Head - Art

Art consultent

Kiran Thakkar

Game Designer

Avalanche Studios Group

James Batchelor

Editor-in-Chief

GamesIndustry.biz

Shalaka Sontakke

Game Designer

Electronic Arts

Wilhelm Taht

Senior Vice President & General Manager

Scopely

Ryan Trowbridge

Tech Art Director

Respawn Entertainment

Shayne Hayes

Co-Chair

International Game Developers Association Climate Special Interest Group

Priyanka Singh

Director Sales - APAC ,Country Manager India

Digital Turbine

Jai Shah

Cofounder

Orangutan

Zainuddeen Fahadh

Founder,

Ogre Head Studio

Hussam Hammo

CEO

Tamatem Games

Neeraj Kumar

Founder, Producer & Lead Developer

Silvine Game Studios Pvt Ltd

Nishant Patel

Co-founder and CEO

AFK Gaming

Justin Will

Art Director

Freelance

Sho Sato

Chairperson

IGDA Incubation SIG

Esra Krabbe

Editor

IGN JAPAN

Arjun Balaram

Head of Operations

Electronic Arts

Sumedha Mahajan

Head of Marketing - India

Ampverse DMI

Ashwin Haryani

Country Head - India

Ampverse DMI

Shiva Nandy

Founder and CEO

Skyesports

Wasif Ahmed

PR Manager

Skyesports

Hugo Obi

Founder

Maliyo Games

Supantha Paul

Founder

LavaPoint Games

Liana Ruppert

Community and Influencer Relations

Uncommon Games/Prime Video

Abhinav V Chokhavatia

CEO

Zatun

Kartik Sabherwal

Founder & CEO

Upthrust Esports Pvt Ltd

Mayank Grover

CEO

Outscal

Max Kiehn

Fellow, Software Development

AMD

Shrungar Dadarkar

Director of Generative AI

Scopely Inc

Apurva Shah

Founder & CEO,

Duality AI

Nimish Raut

Global Head Esports Partnerships

Nodwin

Rahul Sehgal

Partner

Gamer2Maker

Karan Verma

Associate Animation Director

Lakshya Digital Pvt. Ltd.

Pratik Poddar

Partner

Nexus Venture Partners

Sam Fisher

Chief Executive Officer

Hyper Hippo

Deepen Parikh

Partner

Courtside Ventures

Ali Alharbi

Founder & CEO

UMX Studio

Manoj Kasyap G aka VLT Sentinel

Owner

Velocity Gaming

Vlad Tsypljak

Founder & CCO

Neon Doctrine

Avinash Pandey,

CTO & Co-Founder

LILA Games

Lavrentiy Klimov

Head of New Verticals Business Development

AppMagic

Jeremy Foo

Global Head of Gaming

Tezos Ecosystem

Phylicia Koh

General Partner

Play Ventures

Anuj Tandon

CEO Gaming

JetSynthesys Pvt. Ltd.

Tousif Hasan Biswas

Founder & CEO

GamingonPhone

Nikolai Ponomarev

Graphics Programmer,

LILA Games

Afsar Ahmad

Co-founder

Gameberry Labs

Pearl Agarwal

Founder and Managing Partner,

Eximius Ventures

Dipender Kaushik

Founder Director

Dunali Games Pvt. Ltd.

Jim Jose

Founder & CEO

DYNAMICNEXT

Vinayak Razdan

Co-founder & Director of Game Design

DynamicNext

Jiang Li

Principal

Makers Fund

Salone Sehgal

Founding General Partner,

Lumikai

Aviroop Mandal

CEO

Futuresmith

Sheetal Bairamadgi

Founder

Crikey Games

Jay Sayta

Technology & Gaming Lawyer

Pavithra Sridhar

Game Design Consultant & Co-founder

Bigfatphoenix Interactive

Soham Thacker

Founder & CEO

Gamerji

Garima Mitra

Co-Founder

Treelife Ventures Services Private Limited

Karan Shroff

Co-Founder and CEO

Lightfury Games

Manish Agarwal

Elder Member Council

KGen

Jay Myung

Development Director

EA

Vaishnavi Palleda

Founder & CEO

Vault Productions

Oz Silahtar

AI & Gaming Advisor

Independent

Prashant Pawan Pisipati

CEO

RenderWolf AI

Dhilip Kumar

Co-founder & Chief Creative Officer

Gajabuja

Murtaza Somjee

Partner

Jerome Merchant + Partners

Siddhartha George

Advocates & Solicitors

Poovayya

Aakash Kumar

Managing Director

Z47 & DeVC

Arjun Varma

India Lead, Strategic Markets Team

Xbox

Shalin Shodhan

Director

Masala Games Private Limited

Rishi Alwani

Commuincations

Masala Games

Deepak M V

CEO

Openplay Technologies

Dr Rushindra Sinha

CEO & Founder

Global Esports

Anuj Sahani

Head - Gaming Incubator and Advisor

KRAFTON India

Nihansh Bhat

Lead- Corporate Development

KRAFTON India

KARAN PATHAK

Associate Director- Esports

KRAFTON India