She’ll be speaking at GamesBeat Summit 2020, too. At the ESA, she emphasized the industry’s diversity and inclusion efforts, work she’s continued at IGDA. Eric Cantor’s office, specializing in explaining technology to government types, Nika Nour switched to digital advocacy work for the industry, first at the Internet Association, then at the Entertainment Software Association, and now at the IGDA Foundation. Professor, University of Southern CaliforniaĪfter working in Rep. Fox has her own vision and executes it with polish and flair. Megan Fox leads the studio, which specializes in cute and quirky games like Skatebird (yes, as in “tiny hawk”) and a pair of adventures starring Emma Jones, P.I. We love indie developers here, and a super fun crew called Glass Bottom Games caught our attention. Edwards also runs Global Game Jam, a game development hackathon. She founded the content culturalization consultancy Geogrify to advise game makers on how to go beyond localization to accommodate cultural and geopolitical concerns. After over a decade at Microsoft, where she founded the Geopolitical Strategy team, she struck out on her own in 2005. Probably the only geographer on our list, Kate Edwards came to our attention as the director of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) from 2012 to 2017.
