The most innovative industry’s know - how and the most meaningful themes up-to-date. Here revealed some of Level up - Rome Developer Conference key - players.

As Creative Director and visual effect producer, Sabour brings over 16 years of multi-platform experience in location-based entertainment, interactive gaming, experiential marketing, and media production.

Fawzi Mesmar is an award winning Game designer, author and public speaker that has been in the gaming industry for over 18 years in a career.

Celia Hodent is recognized as a leader in the application of user experience (UX) and cognitive science in the game industry.

Erik Valkering has always been very interested in programming. Already at the age of 11, he was introduced to QuickBasic via a friend of his.

Born in Rome in 1972, Marco has always had a great passion for cars and video games. IT consultant, in 2005, Marco co-founded with Stefano Casillo Kunos Simulazioni, of which he is currently Executive Manager.

People-oriented game industry professional with a software engineering background. Currently leading PixelAnt Games studio.

Francesco Abbonizio, Technical Artist and Art Director, RPG and fantasy addict.

Writers Guild Award-winning writer Anne Toole has written for live action series, games, animation, comics, and more. She most recently wrote for GHOST OF TSUSHIMA: Director's Cut, coming out later this year.

Currently Creative Director at TrackTwenty EA in Helsinki, Stanislav has been working with the studio for over 15 years, working on the SimCity BuildiIt title.

Machine Learning Engineer at Anyscale, he was also founder, CEO and Senior Software Developer for Ducandu GmbH.

Brad is the Co-founder and Creative Director at Miracle Tea. They are best known in the UK independent scene for their games Ruya and Alula.

Originally from Italy but currently based in Singapore, Dr. Roberto Dillon is active both as a game designer and as an educator nurturing the next generation of game developers.

Nikola Nikita Jeremić is a young and aspiring music composer from Serbia. He is a self-educated musician and composer.

Elena Lobova is the founder of ACHIEVERS HUB, an agency that helps independent game developers and connects them with investors, publishers, and mentors from all around the world. 

Pontus "Zlapped" Mahler is an ex-professional gamer who has attended and won multiple tournaments globally in Heroes of Newerth.

Co-Founder and CTO at AnotheReality, Fabio Mosca is a Virtual Reality designer, videogame programmer and engineer.

Fırat is a young entrepreneur and game designer in the game industry.

After ten years of experience from mobile, Facebook and AAA games, Eevi has an expansive view of what game design can be, but her heart has always belonged to the narrative side of games.

Leonardo is Principal Concept Artist at Remedy with 10 years of experience in the industry.

Doron Hirsch is an installation artist and game designer based in Amsterdam. He is the co-founder of Kwa Qua Games, an award winning independent game studio dedicated to designing interactive playful platforms.

Jessica is a product designer who specializes in creating platforms in the gaming industry.

Graduated cum laude in Computer Engineering at Univesrità degli Studi di Firenze, Michele Caini is a Frrelance Senior Software Engineer.

Co-founder and Creative Director, he developed Don-Ay, the first donation game ever made.

Since 2011 he has been engaging in video game development, working mainly on graphic adventures and other interactive narrative experiences, and learning the ropes attending game jams, developing personal projects and a lot of freelance work.

In 2013 she concluded her studies at the University of Bologna and the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon with a master's degree in Computer Science.

Founder of Caracal Games in 2016, with which he released Downward (2017), OkunoKA (2018) and OkunoKA Madness (2019), titles appreciated by critics and winners of international awards.

Alessandro started his journey as a Game Designer in 2014, writing rulebooks and planning LARP (Live Action Role Play) events first for Ucronia Live and then for Grayvent Live, a project by Malastrana s.r.l.

Marco Joele Nicolini holds the role of Quality Assurance Manager at RaceWard Studio.

Giuseppe Longo is a game artist and graphic designer who has been working since the beginning of the new millennium under the pseudonym Misbug.

Arianna Ortelli, born in 1996, graduated from high school V.Alfieri in Turin and graduated in Business Administration and then Business Administration at the University of Turin.

Passionate about video games since childhood, he obtained a master's degree in computer engineering at the Milan Polytechnic.

​​Marco A. Minoli started working in gaming back in 1998. He is a faithful ambassador of market niches: a marketing person with one foot in creativity and one foot firmly established in numbers.

Siro started his career in 2012 by founding his first startup.

Graduated from the Santa Giulia Academy of Fine Arts in Brescia in the course of New Technologies of Art (grade 110/110) with a thesis on Level Design and a demo focused on the possibility of combining the playful context with the cultural one.

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