Level Up gathers some of the best and most successful game developers from all around the world in the eternally beautiful city of Rome.

Andrea Pessino (Ready At Dawn), Craig Morrison (Blizzard), Rèka Sugar (Electronic Arts), Yara Khoury (Outpost Games, Visceral Games), Tom Isaksen (Ubisoft) and Patrick Munnik (Guerrilla Games) are among the fantastic speakers that will go on stage during the event.

Andrea is CTO and Co-Founder at Ready At Dawn, a new game company founded in 2003. 

Veteran developer with a long-time experience as game designer, Craig has been working as Design Department Manager at Blizzard since 2013.

Currently Head of Games at Outpost games in San Francisco, Yara has worked for six years at Visceral Games, where she developed Dead Space 2, Battlefield Hardline and Dead Space 3.

Réka is the Art Outsource Manager at Electronic Arts in Helsinki.

Lead Character Artist at Ubisoft Paris, Tom started his career in the game industry in 2000, working both as Lead Animator and as Technical Director in many AAA titles.

Senior Producer at Guerrilla Games, Patrick graduated in Science at the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam in 1997.

Ayi Sanchez is Senior Environment Artist at MachineGames since 2016, where he worked on the development of Wolfenstein II.

Arno is Senior Character Artist at Guerrilla Games in Amsterdam.

Senior Software Developer, founder and CEO at Ducandu GmbH, Sven Mika got a PhD in Computational Biology.

Co-founder and Creative Director at Affinity Project, an independent software house based in Italy.

Marco Massarutto, Co-Founder and Brand & Product Manager for more than 10 years at Kunos Simulazioni.

Founder & CEO at Caracal Games, he's the mind behind the awards-winning indie success Downward, very first ambitious project for him and his team. 

Fabio is CTO and co-founder at Play2Speak, a startup based in Madrid.

Co-founder of AIV - Italian Video games Academy in 2004, Andrea is also teaching Director and 3D art teacher at AIV.

Now Development Director at Bohemia Interactive, Jarek worked also at Hangar 13 and 2K Czech, where he developed gameplay and level design for Mafia III.

After his graduation in Composition, Bassoon and Electronic Music, Maurizio became a teacher in Composition at Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome.

Veteran developer with more than ten years of experience in the game industry, Valerio is currently CEO at 34BigThings.

Owner at 20Tab and Unbit and co-founder at Holey, Roberto is also lead programmer and Chief Executive Officer at AIV - Italian Video games Academy since 2015.

Senior CG artist and since 2007 CGI teacher at AIV - Italian Video games Academy.

Born in Romania, Adrian Baluta has been working as Senior Animator at Cinematics and Motion Graphics Department at Ubisoft since 2009.

Born in Brazil, Camilla got her graduation in Graphic Design at Pernambuco University in 2007.

He considers himself a “2.0 artisan” specialized in 3D modelling and digital sculpting.

Concept Artist with over 18 years of experience, 10 of which are in video games industry.

Manager in Information Security for Accenture, with a wide experience in IIS/IT Security, Risk and Data Protection.

Prof. Lutrario is currently managing director, teacher and member of Scientific Committee of GamificationLab at Università La Sapienza di Roma. 

Federico Spada was born and raised in Milan. He discovered the world of games thanks to an old "Risk!", game he found in his parents' house basement.