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Saturday, April 21 • 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Power Up: Women of Gaming Panel, Conversation 1154

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Gaming is massively popular with both women and men, but video gaming is still strongly associated with men. Join this panel of women in the video game industry as they discuss how to improve opportunities for girls and young women to engage with the video game industry, increase visibility and representation of women in gaming, and more.

Moderators
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Cat Silvestre

Silvestre games industry veteran with 10+ years of experience building and managing several top grossing game franchises for major companies including Zynga, Warner Bros, and glu. In her current roles as the Sr Director of Games and Apps at Ellen Digital, Catherine oversees popular... Read More →

Speakers
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Fiona Cherbak

Lead Recruiter, Worldwide Studios at Sony PlayStation; Board member at International Game Developers Association, Los Angeles;Co-founder of Boston Festival of Indie Games; Game events & PR at ThemePark Studios.
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Kirsten England

Technical Visual Effects Artist at Naughty Dog
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Margaret Ng

Ng is a leader and veteran of the gaming industry through her adventures at Electronics Arts making The Sims, and at Zynga working on the Cityville and Farmville franchises. Now at Riot Games, she is the Development Director leading teams in the area of corporate operations and her... Read More →
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Maggie Oh

Oh is currently the Technical PM at ILMxLAB. Her experience ranges from content creation, engineering, and leadership. She has worked on projects such as "LiveCGX" at London Fashion Week 2018, "Microsoft's HoloLens," "Halo4," "Pirates of the Caribbean 2," and "Star Wars." She holds... Read More →