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Kate Edwards

CEO & Principal Consultant, Geogrify | CXO & Co-Founder, SetJetters

Kate Edwards is an award-winning 30+ year veteran of the game industry, and the CEO and principal consultant of Geogrify, a consultancy which innovated content culturalization, as well as the CXO and Co-Founder of SetJetters, a film tourism app. She is also the former Executive Director of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) and the Global Game Jam. In addition to serving in several board and advisory roles, she is a geographer, writer, and corporate strategist. In 2021, she was included in the Forbes' "50 Over 50" Vision List and was also inducted into the Women in Games Hall of Fame.

9:35 AM - 10:15 AM

Tuesday, 3 DECEMBER MakeGamesAfrica DAY 1

Xbox Panel: Translating Culture to Gameplay

Explore how African mythology and culture can inspire global gameplay experiences in this thought-provoking panel, moderated by Kate Edwards, an industry expert in content culturalization.

Joined online by David Olamide and Winston Ohunyon from Dimension11 Studios based in Nigeria and in-person by Temi Afolabi and James Lewis from Microsoft Xbox.

11:50 AM - 12:30 PM

Wednesday, 4 DECEMBER MakeGamesAfrica DAY 2

How an Unconventional Perspective Changed How Games are Made

Kate Edwards shares how thinking outside the box has revolutionized approaches to game development, inspiring new ways to create impactful games.