During my time in the games industry, I have given talks, been featured on panels, and otherwise engaged in several speaking engagements. Below is a list of these engagements, and you can watch many of these embedded below!
- Panellist, NSW at SXSW Sydney 2023 “The Unsung Hero: The Importance of “Creative Tech” in Sydney’s Tech Scene”
- Speaker, AWG Lunchbreak 2023, “JoJo Zhou: In Conversation with Ellen Jurik”
- Speaker, AWS Gametech Assembly Sydney 2023, “Fifteen Years in Fifteen Minutes: A (very) Short History of Australian Game Development”
- Speaker, FINS Dunedin 2023, “From World Building to Universe Creation”
- Panellist SPA:GENR8, 2022 – “More than just a game”
- Panellist discussing Inclusion and Disability in games for ABC Radio National’s “Download This Show” (2020) & Remarkable Tech’s “Remarkable Insights” (2020)
- Sydney Game Developers Meetup Panelist – “Building Diverse Game Development Teams” (2020)
- Unite Sydney 2019 Panelist – “Working in Games”
- Speaker, GCAP 2019 “Storm Boy: The Game Director’s Postmortem”
- PAX Australia 2019 Panelist – “The Writer’s Room” on writing for games
- Featured Guest, PixelSift Podcast episodes 58 (2016), and 111 (2018)
- PAX Australia 2017 Panelist – “Press Start: Learning to Make Games”
- Co-Speaker, GCAP 2017 “Creative License: Writing for Other People’s Worlds,” writing for licensed IP
- Guest lecturer, “Narrative In Games,” Edith Cowan University, 2008, 2009
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