14 - 16 July 2026

DoubleTree by Hilton Brighton Metropole

Speakers

A huge thank you to all of our Develop:Brighton 2025 speakers who shared their expert games knowledge and experience with us. We're looking forward to welcoming back many of them, along with plenty of new faces at our 2026 event.

Surgent Studios

Mishcon de Reya

Adele Cutting (Audio Track Co-Host)

Agnes Kasilovska

Dead Nice Studio

Alan Fianko Ashalley-Anthony

Alix Taylor-Searle

Third Kind Games

University for the Creative Arts

Limit Break Mentorship

Annabel Ashalley-Anthony

Antony de Fault

Concept Artist and Illustrator

Target3D / StudioT3D

Ben Pickersgill

Callum Underwood

IndieBI / Uwu Biz

Sony Interactive Entertainment

Raw Fury / Curran Games

Chiara Santevecchi

Christopher Morrison

Indie Developer & Artist

PocketGamer.biz

The Chinese Room

Danni GT Coaching

Dennis Quaisser

Freelance Game Designer

Insomniac Games

Dr Dave Ranyard

Dream Reality Interactive

Dr Gina Jackson

SkillFull/Pitchify

Dr Jackie Mulligan

Dr Richard Wilson

Ellen Elliott-Brown

Out Making Games / King

Safe In Our World

Emma Bodie-Smith

Independent Consultant

Super Spline Studios

Coaching with Estelle

Felicity Gracie-Herst

Francesca Foffano

University of York

George Jijiashvili

Newfangled Games

Warner Brothers Games - Odyssey

Kingston University

Ilari Kuittinen

Actor, Comedian, Presenter

Massive Entertainment - a Ubisoft Studio

Excalibur Games

Out Making Games / Martin Tripp Associates

Frontier Developments

Sliced Bread Animation

Jazeena McCallum

Jennifer Estaris

Monument Valley 3

Triangular Pixels

Communications Coach

Limit Break Mentorship / Electric Saint

PitStop Productions

The Halp Network

Fireshine Games

Geogrify / SetJetters

Katherine Mould

Keywords Studios

Katherine Rowlandson

Keith Arrowsmith

WorkWise for Screen

Tanglewood Games

Third Kind Games

Kirsty Gillmore

Freelance Voice & Performance Director

Kiss Publishing & BiG

Laurence Oldham

Frontier Developments

Leon Hijazi-Killin

PitStop Productions

Liudmila Siachko

Luke Hebblethwaite

University of Brighton

NextGen Skills Academy

Mariusz Gasiewski

Aero Astro Arts

Martian Lawyers Club

GIANTS Software

GameFlex Consultants

Martin Weissberg

Massive Entertainment - a Ubisoft Studio

Sony Interactive Entertainment

The Game Assembly UK

Matthew Florianz (Audio Track Co-Host)

Frontier Developments

Matthew Handrahan

Kepler Interactive

Melissa ‘Mj’ Lewis

Kepler Interactive

Mikey Starovoytov

Small Loan Studio

Actor and Director

mobilegamer.biz

Turn 10 Studios

Paola Velasquez

Sony Interactive Entertainment

Paul Kilduff-Taylor

Sony Interactive Entertainment

Rebecca Parnell

Act III Studios

BadBear Games CIC

Rosanna Normanton

Intimacy Coordinator

University of the Arts London

Keywords Studios

Remedy Entertainment

Dead Nice Studio

Samantha Béart

Samantha Ebelthite

Amplified Games

GamesIndustry.biz

Shawn Alexander Allen

Silvana Greenfield

Sony Interactive Entertainment

Soheil Salehinia

Sliced Bread Animation

Sole Gonzalez Romero

Super Spline Studios

Stephanie Bazeley

Future Publishing

Voice Actor and Casting Director

Tessa Verplancke

Freelance Sound Designer

University of Greenwich

Fireshine Games

Google DeepMind

Zbigniew Woznowski

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