Explore how AI is transforming game development pipelines — accelerating your workflows and enabling smarter, more immersive gameplay. This session covers the latest developer tools

Most game projects fail quietly while “on track.” This talk reframes production around a single, unforgiving truth: a playable build tells you more than any

Art direction is not visual polish—it’s conversion designCosmetics = identity = monetization = retentionDiversity isn’t moral fluff—it’s market expansion + player attachment Cosmetics work from

This roundtable session allows you to ask any burning legal questions* you may have from a group of games industry lawyers. DLA Piper’s games lawyers

Applying just a few best practices for code and design to a game during development, regardless of project budget, can make a huge difference in

How do you build and maintain a community for games in indefinite development? Alexandra Orlando of Kitfox Games will give a peek behind the curtain

Let’s discuss strategies that enable studios of any size to supercharge established financial tools to improve your returns. Early-stage indies can convert sweat equity into

Most UA teams are still optimizing campaigns while believing they’re optimizing for growth. This talk challenges that assumption and introduces a different model: user acquisition

The creator economy is evolving fast — and the studios and publishers winning at influencer marketing aren’t doing it alone. This panel brings together industry

Economic impact, global competitiveness, and the policy foundation for growth.

Capacity forecasting across multiple studios and titles is one of the hardest operational problems in modern game development, and one of the least consistently solved.

Learn how to pitch at the right stage, what deal terms to expect in 2026, and how to target the right partners. This session unpacks

2025 was a year of unprecedented growth for D2C, with rulings like Epic v. Apple and Epic v. Google unlocking new growth vectors for web

When getting stuck on designing Cauldrons (Horizon’s dungeons) on ‘Horizon Forbidden West’, Dennis Micka’s entire approach to level design changed when he started designing the

Whether it is two people or fifty, knowing how to communicate clearly, resolve conflicts, and align goals can make or break a game’s development. Come

I’ve worked across North America, Europe, and Asia on live-service games like Monopoly GO! and Apex Legends Mobile. From that experience, I’ve learned that successful

What does sustainable growth look like for game studios in Canada today? This panel brings together leaders from public funding, global publishing, and nonprofit developer

This will be an open forum for discussing topics important to the game audio and music community. Best practices and emerging trends in creative design,

This session explores best practices and emerging trends by connecting strategy, team-building, and creative vision with the latest tech and tools defining the modern industry

This session gives indie founders a practical framework for finding the cracks in their company’s foundation before a publisher, investor, or the market finds them

I take users through the process of lighting a complex scene in Unity URP and the performance ramifications of the choices available to them. Breaking

The traditional studio model of long planning cycles, rigid pipelines, and budgets demanding mass-market hits is no longer viable. AI has collapsed the cost of

Got a game with strong commercial potential? Pitch it live on stage in Toronto at XP Game Summit 2026. Five indie studios will be selected

Voice Acting in video games is more than performance, it’s a production process that hinges on direction, context, and iteration. In this live interactive session,

The great game universes feel inevitable. But what’s actually going on beneath the surface? In this session, Christian Fonnesbech shares principles for thinking about game