As part of our Pride Month of celebration and education, we hosted an LGBTQ+ in Games panel for all of our teams. We were joined by a series of incredible voices from across the games industry and it was inspiring to listen and learn from their experiences and knowledge.
Last week, we hosted a #Pride panel for our teams and invited some incredible people from across the games industry to share their experiences ️
As promised, here are some of the highlights #PrideAtSumo
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Hosted by
our Recruitment Campus Coordinator, Georgina Cornelius (She/Her), we were
delighted to be joined by:
Dan
Bernardo: Founder of Playtra Games and Pxel Gamehouse
Michael
Othen-Reeves: Co-founder and Creative Director for Included Games and
member of the leadership team at Out Making Games
Kat
Welsford: Digital Analyst & Cohead of the Pride Committee at Square
Enix and Admin at London Gaymers Inc
Blaise
Imiolczyk: Senior Games Designer at The Chinese Room and LGBTQ+
Diversity Champion at Sumo Group EDI
During the panel, our speakers discussed their experiences, answered questions from our teams and talked about their hopes for the future of LGBTQ+ representation in the games industry.
You can
catch up on the whole thing on our YouTube channel!
#PrideAtSumo
