Educators, games studios and young games developers will gather in Sheffield and online to discuss the most topical subjects in games education in this agenda-setting conference.

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This influential conference gives games educators and developers a forum to discuss the biggest issues in games education and recruitment, network with colleagues and hear from diverse young learners and developers about how to unlock their pathways into games.

Speakers include representatives from Unity, Unreal Engine, Falmouth University, Cloud Imperium, Derby University, Bulkhead, Aardvark Swift, Abertay University, AIM Group, Amiqus, Exient, D3T, Grads In Games, Media Molecule, GamesDev Bootcamps, My.Games, nDreams, Next Gen Skills Academy, No More Robots, Playground Games, Safe In Our World, Sheffield Hallam University, Mental health Foundation, Sumo Digital, Ukie, Salford University and more.

In-person delegates will join workshops, attend a networking evening and experience the Grads in Games awards at the National Videogame Museum. Online delegates can join all the panel sessions which will be streamed live.

Key sessions will include:

* Successfully managing remote and flexible working

* How to fill the ‘hard-to-hire’ roles in games

* Mental health and wellbeing

* How new recruits to games landed their first positions

* How to get the most out of university

* Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in games

Day One focuses on challenges, best practice and innovative solutions of games companies, universities and colleges including remote working, 4 day working weeks, and pastoral care of students and staff. It investigates the skills games companies are struggling to recruit from educational institutions and asks how industry can help educators train talent to be ready for the workplace. Day Two brings in diverse young developers and students to discuss their experiences of education, recruitment and early games careers.

Educators consistently report that they have changed universities’ curricula as a result of discussions at previous GamesEd Summits.

GamesEd22 is produced by the BGI, a charity which transforms lives with games.

GamesEd22 is the fourth in an annual series of conferences to support games educators and developers, enabling more collaboration, dialogue and best practice sharing between Further and Higher Education organisations and the games industry.