{"id":114402,"date":"2020-06-19T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/364992"},"modified":"2020-06-19T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T16:04:00","slug":"come-to-gdc-summer-for-expert-advice-on-cultivating-female-talent-in-aaa-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/19\/come-to-gdc-summer-for-expert-advice-on-cultivating-female-talent-in-aaa-studios\/","title":{"rendered":"Come to GDC Summer for expert advice on cultivating female talent in AAA studios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The game industry is dominated by men, even though research shows ~50 percent of game players are women, and at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gdconf.com?_mc=blog_x_gama_le_x_gdcsf_x_x-12-gdcs20\">GDC Summer<\/a> this August attendees will have the chance to learn practical strategies for cultivating and supporting women&nbsp;in your own workplace.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers are excited to welcome Avalanche Studios senior producer Victoria Setian to present a cutting-edge&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/schedule.gdconf.com\/filter-type\/topic\/production-and-team-management?_mc=blog_x_gama_le_x_gdcsf_x_x-12-gdcs20\">Production &amp; Team Management track<\/a> talk on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/schedule.gdconf.com\/session\/changing-the-game-cultivating-female-talent-in-aaa-studios\/875216?_mc=blog_x_gama_le_x_gdcsf_x_x-12-gdcs20\">Changing the Game: Cultivating Female Talent in AAA Studios<\/a>.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Setian is a game dev veteran, and she&#8217;ll give you practical, actionable advice on&nbsp;how to increase the female talent pool, nurture our current female developers, and support their growth into leadership roles via research-backed actions and programs.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t want to miss this talk, because Setian will show you how changing the game starts with changing the way we run game projects and studios.&nbsp;Make time to come and hear how you can revamp&nbsp;your development practices with an eye towards a better future.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gdconf.com\/attend\/passes?_mc=blog_x_gama_le_x_gdcsf_x_x-12-gdcs20\">Register now<\/a> for GDC Summer, scheduled to take place virtually August 4th through the 6th!&nbsp;For more details on what to expect visit the show&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/gdconf.com?_mc=blog_x_gama_le_x_gdcsf_x_x-12-gdcs20\">official website<\/a>, or subscribe to regular updates via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GameDevelopersConference\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Official_GDC\">Twitter<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/GameDevelopersConference\">RSS<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Gamasutra and GDC are sibling organizations under parent company Informa&nbsp;Tech<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The game industry is dominated by men, even though research shows ~50 percent of game players are women, and at&nbsp;GDC Summer this August attendees will have the chance to learn practical strategies for cultivating and supporting women&nbsp;in your own workplace. Organizers are excited to welcome Avalanche Studios senior producer Victoria Setian to present a cutting-edge&nbsp;Production [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}