Business occasion Game Republic New Horizons has established a new worldwide advisory board to assist form its 2026 convention.
The board consists of over 20 business specialists, together with Kickstarter’s head of video games Asher McClennahan, Revolution Software program head Charles Cecil, Pitchify’s Gina Jackson, Game Advisor’s Stefan Lampinen, Wet Frog’s Tony Byus, Double Eleven co-CEO Kimberley Turner, Kudos Video games industrial director David Lilley, The Irish Game Makers Affiliation’s Elaine Dowman, and GamesIndustry.biz alumnus Chris Dring.
The complete listing of advisory board members is as follows:
- Alison Lacy (Radical Forge)
- Andrew Crawshaw (Thunkd)
- Ben Robinson (ID@Xbox)
- Bob Makin (Behaviour Interactive)
- Callum Underwood (Uwu Biz)
- Charles Cecil (Revolution Software program)
- Charlie Kemp (Tees Valley Mixed Authority)
- Chris Dring (The Game Enterprise)
- Chris Taylor (Eaton Smith Solicitors)
- David Lilley (Kudos Video games)
- Des Gayle (Day Off Interactive)
- Elaine Dowman (IMIRT – Irish Game Builders Affiliation)
- Gina Jackson (Pitchify)
- HaZ Dulull (Past the Pixels)
- John Sanderson (Pitstop Productions)
- Kimberley Turner (Double Eleven)
- Luke Mills (Dink)
- Michael French (Video games London)
- Michelle Shelton (Middlesbrough Council)
- Nareice Wint (Miami Avalon)
- Nina Cliff (Enterprise Improvement)
- Ron Ashtiani (Steamforged Video games)
- Sarah York (Panda Cat Video games)
- Simon Iwaniszak (Purple Kite Video games)
- Stefan Lampinen (Game Advisor ltd)
- Tony Byus (Wet Frog)
The convention can be supported by Tees Valley Mixed Authority and Middlesbrough Council, with its members, Charlie Kemp and Michelle Shelton, additionally sitting on the advisory board.
“The advisory board conferences have been unimaginable for serving to us to form this 12 months’s now 3-day programme,” mentioned Game Republic managing director Jamie Sefton. “The main focus stays on the longer term for tech, enterprise, funding, markets and alternatives for video games and artistic business leaders.”
“What we noticed on the GR New Horizons convention final 12 months was the clear potential for the occasion to be a global flagship video games business convention that takes place in The North.”
Game Republic New Horizons 2026 will happen between October 14 and October 16 at Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough, with early-bird tickets available until the end of March 2026.
This 12 months’s occasion is sponsored by Kudos Video games, Purple Kite Video games, Xsolla, Double Eleven, Metal Metropolis Interactive, Plus Accounting and Behaviour Interactive.
“Over a 3rd of attendees have been from outdoors the area coming from London, the South-East and abroad,” added Sefton. “Suggestions indicated 89% had secured new contacts and that 28% secured a new mission or deal on the occasion with over 100 conferences on MeetToMatch. Individuals have been so constructive in regards to the occasion and wished it to proceed and develop – so we’re delighted to be engaged on the 2026 New Horizons.”