FOUNDATIONS OF DIGITAL GAMES 2026 IS ORGANIZED BY
GENERAL CHAIRS
Alessandro Canossa
acan@kglakademi.dk
Jesper Juul
jjuul@kglakademi.dk
Program chairs
Max Birk
m.v.birk@tue.nl
Anastasia Salter
anastasia@ucf.edu
Proceedings Chairs
Phil Lopez
phil.lopes@ulusofona.pt
Foad Koshmood
foaad@calpoly.edu
Keynote Chair
Jichen Zhu
jicz@itu.dk
INDUSTRY CHAIR
Ahmad Azadvar
ahmad.azadvar@activision.com
Discord Coordinator
Lucas Fellner
tsurello@outlook.com
Technical Game Development Track
Mehmet Kosa
kosam@marshall.edu
Game Design, Studio Practices, & Novel Experiences Track
Phil Lopez
phil.lopes@ulusofona.pt
Foad Koshmood
foaad@calpoly.edu
Phil Lopez
phil.lopes@ulusofona.pt
Game Analytics and Visualization Track
Emily Chen
echen920@usc.edu
Alex Bisberg
abisberg@calpoly.edu
Game Artificial Intelligence Track
Johannes Pfau
j.pfau@uu.nl
Mike Preuss
m.preuss@liacs.leidenuniv.nl
Game Criticism and Analysis Track
Carly Kocurek
ckocurek@illinoistech.edu
Bo Rodda
wrodda@illinoistech.edu
Games Beyond Entertainment Track
Scott Bateman
scottb@unb.ca
Aaron Tabor
aaron.tabor@unb.ca
Allan Fowler
allan.fowler@auckland.ac.nz
Ticianne Darin
ticianne@virtual.ufc.br
Games Pedagogy Track
Erik van der Spek
e.d.v.d.spek@tue.nl
Jingya Li
10090@bjtu.edu.cn
Abstract Track
Pawel Grabarczyk
pawg@itu.dk
Generative AI Track
Oguz Buruk
oguz.buruk@tuni.fi
Marco Scirea
msc@mmmi.sdu.dk
Jiangnan Xu
jiangnan.xu@tuni.fi
Late Breaking Short Papers
John Murray
jtm@ucf.edu
Games and Demos
Dooley Murphy
dojo@itu.dk
Doctoral Consortium
Casper Harteveld
c.harteveld@northeastern.edu
Workshop Proposals
Emil Lundedal Hammer
elh@hum.ku.dk
Competition Proposals
Jialin Liu
jialin.liu@ln.edu.hk
Panel Proposals
Ticianne Darin
ticianne@virtual.ufc.br
Ferran Altarriba
ferran.altarriba@eram.cat