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