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Deepak Chopra to Headline 2025 Games for Change Festival as Keynote Speaker on Mental Health and Gaming (EXCLUSIVE)
The 2025 Games for Change Festival will feature Deepak Chopra and Poonacha Machaiah, CEO of the Chopra Foundation, as its keynote speakers.
The 2025 event’s theme is “Designing for Tomorrow” and the festival will feature sessions across three tracks: games and learning, civics and social issues, and health and wellbeing. Discussions will center around game development, mental health research, emerging technologies, storytelling, and purpose-driven design, all inspired by play. Other speakers this year will include: Maria Sayans (CEO, ustwo games), Leo Olebe (VP of Global Partnerships, Xbox | Microsoft), Mathias Norvig (CEO, SYBO), Eric Monacelli (Executive Producer, Marvel Games), Deborah Mensah-Bonsu (Social Impact Partner, Supercell), Nicole Smith (Senior Manager, Tech Initiatives & Partnerships, USA for UNHCR), Patricia Noel (Mental Health Policy Manager, Discord), Rachel Kowert (Visiting Researcher, University of Cambridge), Harold Goldberg (President, New York Videogame Critics Circle), Phil Stuart (Executive Creative Director / Founder, PRELOADED), Stanley Pierre-Louis (President & CEO of the Entertainment Software Association) and Nicole Twohig (Director, Marketing and Communications Campaigns, Vibrant Emotional Health/988 Lifeline).
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