Womenize! - Inspiring Stories is our weekly series featuring inspirational individuals from games and tech. For this edition, we talked to Alina Gribanova, Business Development Director at Devoted Studios. She speaks about how her legal education and focus on strong team culture, trust, and strategic vision have shaped her successful career in business development and long-term partnership building in the gaming industry. Read more about Alina here:

Womenize! - Inspiring Stories is our weekly series featuring inspirational individuals from games and tech. For this edition, we talked to Dani Valkova, Founder of GOGIA. She speaks about how her work across music, neuroscience, and immersive tech is guided by creating meaningful experiences that positively affect people, balancing creative innovation with purposeful design, and fostering supportive, inclusive communities to maximize the impact of technology and leadership. Read more about Dani here:

Womenize! - Inspiring Stories is our weekly series featuring inspirational individuals from games and tech. For this edition, we talked to Mairi Nolan, Director of Play at Studio Heft. She speaks how her unconventional background and design experiences shaped her approach to creating thoughtful, accessible puzzle games, emphasizing the value of cross-disciplinary thinking, learning through constraints, and encouraging aspiring designers to embrace curiosity and diverse influences. Read more about Mairi here:

Womenize! - Inspiring Stories is our weekly series featuring inspirational individuals from games and tech. For this edition, we talked to Kasia Dziekan, Sound Designer at Arrival. She speaks about her journey into game audio, explaining how she creates immersive and emotionally engaging soundscapes for video games through a mix of creativity, collaboration, and technical skill. Read more about Kasia here:

Womenize! - Inspiring Stories is our weekly series featuring inspirational individuals from games and tech. For this edition, we talked to Karoliina Korppoo, Creative Director at Day Off Interactive. She speaks about her evolution as a games industry leader, emphasizing a shift from individual creative control to collaborative, transparent, and people-centered leadership focused on building safe, thriving teams that create meaningful games with positive impact. Read more about Karoliina here:

Womenize! - Inspiring Stories is our weekly series featuring inspirational individuals from games and tech. For this edition, we talked to Charmaine Duff, Founder & Director of Women-led Games. She speaks about her journey founding Women-Led Games to uplift and give visibility to women in the gaming industry after facing gender inequality and setbacks, sharing how perseverance, community support, and balance have shaped her career and outlook on game development. Read more about Char here:

Womenize! - Inspiring Stories is our weekly series featuring inspirational individuals from games and tech. For this edition, we talked to Inés Alcolea Llopis, Writer & Narrative Designer. She speaks about how her background in literature, languages, and diverse experiences shapes her work as a game narrative designer to create inclusive, authentic stories that reflect marginalized perspectives, while balancing creativity with industry realities and mentoring others to tell their genuine, unique stories. Read more about Inés:

Womenize! - Inspiring Stories is our weekly series featuring inspirational individuals from games and tech. For this edition, we talked to Madhura Pathare, Founder & Game Designer at Cerize Studios. She speaks about about her journey from graphic design and advertising to founding her own game studio, describing how her curiosity for interactive creativity, educational experiences, and professional lessons in visual storytelling led her to merge art, technology, and purpose to create meaningful, impact-driven games like Fashion EcOver. Read more about Madhura here:

Womenize! - Inspiring Stories is our weekly series featuring inspirational individuals from games and tech. For this edition, we collaborated with ESBD - eSport-Bund Deutschland e.V. and talked to Karina Ziminaite, Head of Content Production at Esport World Cup Foundation. She speaks about her journey from journalism to esports, emphasizing how storytelling, adaptability, and people-centered leadership have shaped her approach to guiding creative teams and amplifying authentic human stories on a global stage. Read more about Karina here:

Womenize! - Inspiring Stories is our weekly series featuring inspirational individuals from games and tech. For this edition, we talked to Estelle Bailly, Localization & Globalization Expert and Life & Career Confidence Coach. She speaks about her 25+ years in gaming localization, sharing how pivotal experiences with leadership, burnout, mentoring, and imposter syndrome shaped her people-centered approach and inspired her transition into coaching to help others grow with confidence. Read more about Estelle: