GamesBeat Summit 2023 unveils Visionary and Up-and-Comer Award winners
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GamesBeat unveiled its 2023 Visionary Awards at the close of the GamesBeat Summit 2023 event in Los Angeles today.
The winners are Visionary Award winner Meggan Scavio, president of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, and Up-and-Comer winner Rich Vogel, a veteran of the online gaming industry.
The GamesBeat Visionary Awards started in 2018 as a way to honor game industry leaders who showed real vision for the future. Zsuzsa James, senior trade commissioner of the consulate of Finland, hosted the awards.
Our past winners for this award include Rand Miller, cofounder of Cyan and co-creator of Myst; Ted Price, founder of Insomniac Games; John Smedley, studio head at Amazon Game Studios San Diego; Laura Miele, the top gaming executive at Electronic Arts; and Sarah Bond, corporate vice president at Xbox at Microsoft.
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We also presented our fifth annual Up and Comer Award as part of this program. Our past winners for this award were Eve Crevoshay of Take This, Natasha “ZombaeKills” Zinda, and Dinga Bakaba. This award honors someone who is an up-and-comer when it comes to achievements in the game industry. It isn’t based on age or experience in the game industry. Rather, it recognizes that the biggest potential of the honoree lies ahead of them. One of the things that we like about our awards is that they come from out of the blue and surprise the winners.
This year’s panel of judges included me, Christina Heller, Ted Price,
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