Emmi has over 10 years of professional experience from gaming, social media and ICT fields. She is an expert in service based games development, with focus on monetization, retention and user acquisition.

Emmi's game career started in 2004 at Sulake, maker of the virtual world Habbo. Next she worked Digital Chocolate to head their product management and analytic's functions. Now she's a member of Lionhead's leadership team.

Currently Lead Programmer at Playsign Ltd, Toni also both founded and is the owner of the company since 2003. He is a true veteran of the indie game scene.

In addition to this, he also was Technical Director at Studio Orange/Blender Foundation, and has many years of experience teaching and researching digital media and web services, among various other tasks.

Dr Miguel teaches game localisation and media translation in both the undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Roehampton.

For the past few years he has worked to raise awareness about the issues involved in the localization of video games by leading several events in Europe and the U.S. He believes passionately that localized versions should play as wonderfully as the original ones.

There are not many psychologists who specialise in the area of Cyberpsychology and even fewer (we can literally think of a handful globally!) who specialise in the video games industry. Berni Good is one of them.

A member of British Psychological Society and a founder of Cyberpsychologist Limited she is a psychologist in love with video games, trying to figure out what makes the gamer tick.

His stories and lessons are drawn from his work experience at Pixar, Bungie, and Blizzard, as well as his current position as a senior animator at Riot Games.

Tomáš has also visited and spoken at various US institutions including Gnomon School of Art and Ex'pression College for Digital Art.

Mikko Kasanen blew his first fuse when he was 4 years old when trying to build a "Electric Lego Car" out of a broken lamp cord. He still has a huge passion to tinker with all sorts of devices and code.

With experience from mobile application development in all 3 major platforms, he now works as a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft.

Vlad Micu has had several years of experience in game industry journalism, PR and management. Some of you might also remember him from last year's NGS!

Vlad is currently responsible for Critical Force Entertainment's two main franchises: Critical Strike Portable (with 16+ million downloads on Google Play with 300.000 DAU) and Company of Tanks.

Veli is a young Finnish digital artist who has worked in illustration and concept art for Gantasy Flight Games, 10tons, Fragment Production and Tuliotus. He's currently studying media at Tampere University of Applied Sciences.

He's been doing digital art since 2005, and has always been interested in painting and drawing. He's passionate about fantasy and science fiction, games and about of course about improving his art skills.

The goal of the Spark project was to create a gamified interface to help young enterpreneurs create their business plans, including a printable document.

Kalle will share his experiences as a customer to a game company in a gamification project, in the hopes of smoothing the way for future collaboration between the game industry and the public sector. This will be a must-see talk for anyone interested in gamification projects.

A game designer specializing on narrative, a CEO of a new indie company Afterlife Entertainment, Antti is one of our returning speakers from the last year. His talk, The Unseen Narrator, was one of the most popular among the attendees of NGS 2013. This year he'll be back to share his new ideas on the topic of narrativism in games.

Martine Spaans started her career in online gaming in 2006 and has worked for well-known companies like Spil Games and Ubisoft. She quickly learned the magic formula behind a great game and developed a good understanding of gamers' needs.

She has her own Android publishing company Tamalaki in cooperation with FGL Mobile; helping indie developers to push their games to a diversity of app stores.

Justin Swan is the lead game desiger on Trials Frontier, the first Trials game released on mobile and also the first F2P game in the franchise. He has previously worked for PopCap Games and Microsoft, pushing the boundaries of the current platforms to find and explore new spaces and possibilities.

According to Justin everyone should game, and he wants to make that happen.

Currently Head of Academic Development at SCE Europe, Dr Maria is the driving force behind Sony's programme, PlayStation®First, which aims to engage the next generation of PlayStation savvy game developers.

She directs the programme's strategic planning and implementation, and evangelises PlayStation game development and production methods.

Now working on new and exciting tech at London start-up Improbable, Kajfa previously held the same title at Massive - a Ubisoft Studio. He has worked on games like Tom Clancy's The Division, Assassin's Creed: Revelations and Fable 3.

As a father and technical art director, his focus is to make sure people have the tools and pipeline to overcome the unforeseen challenges in life to achieve their creative ambitions and to set them up for success!

Ever since he downloaded Unity, added 3D physics to 100 cubes and watched them bounce around, Andy Touch has been addicted to experimenting with gaming technology.

Having previously taught game development to University students, he is now part of Unity Technologies' Evangelism team helping to spread the word of the game engine and to show off what it can do!

Currently CTO at Wizcorp Inc., a smartphone social game development venture based in Tokyo, Japan.

Marc's recent work has focused on defining and implementing affordable and robust infrastructure as well as defining the scope of required technologies in regards to mobile social game applications. His specialities also include datacenter management for smartphone oriented applications.

At Wooga there are 6 internal studios, Katia Vara acts as Development Director and oversees every game produced in her studio. She assumes multiple leadership-oriented positions depending on the desired outcome of the projects and the teams: facilitator, project manager, coach, development director, etc.

Her work in various roles and disciplines has helped her getting to the point where she is now and has erased the word "impossible" from her vocabulary.

Eric was part of the Jelly Splash team from Day 1. In the prototyping phase he used Unity to quickly sketch and evaluate game mechanics and balance configurations.

During production, his broad set of skills proved invaluable, allowing him to hold responsibilities in feature-design, interaction-design and project management.

Jussi is a game industry professional with 8 years of experience. Started with founding and running a game company for almost 6 years. He continued to design, launch and execute a new education programme at Oulu University of Applied Sciences called Oulu Game Lab. Now Jussi holds a position of CEO at Oulu based game start-up Viima Games.

Suvi is an energetic organizer and game industry specialist with large industry network. Her special interests are at the game industry development, game business and start-up companies. She has held several positions from the grass-roots of art and media to project management, consulting and regional/national game cluster development.

Veikko has 10 years of experience in creative industry and was involved with the creation of the first game design curriculum in Finland. At the Joensuu Science Park Veikko currently provides incubator services for game studios.

Teemu's ambition is to develop the game programming education, especially in Southern Finland and in the Kymenlaakso UAS. He is also involved in managing ICT-related projects and arranging funding for new development projects. Currently, in addition to lecturing, he is responsible for Playa Game Industry Hub and LevelUp-development spaces.

DIGITICE is the Finnish national data center and digital business knowledge intensive cluster and Carl is the man steering that massive ship. He's such a funny guy that we have him doing a double duty at NGS 2014 - he's both the MC and a panelist.