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Susanna Pollack reposted thisSusanna Pollack reposted thisI'm looking for an exceptional Executive Producer to join my leadership team at Netflix as we extend the magic of entertainment through play. From bringing fans closer to the sports they love, to stepping inside iconic worlds and IP, to imagining entirely new forms of interactive entertainment, we're just scratching the surface of what's possible. Technology is evolving faster than ever reshaping how entertainment is created and experienced. It's an incredible moment for our industry, and an opportunity to help shape what comes next. I'm looking for a creative and ambitious production leader who loves making great games, thrives in ambiguity, and can turn bold ideas into exceptional experiences. Someone who can inspire teams, challenge conventional thinking, and help us build something truly special. If you're excited about building the future of entertainment, I'd love to hear from you! 👉 https://lnkd.in/g-4uFDC8 #netflix #hiring #interactive #entertainmentExecutive Producer - Mainstream, Narrative & New Experiences (Games) | Remote, United States | NetflixExecutive Producer - Mainstream, Narrative & New Experiences (Games) | Remote, United States | Netflix
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Susanna Pollack reposted thisSusanna Pollack reposted thisCalling all #schools and #teachers across the USA with students in their final year of grade school or first year of middle school. Tales from the Middle is a new, free learning game designed to help students prepare for the transition to middle school through three short gameplay sessions and one post-game reflection. https://lnkd.in/eH4BFY57 The game was developed by Filament Games and Games for Change with support from the Bezos Family Foundationmily Foundation. We are running a November pilot with classes in their final year of grade school and first year of middle school. The first 20 teachers who sign up and participate will receive a $300 stipend. We also have a stipend available for referrals to teachers. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/eqcb236N Message me directly if you would like more information. #MiddleSchool #Teachers #LearningGames #EdTech #EducationResearch Jennifer Javornik | Dan Norton | Alex Stone | Kellie Lu | Eduardo "Eddie" Casado | Brendon Trombley | Susanna Pollack | Arana Shapiro |Tales from the Middle — Official Trailer | A Free Middle School Transition GameTales from the Middle — Official Trailer | A Free Middle School Transition Game
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Susanna Pollack shared thisToday I have the pleasure of speaking at the Congress of Arabic & Creative Industries 2026 held by Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) and Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre which brings together leaders from culture, technology, academia and the creative industries to shape the future of Arabic in the digital age. I will be joined by HE Mariam Al Hallami Executive of Private Education and Charter Schools at Department of Education And Knowledge - ADEK, Hussam Hammon Founder and CEO of Tamatem Games, Luciano Rahal Gaming and Esports Executive at Burson where we will explore how games and interactive learning can support Arabic language acquisition, cultural identity and community engagement. #CongressACI #gamesforimpact
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Susanna Pollack shared thisExcited to announce I’ve joined as an advisor for GamesBeat events. Beyond creating headlines, GamesBeat Next is an event that creates real connections, high-impact deals, and the insights B2B leaders actually need. Proud to be part of a platform that’s not only a leading voice in games but a catalyst for the industry’s continued growth. Use this link to register with 25% off: SUSANNAPOLLACK25 https://lnkd.in/gS9f6KWt
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Susanna Pollack shared thisAmazing program by the XBOX Game Camp team! Glad to see these opportunties reach the African continent. Amazing talent in the region and the world needs to see more of African-made games. Well done Peter Zetterberg and Christopher Douglas!Susanna Pollack shared thisWe are less than two weeks away from this year's XBOX Game Camp Africa 3.0 - the third installment of our journey to learn about, map and support upcoming game studios on the African continent. Shout out to Disputed People Games, AJB Games Studio, Kucheza Gaming, Leti Arts , Kunta Content, Four Old Men, Nout Games, Pineapple On Pizza Studios, Dawn Of Game Studio, Elder Studios, Infinite Loom Limited, Kwathu Kollective Games, Fer Factor, Atrybute Graphics, SpaceSalad Studios, and Kiro'o Games. We can't wait to introduce you to our great lineup of mentors and speakers from across XBOX, and to support your studios to the best of our abilities. If I didn't tag your studio correctly, message me.
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Susanna Pollack shared thisAfter 11 years of bringing the Games for Change Student Challenge to middle, high school and colleged aged students, we are now inviting elementary schools to participate. With new curriculum for grades 3 - 5, young learners can become game designers and create a game that makes the world a better place. No tech is needed - we welcome table top and board games as well! Thanks to our partners at Sanford Harmony for being great collaborators on this newest edition. To my #gamesindustry and #childrensmedia friends, please reach out to see how you can get involved.Susanna Pollack shared thisWe are thrilled to announce that the Games for Change Student Challenge is back for the 2026–2027 season, and for the first time ever, we are expanding the competition to upper elementary classrooms! 🚀 Following our sneak peek at the festival, applications are now open for youth ages 8–25 to join this global game design competition. The Student Challenge empowers students to amplify their voices, showcase their creativity, and drive real-world impact by turning a passion for gaming into civic action. Along the way, students build critical, future-ready skills in coding, storytelling, and collaboration. 🎮🌍 In partnership with Sanford Harmony, our new upper elementary division pairs our G4C Learn Introduction to Game Design curriculum with relationship-centered lessons, helping classrooms collaborate on a single game that explores empathy and resilience. Older youth will dive into game design using their favorite creation tools, like Minecraft and Unity, to design original games inspired by the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Who can join? 🎮 Young creators worldwide (Ages 8–25): Submit your original social-impact game for a chance to win a $10,000 scholarship and other exciting awards! 📚 Educators & program leaders: Bring the Challenge to your community with free curriculum resources, toolbox support, and direct access to G4C's community of changemakers. 🔗 Ready to create a better world through play? Register now to get started: https://lnkd.in/ezzepYry
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Susanna Pollack reposted thisSusanna Pollack reposted this🎮 Games can do more than entertain. They can empower the next generation of changemakers. In our latest blog post, we sat down with Leah Hirsch, Director of G4C Learn at Games for Change, an Endless Foundation grantee partner. We explored topics including: ✅ How game design teaches creativity, collaboration, and systems thinking ✅ How one teacher's Minecraft club transformed student engagement ✅ Why games belong in education As Leah shares, "Games are simply the vehicle." The real goal is helping young people become confident problem solvers, critical thinkers, and creators. Read the full interview: https://lnkd.in/ehi_2GkT #GamesForChange #GameBasedLearning #EdTech #GameDesign
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Susanna Pollack shared thisAt the airport about to depart for my first gamescom! Excited to moderate the panel: From Family Rooms to Global Solutions: The Shared Responsibility of Play with Rachel Kowert, Darko Petrovic 🔜 Gamescom from the World Food Programme, Mathias Gredal Nørvig, from SYBO and Kristoffer Gandrup-Marino, from UNICEF. Session is on Thursday at 4pm at gamescom congress. My schedule is stacked but ping me if you want to try to squeeze something in!
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Susanna Pollack shared thisEvery parent I talk to says a version of the same thing: they want to be part of their kid's gaming life, and they're not sure how to start. Closing that gap takes more than good intentions. It takes research parents can trust, tools they can actually use, and partners willing to invest in getting this work into people's hands. The white paper we released today is part of it, developed with support from Tencent, to foster more balanced, evidence-based conversations about video games and the well-being of children and young people. The paper, written by Dr. Rachel Kowert, comes with free resources for families, and workshops roll out across the U.S. and U.K. this fall. This white paper marks the next phase of Raising Good Gamers, a Games for Change program supported by Tencent Games. This is a shared responsibility, and it's bigger than any one organization. If you're a company, funder, or organization that wants to help expand this work, we'd love to hear from you. When parents sit alongside their children, ask questions, and pick up a controller themselves, something changes. Anxiety gives way to curiosity, and conflict gives way to conversation. Read the paper → https://lnkd.in/gk_JzY7x
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Don Daglow 🔜 NEXUS Dublin Games Summit I had no idea you were a teacher back in the day! Thank you for your comment - hope we cross paths soon.
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Steve Isaacs I'm so happy that we have continued to have your support on this program. Thank you for everything you do!
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Susanna Pollack liked thisSusanna Pollack liked thisFootball shirts helped introduce a generation to UNICEF, and now gaming is doing the same. Ali Habib from UNICEF UK explains why gaming is the new digital space for reaching young people. Find the full conversation in the new Good Game Club episode: https://lnkd.in/eMxPkwzS #GoodGameClubPodcast #GamingForGood #GGCUK #GGC22 #PlayForEveryChild #UNICEF UNICEF does not endorse any brand, company, product or service.
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Susanna Pollack liked thisSo cool to be part of this great panel. it's exactly what Center for Scholars & Storytellers is all aboutSusanna Pollack liked thisWe’re excited to share that Tales from the Middle: Better Stories for Adolescents has been selected for SXSW EDU 2027! Middle school is when young people start figuring out who they are, yet most are designed for little kids or teenagers, leaving early adolescents overlooked. This panel explores what developmental science reveals about stories that foster friendship, belonging, identity, and change. Our Chief of Staff, Eden Xenakis, will join Kellie Lu from Filament Games, Brendon Trombley from Games for Change, and Yalda Tehranian-Uhls from the Center for Scholars & Storytellers at UCLA to discuss how narrative media and game design can ease the middle school transition and give kids a steadier foundation for growth and learning. If you’ll be at #SXSWEDU in Austin, March 13–16, we hope you’ll join the conversation.
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Susanna Pollack liked thisSusanna Pollack liked thisMeet the Jury Presidents of the 31st Annual Webby Awards! This season, nine leaders from across the Internet will guide the Academy as it judges the best work online, from AI and apps to creators, games, and film. ⭐ Jared Carneson, Adobe | Social ⭐ Nihar Kulkarni, Roswell NYC | Websites & Mobile Sites ⭐ Jason K., OpenAI | AI ⭐ Tom Hale, ŌURA | Apps, Software & Immersive ⭐ Susanna Pollack, Games for Change | Games ⭐ Kim Larson, YouTube | Creators ⭐ Tiffany Rolfe, R/GA | Advertising, Media & PR ⭐ Jordan Newman, Spotify | Podcasts ⭐ Eugene Hernandez Sundance Institute | Video & Film 🔗 Meet the Jury Presidents: https://lnkd.in/e6qamV75 The Webby Awards #IADAS #JuryPresidents #Webby31
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Susanna Pollack liked thisSusanna Pollack liked thisFrom video games to sports diplomacy: who will shape the digital world of 2037 ❓ 🎮 Last week, SWISS DO - Swiss Institute of Sports Diplomacy attended the World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO for WIPO Pathfinders: The Futures of Video Games and Intellectual Property. Gaming is no longer just entertainment. It is becoming a space for cultural exchange, innovation, digital economies and international influence. For #SwissDO, the connection with sport is particularly interesting. From #esports and virtual communities to licensing and digital ownership, many of the challenges discussed today are already reshaping the international sports ecosystem. A particularly interesting question: When fans become creators, who owns the content, and who captures its value and how we deal from our Swiss sports ecosystem❓ The discussions also look towards 2037, exploring how technology and intellectual property will shape future business models, creativity and international cooperation. High-level dialogue: Intan Hamdan-Livramento, Tim Scott Roblox, Maria Burns Ortiz The Global Game Jam, Susanna Pollack Games for Change), Gaetano Dimita Queen Mary University of London and Paolo Lanteri Microsoft. Video Games & IP 2037: Martin Correa Finsterbusch World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO, Yaniv Benhamou University of Geneva, Ewelina Jarosz - Zgoda , PhD CD PROJEKT RED, Ben Golant Tencent and Amanda Denton Entertainment Software Association With opening contributions from Andrew Staines and Stan McCoy. 𝘼𝙣 𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙖'𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙜𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩, 𝙜𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙣𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮. #SwissDO #SportsDiplomacy #WIPO #Esports #Gaming #IntellectualProperty #Geneva #SportsTech
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Susanna Pollack liked thisSusanna Pollack liked thisInternational partnerships to save the world with the power of play! 🌍 Just spent a few great days in Rome, attending the FAO Science and Innovation Forums session on Games for Impact, and planning for future sustainability and games-events in both Sweden and Italy. Thank you IIDEA, Games for Change, World Food Programme, Embassy of Sweden in Rome Together we will do great things! 🎮🧡🌍 Dataspelsbranschen / Swedish Games Industry 📷 Picture: Darko Petrovic 🌱, Ilaria Amodeo, Susanna Pollack, me, Karen Sikkema - Spelen Werkt and Alberto Simonetti outside the FAO headquarters. Looking forward to all our joint adventures ahead! 📱🌱Also, check out The Food Challenge in the Swedish mobile game Hope's adventure by Green Leap Games that was released today on world food day! 🟢 And of couse, get you ticket for Invest in Change 2026 in Stockholm 11/11: https://lnkd.in/dhGNiVsF
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Susanna Pollack liked thisSusanna Pollack liked thisMore time to apply and a first look at our festival poster! ✨ We’re extending the application deadline for Games for Change Türkiye Festival 2026 to October 10. 🎉 This year’s theme, Play Beyond – Play to recover, reconnect, reimagine, comes to life in our new festival poster, designed by Ethem Onur Bilgic. Just as our poster connects different eras and worlds, we believe games can help us reconnect with each other, with nature, and with our shared histories. Through play, we can find new ways to recover, build resilience, and reimagine a more hopeful future together. Now it’s your turn to be part of this world. Whether you want to share your ideas on stage or showcase your game in our Arcade, we’d love to hear from you. 🎤 Call for Speakers https://lnkd.in/ddCmYrZD 🎮 Call for Arcade https://lnkd.in/d3GjrC37 📅 New application deadline: October 10, 2026 Join us at Games for Change Türkiye 2026 and help us explore how play can recover, reconnect, and reimagine. Games for Change BUG Lab TEKMER BAU Hub Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Güven Çatak
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Susanna Pollack liked thisSusanna Pollack liked thisI’ve had a wonderful few days at Mipcom and coming away feeling hopeful for the future of children’s content but there’s no denying our industry is navigating a period of significant change. The kids’ TV market is challenging, commissioning is slower and the routes to getting great ideas on screen are shifting. We all feel it. Another reboot, great ideas stuck in development hell for years, creatives being over ruled by accountants and the ghosting….OMG, the ghosting!!! Seriously people, respond to emails. It’s just common decency. Having spent many years in this industry, from commissioning and executive production to writing and developing shows, I know that great projects rarely happen in isolation. They happen when people are passionate about an idea, bring different strengths to the table and are willing to build something together. And these past few days have shown me that creators are fired up, they’re no longer waiting for that illusive commission and are taking the industry on. We’re looking beyond traditional models, exploring partnerships we might not have considered before and finding new routes to market. And while the distribution models may change, one thing will always stay the same. Kids want great content. Content is king! We have a responsibility to our audience to champion brilliant stories, characters and worlds that make children’s content so special. The market may be changing, but the creative opportunity is still there. Let’s keep talking, keep connecting and keep finding new ways to bring brilliant ideas to life. On my final evening, I sat with friends that I met when I first came into this industry. We all worked on some fabulous shows together and we reminisced about the ‘good old days’. 35 years of friendship. We’ve seen a lot of change in kids tv over the years but we’re all still here, making it work. Whatever gets thrown at this industry, we always seem to bounce back! Here’s to many more conversations that turn into collaborations, that turn into great content. If we connected at MIPCOM, it was lovely to see you. If we didn’t, let’s not wait until next year. My inbox is open, and I’m always up for a good conversation about children’s content, creative development and what comes next. #MIPCOM #KidsTV #ChildrensContent #Animation #Collaboration #ContentDevelopment
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Susanna Pollack liked thisSusanna Pollack liked thisWe’re thrilled to welcome Katie Stone Perez as our new Executive Director! Katie joins Child’s Play after more than two decades at Xbox, where she played a pivotal role in launching and shaping programs that transformed how millions of people experience play, including Fuzion Frenzy, Xbox Live Arcade, Kinect, ID@Xbox, and Gaming For Everyone. Her career has been defined by a commitment to expanding access to play and building inclusive gaming communities. With a background in child psychology and personal experience navigating pediatric cancer within her own family, Katie brings a deep understanding of the emotional and therapeutic value of play. Her passion for supporting kids, combined with her industry expertise, makes her uniquely suited to lead Child’s Play into its next era of growth. “Play is a fundamental human need,” said Perez. “I’ve seen firsthand how games can help children push past pain, connect with others, and find moments of joy even on the hardest days. Child’s Play has never shied away from the systemic challenges surrounding therapeutic play, and the team has built innovative, courageous programs that are reshaping pediatric care. I’m honored to help expand that impact.” In her new role, Katie will oversee Child’s Play’s hospital partnerships, therapeutic gaming initiatives, research investments, and community engagement efforts. She will also guide the organization’s strategic development as it continues to grow its network hospitals worldwide. “We are thrilled to welcome Katie to Child’s Play,” said the Board of Directors. “Her leadership, creativity, and deep commitment to children’s wellbeing will strengthen our mission and help ensure that more pediatric patients experience the healing power of play.”
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Susanna Pollack liked thisSusanna Pollack liked thisCan games help transform agrifood systems? Absolutely. On 14 October, during the FAO Science and Innovation Forum 2026, I will be organizing together with my colleagues in the Office of Innovation an exciting session exploring how serious games can foster learning, collaboration and systems thinking for agrifood systems transformation. Together, the FAO Office of Innovation, FAO e-Learning Academy,World Food Programme (WFP), Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and Games for Change have designed an interactive experience where participants become active players, confronting real-world challenges, navigating trade-offs and testing innovative solutions through play. Among the featured experiences: 🌱 AGRINNO 2050 - a FAO Office of Innovation developed game on innovation governance in agrifood systems 🌍CiFoS - a board game challenging players to redesign food systems for both human and planetary health 💡 Interactive digital experiences including Hope's Adventure and FAO e-learning Academy simulations What I find particularly powerful is that games create a safe space to explore complexity, experiment with decisions, understand different perspectives and spark meaningful dialogue. In a world where agrifood challenges are increasingly interconnected, these approaches can help us learn and innovate together. Looking forward to exchanging ideas with colleagues and partners on how game-based methodologies can support sustainable and inclusive transformation. Nevena Alexandrova-Stefanova Zofia Krystyna Mroczek Cristiano Consolini Giulia Palestini Vincent Martin Darko Petrovic Federico Andreotti Susanna Pollack Sonia Dias Maja Arsic Manuela Marazzi Maxime Robin Cristina Petracchi
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