Check out some of the Google & partner experts who will be speaking at this year's event. 

Google hosts for roundtables, 1:1 consultations and app/game reviews will follow soon. 

Keynote & Fireside chat speakers

Tian Lim

Tian Lim

Vice President of UX and Product Management, Google Play

Purnima Kochikar

Purnima Kochikar

Global Director of Apps and Games Business Development, Google Play

Purnima oversees all aspects of the apps & games ecosystem including strategy, operations, partnership management, technical and growth consulting. Her team partners with the world’s leading companies and budding entrepreneurs to create effective mobile businesses that can reach global audiences.

Plenary MCs

Lawrence Koh

Lawrence Koh

Director, Games Busines Development, Google Play

Lawrence leads business development for games on Google Play.

Shannon Low

Shannon Low

Head of Android Apps and Games Business Development, EMEA

Shannon heads up the Google Play business development team in EMEA and helps top app and game developers succeed.

Tamzin Taylor

Tamzin Taylor

Head of Apps & Games Business Development, Western Europe, Google Play

Tamzin and her team help top Western European app & games developers succeed on Google Play.

Google speakers

Aaron Hiscox

Aaron Hiscox

Partner Development Manager, Google Play

Aaron is a new(ish) Partner Development Manager in North America. Previously, Aaron worked at 2K Games and Pocket Gems, and is excited to continue working with game developers from all over the world.

Adam Carpenter

Adam Carpenter

Head of Developer Business Growth, Growth Consulting, Google Play

Adam heads the developer business growth team and leverages Play data to improve partner's performance.

Alyssa Perez

Alyssa Perez

Developer Growth Consultant, Google Play

Alyssa is a Consultant on the Developer Business Growth team and leverages Play data to help improve partner's performance.

Chet Haase

Chet Haase

Android Chief Advocate

Chet led the Android Toolkit engineering team and now focuses on developer outreach and education for Android.

Dom Elliott

Dom Elliott

Product Manager, Google Play

Dom is the product manager for the Android App Bundle, which enables next generation publishing and distribution for apps and games on Google Play.

Ebba Kraemer

Ebba Kraemer

Business Area Manager (Nordics), Games, Google Cloud

Ebba is heading up Google Cloud for Games in the Nordics and works primarily with AAA gaming studios.

Francesco Crovetto

Francesco Crovetto

Partner Development Manager, Google Play

Francesco is responsible for developing the ecosystem of Google Play Games in Western Europe.

Ignacio Monereo

Ignacio Monereo

Partner Development Manager, Google Play

Ignacio Monereo works in business development for Android Games in the EMEA region providing strategic & tactical advice for mobile games both in the 2D and 3D worlds. He also loves to travel and to illustrate his trips in his blog abzurdo.com

James Kavanagh

James Kavanagh

Business Development Manager, New Business Models, Google Play 

James has a background in games and is now working on new things coming soon to a Google Play near you

Jeni Miles

Jeni Miles

Partner Development Manager, Google Play

Jeni works closely with EMEA lifestyle and travel app developers. In her spare time she likes reading a good book and honing her interior design skills.

Kobi Glick

Kobi Glick

Product Manager, Google Play

Kobi manages app publishing and distribution on Google Play.

Luiz Gustavo Martins

Luiz Gustavo Martins

Partner Developer Advocate

Gus is passionate about machine learning, Firebase and how to create magical experiences on apps.

Marcus Demnert

Marcus Demnert

Customer Engineer, Google Cloud for Games

Marcus is a Customer Engineer with Google Cloud for Games, enabling customers to build amazing games.

Milena Nikolic

Milena Nikolic

Engineering Director, Google Play

Milena leads app distribution and developer services efforts in London for Google Play, incl. Android App Bundle, device targeting and go-to market tools.

Parul Soi

Parul Soi

Product Specialist, Google Play

Parul leads the Global SDK program for Google Play collaborating on the product, policy and engagement strategy for 3rd party SDK developers.

Rodolfo Rinaldi

Rodolfo Rinaldi

Business Analyst, Google Play

Rodolfo is a business analyst in the Google Play business development team focused on EMEA & LATAM

Sam Tolomei

Sam Tolomei

Partner Development Manager, Google Play

Sam is based in Mountain View and helps Health & Fitness apps grow their business on Android and Google Play.  

Shazia Makhdumi

Shazia Makhdumi

Global Head of Partner Development, Google Play Pass

Shazia leads global business development for new business models on Google Play

Tatiana van Maaren

Tatiana van Maaren

Product Solutions Specialist, Google Play

Tatiana focuses on Android Platform changes and Play Policies to enable and inspire the developer community for privacy-first. 

Tim Sneath

Tim Sneath

Group Product Manager, Flutter & Dart

In his spare time, Tim tinkers with various retro computing projects, battles with the New York Times crossword, and attempts to persuade his mother that computers aren’t out to get her.

Vesna Doknic

Vesna Doknic

Partner Development Manager, Google Play

Vesna is focused on helping EMEA music, media and news publisher partners grow their mobile business. Vesna has worked in the mobile product space for most of her career and leverages her experience to help her partners achieve their goals and ambitions.  

Zuzanna Dzieciątkowska

Zuzanna Dzieciątkowska

Insights Manager, Google Play 

Zuzanna is responsible for leading research projects to help developers succeed on Google Play through relevant insights about users and the apps & gaming industry. 

Partner speakers

Alexis Benslimane

Alexis Benslimane

Head of Monetization, Peak

Alexis leads app monetisation at Peak incl. subscriptions, IAPs and ads for Peak Brain Training, Rise Sleep Better and Quixel. Previously, Alexis was a product manager at Zynga.

Bruce Gustafson

Bruce Gustafson

CEO, Developer Alliance

Bruce is the President and CEO of the Developers Alliance, the leading policy advocate for the global developer workforce and the companies that depend on them. Bruce is also the founder of the Loquitur Group, a DC consulting firm, and the former VP and head of the DC Policy office of Ericsson, a global information and communications technology company.

Bruno Vaz Moço

Bruno Vaz Moço

Product Manager, Monzo

Can be found tinkering with electronics projects and watering his mini indoor jungle. Spends his time working on electronics projects and caring for his indoor plants. A/B test enthusiast.

Cristina Poindexter

Cristina Poindexter

Product Marketing Lead, Headspace

Cristina leads product marketing at Headspace, where she oversees international market entry, pricing, and growth strategies. She is an expert on the evolution of the wellness and tech markets at large, from the vantage points of small developer, major platform player, and everything in between. 

Hannhh Zambrano

Hannah Zambrano

Product Manager, Blinkist

Hannah manages Blinkist’s mission team for optimizing content user experience, helping people to learn more from today’s best-selling nonfiction.

Isaac Pinnock

Isaac Pinnock

Co-founder and Partner, Made by Many

Made by Many is a product innovation consultancy that works with global corporations, challengers and start-ups - from Adidas to Spotify, from Skype to Carlsberg. Since inception in 2007 Made by Many has has launched over 90 digital products across 14 countries.

Ivan Trancik

Ivan Trancik

CEO, SuperScale

Entrepreneur, game business analyst and gamer - Ivan with his team at SuperScale have launched and scaled over 100 games with over 2 billion downloads. SuperScale works closely with game companies to maximize their revenue potential by optimizing all parts of the game's business model.

Jean-Loup Yu

Jean-Loup Yu

Vice President of Product, Dailymotion

Jean-Loup is leading the User Product team at Dailymotion, focus on building the best user experience across all devices.

Joey Loi

Joey Loi

Product Manager, Dropbox

Joey works on the Dropbox Android and iOS apps, building mobile experiences to help teams collaborate and work better together.

Karin Tsai

Karin Tsai 

Senior Engineering Manager, Duolingo

Karin is the Engineering Lead for the Learning Area at Duolingo, which focuses on teaching foreign languages well while keeping things fun and engaging. She has been at Duolingo for 7 years and seen it grow from under 1M users to over 300M, becoming the most popular way to learn languages online.

Micha Nicheva

Micha Nicheva

Product and Service Designer, Made by Many

Micha is a Product and Service Designer at Made by Many working across insights, strategy and design. A firm believer in learning through testing, she likes solving problems, creating clarity and putting technology to good use.

Patricia Martorana

Patricia Martorana

Product Manager, Mobile Growth, New York Times

Patricia leads the team focused on growing NYT’s subscriber footprint and applying a customer journey within native apps.

Riku Rakkola

Riku Rakkola

CEO, Traplight

Riku Rakkola is a founder & CEO of Traplight Games. Having spent over a decade building mobile games and learning from the mistakes along the way, he is now a strong believer in metrics driven development and early testing. Traplight is currently heading towards a global launch of their new title ’Battle Legion.

Vinayendra Nataraja

Vinayendra Nataraja

Engineering Manager, Product Security, Lyft

Vinayendra Nataraja is an Engineering Manager of the Product Security team. He believes in enabling teams to build secure products. Previously he worked at Salesforce was working as Senior Product Security Engineer and was leading the bug bounty efforts. He has been in the security industry for 7 years and holds a Masters degree in Information Security from Northeastern University.