Speaker Asi Burak
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Asi Burak is an award-winning game creator, tech executive, and social entrepreneur. He is the President of Games for Change (G4C), a nonprofit with the mission to catalyze social impact through digital game. As the Executive Producer of the Half the Sky Movement games, he orchestrated partnerships with Zynga, some of the world's leading NGOs and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. The Facebook game has reached 1.3 million registered players and generated nearly $500,000 in sponsored and individual donations.
Prior to that, Burak co-founded Impact Games and created the internationally acclaimed PeaceMaker and Play the News gaming platforms. He also served as a consultant to companies such as EON Productions (known as the producer of the 007 movies and video games), Newsweek and McCann Erickson, around the strategic use of games to further brand engagement.
A native of Israel, Burak was Vice President of Marketing and Product at Axis Mobile (acquired 2008), where he introduced pioneering mobile apps and games to a worldwide market (Asia, Europe, U.S.). He is a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts’ MFA in Design for Social Innovation and holds a Master of Entertainment Technology from Carnegie Mellon University.
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