NGDC 2016

Ellis Bartholomeus started her career as a industrial designer at the Design Academy in Eindhoven. Via signage design, graphic, web and interaction design she became a game designer and created serious games for ten years with Laika.nl. Gaming appeared to be a rich medium for clients to get a message to their clients/users, for educational and health purposes, to help users/players develop knowledge, skills or attitude on various topics. In 2010 she became eager to get more indepth involved with the use of gaming... Read More →

As creative director and founder of IJsfontein I design and develop playful learning for children and professionals. I am convinced that people are naturally curious and intrinsically motivated to develop themselves. I look for ways to evoke these drivers by using game theory and... Read More →

After my study Business Informatics I worked several years in the IT and logistics. In 2012 I arrived at Exova as IT manager.In this role I came so more and more in touch with personalized learning in the (primary) education. The emergence of serious games and gamification, I have... Read More →

Kathy Mulders holds a MSc Health Food Innovation Management degree from the Maastricht University. This is a truly multidisciplinary program addressing biomedical sciences, consumer behavior, R&D, product development and marketing, Kathy started working on an interactive online communication... Read More →

Niki Smit is designer and co-founder at Monobanda PLAY. Monobanda aims to explore and expand the boundaries of interaction. They focus heavily on researching and developing news forms of meaningful play and artful interaction. Smit regularly gives talks on the importance of free play... Read More →