Since 2009, Erik Huey has served as the Senior Vice President for Government Affairs at the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the trade association representing the business interests of interactive entertainment software publishers and console makers. In this capacity, Erik manages a team of seven employees and fifty outside consulting firms and oversees all federal and state government relations as well as strategic partnerships for the $21 billion U.S. video game industry.

For nearly two decades, Huey has been at the center of high profile and controversial policy debates affecting the technology, media and telecommunications industries, including issues like combating digital theft of copyrighted content, media ownership, expanding broadband deployment, and preserving creative freedom and First Amendment rights.

In recent years, Huey has helped successfully guide the videogame industry through two major challenges by orchestrating the government affairs campaign in support of its historic free speech victory in the Supreme Court, and by developing the strategy and managing the day-to-day response to numerous legislative efforts to restrict the industry’s creative expression and distribution model.

Outside of work and politics, Erik pursues two creative passions as a screenwriter and as the lead singer of The Surreal McCoys, his Americana rock band, which recently put out its second, original full-length album and regularly performs live.

Susanna Pollack is the President of Games for Change, a 12 year a nonprofit with the mission to catalyze social impact through digital games. To further grow the field, Games for Change convenes multiple stakeholders, highlights best practices, incubates games, and helps create and direct investment into new projects. Signature G4C programs include the Games and Media Summit at the Tribeca Film Festival, the annual G4C Festival, The Games for Learning Summit, G4C Student Challenge and the G4C Talk and Play Series. Prior to Susanna spent 12 years at BBC Worldwide Americas where she was SVP of Coproductions and Children’s leading the organization’s 20+ team in the distribution of BBC’s award-winning television content. She also managed the cross-media portfolio of childrens and educational content.