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Johana Riquier
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Bio #1 ( Short Version)
Johana RIQUIER: gaming business strategist, diversity advocate, and guest speaker. A Middle-Eastern and African market expert, she pioneered economic development and government gaming partnerships in the region. After an incredible journey at Unity technologies, she founded Gamerging Solutions, a MEA-focused agency leveraging Gaming and Emerging Technologies for disruptive innovation and social impact. She advocates for diversifying content, creators, and communities to promote diversity and social impact projects in digital and gaming spaces.
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Bio #2
Johana RIQUIER: gaming business strategist, diversity advocate, speaker and serialpreneur. A Middle-Eastern and African market expert, she pioneered economic development and government gaming partnerships in the region.
After an incredible journey at Unity, she founded Gamerging Solutions, a MEA-focused agency leveraging Gaming and Emerging Technologies for disruptive innovation, economic growth and social impact. She also support individuals with one to one coaching and mentoring as well as supporting newcomers to Senegal with her new venture JRLifestyle.
She advocates for diversifying content, creators, and communities to promote diversity and social impact projects in digital and gaming spaces.

2022 Updates

Head of Events of GIA Events ( Games industry Africa)
Mentor at University of Westminster since 2021
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Global Game Jam Board of Directors
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(2022-2023)
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African Games Co-Production Market
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Advisory Board members
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Digital Lab Africa Video Games
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Jury

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GIA Awards Mentor of the Year 2021
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GI 100 Game Changers 2020
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Women in Games Individual contributor 2020
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The Johana Riquier Show:
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highlighting diverse voices, social impact projects and games for good.

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Episode 1
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(Avril 2022)

The Johana Riquier Show Season 2
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Gamerging Summit:
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December 2021 - Gamerging Summit brought together the most dynamic speakers presenting on Games, Games Development, Immersive Technologies and Metaverse. The summit had goals to democratise emerging technologies and position them as tools for economic development.


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