With close to 40 years in the games industry, Debbie Bestwick has worked on over 150+ games from the iconic Worms, Alien Breed, Project X to today’s Overcooked, Blasphemous, Hell Loose and dozens more. She started in the games industry at 16 years old and co-founded Team17 at 19. At 20 she was helping Epic launch their games in Europe, she supported Housemarque on their journey with Super Stardust. Team17 owned the Amiga market with their arcade hits such as Superfrog and Body Blows. She has seen every hardware and software transformation since the mid 80’. She has pioneered indie publishing and self-publishing by working with Nintendo, Sony and Xbox to launch their indie programmes to benefit the whole industry in the last decade — they listen to her!, She has also helped build numerous indie studios around the world and backed many Kickstarter projects that we know she won’t share; but most important, she has remained herself and sustainable development is her drive. She also took on the London stock market as the 1st female CEO breaking through over £1B market cap in games over the last 5 years, trebling valuation in 18 months to shareholders.