Kate EdwardsKate Edwards

Kate Edwards

CEO / Principal Consultant
Geogrify

Kate Edwards is the CEO and principal consultant of Geogrify, a consultancy for content culturalization, a board member of Take This, and is the former executive director of the International Game Developers Association from 2012 to 2017. In addition to being an outspoken advocate that serves in several advisory/board roles, she is a geographer, writer and corporate strategist who pioneered the field of content culturalization in games.  As Microsoft’s first geopolitical strategist on the geopolitical strategy team she created and managed, Edwards protected the company against political and cultural content risks across all products and locales. Since Microsoft, she has assisted many clients on a variety of geopolitical and cultural issues across many products and game franchises. Kate is also a columnist for MultiLingual magazine. Fortune magazine named her as one of the “10 most powerful women” in the game industry and she was named by GamesIndustry.biz as one of their six People of the Year. In April 2018, she was honored with Reboot Develop’s annual Hero Award.