A brand new podcast, ‘Good Sport Membership’ was launched on the World Financial Discussion board in Davos on Tuesday, aiming to advertise constructive conversations round play and the video video games trade.
Good Sport Membership is hosted by Playmob CEO, Jude Ower MBE, and SYBO CEO, Mathias Gredal Nørvig, who wrote the e-book ‘Gaming for Good’ in 2024, which got down to demystify gaming and the way the medium generally is a pressure for good. A lower of gross sales went to local weather initiatives.
The podcast is supported by a “a strategic partnership” with Tencent, in line with the WEF announcement, which says the 2 share “ambitions to form a extra constructive future by the facility of video games”.
The primary Good Sport Membership episode is offered on YouTube and different platforms and options an interview with sport trade creator and commentator Bastian Bergmann, through which he argues gaming is “the defining medium of our time”.
Future Good Sport Membership visitors will embody:
- David Barrie, Founder and CEO of Sport Academy.
- Maria Sayans, CEO of Ustwo Video games (Monument Valley franchise).
- Mick Donegan, Founder and CEO of charity SpecialEffect.
- Tom Chatfield, tech thinker and creator of ‘Sensible Animals’ and ‘How To Thrive In The Digital Age’.
- Kirsty Rigden, CEO of FuturLab (PowerWash Simulator).
Jude Ower MBE mentioned: “Gaming is the most important change-making platform in at this time’s tradition, and some of the transformative artwork varieties for social affect.
“By launching our new podcast at Davos, we intention to share this message with the world’s most influential leaders to ignite motion tied to this 12 months’s Discussion board theme, ‘A Spirit of Dialogue.’ Gaming is a essential software for constructing group and spearheading actions to deal with a few of society’s most urgent challenges.”
