This session focuses on how The Last Gameboard is looking to bring innovation to the tabletop space and features Gameboard co-founder and CEO Shail Mehta, COO and co-founder Tim Schukar, with Raising Nerd’s Lee Allentuck chairing.

Among the winners this year are Fuse, Seven Towns and TOMY, while Triclops Studio’s Rob Ames and Luc Hudson scooped the Design Icon accolade.


Julia Posen – Development Director at Gamepath – tells us about the design process behind Monopoly Lifesized, a new live Monopoly gaming experience in the heart of London.

We look at what goes into designing for Toomies and find out more about the brand’s recent collaboration with Jurassic World.

We speak with Seven Towns’ Elizabeth Moody, Thomas Moore and Jacques Priestner about the origins of Seven Towns and dive into the studio’s approach to invention.

If you could only take one toy, one game and one of your own inventions to a desert island, what would you take and why?

If you could only take one toy, one game and one of your own inventions to a desert island, what would you take and why?

We speak with Matt Burtonwood about the origins of Open 2, its move into invention – and what the future holds.

We dive into Melissa & Doug’s approach to design, how the company works with inventors and what goes into its brand collaborations with IP like Paw Patrol.

TOMY’s Alpesh Patel, Flair’s Andrew McKay and Moonbug Entertainment’s Claire Broad discuss diversity in the toy space.