Ladies Night

by Elspeth Tory, Ubisoft (January 2006)

The "bonus" January meeting was the Montreal Chapter's first ever Women's Social, and the evening was quite a success!  With over 50 women in attendance, the event provided an excellent opportunity for women in the industry to get together and discuss issues that affect them, as well as to simply get to know each other.

Many of the attendees were first timers, so we hope that this will be the first of many IGDA gatherings for them.  Heather Kelley, Chair of the Women in Game Development SlG of the IGDA, gave a short speech about working to improve game development companies as workplaces for women, and the importance of encouraging more women to consider a career in game development.  We also heard from Monique Savoie, founder of the SAT, who expressed her support of such events to bring together women working in the fields of art and technology.   

T -shirts (in women's sizes!), hats, games, books and other goodies (including a copy XSI Foundation from Softimage!) were raffled off near the end of the evening and since attendance was smaller than usual, every member left with a prize.

Thanks to our volunteers Isabelle Marazzani and Nathalie Bergeron and the High Road crew for welcoming everybody to the meeting, and to Jason for helping put the whole evening together.  

January Pictures

Martine Quesnel (Ubisoft) and Magalie Ross (Ubisoft).

Genevieve Lord and Marie-Sol Beaudry (Ubisoft) chat on production challenges at the bar.

Isabelle Marazzani (NAD Center), Nathalie Bergeron (High Road Communications) and Elspeth Tory (Ubisoft) "manning" the welcome desk.

Heather Kelley addresses the audience...

Everyone got to "shop" from the goodies pile :)

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