GDC 2027

About

The Game Developers Conference 2027, now presented as GDC Festival of Gaming, is the world's largest and most influential professional event for the game development community, held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Across five days, professionals from every game development discipline — design, engineering, art, audio, production, publishing, and investment — convene to learn, network, and shape the industry's direction. The programme is organised around numerous Summit Communities covering areas including game AI, level design, narrative, technical art, machine learning, tools, UX, visual effects, and independent games. GDC's scale means it functions simultaneously as a technical conference, a business venue, and the industry's principal annual meeting point. Attendees gain access to postmortems and technical talks from teams behind major releases, alongside the expo floor and extensive structured networking. The call for submissions for the 2027 edition closes on August 7, 2026. For anyone working professionally in games, GDC remains the definitive fixture on the calendar.