Director at University of Salford, Manchester.
Dr. Maria Stukoff is well known for her work developing large scale projects in digital technology, videogames and creative industries. She is currently the Director of the Maker Space – an engineering flagship for Salford University to support industry collaboration in additive manufacturing, 3D fabrication and digital design, and is co-chair for the Esports Industry Relations programme fostering esports business and academic research.
She has a wealth of knowledge in commercial publishing of videogames in her former role at Sony PlayStation and established SONY’s global academy programme; PlayStationFirst, building a fleet of PlayStation accredited courses and global incubators to drive graduate start-ups and new IP. In those roles, she works closely with government and industry sector bodies to address the digital skill shortage and public speaker on gender equality challenges.