Speaker
Speaker
Speaker
Speaker
Donal Phillips
Business Development Manager
Speaker Biography
Donal Phillips is Business Development Manager for the Creative Industries at Queen’s University Belfast and based at the MediaLab where he provides project management and strategic support on industry engagement.
Donal’s background in the creative industries is predominantly in games development where he has worked as a sound designer, community manager and in production roles on a number of high profile projects including the Harry Potter and Sesame Street franchises and has breadth of experience collaborating with writers, designers, artists, performers, musicians and software developers.
An interest in innovation, entrepreneurship and start-ups led him to taking a role with NI Screen, as the lead for the Interactive Sector. Through this role, he developed a range of regional interventions to support the interactive entertainment industry and the emerging field of Immersive Technologies, supporting IP development and securing in-coming productions and establishing the first dedicated games incubator, The Pixel Mill, and was a co-investigator on Future Screens NI.