Anna Sweet of VALVE is a key strategist and driver of third-party distribution on the popular Steam platform. She is responsible for general business development, focusing on Steam distribution and Steamworks integration, and the latest venture of the company, the Steambox. She joined Valve in 2008, after working at Microsoft Games Studios and MySpace/Fox Interactive. Her work with VALVE has been featured in Forbes, The Escapist, IGN, TechCrunch, ArsTechnica, Kotaku and numerous other tech news sites. VALVE was recently rated as the #1 most-desired company to work for in games and interactive entertainment by the International Game Developer’s Association.
Anna is also an RIT alum, and holds her degree in Computer Science from the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing & Information Sciences. She was part of the very first course offering in ‘games programming’, prior to the eventual establishment of the degrees in that field. Please join us in welcoming Anna back to campus.