Oleksiy Izvalov
Global Game Jam, Regional Coordinator
Oleksiy Izvalov is the Regional Coordinator of Global Game Jam in Ukraine. He holds a PhD in technical sciences and is an associate professor of the IT department at the Robert Elworthy Economics and Technology Institute, where he teaches students. An indie developer since the Flash era, he is a graduate of Google Play's Indie Games Accelerator and keeps making his own games, including idle games. He brought Global Game Jam to Ukraine in 2016 and has since helped grow the community of Ukrainian jammers and connect local developers with worldwide initiatives. At Games Gathering 2025 in Lviv, he spoke about "Ctrl+Alt+Disinfo: How we made games that teach you to think".
