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Simay Din\u00e7 was born in Istanbul on 5 December 1986. A graduate of Istanbul University\u2019s Faculty of Business Administration, she decided to explore the world during her first year at university. Driven by her entrepreneurial spirit, she created opportunities to study, undertake internships, travel and conduct research into the gaming industry in more than 40 countries between the ages of 18 and 28.<\/p>\n

Din\u00e7 is the co-founder of Recontact Digital Arts and the producer of the Recontact Games<\/em> series, which takes interactive cinema a step further through experimental work. Their first game, Recontact Istanbul<\/em>, combined video art with gaming dynamics and was named Game of the Year on the Turkish App Store. It was featured in 153 countries and received prestigious international awards, including recognition at the Los Angeles New Media Film Festival and the International Mobile Gaming Awards.<\/p>\n

She is a board member of OYUNDER, T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s first association for game publishers and producers, and the founder of Women in Games T\u00fcrkiye. Since 2015, she has organised free training programmes, conferences and hackathons for 5,000 women across 40 universities.<\/p>\n

In 2018, Din\u00e7 was selected by the British Council as one of four women leaders in the field of arts and culture and was invited to participate in a three-year programme. Through this initiative, she had the opportunity to work at Ukie, the Association for UK Interactive Entertainment, in London.<\/p>\n

In 2020, she was presented as a global role model by Apple and Google Play as part of International Women\u2019s Day. That same year, she was named a Rising Star at the Mobile Games Awards in London.<\/p>\n

In 2021, she received a 21st Century Icon Award at a ceremony held at the House of Lords in the Palace of Westminster, London. The programme brought together 500 finalists from 35 countries.<\/p>\n

Since 2013, Din\u00e7 has been working continuously to support Ayval\u0131k\u2019s K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fckk\u00f6y in becoming a village of science and the arts. She is the co-founder of K\u0131raARThane, a creative hub and contemporary art gallery in K\u00fc\u00e7\u00fckk\u00f6y that provides children and young people with free training in game design and coding in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.<\/p>\n

Invited to the University of Cambridge\u2019s Sustainability Leadership Programme in 2019, Simay Din\u00e7 continues to develop projects focused on a sustainable world and the future of the creative industries, including Hacking the Future<\/em>, Art Hackathon<\/em>, C.A.T.S. of Small Village<\/em> and Let\u2019s WoW<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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