Sammy Wegent is an award winning speaker, entrepreneur, game designer, performer, and facilitatorwhose 25+ year career has bridged entertainment, education, and technology. His work centers on how play fuels creativity, connection, and wellness in the workplace and at home.He has co-founded multiple companies built on the belief that“we are always improvising”,includingSpeechless, a globally licensed presentation show and training system; Freestyle+, a connection and collaboration training company; and Mindless Play, a digital game studio developing improv-inspired, AI-powered brain games.These ventures have partnered with organizations such asGoogle, Apple, Nike, Disney, The New York Times, Meta, AARP, Allstate, Harvard Business School, and Stanford Graduate School of Business.Sammy has designed and launched dozens of games at Zynga and Mindless Play, reaching millions of players worldwideand licensing to partners across enterprise, education, and AgeTech. He has presented and performed internationally at events includingGoogle I/O, Dreamforce, CES, Cisco Impact, Outside Lands, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the California Academy of Sciences, and coauthored neuroscience research on creativity with UC San Francisco.His work has been featured inVariety, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle, and today he continues to lead Mindless Play in its mission to make play a daily practice that sparks creativity, connection, and cognitive wellness.