Zuraida Buter is an award-winning playful culture and playful arts curator based in the Netherlands. She curates, initiates, consults and documents events focused on playful culture and games. With her international network she brings people together for creation and playful experiences.She is founder of playful culture organisation zo-ii and regularly speaks about playful culture, game jams and collaboration at conferences and festivals worldwide. As a curator she is involved in curating talks, play and game exhibitions at different festivals, events and institutes such as Sickhouse / The Overkill, Incubate, Tweetakt and De Brakke Grond in the Netherlands and Screenshake, IndieCade Europe and A MAZE. / Berlin abroad.She is co-founder of Playful Arts Festival in the Netherlands, which aims to explore and showcase the cross-overs between different fields of art, play, interaction, technology and design. The festival took place in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018. With Women in Games NL (WiGNL) she aims to stimulate diversity in the game industry. Previously she initiated Dutch indie game showcase INDIGO in the Netherlands as well as the popular DGG network lunches as project manager at Dutch Game Garden (2008-2010). She was worldwide Executive Director of the Global Game Jam (2010-2014) and founding board member of Global Game Jam, Inc. In the past she has been a lecturer at different universities. For 8 years she taught game design theory at Interactive Performance Design at the Utrecht School of Arts (HKU). In 2020 she received the IndieCade Game Changer award, which is given to "an individual whose extraordinary contributions to games deserve special acknowledgement". In 2013 she won the EA Award for Achievement and Innovation (London). In 2014 she was nominated for the Ambassador Award at Microsoft's Women in Gaming Awards (San Francisco, GDC).Specialties:Playful Culture, Digital Culture, Experimental & Indie Games, Creative Industries, Communities, Collaboration, Creativity, Game Curation, Play, Event Photography.