iicon 2026: Sit Down with the ESA President and CEO
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🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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This week on Gamertag Radio: an interview with ESA President and CEO Stanley Pierre-Louis about the inaugural iicon conference in Las Vegas.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Kathleen and this is my NHS story. |
| 0:04.0 | Having a persistent cough is quite socially embarrassing. |
| 0:08.0 | So I went to see a respiratory nurse who sent me off for an x-ray at my local CDC |
| 0:13.0 | and they were offering Sunday appointments and evening appointments, which was great. |
| 0:17.0 | The government is opening new community diagnostic centres with many already available 12 hours a day, seven days a week, so the NHS can be there for all of us when we need it. |
| 0:25.1 | Find your closest one at gov.uk slash NHS fit for the future. Available Englandwide. |
| 0:30.9 | Ladies and just gentlemen. This is Gamer Attack Radio. |
| 0:35.9 | All right, so we're at the first ever icon event, and I have Stan Piaului, |
| 0:43.2 | president and CEO of the Entertainment Software Association. |
| 0:46.2 | Congratulations. It looks like it's been a success so far, right? So you guys haven't done |
| 0:51.1 | an event in a very long time since the early days of E3. |
| 0:54.7 | How has it been the process of coming back and having events again? |
| 0:58.1 | Well, we have enjoyed thinking about how to bring people together again. |
| 1:02.4 | E3 was an amazing experience, not only for us, but for the entire video game community. |
| 1:07.8 | It was an opportunity, yes, to show off new games and devices, but it also |
| 1:12.6 | allowed people to come together. You got to see people from different companies and different |
| 1:17.0 | parts of the industry in one place at one time. And it also had the effect of creating a halo |
| 1:23.3 | around the industry in that moment. Everyone was paying attention to the news that would come out |
| 1:28.2 | and what new games were going to be available |
| 1:30.5 | and who did and said what. |
| 1:32.9 | COVID obviously made us all rethink |
| 1:35.9 | about what events we do and what our priorities are. |
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