Yaraslau Kot is an of counsel in the technology department of Rymarz Zdort Maruta and a member of the Video Games & Entertainment team.
He is an internationally renowned lawyer and an expert in the game creation and development and innovative technologies industries with more than 20 years of experience.
He specialises in laws related to the video game industry, corporate law, new technology and intellectual property law, constitutional law, forensics, medical law, and human resources law. He has advised numerous companies, governments and international organisations. He has been involved in the development of numerous games and start-ups.
Yaraslau is a former Regional Coordinator for Eastern Europe and Asia of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), the founder of the Belarusian Game Developers Association (BelGameDev), a former board member of Crypto Association.by, a co-founder of IT Law Hub, an organiser of the Crypto Games Conference, etc. He holds PhD, LL.M., Mpsych and MBA degrees.
He currently co-organises international industry events such as the Game Industry Conference, the Games Gathering Conference, the Crystal Canvas digital art contest and the Central and Eastern European Game Awards. He also sits on the programme committee of the Central and Eastern European Game Studies Conference, etc. He has been advising the Farm 51, the Association of Belarusian Business Abroad and the Government of Moldova. He also conducts research on narratology at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, is a visiting professor at Tallinn University in Estonia, where he conducts a practical course on game development for graduate students, and gives EMBA lectures on business ethics and trust at Kozminski University in Warsaw. He is a reviewer of the Simulation and Gaming Journal and a member of the Academic Board of the Homo Ludens journal published by the Games Research Association of Poland. He has authored more than one hundred publications and has given thousands of lectures worldwide.
9 March 2023
The "More Than Just a Game" conference has ended! This is a unique academic event that we, as the law firm Rymarz Zdort Maruta, were pleased to co-organise together with, among others, Koło Naukowe...