Samuel Lacote

Samuel Lacote is the Founder of IlluminateStudiosGames, a game development studio he launched at 12, today surpassing 400,000 Monthly Active Users and 1.9 million play sessions. Samuel is also the Founder of RootED futures, having built and taught a community of over 1,200 youth innovators worldwide.

Samuel is pursuing an A.B. in Economics at the University of Chicago, and has received honors from The Wharton School and the Franco-American Chamber of Commerce of Chicago among others.