Funko’s Lucy Salisbury, YuMe Toys’ Gurdeep Bains and All in 1 Products’ Danny Kishon to explore ‘Creating for Kidults’ at Play Creators Conference 2025

This year’s Play Creators Conference will feature a panel exploring designing and inventing for the Kidult market.

The session will look at the categories and types of brands that are thriving in this space, what considerations come into play when creating for kidults – and whether it’s an area that inventors could, or should, be focusing on at the moment.

Mojo Nation’s Billy Langsworythy will chair the session, which features panellists:

Gurdeep Bains, Global Creative Director at YuMe Toys

Danny Kishon, MD at All in 1 Products

Lucy Salisbury, Director of Group Licensing & Retail Development for EMEA & APAC at Funko

This year’s Play Creators Conference takes place at London’s Stamford Bridge Stadium on Wednesday, June 25th.

To book your ticket, head to: https://playcreatorsconference.co.uk/product/play-creators-conference-ticket/

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