Tim Laning

Founder & CCO, Grendel Games

Tim Laning is CCO and co-owner of Grendel Games, an independent award winning serious game development company from Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. Grendel Games has been focused on creating games that drive behavior change for almost 25 years. The company is focused mainly on healthcare, education and gamified training. From turning surgery training into a fun and effective activity with increased retention to onboarding surgeons on RAS systems for OEM customers, Tim and his company love turning education into fascination and learning into gaming.


Tim is a celebrated speaker at conferences from TedX, GDC San Francisco to Indiecade LA, member of the board for the Dutch Game Garden Incubation Program and External Executive for Nord University.