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Michael Curran

Oxide Games-Former Audio Director

Jim Peterson, Jr.

M&T Bank - VP of Business Banking

Dexter Carr Jr.

Game4Good - Cofounder and CEO

Ever since he got his first Gameboy Color and Pokémon Yellow for Christmas when he was a child, he was hooked on gaming.

Will Gee

Balti Virtual-CEO

Dr. Melanie Stegman

Molecular Jig-Founder

Lucien Parsons

Fractional COO & Advisor

Henry Kelly

Technology Policy Advisor and Former President, Federation of American Scientists

Rob Ballantyne

Sackbird Studios - Cofounder & CTO

Adeola Ajani, MBA

Fem Equity-CEO & Founder

Tony Li

Pixel Crushers - Owner

Tony is the founder of Pixel Crushers, maker of popular game development tools including the Dialogue System for Unity seen in award-winning games such as Disco Elysium and 1000xRESIST, and Wild Domain Games, which recently released Crypt Crawler. He’s also an organizer for Baltimore Indie Game Devs.

Russell Aasland

Midsummer Studios - Principal Engineer

Russell is a 20-year games industry veteran, principal engineer at Midsummer Studios, and lead of the Baltimore Unreal Communities chapter, specializing in C++ and Unreal Engine development.

Satch Puri

Oxide Games- Production Director

Richard Dansky

Narrative Director & Author

Catherine Croft

Co-Founder, Game Designer - Catlilli Games

Erik Kovac

Co-Founder - TILT Games

Pat Genest

Co-founder - Guilty Games

Greg Foertsch

Bit Reactor-Co-Founder, CEO & Creative Director

Greg Lane

Tin Heart Interactive-Owner

Michelle Menard

Dragon Snacks Studios - Co-Founder & COO

Ezra Szanton

Independent Game Designer

Chris Ewing

Game4Good - Cofounder & CMO

Chris Ewing is a serial entrepreneur and growth strategist with over 20 years of experience building revenue and impact across startups…

Ryan Griffin

Bit Reactor-3D Surface & Hard Surface Artist

Claudius Taylor

Gambix - CEO & Founder

Elizabeth Newbury

Science and Tech Policy Researcher

Bradston Henry

Unity-Senior Advocate

Heather Cole

Director, MonRiverGames Assoc. Prof., West Virginia Univ. President, IGDA West Virginia Organizer, IGDA Game Education SIG

Kevin Stumme

3D Creature Artist

Jen MacLean

Dragon Snacks Studios - Co-Founder & CEO

David Worley

Sackbird Studios - Cofounder & COO

Joel Gonzales

Senior UI Engineer - iRacing

Rick Williams

Industry Advisor

Founder of LAN Line Games, a company that builds interactive experiences on contract and produces indie game titles between contracts.

Matthew Schulz

Virtuos-Senior Account Manager

Phillip Klassen

Oxide Games-Former Lead Audio Engineer and Designer

Doug Carroll

Sackbird Studios - Creative Director

Kenneth E. Lawrence

Director, Solution Architecture - Mind Over Machines

Michaela Frank

Industry Advisor

Heather Cerlan

NEARstudios-Co-Founder/CEO/Creative Director

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