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Bradston Henry

Unity-Senior Advocate

Catherine Croft

Co-Founder, Game Designer - Catlilli Games

Michael Curran

Oxide Games-Former Audio Director

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…

Jim Peterson, Jr.

M&T Bank - VP of Business Banking

Erik Kovac

Co-Founder - TILT Games

David Worley

Sackbird Studios - Cofounder & COO

Claudius Taylor

Gambix - CEO & Founder

Michelle Menard

Dragon Snacks Studios - Co-Founder & COO

Richard Dansky

Narrative Director & Author

Ezra Szanton

Independent Game Designer

Will Gee

Balti Virtual-CEO

Adeola Ajani, MBA

Fem Equity-CEO & Founder

Satch Puri

Oxide Games- Production Director

Kevin Stumme

3D Creature Artist

Heather Cole

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

Michaela Frank

Industry Advisor

Heather Cerlan

NEARstudios-Co-Founder/CEO/Creative Director

Matthew Schulz

Virtuos-Senior Account Manager

Kenneth E. Lawrence

Director, Solution Architecture - Mind Over Machines

Dr. Melanie Stegman

Molecular Jig-Founder

Doug Carroll

Sackbird Studios - Creative Director

Rick Williams

Industry Advisor

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

Greg Foertsch

Bit Reactor-Co-Founder, CEO & Creative Director

Joel Gonzales

Senior UI Engineer - iRacing

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.

Henry Kelly

Technology Policy Advisor and Former President, Federation of American Scientists

Ryan Griffin

Bit Reactor-3D Surface & Hard Surface Artist

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.

Pat Genest

Co-founder - Guilty Games

Jen MacLean

Dragon Snacks Studios - Co-Founder & CEO

Phillip Klassen

Oxide Games-Former Lead Audio Engineer and Designer

Lucien Parsons

Fractional COO & Advisor

Greg Lane

Tin Heart Interactive-Owner

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.

Rob Ballantyne

Sackbird Studios - Cofounder & CTO

Elizabeth Newbury

Science and Tech Policy Researcher

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