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David Worley

Sackbird Studios - Cofounder & COO

Ezra Szanton

Independent Game Designer

Michelle Menard

Dragon Snacks Studios - Co-Founder & COO

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…

Dr. Melanie Stegman

Molecular Jig-Founder

Heather Cerlan

NEARstudios-Co-Founder/CEO/Creative Director

Claudius Taylor

Gambix - CEO & Founder

Ryan Griffin

Bit Reactor-3D Surface & Hard Surface Artist

Satch Puri

Oxide Games- Production Director

Doug Carroll

Sackbird Studios - Creative Director

Jen MacLean

Dragon Snacks Studios - Co-Founder & CEO

Richard Dansky

Narrative Director & Author

Greg Lane

Tin Heart Interactive-Owner

Catherine Croft

Co-Founder, Game Designer - Catlilli Games

Pat Genest

Co-founder - Guilty Games

Joel Gonzales

Senior UI Engineer - iRacing

Erik Kovac

Co-Founder - TILT Games

Henry Kelly

Technology Policy Advisor and Former President, Federation of American Scientists

Adeola Ajani, MBA

Fem Equity-CEO & Founder

Will Gee

Balti Virtual-CEO

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.

Lucien Parsons

Fractional COO & Advisor

Jim Peterson, Jr.

M&T Bank - VP of Business Banking

Heather Cole

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

Rick Williams

Industry Advisor

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

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.

Michael Curran

Oxide Games-Former Audio Director

Greg Foertsch

Bit Reactor-Co-Founder, CEO & Creative Director

Matthew Schulz

Virtuos-Senior Account Manager

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.

Kenneth E. Lawrence

Director, Solution Architecture - Mind Over Machines

Rob Ballantyne

Sackbird Studios - Cofounder & CTO

Kevin Stumme

3D Creature Artist

Bradston Henry

Unity-Senior Advocate

Elizabeth Newbury

Science and Tech Policy Researcher

Michaela Frank

Industry Advisor

Phillip Klassen

Oxide Games-Former Lead Audio Engineer and Designer

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