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Kevin Stumme

3D Creature Artist

Bradston Henry

Unity-Senior Advocate

Jen MacLean

Dragon Snacks Studios - Co-Founder & CEO

Catherine Croft

Co-Founder, Game Designer - Catlilli Games

Claudius Taylor

Gambix - CEO & Founder

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.

Ezra Szanton

Independent Game Designer

Richard Dansky

Narrative Director & Author

Phillip Klassen

Oxide Games-Former Lead Audio Engineer and Designer

Satch Puri

Oxide Games- Production Director

Lucien Parsons

Fractional COO & Advisor

Henry Kelly

Technology Policy Advisor and Former President, Federation of American Scientists

Kenneth E. Lawrence

Director, Solution Architecture - Mind Over Machines

Erik Kovac

Co-Founder - TILT Games

Doug Carroll

Sackbird Studios - Creative Director

Dr. Melanie Stegman

Molecular Jig-Founder

Michaela Frank

Industry Advisor

Greg Lane

Tin Heart Interactive-Owner

Adeola Ajani, MBA

Fem Equity-CEO & Founder

Will Gee

Balti Virtual-CEO

Rob Ballantyne

Sackbird Studios - Cofounder & CTO

Jim Peterson, Jr.

M&T Bank - VP of Business Banking

Elizabeth Newbury

Science and Tech Policy Researcher

Joel Gonzales

Senior UI Engineer - iRacing

Matthew Schulz

Virtuos-Senior Account Manager

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…

Pat Genest

Co-founder - Guilty Games

David Worley

Sackbird Studios - Cofounder & COO

Greg Foertsch

Bit Reactor-Co-Founder, CEO & 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.

Heather Cole

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

Heather Cerlan

NEARstudios-Co-Founder/CEO/Creative Director

Ryan Griffin

Bit Reactor-3D Surface & Hard Surface Artist

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.

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.

Michelle Menard

Dragon Snacks Studios - Co-Founder & COO

Michael Curran

Oxide Games-Former Audio Director

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