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Jeff Kuipers is an accomplished Visual Effects Director and real-time VFX artist who has helped ship over a dozen AAA games on mobile and console platformsPrevious titles include Command & Conquer: Rivals; Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes; Star Wars......

Brendan is the Lead Character Artist for NetherRealms Studios he shipped 11 AAA titles including all games in the Bioshock series, Borderlands the pre-sequel, Injustice 2, and Mortal Kombat 11 Brendan has a extensive experience in many art discipline......

David has been making video games for over 17 years He's currently the Development Lead at SkyBox Labs, where he oversees the studio’s co-development on Halo Infinite, in partnership with 343 IndustriesDavid has a passion for growing strong, dyna......

Ron Ashtiani has provided creative leadership on 3 block buster Marvel movies, over 30 games, and has worked with huge brands like JK Rowling, Warner Bros, Sony and Microsoft He has led several businesses over the years and in 2009 formed visual desi......

Frédéric has been at the core of BKOM Studios for more than a decade, bringing his 20 years of experience, flair for design, strategic vision and result-oriented management style to the table in a lot of very successful projects His extensive knowl......

Dale is a veteran of the games industry with 20+ years experience in all aspects of game production His focus the past 14 years has been on game audio, working on hundreds of games over that time As Creative Director at Somatone, he collaborates with......

Andrew is the CEO of Enter Capital, a San Francisco-based investment and advisory firm focused solely on technology and interactive entertainment Among other deals, Enter Capital acted as an exclusive M&A advisor to the founders of 5518 Studios (......

Jacquie Shriver Sladeck is Head of Studio at Side’s (wwwsidecom) Los Angeles office, managing a team of engineers and project managers who devote their business to character performances for games Prior to her time with Side, Jacquie spent a decade......

Steve is a four-year veteran of the Just Cause franchise, having started as a contractor on JC3 before taking over UI art direction for JC4 Outside of AAA development, he has worked with indie developers in a variety of contexts beyond UI, including ......

As Senior Manager of Digital Entertainment and Interactive at the Vancouver Economic Commission, Nancy works strategically to grow the screen-based industry for the City of Vancouver Her work to strengthen the Vancouver economy included focusing on f......

Lauren Freeman is Senior Manager on Electronic Art’s External Development Intelligence team (XDI) She manages the relationships with EA’s external partners for EA Mobile, online, and VR/AR development Prior to EA, she worked at Kabam for several ......

Creator and host of "The Electric Playground,” Victor Lucas is an Emmy-winning videogame television pioneer ”The Electric Playground," hit the airwaves in 1997 and in 2008 became a daily TV series seen around the world Victor has produced several......