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GDEX 2019 Speaker List


ChocoTaco

“I've been into competitive gaming since I first played Half-Life Deathmatch CS 1.6, and watching players get signed to professional organizations ...

Tom Allenbaugh

Bio: Tom is the technical lead for Multivarious and an adjunct professor for Columbus State Community College's Computer Science department. Wit...

Nathanael Anderson

VR Entrepreneur and Hardware Hacker in the Columbus Startup scene. Lead by example, never give up, and lets change the world :)

Henry Bawden

Henry has been working as an artist since 1999, and has been in the game industry since 2006. Since 2010, he has been in charge of the Video Game ...

Sean Beeson

Sean Beeson is composer and sound designer who has worked on hundreds of scores for games, ads, trailers, and podcasts, for clients like Google, Di...

Clayton Belcher

Clayton’s myriad interests mean he’s always stuffing his time with creative projects. Game and web development, graphic design, writing, music and ...

Kellye Blosser

Kellye Blosser is a graduate student studying games and virtual reality at Ohio University. Her career has spanned multiple storytelling industries...

Adam Boyes

CEO | Iron Galaxy As Chief Executive Officer of Iron Galaxy Studios, Adam Boyes is responsible for the Company’s finances, strategic development...

Jess Brohard

Jess has almost five years of game industry experience under her belt, and currently works as a freelance event and video host, partnered Twitch st...

Tom Caprel

Tom Caprel Tom Caprel is a marketer for games, tech enthusiast, and trained opera singer. In 2013, Tom and his co-founder started a big-data websi...

Marcus Cenci

Jason Conaway

Jason Conaway is the CTO of Exultant Games, a video game development studio which he co-founded in 2018. For more than two decades, Jason has been ...

Mitchell Cook

Mitch Cook is a senior studying Games and Animation at Ohio University, with a minor in Business Administration and certificates in Project Managem...

DB Cooper

Award-winning narrator and actor DB Cooper is the voice of a national conscience, a car brand, a casino; the AI, the Mercenary, the Goblin, and the...

Caleb Cornett

Caleb is a freelance game porter specializing in bringing indie games to mobile platforms. He recently finished porting the award-winning “rogue-li...

Savannah Covil

I’m a pyro barbarian and a babysitter ranger who loves toitles. I was just introduced to the game within this past year and have enjoyed learning t...

Bria Davis

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Ian Davis

Ian Davis has been a technical animator for over 10 years, and is currently working for Gearbox Software. His work includes Borderlands 3, Battlebo...

Ryan Davis

Ryan Davis is a solo indie developer based in Indiana. As an artist, programmer, and designer, Ryan specializes in the magic space among all three....

Seven DeBord

Seven is the Co-Host of The ELEAGUE Report podcast by ELEAGUE, the winner of Blizzard’s “So You Think You Can Cast”, and an official Hearthstone Co...

Mitchell Duiverman

Software tester by day and GM of horror campaigns by night. I’ve been a story writer and GM for 20 years. I have brought my considerable love of ...

Tasha Duiverman

A veteran player for the past 19 years. I have always had a love of fantasy stories and the adventures that they get to have. I have had the cha...

Abdallah Elayan

AbdallahSmash026 is the home of Kid-Friendly / Family Friendly Nintendo Gaming Videos, Tutorials, and Walkthroughs! You'll find High-Quality Ninten...

Travis Faas

Travis Faas is a a media arts and science lecturer in IUPUI's School of Informatics and Computing. There he teaches game design and development, wi...

Doug Gallucci

Taking my love of stories, video games, fantasy and combining it with my design skills from Architecture school lead to creating my own Fantasy wor...

James Gartland

James is a Lead Developer at Super77 here in Columbus. He develops games and experiences with various technologies such as AR, VR, and most recentl...

Jon Gazda

By day, Jon Gazda is a mild-mannered accountant. By night, he dons his cowl and writes music and narrative for video games. He has written music fo...

Asa GreenRiver

Asa GreenRiver is digital marketing professional and content creator. He works to help small businesses improve their presence & effectiveness onli...

Brad Griffith

Brad Griffith is a lifelong entrepreneur. He grew up working for his dad's veterinary hospital, learning the joys and challenges of business owners...

Chase Grozdina

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Katie Hamill

Katie is the lead artist for Multivarious currently working on the indie game No Mercy. She has also done work for Disney, Adobe, and a series of c...

Will Handford

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Kristen Harris

Thirteen years as a designer, art director and creative manager for corporate marketing departments gave her an eye for talent and a passion for wo...

Ross Hersemann

Founder | Loading Law Ross is the Founder of Loading Law, a Chicago-based law practice, and provides legal counsel to video game developers and ...

J.L Holdsworth

JL Holdsworth is a world champion powerlifter, published author and former University of Kentucky strength and conditioning coach. With over 30,000...

Andy Jetter

Andy considers himself a gaming ambassador - passionate about games and the people who make them. Be it video games or tabletop he relishes in mee...

Jeff Kuhn, PhD.

Jeff Kuhn, PhD. serves a split appointment at OHIO University, working for the Office of Instructional Innovation and in the Games Research and Imm...

George Landon

George V. Landon has been serving as an educator at the university-level for over 12 years and has been actively participating in computer science ...

AJ Losey

AJ isn't the biggest fan of bio's but here is one anyway. While living in Michigan, he became trained in both TV and Film Production. Having work...

Susan Magnani

Susan Magnani received her B.Sc. in Computer Science from Bowling Green State University this past May, and was hired by Avanade - the joint ventur...

Gary Mayer

Gary Mayer (aka 'the Great Buckeye') is an Ohio State alumnus and the co-founder of CORGS (the Columbus Ohio Retro Gaming Society), where he hosts ...

Kristofer Meyeres

Kristofer is currently a senior at Ohio University and will be graduating in May 2020 with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Info...

Branden Middendorf

Branden is a 3D Artist & Game Developer currently living in Cincinnati Ohio. He graduated from Northern Kentucky University with a Bachelors of Art...

Braxton Miller

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Mike Morrone

Mike is Game Designer and Programmer who has accidentally specialized in VR Development. Graduating from Columbia College Chicago, he has experien...

Brendan Mulcahy

Brendan Mulcahy is a senior software engineer with experience in web development, game design, and machine learning (ML). He wrote his first compu...

Ivy O'Shaughnessy

Ivy is a senior at Ohio University and will be graduating in May 2020 with a Bachelor in Communications and a minor in Business. During their time ...

David Pickett

After a decade in digital marketing and YouTube, Dave Pickett is pivoting to pursue a career in game design. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Gam...

Zac Pierce

Zac is a freelance game developer who lives in the Greater Cleveland area. He released the award-winning BOMBFEST in January 2019, and is currently...

Brad Plaxen

Bradley Plaxen is a Narrative Designer for People Can Fly in New York City. He has written for multiple studios on a variety of projects, ranging f...

Jacqueline Rinehardt

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Dan Rockwell

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Chris Sanyk

Chris Sanyk has been a gamer since Christmas Day 1981 and first aspired to design games in approximately January 1982. He is active with the Cleve...

Alberto Scirocco

Originally from Milan, Italy, Leftchannel Founder and Creative Director Alberto Scirocco was literally born into a life of art and creativity, hail...

Mike Sill

Mike Sill is a Supervisor and Lead Engine Artist for Halon Entertainment out of Santa Monica, CA. With 12 years of experience using Unreal Engine, ...

Brian Skeel

Brian is a freelance composer, sound designer, and engineer from Columbus, OH. His music has been featured by Universal, Sony, NBC, CBS, PBS, MTV, ...

Cody Starcher

Cody is the Producer at local Creative Tech Studio Multivarious, a Lead Organizer of the Annual GDEX Gaming Expo, and an Adjunct Professor for Stor...

Bill Troy

Bill Troy is an Inc. 500 CEO and Immediate Past-President of the Columbus Chapter of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. EO is the global peer-to-pee...

Daniel Vicarel

Dan Vicarel is a software developer and game designer from the Cleveland area. He wrote his first program on a TI-84 calculator in high school, and...

Darshan Vyas

Darshan is an investor and experienced entrepreneur with several successful ventures under his belt within the Healthcare industry. His greatest st...

Daniel Warmke

Daniel’s inner 10 year old is still overjoyed that he has become a game researcher and designer. Over his life he has been a soldier, an independen...

Alex Wilkins

Alex is the Manager of Adult Engagement Programs at COSI, and works to provide events, workshops, and programs to COSI's Adult Audience. Before com...

Joe Wood

Director of Adult Engagement | COSI Joe Wood is the Director of Adult Engagement and Natural History Expert at COSI. He works on programs like C...

George Ziets

George Ziets is a veteran design lead and writer who has been developing games since 2001. He’s worked in well-established settings like the Forgot...

Reilly Zink

Reilly Zink is currently studying Immersive Technology at Ohio University with minors in Computer Science and Mathematics. Working for the Game Res...


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