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Shawnee Game Conference Featured Speaker List


Jack Bohm

Jack Bohm is a concept artist currently working at Epic Games. During his childhood, he was not allowed to play video games, which naturally led hi...

Marcus Cenci

Appearing Fri,Sat

Marcus Cenci has spent 17 years in the games industry where he’s worked on multiple projects as an Art Director and Lead Artist including the Sai...

Jeremiah Garay

Jeremiah Garay graduated from SSU in 2015. After graduating he worked as a freelance artist on various projects while improving his craft before jo...

Melanie Gordon

Melanie is a brand marketing professional who has worked at top-tier entertainment and game studios. With experience on both the developer and publ...

Russell Hamer

Russ Hamer is a Ph.D. in philosophy and the Director of Esports at Mount St. Mary's University. He has published in pop culture and philosophy outl...

Dustin Hansen

Dustin was raised in rural Utah, where his imagination was his most constant companion. A reader, artist, and gamer from an early age, Dustin was e...

Marisa Hike

Marisa is CEO of her new game studio, Berry Lucky Games LLC, as well as a full time, 3D artist at Mindforge LLC. She graduated from SSU’s game art ...

Richard Huggan

Richard is Managing Director of Hitmarker, the largest video game industry jobs platform in the world. Overseeing four years of rapid development a...

Derek Lewis

Derek Lewis is a Senior Technical Artist at Insomniac Games. Derek specializes in technical art by building pipelines, tools, and creative solution...

Jessica Manrow

Jessica Manrow is a Graduate Assistant at Western Kentucky University in the Esports program and is a student in the Educational Leadership Doctora...

Mike McCarty

Mike attended university at Morehead State University in the department of Math and Physics where he received a dual degree in Computer Science and...

Alejandro Medina

Alejandro J. Medina is a senior project architect with 12 years of experience. Currently, he serves on BHDP Architecture’s higher education team. B...

Crystal Mills

Crystal is the VP of Content at Ritual Motion where she leads a team to produce content all for the good of gamers. As a writer in esports for over...

Tasha Penwell

Tasha Penwell is the founder of Bytes and Bits, an organization working to provide instruction on in-demand skillsets focusing on AWS cloud computi...

Megan Piffer

Megan Piffer is a Senior in the Game & Simulation Arts program, with a minor in Digital Simulation and Game Engineering Technology at Shawnee S...

Duane Skaggs

Patricia Todd

Dr. Patricia R. Todd, Professor, Western Kentucky University Education: D.B.A., Marketing, Cleveland State University Areas of Expertise: Marketing...

Liam Ward

Liam Ward is a Shawnee State University class of 2020 alumnus. Currently working as a software developer at Edaptive Computing Inc. Liam is also kn...

Kyle Yonut

George Ziets

George Ziets has been a narrative designer and writer since 2001. He spent the first part of his career on MMOs like Lord of the Rings Online and D...