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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...

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...

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...

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

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...