Rachel is an indie game developer, writer, tax law expert, business and B2B/B2C marketing adviser and content strategist, and freelancing coach. In short, she's a professional hustler who loves to help other people develop fulfilling careers and attain both financial freedom and self-worth. As an IRS-licensed Enrolled Agent with a decade of practice experience, she wrote the first and only tax law book dedicated to indie developers and has frequently been called upon in the industry for her perspective on game dev tax matters. She teaches the best-selling Basics of Business For Indie Developers and Taxes For Indie Developers classes at Playcrafting NYC, and has spoken at Indiecade East, East Coast Game Developers' Conference, IGDA events, and guest-lectured at MBA programs on the business of games and career development for the self-employed. As CFO and Executive Producer of Himalaya Studios, Rachel oversaw their six-figure Kickstarter campaign and has advised game developers, publishers, and clients in other industries on how to form a successful campaign. Rachel resigned from the company in 2017 to focus on Sonic Toad Media & Consulting's coaching and writing services arms which currently lay the foundation for Sonic Toad Publishing. Frequently featured on the front page of Gamasutra, Rachel writes about business and lifestyle issues for game developers on the noted industry rag and is also an accomplished ghost-blogger. She effectively developed active and passive income streams that have enabled her to pursue game development without a full-time or part-time job and has made it a mission of Sonic Toad Consulting to help other indie developers and creative people do the same. Rachel's strategies have helped freelance writers get paid more and indie developers transition from traditional jobs to full-time hustling and thriving in the process. Her clients will vouch for her knowledge of grassroots and email marketing that have helped their lists grow and become more effective at selling their games and services. Gamasutra Page: https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RachelPresser/924879/ Other Clips: rachelpresser.contently.com The Definitive Guide to Taxes for Indie Game Developers: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0197G82MK/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=sontoamedcon-20&linkId=13df7ff020d7aad50da2d79964a02617

Creative Director | Game Developer 20+ yr (Halo Franchise & Creator of Saints Row) Founder of The Gamer's Way. Mentor.

Over 20 years video game development experience working at studios such as Dreamworks, EA, and Rhythm & Hues Studios. Now CEO and owner of a digital VR studio, Ghost Machine, and mobile games studio, TinyUtopia, located in Austin, TX Producer of Oculus VR Racing Game, Motorsport Revolution

Sandra Wong is CEO & founder of Lucky Lady Games & Stashlink. She specializes in Casual Gaming & Business Development Strategy and is an app / game designer & online marketing specialist with a 20+ year background in technology product development. She specializes in building technology products, user acquisition, app monetization, UIUX, design audits, live dealer casino blockchain technology. She has consulted for 50+ private and public companies across multiple industries and was a nominee for Leader of the Year by Woman of Worth Awards. Sandra has launched apps that debuted at number one in its category and in the top 100 in appStore. She has been an integral part of over 25 app projects with some enjoying traffic numbers in the millions. Sandra was the Success and Product Manager at BlueBat Games for clients including Foxwoods, Treasure Island, Hard Rock, Seminole and was design consultant to VGW - Virtual Gaming Worlds & Global Poker. You can read more about her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandrawong/

Entrepreneur. Game Designer. Producer. Ask me anything mobile games, eSports, Social Casino, Mid-core, Company management (team, projects, structure) and Business related questions. Hands-on Game design, production and game economy, M&As and how to run a studio during and after an M&A process. Companies past and present: Tacticsoft (Chief Product), Sidekick Games/Rovio (Lead Designer, Producer), New Legends Studios (CEO, Co Founder), Mytopia (GM / COO, Chief Creative, acquired by 888Holdings), Deepmist Studios (CEO, Co Founder & Developer), Win Interactive (Win.com, subsidiary of bwin party) Worked on original IP as well as companies such as Rovio, Dreamworks, Showtime, Lionsgate, MGA, Endemol, 888 and bwin.party. Adjunct Instructor in the InGame program at the Interdisciplinary Center, Hertzlya.

Technical Director, Game Developer, Entrepreneur. Over 20 years in software and video game development. Assassins Creed, EA Sports FIFA, MLB Superstars, Sons of Anarchy. Desktop, console, and mobile.

Certified Identity and Security Technologist (CIST), Identity Management, Single Sign On, Speaker/Reader of Thai, Unity Certified Developer, Indie Game Dev, VR/AR Dev, Node Developer, Former CTO@CompliSpace, cTrader algorithmic developer.

co-founder of Fgfactory, company that provides graphics design and games\applications development services for different platforms.

Web developer. Game developer(Casual). Entrepreneur-beginner. Mobile tech fan. Programmer (above 15 years).

19 years in software development. 11 years in blockchain. 3 years into NFT. I run a team that has been working with various brands and individuals, including DJ Khaled, TikTok, and Triller app, Louis Vuitton and Lamborghini. My expertise is in developing and growing all kind of Crypto, De-Fi, and NFT projects.

Secured 350k USD from investors and produced "The Vakarian Star," featuring skilled stunt performers from the Marvel and DC franchises, and myself starred as the lead actor. I'm also a Game Designer & Company Director of a game studio creating online games including "Castle Warfare" on ROBLOX.com, which I have secured 45k USD for funding and am approaching full 3 device releases.

International Carriers Services Assistant at TeleYemen, specializing in network optimization, VoIP, and capacity planning. Passionate about game development (Eclipsed Realms: Forgotten Legacy) and tech solutions for automotive marketplaces.

Detroit mentor and environmental consultant. Worked a variety of odd jobs, from cattle rancher to IT Helpdesk. Recent college graduate looking to help fellow students finish their degrees.

Built USD600 Mn. Business and grown to 3 countries, currently Lead B2B Business at India's largest Gaming Company with years of experience across Revenue Management, Operations, SCM, Growth & Strategy responsibilities. A start-up enthusiast with experience in health tech, mobility, consumer services, transportation & logistics, food tech aggregation and E-commerce industry. Passionate about analyzing and supporting business operations that can serve as a solution to a given problem. Strong business development professional skilled in Partner Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Go-to-market Strategy, and Sales Enablement. Experienced professional across P&L Management, SCM, and Growth & Strategy responsibilities. Co-founded PharmaTech venture with core competencies in multi-dimensional industries, i.e., Passenger/Logistics Mobility, Health Technology, and E-commerce with major internet companies.

As a technical artist I cover particle effects, materials, programming and art asset creation with some project management and performance profiling on the side. I like interacting with people so I find mentoring very fun and rewarding. :) During my career I was hired a few times to train teams and individuals for the Unreal engine. In order to be able to do that better I dived into the rabbit hole of psychology, which topic became one of my passions. I'm also part of the Whisper Events group in Budapest where we organize personal development events. I also train my cat and my neighbor's dog.

I have over 12 years of software development experience in the game industry. I started in product at Disney and leading business intelligence teams at Geewa for a portfolio >1 million DAU. For over >5 years I’ve been in product owner roles with P/L ownership, mostly with multiple concurrent projects, and throughout the product life cycle. In these leadership roles I’ve turned around an unprofitable global IP division, test-released dozens of games, and released globally games played by many tens of millions of players.

Serial founder: cleansaas.dev (2025), doc2exam.com (2024), rockstart.ai/neoducation.org (2023), mjapi.io (2023), blog2vid.io (2024), dragonshift.com (2017). Hardcore Unity3D engineer since 2013, turned into AI/DevOps generalist since 2019, and life coach since 2021. Contrarian. Ethical anarchist. Minimalist.

Alberto Menache is a technology consultant for various industries, including visual effects, film, videogames, AI, and others, with clients including Lightstorm Entertainment, Electronic Arts and Sony. He served as Digital FX Supervisor at Imageworks and Character Technology Supervisor at PDI/DreamWorks, and was the founder of TSi, where he created the first commercially available Performance Capture Solver and the first captured character for a videogame (Soul Edge). In 2008 Alberto created the first real-time Virtual Production pipeline. He has also designed several VFX and animation pipelines. Other innovations include volumetric character deformation, muscle-based facial animation, markerless real-time facial tracking, digital human acquisition, wireless simulcam, etc. Alberto has supervised digital effects for several films, including The Polar Express, Superman Returns and the Oscar winning short The Chubb-Chubbs. He wrote, among other books, the defining textbook on Motion Capture. Alberto holds several patents on various innovations.

Founder Compplus. Multiple Entrepreneur. Blockchain developer, Unity game developer, Flutter Dev

Results-driven technology leader with over 15 years of experience in engineering leadership and software architecture. Passionate about fostering collaboration and innovation, leveraging cutting-edge technologies, and driving organizational growth. Skilled in the development and operation of massive business-critical platforms and distributed services, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and security.

Founder of Thrust Interactive (2004). Thrust has created over 100 games and apps for it's clients, some of the largest consumer brands in the world. Founder of Thrust Games (2011). An indie game studio creating mobile cross-platform games. Founder of True or False Games (2013). TFG licenses a mobile, multiplayer turn-based trivia platform. Founder of Creativity GameLab (2014). CGL implements a proven process for leveraging the creative muscle of an organization to solve unique and difficult challenges. President of the Atlanta Chapter of IGDA (International Game Developers Association). We bring together game developers to improve their lives and craft. Advisory Board Member: TAG Entertainment Society, Atlanta Regional Commission Arts & Culture Committee, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce’s Digital Coalition, APPNation Atlanta, Atlanta Game Developer Meetup, Atlanta Unity3D User Group, Atlanta Corona User Group. 40 Under 40, Atlanta Business Chronicle's Class of 2012

Founder of mobile startup Nanaimo Studio. Expert in mobile apps and games. Published nine of our own apps and more than twenty client apps. Currently working to help bring a hugely popular mobile music platform into the auto space. I look forward to helping you and all proceeds will go towards charity.

Founder of Stack Virtual (VR Software Startup). CEO of Jungle Friend Studios. Virtual Reality & Mobile Game Developer. Leads team of Unity Programmers and 3D Artists.

For the last 17 years I have been employed as Business development Director/CEO at a small number of game development/publishing businesses. Primarily facilitating the commercial means to support and sustain creative and technical excellence in the development of world class products according to the game development mantra – “on time, within budget and to an exceptionally high standard”. I have negotiated and secured countless development, distribution and publishing deals and contracts, routinely deal with legal advisors and have raised £m’s in in grant and equity funding. I am a confident presenter, an effective communicator and a strong team player. Business development and blue chip key account management is my forte. 12 years ago, I secured $10m equity investment and established a Cambridge HQ for Midas Interactive. I employed the management team, secured the product development strategy and put an effective global sales and distribution structure in place. 10 years ago I acquired, via Gameware Europe Ltd., all of the assets and IP in world renowned Cambridge studio Creature Labs Ltd. and now own the historic ‘Creatures’ and ‘James Pond’ IP which are commercially exploited via ongoing publishing partnerships(Creatures online via Bigben, James Pond – Robocod via System 3, digital via Merge Games). Gameware have recently delivered the iOS/Android app “Man United Tricks” together with a proprietary ad server for Zoombugs Ltd with the intention to build upon the MU app via social engagement – developing interactive products that effectively engage and build the fan/community user base. Gameware also delivered 4 series of the BAFTA nominated TV gameshow Bamzooki – empowering users to create 3D creatures online and interact with their user generated digital creations in real time. Connected TV, mobile, PC ++ screens provide a direct to user global communication channel and therefore a huge opportunity for talented, nimble and well funded digital creatives to develop and iterate digital products for global audiences whilst maximising D2C revenues.

Entrepreneur • Investor • Public Speaker • Gamer Dad • 4x Founder/2x Exits CEO of @iversoft $45M+ B2B Sales