Michael Katchabaw is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Western Ontario and a game development expert.

In the 14 years Mat Tremblay has been with Digital Extremes, he has mastered every aspect of the 3D art trade. From textures to models, he can create it all and has for the majority of the games the studio has developed over the years including all iterations of theUnreal® franchise, Dark Sector®, the multiplayer portion of BioShock®2 and most recently,The Darkness II. Entirely self-taught, his easy going yet driven spirit and eye for detail led him to his current role as Art Director where he’s busy fine-tuning the art style forStar Trek, the game planned for the upcoming movie sequel.

Robyn got her start in games as a Quality Assurance Analyst. She has since held the positions of Technical Designer, QA Lead and is now an Assistant Producer at Big Blue Bubble. She has shipped a wide variety of titles including My Singing Monsters and Resident Evil. Robyn is graduate of York University with an interdisciplinary degree in Communication and Psychology.

Ryan is a graduate from the University of Western Ontario with a degree in Computer Science and Game Development. After graduating a year and a half ago, Ryan was immediately picked up by the team at Big Blue Bubble and has worked on multiple released titles for the iOS and Android platforms

Accomplished 3d artist in animation and character design -has worked on close to 40 games -Batman Arkham City / Arkham Asylum, Borderlands, Battlefield series and more.

Hanan Lutfiyya is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Computer Science at Western University. She has been recognized for her research, teaching and service with a Western Faculty Scholar Award. She has been on the University Students' Council Teaching Honour Roll.

Jeremy Prevoe is a Code Monkey who works away in rtraction’s brightly-lit development mines. Having studied at the University of Waterloo, Jeremy moved to London to join its vibrant tech community. He loves to work on anything that faces users, and is always looking for something new to challenge him. Case in point: Jeremy got his start in game development before making his move to the digital agency world. He now spends his hours pumping out interactive websites like the one you're looking at right now.

Michael Grant at is the Senior Consultant at Digital Echidna, an industry leader in providing full service open-source digital marketing solutions. Michael combines pragmatism with over 15 years of interactive design, development and marketing experience to offer innovative solutions his clients. Michael's rich experiences in both the entrepreneurial and agency worlds have given him the opportunity to work with both local and global clients that include RIM - Blackberry, Kenwood, Wyndham Hotel Group, CBC’s PlayOn!, Avis/Budget, Maple Leaf Foods, Symantec, Western Fair District, Roxul, Yamaha, Novartis and many more.

Jon is a web developer at Hall Marketing Communications, a digital and traditional advertising agency that's been doing business in London for almost 40 years. He has a broad interest in the web, from user interface design to the more technical aspects of application development. Jon is a graduate of the collaborative program between Western and Fanshawe called Media Theory and Production, and was employed at Western developing administrative tools before joining Hall MC.

Jim is the coordinator of the Computer Programmer Analyst Advanced Diploma and the Internet Applications and Web Development Diploma programs at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. He has 30 years of experience as a professor at the college and a particular interest in web and mobile web development

Michael Katchabaw is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Western Ontario and a game development expert.

Sagan Yee is a recent graduate of Sheridan College's Classical Animation program, where she made a four-minute film in Flash about a malfunctioning particle accelerator that causes mini black holes to consume Toronto. Her first introduction to Toronto's indie game community was as a participant and later co-coordinator of the Difference Engine Initiative, a woman-focused game-making incubator run by TIFF.nexus and the Hand Eye Society. Currently she divides her working life between the TIFF Film Reference Library, and freelancing on a variety of projects ranging from kid's flash games, t-shirt designs, and animating on Disney's Motorcity. She spends her free time dabbling, scheming, and ruminating.

Jay Edry is trained in both classical and computer animation. Jay was the recipient of Nelvana's Best Digital Character Award in 2006 and was the runner-up for Teletoon's Most Promising Student Award at the Ottawa International Animation Festival that same year. He also received the People's Choice Video Game Gold Award at TOjam (a 3-day game creation competition held in Toronto in 2010). His work demonstrates his strong passion both creatively and technically.

Matt Hammill is an award-winning animator, illustrator and game designer who grew up in the 1980s drawing video game bad guys and digging in the garden for dinosaur bones. Having studied illustration and computer animation at Sheridan College, he's worked on games, TV commercials, short films, poster campaigns, and children's books with clients such as Konami, Hasbro, Molson, JibJab and Kids Can Press. His latest release is the hand-drawn action-puzzle game "Gesundheit!" for iOS, featured Best of 2011 by Apple and loved by reviewers and gamers the world over and considered one of Time Magazines top 25 iPad games of all time . He is based in Toronto, Canada.

A Torontonian born and raised, Catherine Feraday Miller began her career in LA at DreamWorks as a 2D classical animator, working on the features The Prince of Egypt and The Road to El Dorado. Switching to 3D animation in 1999, Cathy has worked for various feature and game companies in San Francisco and Toronto, and has taught 3D animation at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and at Max The Mutt Animation School in Toronto. Back in Toronto since 2009, Cathy is now working with her husband Tim as Art Director and co-founder for their own independent game studio, Rocket 5 Studios Inc.

Ryan Henson Creighton is the President and founder of Untold Entertainment Inc., a boutique studio in downtown Toronto specializing in games and apps for kids, teens, tweens and preschoolers. Since 2007, Untold has provided interactive services for many broadcasters and teevee production companies. Untold's original properties include Putty Crime (a game modeled entirely in clay), Spellirium, and Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure, which became a worldwide viral hit after Ryan co-authored it with his five-year-old daughter Cassandra. Ryan has taught game development and computer skills at both elementary and post-secondary levels, and is the author of the Unity 3.x Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide from Packt Publishing.

Michael is the coordinator of the “Game Development – Advanced Programming” graduate certificate program at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario

Accomplished 3d artist in animation and character design -has worked on close to 40 games -Batman Arkham City / Arkham Asylum, Borderlands, Battlefield series and more.

John has been a Professor at Durham College for 10 years, leading the creation of Durham’s Game Development Program. His focus is Level and Environment Design, including modelling, shader development, world building, lighting and post processing. John also created Durham College’s History of Video Games course, taking a look at the past 40 years of the games industry, how it has evolved and the way society adopts and plays games as part of our culture.