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March 9-13, 2026
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Title: Audio Director
Company: Santa Monica Studio
Title: Voice Over Director

Writer/Director Kal-El Bogdanove has crafted dozens of the world's most popular AAA videogames, including Steam record-breaker Helldivers 2, global smash Honkai Star Rail, Horizon Forbidden West, MultiVersus, Diablo 4, Diablo Immortal, Overwatch 2, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, League of Legends, Convergence, the BAFTA-winning Fallout 4, and more. Kal-El was the creator and showrunner for The Walt Disney Company's entire suite of interactive audio, a whopping 2000+ pages of fully-voiced content across Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar, earning Disney $30 million first year net in this previously unexplored space, and generating an incalculable number of guest impressions. Bogdanove also created Dug In Real Life, the most successful viral video in TWDC history, with 28 million views in 24 hours. Together with his business partner Adrienne Arno, Bogdanove wrote Exoprimal for Capcom, and an unannounced AAA title for Warner Bros. Arno and Bogdanove also partnered with horror legends John Carpenter and Sandy King to create Terraformed, an eight-part graphic sci-fi miniseries, and The Haloperidol Files, a psychological mystery.

Title: Narrative Designer/Writer
Company: Independent
Title: Composer
Company: The Flight
Ivor Novello award-winning duo Joe Henson and Alexis Smith began collaborating in 2005. After realizing they had a similar approach to life and wildly divergent musical tastes, they formed a creative partnership that quickly encompassed songwriting, production, and composition. The duo have worked with some of the biggest names in the music industry as well as being renowned composers for triple A video game titles. In 2014, they saw the release of hit survival horror title Alien: Isolation, and they followed this up with Horizon: Zero Dawn, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Horizon Forbidden West, and WB Games Montréal's Gotham Knights. The Flight's television projects include the NETFLIX Series Lockwood & Co; BAFTA-nominated BBC documentary series, Drugsland; and Kids on the Edge, produced for Channel 4 by Century Films. Their most recent project is the duo returning to the popular Assassin's Creed franchise with Assassin's Creed Shadows. The game takes place in 16th century Japan and follows two new characters in the creed's fight against the Templar order. Assassin's Creed Shadows is out now on Playstation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
Title: Senior Writer and Narrative Designer
Company: Sucker Punch Productions

Ariadna 'Ari' Martinez is an Argentinian writer and narrative designer currently typing away amongst the majestic mountains of Vancouver, British Columbia. With prior experience in film, she's forged an eight-year career in the games industry from small startups to AAA studios such as Capcom; Guerrilla (Horizon Forbidden West); and her current home, Sucker Punch Productions (Ghost of Yōtei). She's even briefly delved into theme park writing, another creative love of hers. In her spare time, she teaches Game Writing at Vancouver Film School hoping to pass on her passion and knowledge of narrative design to the next generation of writers.

Title: Composer
Company: The Flight
Ivor Novello award-winning duo Joe Henson and Alexis Smith began collaborating in 2005. After realizing they had a similar approach to life and wildly divergent musical tastes, they formed a creative partnership that quickly encompassed songwriting, production, and composition. The duo have worked with some of the biggest names in the music industry as well as being renowned composers for triple A video game titles. In 2014, they saw the release of hit survival horror title Alien: Isolation, and they followed this up with Horizon: Zero Dawn, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Horizon Forbidden West, and WB Games Montréal's Gotham Knights. The Flight's television projects include the NETFLIX Series Lockwood & Co; BAFTA-nominated BBC documentary series, Drugsland; and Kids on the Edge, produced for Channel 4 by Century Films. Their most recent project is the duo returning to the popular Assassin's Creed franchise with Assassin's Creed Shadows. The game takes place in 16th century Japan and follows two new characters in the creed's fight against the Templar order. Assassin's Creed Shadows is out now on Playstation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.