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Mei is a UX designer and member of the IGDA Games User Research SIG steering committee. She has worked on user experience and research for 6 years. She previously spoke at GDC 2024 on prototyping games in Figma with variables, and she hosted the 2025 Games User Research Roundtable. She has volunteered with IGDA since 2019.

Wes Fenlon has been an editor at PC Gamer magazine since 2014, and got his start in the blogging days of the internet writing about tech for Tested and later The Wirecutter. As a senior editor he spends much of his time managing PC Gamer's coverage of the year's biggest games and cooking up special projects like PC Gamer's series of developer roundtable interviews, though he'd spend a lot more time playing Dark Souls if he could get away with it. He once had to stand on a stage in front of his whole company to explain why he's been pressing the WASD keys on his keyboard wrong his entire life. A particular passion for old and obscure Japanese games and preservation led him to create Read Only Memo, a free biweekly newsletter focused on emulation.

Andrew is a BAFTA-winning games programmer, lead and automation consultant with over two decades of experience in the industry. He's worked on both AAA and indie titles, on genres from racing to puzzle, shipping on PC, console, and mobile. Notable titles include Rollerdrome, Alphabear and Rollercoaster Tycoon 3. Since writing his first shipping test in 2010, Andrew has implemented processes, created build servers, trained teams and written tests, both as a lead and as a consultant. Andrew has been the Chair of Automated Testing Roundtables at GDC, since founding them in 2015, and spoken around the world on test automation in video games.

After falling into game development totally by accident in 1990, Jeff's first commercial credit came while he was still a university student. After graduating in 1995, he had a three decade career in game development working both for independent developers and for studios owned by Electronic Arts, Sony, and THQ. Since 2022 Jeff has worked at NVIDIA Corporation, starting off as a Python tools programmer and now managing a team and leading a project as part of NVIDIA's Omniverse engine initiative. Jeff created and has moderated the Technical Artist Roundtables at GDC for two decades. He also created the Technical Artists Bootcamp, now the Technical Artists Summit, in 2010. Jeff has served on the GDC Advisory Board since 2009.

Keith is a veteran art leader with over 25 years of experience in art production, world building, cinematic development, and team leadership. He started in the games industry as an artist in 1998 working on a series of popular outdoor sporting titles. In the years since, he has contributed to a variety of studios and franchises including Presto Studios (MystIII, Whacked!), Volition (Saints Row, Red Faction, Agents of Mayhem), Blizzard Entertainment (TITAN, Hearthstone), and Bungie (Destiny 2, Marathon). Keith is also a long-running veteran speaker at the annual Game Developer's Conference. He is co-creator/co-organizer of the Art Direction Summit along with Andrew Maximov. Keith has also moderated the Art Leadership Roundtable since 2012.

Robin-Yann Storm is a freelance Tool UX & Workflow Designer. In the past he has worked as a full time Tool UX Designer in the AAA games industry on the 'Glacier 2' editor on which the Hitman series is built, where he was present for the end of Hitman 1 and the beginning of Hitman 2, and the 'Decima' editor on which the Horizon series was built, where he was present for the end of The Frozen Wilds, and the beginning of The Forbidden West. He has also consulted on Unity asset store level editors, and spent a few years working at Apple on AR creation tools such as Reality Composer and Reality Converter, which has made him well acquainted with the workflows of Pixar's USD framework. Next to that, he created and organizes the Tool Design Roundtables, talks at conferences around the world, and has contributed a chapter about Tool Design in the book 'An Architectural Approach to Level Design, Second Edition.