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March 9-13, 2026
Moscone CenterSan Francisco, CA

Agenda

Audio Directors Roundtable Day 1

Adele Cutting  (Audio and Performance Director, Soundcuts Ltd)
Mari Saastamoinen Minto  (Senior Audio Director, EA DICE)
Location: Room 312, South Hall
Date: Monday, March 9
Time: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Pass Type: Festival Pass, Game Changer Pass - Get your pass now!
Audience Level: All
Track: Audio, Team Leadership
Format: Roundtable
Vault Recording: Not Recorded
Audience Level: All

This roundtable is a forum for attendees to build relationships and networks, to encourage and share best practices, to talk about topics such as, creative ownership, leadership strategies, mentoring, advocating for resources, cross departmental collaboration, the future of game audio and the best ways to build and maintain strong, diverse audio teams.

Takeaway

Department heads take away new creative perspectives, strategies for managment, solutions to uncommon issues, and a sense of perspective from their peers and team members. Department members take away a better understanding of directorial challenges and creative opportunities that they can bring back to their colleagues.

Intended Audience

While the discussion is led by audio directors, it revolves around the entire departments experience. The audience consists of any member of the audio department including sound designers of all varieties (junior, senior and technical), audio QA, music and dialog editors, as well as directors themselves.