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March 9-13, 2026
Moscone CenterSan Francisco, CA

Speakers

Kal-El BogdanoveVoice 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.

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