Speakers
Sandy Lin-Chiang, Art Director, Insomniac Games
Sandy is a creative team leader with decades of industry experience as a video game developer. As an Art Director, she is well experienced in articulating artistic visions with clarity, meaning and purpose. Sandy supervises the visual directions across all the art disciplines worldwide ranging from concept art, character design, environment, set dressing, VFX, lighting to cinematics. Her role is to steer production pipeline and hire quality developers. She finds opportunities to partner with other development disciplines to constitute creative pillars, drive toward a singular vision, and strategize through technical and artistic lenses. Sandy is an energetic leader who values and fosters an open, inclusive and collaborative team dynamic that provides creative freedom within set boundaries to ensure her team reaches the highest level of innovation, productivity and quality. Sandy's past experience as an individual content contributor on various game genre has provided solid foundations for her to become an intuitive and well-rounded art leader and manager in the video game and entertainment industry. She seeks growth both professionally and personally, and constantly adjusts to lead with courage, compassion, integrity and honesty. Sandy cares greatly about her community both at work and outside. She volunteers as a mentor and a coach to students, peers and women leaders in other organizations. Her hope is that positive influences will bring more diversity to the video game and entertainment industry. In her spare time, she stays physically active with her children who inspire her mindfully as they grow old together.