2025 Speakers
Marcus Montgomery, Design Director, Microsoft
Marcus Montgomery initially began his professional journey into video game development as a game tester at Sega of America. In more recent years, Marcus turned his eyes toward free to play games and VR development. His design leadership has brought gamers the excitement of head to head battle of Power Rangers and their rogues’ gallery. Today, Marcus is a Design Director at Xbox. In his free time Marcus works to improve the experience of diverse developers in the game industry. In 2016 he created the website We Are Game Devs to celebrate the normally unseen video game creators. His deepest passion surrounds his dedication to the organization Gameheads, a non-profit focused on getting low-income and youth of color a leg up in tech and video game industries. Marcus not only teaches game design to the Gameheads students, he is a member of the Advisory Committee.
