2025 Speakers
Benjamin Vance, CTO, Windup Minds
Ben Vance is currently Director and CTO at Windup Minds. Previously he has been director, designer, and engineer in a wide range of game and games-adjacent industries. Whether working with Electronic Arts on a top secret Steven Spielberg project, or VR pioneers like Tender Claws (Stranger Things VR) or Wevr (theBlu and Harry Potter), he brings a holistic perspective to create powerful, evocative worlds. His award winning independent projects have been at festivals and exhibitions worldwide across the games, technology, art and film industries, from Sundance, to SFMOMA and E3. He is a founding member of Glitch City, a ground-breaking art and game collective based in LA. His intuitive and surprising interaction design stem from a lifelong pursuit of fine art and button pushing.
