Zurab Barisashvili

Stylized Environment 3D Art Director at Room8 Studio

Art Director with 13+ years of experience across AAA, AA, stylized, and live-service productions. Specialized in visual direction, environment art, production pipelines, team leadership, and cross-discipline collaboration. Experienced leading artists, developing scalable workflows, building benchmark environments, and aligning artistic vision with production goals.

DIANA BISZCZANIK

Head of Marketing at
Awesome Games Studio

Orange cat owner (yes, this describes me perfectly), horrible clay sculptor, and huge Star Trek and B-class horror fan (I love Splat!FilmFest with all my heart). I play a huge variety of games - from long-read visual novels and massive RPGs to cozy games and psychological horrors. Working in the indie games industry since 2016.

Patryk galach

Cofounder at CRWN / Lublin GameDev

Cofounder of CRWN and Lublin GameDev Foundation. Has more than a decade of experience for development, game making and organising. Passionate game developer which also love to share his knowledge about making games through his blog or events he organizes with foundation like LubJam, Paper Game Jam, GameJamPlus and LubGame Conference.

Andrejs Rusinovskis

Business Developer at Argentum Studio

I work at the intersection of business development, education, and creative industries. My focus is on helping studios, universities, and teams grow by building meaningful partnerships, expanding opportunities, and creating structures that support long-term success.

RAFAŁ SZRAJBER

Assistant Professor, ZTGK / Lodz University of Technology

He is an ambassador for game industry education and inter-university cooperation, co-organizer of the ZTGK competition, and founder of the Game Graphics Concept art track.  He is also the initiator of GAMETOBER - an October showcase of video games and related artistic work in art galleries.

Kevin Ferreira

Sr. Community Manager at Firestarters

Community manager for over half a decade, I have worked on projects of all sizes, in both games and tech. I am glad to be part of this jury and be able to discover the indie stars of tomorrow.

Mike Pyslar

Community Director at Ravenage

Has over a decade of experience in community management and marketing within the video game industry. Over the years he has helped grow and engage audiences for more than 20 games, from indie titles to award-nominated projects like Raji: An Ancient Epic.

Igor Arterchuk

Indie Developer

Indie Developer with 17+ years of game dev experience, Head of Studio behind Party Hard. Judge at Digital Vikings Awards 2025 and DevGAMM between 2015 and 2020.

Lev Yakovlev

Product Owner

I used to be a narrative designer at Fat Snail Games. Currently I work as a product owner making slot games, but hoping to eventually do game dev again I find the chance.