The IGDA and Gallery 5 present a live Q&A event with Independent video game studio heads from Mohawk Games (Old World, Offworld Trading Company), and Farbridge (RWBY Grimm Eclipse, Walkabout Mini Golf, Unnanounced Gearbox Project). 

 Leyla Johnson is CEO of Mohawk Games and Creative Director for Old World. A talented polyglot, Leyla worked on Offworld Trading Company and for Mohawk, she has performed work in different disciplines from community management, art direction, project lead to narrative design.

Soren Johnson is Design Director at Mohawk Games and brings years of experience to projects like Offworld Trading Company and Old World. After completing an internship at EA, he transitioned to Firaxis to work on Civilization III and IV.

Patrick Curry is CEO of Farbridge, and founded and runs a distributed game studio with a nexus of folks in Central Texas. Farbridge shipped games for practically every type of game console, over 12 projects on 10+ platforms. They work with partners like EA, Wizards of the Coast, Gearbox, and create original games. Previously, he was a co-founder/partner at Tsugi (Unity), Wideload (Disney), Powered (Dachis Group), and ZFI (Frog Design), and an advisor/investor for Owlchemy Labs (Google), and Howdy.ai (Microsoft). He is currently advising Superboss Games, Pretty Hype Games, Absurd Joy, Wayside Press, and more.