Joshua Glazer is a co-founder and CTO of Naked Sky Entertainment, the independent development studio behind console and PC games like RoboBlitz, MicroBot, and most recently the Kinect hit, Twister Mania. As a member of the Naked Sky team, regarded for their game production skills and fire fighting abilities, he has consulted for Epic Games on the Unreal Engine, Riot Games on the online phenomena League of Legends, THQ on the Destroy All Humans franchise, and numerous other projects for Electronic Arts, Midway, Microsoft, Paramount Pictures and more.

Joshua’s current responsibilities at Naked Sky Entertainment include overseeing the 20 member interdisciplinary production team, architecting and setting the roadmap for the company’s proprietary game technology, updating and refining the company’s shared vision, acting as lead engineer on certain company projects, administering the company’s e-mail, web, wiki, source control and calendar servers, putting a new bottle of water on the water cooler once a week, and whatever else comes up that nobody else is doing.

Before co-founding Naked Sky in 2002, Joshua was a lead engineer at several successful and not-so-successful Internet startups, where he got his first taste of the entrepreneur lifestyle. Prior to that he earned his S.B. and M.Eng in computer engineering at MIT (with a perfect GPA) and then attended the M.F.A cinema and television production program at USC.

Matthew Hannus is the CEO and co-founder of Sleepy Giant. Matthew is extremely involved in the day-to-day operations and game management aspects of Sleepy Giant, allowing him to see the trends and changes the gaming world is facing from a unique back-end, game management perspective. Some of Sleepy Giant’s partners include Activision, BBC, Disney, Pokemon and many others.

Prior to co-founding Sleepy Giant in 2007, Matthew was vice president of strategic growth at one of the first free-to-play publishers in the West, K2 Network, where he oversaw business development, strategy, and corporate development activities. Matthew serves on several boards including PlayXpert and the game advisory board for The LA Film School.

Brian White is the Director of Technology at Disney Mobile in Glendale, California. Over the past 11 years, Brian has been a key stakeholder in all of Disney's mobile business initiatives, from ringtones and graphics, to Java and BREW games/apps, to mobile WAP and web sites, to iOS and Android games/apps. Prior to focusing on mobile, Brian spent 9 years working on a range of engineering projects in the entertainment industry, including Internet-based video-on-demand, next-generation cable television experiences, and early R&D and production for MPEG video and DVD.

Brian is a southern California native whose main hobby is playing drums. Brian earned Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering from UCLA in 1993 and 1995.

Ian Klimon is VP, Production and Game Development at MEDL Mobile in Fountain Valley, CA. Currently he runs a 23 person development group working on 50+ different apps ranging from custom development for celebrity clients to utilities to educational apps to games.

Prior to MEDL, Ian spent 16 years working at PlayMaker, TimeGate Studios, The Collective, DoubleHelix, The Art Institute of California and Encore Software in positions ranging from Design Director to Director of Development. Ian has had the unique opportunity throughout his career to be involved in numerous different evolving areas in software development from the early days of shareware to the text-based forerunners to today's graphical MMOs to today's push into mobile/social gaming.

As a licensed attorney and an experienced game developer, Ian brings a unique combination of education and experience to entertainment software development. Ian has earned degrees philosophy, legal ethics, and the law, but his passion has long been in the imaginative realm of computer gaming. Ian received his A.B. in Philosophy from Boston College, and both his M.A. In Legal and Ethical Studies and his J.D. From the University of Baltimore.

Mr. Frandsen has over 32 years experience with the major corporate law firms in Los Angeles, including Reed Smith LLP and Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP. In June 2007, Mr. Frandsen established his own law office in Pasadena. During the course of his practice, Mr. Frandsen has developed expertise in five practice areas.

Mr. Frandsen has over 32 years experience with the major corporate law firms in Los Angeles, including Reed Smith LLP and Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP. In June 2007, Mr. Frandsen established his own law office in Pasadena. During the course of his practice, Mr. Frandsen has developed expertise in five practice areas.

Michael Chou is a corporate and technology attorney with over fourteen years of combined experience in both in-house and private practice handling a variety of complex corporate transactions, counseling entrepreneurs, senior management and boards of directors, and providing practical solutions to achieve business and legal objectives. Mr. Chou is currently an independent consultant advising businesses in a variety of industries on strategic, intellectual property, regulatory, commercial and contract matters. Previously, Mr. Chou was Vice President Corporate & Legal Affairs and General Counsel of STEC, Inc. (Nasdaq: STEC), a leading global provider of solid-state drive technologies and solutions for original equipment manufacturers. In this role, Mr. Chou served as an advisor to executive management and the board of directors and was primarily responsible for all of the corporate and securities legal matters for STEC and its global subsidiaries, including corporate transactions, commercial agreements, corporate governance and securities filings. Mr. Chou was also involved in the company’s strategic and business development initiatives, including successfully negotiating commercial and technology agreements with Fortune 500 customers and vendors and closing the company’s first senior, unsecured credit facility. In private practice, Mr. Chou built his legal career and expertise at several prominent national and international law firms where he represented clients in a broad range of complex corporate and transactional matters. Mr. Chou began his legal career at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP, one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent firms representing technology companies prior to its dissolution in 2003. More recently, Mr. Chou was Of Counsel in the Los Angeles office of Reed Smith LLP, one of the 15 largest law firms in the world. Mr. Chou has significant experience with both public and private company representation, including securities offerings, venture capital transactions, securities law reporting and compliance, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial contracts, intellectual property licensing, and general business and corporate counseling. Mr. Chou’s representative clients have included public and private companies, underwriters, venture capital funds and private investors, with particular emphasis on emerging growth and technology companies. Mr. Chou has experience working with clients in various technology industries, including energy storage, Internet, networking, semiconductor, software and wireless. Mr. Chou has authored articles and served as a panelist on various legal topics, including venture capital and securities compliance. Mr. Chou is a member of the Executive Committee of the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum and served on the Mentoring Committee of the Los Angeles County Business Technology Center. Mr. Chou earned his J.D. from the UCLA School of Law in 1998 and while in private practice was selected by his professional peers as a Southern California Super Lawyers “Rising Star in Business” each year from 2004 to 2008.

Joan Horvath is a National University Community Research Institute Fellow with an interest in increasing science literacy. She is a rocket scientist who spent 16 years working for Caltech’s NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she worked on spacecraft to other planets as well as earth observing missions. Later in her career she transitioned into the JPL commercialization and technology transfer office, where she found innovative private-sector applications of JPL technology.

She has also been an entrepreneur and taught both management and technical subjects at the college level at several institutions; recently she has had a particular interest in finding ways to use appropriate design and technologies to improve lives in the developing world. She has an undergraduate degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT and an MS in Engineering from UCLA. She is a member of the Executive Committees of the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum and of the MIT Club of Southern California, and is President of the MIT Class of 1981.