With more than 25 years in the world of video game development, Keiichi’s passion for video games inspired him to start and deliver new entertainment experiences for gamers worldwide. Keiichi quickly gained notoriety for his work on the cult classic music game, Gitaroo Man. He continued to create seminal music games for Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony including Ouendan, Elite Beat Agents and Lips. He is the creator of Dark Machine, the 7v7 dark mech shooter.

Ilman is a proven entrepreneur with a strong scientific background and experience in Gaming, AI, and Web3. He has built numerous healthtech, gametech, and industrial AI solutions. Ilman is a United Nations expert under the UNODC program, helping to solve social problems in developing countries by integrating AI technologies. He is the author of 46 scientific articles, and owns 10 registered invention patents. In 2022, the government of UAE granted Ilman a Golden Visa for entrepreneurship in the exceptional talents category. Ilman was an early player of many first-person shooter games like CounterStrike, Far Cry, and Call of Duty – in which he was ranked one of the top 10 players worldwide. Gameplay and the gaming community shaped much of his early life and ultimately led him to bitcoin in 2010, when he made his first bitcoin transaction for selling a gaming account in World of Warcraft. His passion for Gaming and Web3 led Ilman to building Farcana, a AAA third person third-person team ability shooter arena game with strong e-sport focus with bitcoin backed prize pool system.

Ali has been in the games industry for more than 12 years, working within every field from development to production. He founded Logic Artists in 2011. The company since then has released 4 games, most recently in January 2022 where Expeditions: Rome was released. In 2021 Ali founded Dynasty Studios as CEO, with the aim of creating next generation game titles leveraging blockchain technology.

Stanislaw Fiedor is the General Manager Europe at WeMade, a prominent Korean game developer and a pioneer of web3 gaming. He is also the Founder of FueroGames, an award-winning game development studio based in Poland. As a founder deeply committed to the gaming community, Stan actively mentors emerging industry leaders, helping them transform initial concepts into thriving studios and businesses. His extensive expertise in securing investor and VC funding, obtaining grants, and negotiating publishing deals has been pivotal in elevating early-stage founders. He is intensely focused on the evolving roles of Generative AI, web3, blockchain, and AR, and their transformative potential in the future of gaming.

Founder of Team Secret, consultant for football clubs Besiktas JK and Benfica, COO of ESA esports arena and COO of BBL esports

Contemporary art curator, building Seraph

Casey Grooms is the co-founder of Soulbound, an avant-garde social gaming platform. Casey started his career as a Financial Analyst at Wells Fargo & Company. In 2010, he co-founded Bon La Vu, a fashiontech startup offering exclusive outfits sourced from local designers. He later co-founded Pocketmath in 2011, establishing the world’s largest self-serve mobile advertising platform which raised $20 million over our Series A and B rounds, hit $80 million a year in revenue, and scaled up to 50 employees, and exited in 2018. Casey’s other investments include Uninstall.io in 2015 and MidBoss in 2016. In 2018, he founded Userbase, focusing on mobile app install services, and became a General Partner at Rhinocorn Ventures in 2021. His latest venture is Curie, a Generative AI digital twin startup.

With 20 years of experience in software development and over 10 years of product management and team management experience in the Games Industry, Bastian started the journey to revolutionize multiplayer game development back in 2017. This drive to innovate on technology laid the foundation of what Scape is today. With a team of over 140 professionals, he is now focused on bringing this world-first technology to market.