Drew Davidson
Drew Davidson is a professor, producer and player of interactive media. His background spansacademic, industry and professional worlds and he is interested in stories across texts, comics, games and other media. He is the Director of ETC-Pittsburgh, and the Acting Director of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University and the Founding Editor of ETC Press and its Well Played series and journal. Drew helped create the Sandbox Symposium, an ACM SIGGRAPH conference on video games and served on the IGDA Education SIG. He serves on many advisory, editorial and review boards as well as judge and jury panels. He is the lead on several grants with Macarthur and Gates, and has written and edited books, journals, articles and essays on narratives across media, serious games, analyzing gameplay, and cross-mediacommunication
Jessica Trybus
Jessica serves as Senior Special Faculty at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center where -first as a graduate student then as teaching faculty – she has been leading and contributing to University initiatives related to combining education and gaming technologies since 2002. Her leadership of “games-for-learning” development has contributed to Carnegie Mellon’s recognition as a pioneer in using game-based learning to teach people of all ages more effectively. Additionally in this role, Jessica was a founder of Pittsburgh’s “kids and creativity” education group, which is now formalized and has attracted national funding for digital technology projects benefitting children.