Rachel Heleva is the BizDev and Scouting Manager at Astra, a mission-driven indie game publisher focused on thinky games that empower all types of players to engage in creative problem-solving.

Prior to her current role, she worked in indie game publishing for years as a producer, helping indie teams scope and execute their creative vision and development goals throughout the end-to-end publishing process. She loves championing developers and supporting them as they explore bold new ideas.

Demetri Detsaridis is a twenty-three-year veteran developer, executive, and entrepreneur in the video game industry and Operating Partner on Haveli Investments’ gaming team. Prior to joining Haveli, Demetri was responsible for designing and implementing the next stage of Fortnite’s virtual economy as Epic’s Creator Ecosystem Product Lead. Before this, Demetri spent six years as a consultant focused primarily on monetization and game economy design, working with clients ranging from top AAA console mainstays to F2P developers and publishers. Demetri’s experience in virtual economies was built during his time as General Manager of free-to-play pioneer area/code and was deepened significantly upon area/code’s acquisition by Zynga, where many core aspects of modern game economy management were developed. In addition to his virtual economy work, Demetri also served as the Executive Producer of Madison Square Garden’s interactive team for the Las Vegas Sphere, as cofounder and CEO of VR games developer Experiment 7, cofounder and Creative Director of London’s Massively Mobile, and in various game design and production positions at Pop & Co., Warner Bros/DC Comics, and Gameloft.

Justin Woodward is the Co-founder, Creative Director, and owner of the independent game studio Interabang Entertainment. He is also the Co-Founder of the Media Indie Exchange (The MIX), founder of Non-profit Black Voices in Gaming, and Lead Advisor on the Black Game Dev Fund.