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SLICE 2026 – Seattle Loves Indie Creators Expo
Seattle Indies returns with SLICE, a one-day business-to-business conference for indie and AA game developers, at McCaw Hall on the Seattle Center campus. The organizers describe it as “created for indie devs, by indie devs,” with programming aimed at everyone from first-time developers to people running a growing studio. Topics span funding, marketing and team-building.
Featured speakers
- Forest Willard — Among Us, Innersloth
- Marcus Bromander — Among Us, Henry Stickmin, Innersloth
- Ed Fries — Xbox, Halo 2600, 1Up Ventures
- Kim Swift — Swiftli Games Consulting, Portal, Xbox
On the program
- Panels on the McCaw Hall main stage, plus lectures, roundtables and micro-talks
- The Big Indie Pitch, a pitch competition hosted by Pocket Gamer
- Bring Your Own Game playtest club and Portfolio Alley
- Pitch Clinic coaching ahead of publisher and investor meetings
- Women in Games Mixer
- Speed networking, vendor tables and a closing afterparty
Sponsors include Unity, Epic Games, Xsolla, the Washington State Department of Commerce, DigiPen Institute of Technology, Discord, 11 bit studios and Phantom Friends. The event is produced by Tim Cullings, Ty Taylor and Olga Sheverieva.
Tickets are required. A press pass request form is available on the event site.
