Speaker Bio

Garrett Young

As General Manager for Id Software, Garrett was brought in to help rebuild the studio and reboot the DOOM franchise; DOOM 2016 went on to become the best-selling game in studio history.  He began his career at Microsoft shipping multiple games and building the Forza Motorsport team, as they released multiple 90-rated versions and built the best-selling racing franchise in Xbox history.  Garrett also led development on Activision’s very first James Bond game and managed >750 developers shipping multiple AAA games for Disney.  Garrett is now General Manager of Empty Vessel, a new studio which announced their first game DEFECT at Gamescom. Their first trailer received almost 2 million views in 3 days.