Now then, this post will deal with IndieCade. Big thanks to Honkimus Maximus for pointing all this out.
Pastebin looking at said connections, links included
http://pastebin.com/MTGNFmHY
At the time when FEZ won its award from IndieCade in 2011, Kelle Santiago was on the jury committee for the IndieCade awards at the time. She was also an investor in FEZ. (http://gamesnosh.com/fez-investors-outed-judges-2011-igf-award/)
At the same time, Richard Lemarchand, & Tracy Fullerton of Games Innovation Lab were also on the committee for 2011's IndieCade awards.
Kellee worked as a graduate research assistant for the Game Innovation Lab which Tracy heads back in 2006. (https://archive.is/iG0ej) Kellee was also one of Tracy Fullerton's students. (https://archive.is/yNXG2#selection-319.641-319.712)
IndieCade 2011:
Committee
https://archive.is/20160104051731/http://www.indiecade.com/about
Awards
https://archive.is/SxbTC
Also, some overlap with IndieCade organizers, speakers, and Tracy's students
let's take a look at the Game Innovation Lab, which Tracy Fullerton runs within USC
http://www.gameinnovationlab.com/people/
Now let's look at some of the organizers for IndieCade 2015
http://www.indiecade.com/2015/organizers
Oh my, we have quite a few overlapping names, don't we?
>Elizabeth Swensen, Festival Experience Co-Chair
>Sean Bouchard, Festival Experience Co-Chair, also a speaker at IndieCade 2014
>Richard Lemarchand (though this one makes the most sense considering his professional background), think:indie Co-Chair
Then there's:
>Peter Brinson, Speaker at IndieCade 2014
Can We Play With the Past? Games, Narrative, and Historical Context
>Tracy herself, Speaker at IndieCade 2014, Can We Play With the Past? Games, Narrative, and Historical Context
>Richard Lemarchand, Speaker at IndieCade 2014, Why _ Matters, along with Mattie Brice
>Elizabeth Swensen, Speaker at IndieCade 2014, Board Game Design and Prototyping
Here's the list of 2014 speakers
http://www.indiecade.com/2014/festival_speakers
If you want to cross reference the actual names of the speaking events with who else also spoke at that event, and then look at their history with IndieCade, I'm sure you'd find something interesting