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Future Realities Summit: Building Better Digital Ethics and Laws: Meatspace meets Metaverse
Speakers: Ryan Black (DLA Piper (Canada) LLP), Gaetano Dimita (Queen Mary University, QMUL School of Law), Micaela Mantegna (Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University)
Location: Room 209, South Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Topic: VR/AR
Format: Panel
Sponsor Speaker: Robbie Ferguson (Immutable)
Location: Room 3009, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Business & Marketing, Production & Team Leadership
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Web3 Forum: Real BUIDL: Ultimate Scaling Solution for Web3 Gaming (Presented by NodeReal)
Sponsor Speakers: Julian DiCarlo (NodeReal), Stefan Colins (Venly), Connor Oshea (BNB Chain), Kerf Chang (Particle Network)
Location: Room 3009, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Business & Marketing, Programming
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Web3 Forum: DAOs for Game Developers (Presented by Dacoco GmbH (Alien Worlds))
Sponsor Speaker: Dallas Johnson (Dacoco (Alien Worlds))
Location: Room 3009, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Programming
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Xsolla Developer Summit: Enjoy the Game: Industry Statistics and Trends 2023 (Presented by Xsolla)
Sponsor Speaker: Chris Hewish (Xsolla)
Location: Room 2024, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Business & Marketing
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Wemade Developer Summit: The Future of Gaming: Inter-game Play and Beyond (Presented by Wemade)
Sponsor Speaker: Henry Chang (Wemade)
Location: Room 2000, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Business & Marketing
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Sponsor Speakers: A.J. Warner (Arbitrum), Karel Vuong (Treasure)
Location: Room 3009, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Business & Marketing, Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Sponsor Speaker: Alun Evans (Freeverse)
Location: Room 3009, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Business & Marketing
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Free-to-Play Summit: Tales from the Crypto
Speaker: David Fox (Double Coconut)
Location: Room 2016, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Topic: Free-to-Play
Format: Lecture
Sponsor Speaker: Nayana Singh (ConsenSys)
Location: Room 3009, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Programming
Format: Sponsored Session
Understanding the Audio Needs of a Game and Its Audience
Speaker: Adele Cutting (Soundcuts Ltd)
Location: Room 3002, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Audio Pass
Topic: Audio
Format: Lecture
Your CFO Will Thank You: Getting Crypto Right (Presented by Bitwave)
Sponsor Speaker: Pat White (Bitwave)
Location: Room 3009, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Business & Marketing
Format: Sponsored Session
New Legacies and Joining Forces in Web3 (Presented by Polygon Labs)
Sponsor Speakers: Annu Shekhawat (Polygon Labs), Luke Paglia (AMGI Studios), Johnny Casamassina (Plai Labs (Champions Ascension)), David Johannsson (Blocklords)
Location: Room 3020, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Sponsored Session
The Next Generation of Blockchain Gaming. Where Fun Meets Functional. (Presented by SKALE Labs)
Sponsor Speakers: Jack O'Holleran (SKALE Labs), Topper Bowers (Crypto Colosseum), Ezgi Cengiz (Consensys), Kwame Bryan (ChainSafe), Domenik Maier (iBLOXX and 0xBattleGround)
Location: Room 2000, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Business & Marketing
Format: Sponsored Session
The State of Web3 Gaming and its Impact on the Gaming World (Presented by ChainSafe)
Sponsor Speakers: Gregory Markou (ChainSafe Systems), Kohji Nagata (Parallel Studios), Nicolas Vereecke (BITKRAFT), Lindsay Anne Aamodt (Upland), Elizabeth Kukka (ChainSafe Systems)
Location: Room 2024, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Business & Marketing, Production & Team Leadership
Format: Sponsored Session
So, You Want to Build a Blockchain Game... (Presented by Splinterlands)
Sponsor Speaker: Jesse Reich (Splinterlands)
Location: Room 2024, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Design, Production & Team Leadership
Format: Sponsored Session
Sponsor Speaker: Ezgi Cengiz (ConsenSys)
Location: Room 2011, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: VR/AR
Format: Sponsored Session
The Future of Game Communities, and How We Avoid It
Speaker: Kelsey Gamble (League of Geeks)
Location: Room 2016, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass
Topic: Business & Marketing
Format: Lecture
The Current and Future Ethical Challenges in Games: XR and the Metaverse
Speakers: Celia Hodent (independent), Gaetano Dimita (Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London), Albert Fox Cahn (Surveillance Technology Oversight Project), Micaela Mantegna (Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University), Ryan Black (DLA Piper (Canada) LLP)
Location: Room 207, South Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Advocacy
Format: Panel
Title: CTO / Lead Developer, Prospectors NFT and Gaming Engineering
Company: ChainSafe
Kwame Bryan is an accomplished mobile and blockchain game developer from Toronto, Canada. With a passion for developing cutting-edge games, Kwame has made a name for himself in the gaming industry, establishing a solid track record of success.
Kwame is the Lead Developer of the highly acclaimed Prospectors NFT game, recently launched on the SKALE network. Under his leadership, the game surpassed 10,000 transactions in the first week of a closed private beta, showcasing his exceptional expertise in the field and ability to create sound blockchain game mechanics.
In addition to his work on Prospectors NFT, Kwame is also a core developer at ChainSafe, where he plays a vital role in developing web3.unity, an SDK for building web-powered games in Unity3D. His contributions to the platform have helped position it as a leading solution for developers seeking to create engaging, interactive games for web3 and mobile platforms.
Twitter: @ElijahNomad
GitHub: https://github.com/kbryan
Discord: kwame#6442
Title: Head of Marketing + Community
Company: Venly
Stefan is the Head of the Marketing + Community at Venly, a developer-friendly blockchain technology provider specialized in Wallet, NFT and Marketplace solutions.
As a strategic and technology professional he has a great passion for Metaverses, (blockchain) gaming, NFTs & new technologies. Stefan is convinced that creating the right Metaverse strategy will be one of the biggest challenges for many games, companies and brands.*
He strongly believes in the powerful combination of blockchain, gaming technology and cryptocurrency. Blockchain gaming in "the metaverse" will become huge the upcoming years...and it's here to stay.
Title: Audio Director
Company: Soundcuts Ltd
Adele Cutting is a BAFTA award-winning audio professional with 20+ years’ experience in directing actors, audio direction, designing sound, music editing and casting and covering 'all things audio' across games, TV, installations, mobile, VR and Audio Drama. In 2011, Adele founded audio production company, Soundcuts Ltd, winners of both Develop and TIGA awards. Soundcuts work with clients across the UK and Worldwide examples include: Supermassive Games, Netflix, Nickelodeon, Stellar Entertainment, Interior Night, Fireproof Games and Microsoft. Before Soundcuts, Adele trained at the NFTS and worked briefly in film before spending15 years at EA, working her way up the ranks from Junior Sound Designer to Senior Audio Director, working on blockbuster titles plus well known cult classics Populous the Beginning and Theme Park World. Adele regularly sits on juries for various sound awards (BAFTA, MAS and the Game Audio Network Guild) and regularly talks at Universities and Game Industry events.
Title: CEO
Company: Freeverse
Alun is CEO and co-founder of Freeverse.io - the home of Living Assets (NFT 2.0). Alun has over 15 years' experience in the tech industry for entertainment, and has a strong passion for building teams with a strong collaborative culture, that are focused on creating products that solve genuine problems. He was previously CEO of Shar3d.io, CTO of Bodypal.com, and Director of Barcelona World Race - THE GAME. Alun has a Ph.D. in Medical Physics from University College London.
Title: Co-Founder & President
Company: Immutable
Robbie co-founded Immutable, Australia’s fastest growing technology startup, in 2018 at the age of 21. Immutable is a $2.5 billion NFT platform which has raised more than $300M from Temasek, Tencent, Galaxy Digital, and Coinbase. Robbie previously built an automated capital gains tax platform at KPMG which was licensed to Australia’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. After graduating high school as the equal-highest ranked student in Australia with a perfect ATAR, he became obsessed with Ethereum in 2015, and dropped out of a Computer Science/Law degree at the University of Sydney to found Immutable. He was awarded the Thiel Fellowship in 2020. Robbie believes that future generations will spend most of their waking hours in virtual reality, and wants to ensure the digital worlds they live in are as economically meaningful as the one we currently inhabit.
Title: Publishing Producer
Company: League of Geeks
Kelsey is a community veteran of the industry, having spent more than a decade across Asia Pacific working on communities at Bethesda Softworks, EB Games, and NFT game company Immutable. Currently she works as Publishing Producer at Australian studio League of Geeks. Kelsey has won numerous awards for her work, including MCV 30 under 30, Women in Games award, and mentors new entrants to the games industry through the IGEA Mentorship program. She's particularly curious about the evolution of human behaviour through the lens of how we operate within communities.
Title: Vice President of Business Operations
Company: ChainSafe Systems
Elizabeth (Liz) Kukka is Vice President of Business Operations at ChainSafe Systems, one of the only blockchain R&D firms with a multi-chain perspective. ChainSafe is home to mission-critical infrastructure spanning web3.unity, an open-source library connecting games built with Unity to the blockchain, as well as an NFT minter and in-game marketplace. Web3.unity makes it super easy to build a blockchain-enabled game from scratch or add blockchain/NFT capabilities to an existing game. With an open, developer-first approach, we're building the future of gaming alongside our community. Liz leads multiple facets of operations within ChainSafe Gaming driving successful partnerships, acquisitions and funding. She is deeply entrenched into the world of gaming and is enthusiastic about building phenomenal experiences, co-creation opportunities for gamers, and enabling studios to realize the full potential of web3 gaming. Liz is passionate about business growth and brings over a decade of experience and expertise as an operator, investor, and mentor. She speaks internationally on blockchain, cryptocurrency, women in tech, future technology, and investing. Before joining the world of blockchain, she was Head of Operations at Plug & Play Tech Center, one of Silicon Valley's earliest and most respected tech accelerators. There, she supported startups in Healthcare & Wellness, Insurance, and Risk & Fraud and expanded the Sunnyvale office to 6 additional global locations.
Title: Affiliate, Video Game Policy Research
Company: Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
Known as the "Abogamer", Micaela Mantegna is a leading expert in the emerging field of video game policy, ethical AI, XR, and the governance of the Metaverse. An activist of gaming as an instrument of social change, she is co-founder and board member of Women In Games Argentina (WIGAr), a non-profit working towards a more inclusive gaming industry; and a Women in Games International (WIGJ) Ambassador. She is an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard, leading the Video Game Policy Group. Her research covers: *gaming and digital rights, *governance of virtual worlds and the Metaverse, *NFTs and artificial scarcity, *generative AI and copyright law, *ethical implications of AI, gaming, and XR technologies, *streaming as a negative area of intellectual property, *content moderation in gaming environments, *monetization practices, *games industry regulatory challenges. She holds a Master's degree in Intellectual Property from San Andres University /WIPO, and a specialist degree in Computer Law from Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) with a dissertation on ethical algorithmic governance. She is an affiliate professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation at Universidad de San Andres; the AI Governance and Ethics professor at the Center for Technology and Society (CETyS), and the recipient of the 2017 Google Policy Fellowship for her research on algorithmic governance. Due to her intersectional expertise on ethics, AI, Internet governance and innovation, she was invited by the Argentinian government to draft the chapter of AI ethics and regulation for Argentina's national AI Plan. An experienced public speaker, she has lectured at international conferences such as More Than Just a Game, RightsCon, AI World Korea, Vancouver Biennale, Internet Freedom Festival or MozFest; as well as being a media correspondent at E3, The Game Awards, GDC and other industry-related events. In 2016 she founded Geekylegal, an outreach initiative on topics related to law and tech policy explained through the lenses of pop culture. In one full circle moment of her career as Abogamer, she was chosen to be the face of EA's Mass Effect Community Tribute video worldwide, and a DEI speaker on the Xbox Series X/S launch event for Argentina. Her first book: "ARTficial Intelligence: computer creativity and copyright" is being published by CDyT, and she is currently finishing "I am not a Robot: AI for humans".
Title: CEO and Cofounder
Company: Splinterlands
A lifelong gamer, Dr. Jesse “Aggroed” Reich is the cofounder and CEO of Splinterlands, a world-leading NFT card game. After a highly successful career in educational software development and sales, Aggroed cofounded Splinterlands in 2018. Since then, Splinterlands has been played over 3 billion times, the game's cards are collectively worth over half a billion dollars, and Splinterlands has become the world’s most actively played gaming DApp (Decentralized App). Currently, Dr. Reich focuses his time on sales, marketing, financials, game development, and community development.
Title: General Manager, Product
Company: ConsenSys
Nayana Singh is a General Manager/Head of Product at ConsenSys responsible for the developer strategy for NFTs, Higher level API’s, SDK and other developer investments. Before ConsenSys, she worked at Microsoft for 10+ years in Product Management and Product Planning focused on building new products/businesses from scratch including blockchain services. She has nearly two decades of experience in product management and software development. She holds an MS in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and an MBA from University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Title: Investor at BITKRAFT Ventures, and Founder at Future of Gaming
Company: BITKRAFT
Nicolas ("Nico") is an investor at BITKRAFT Ventures, where he identifies and evaluates new investment opportunities with a particular focus on the intersection of blockchain and games. Prior to joining the BITKRAFT team, Nicolas invested in and built multiple crypto startups. He also spent a few years as a software engineer. He currently hosts two podcasts, The Metacast and The Wiser than Yesterday Podcast. Nicolas holds a Master's in Economics from the KU Leuven and an M.B.A. from Vlerick Business School. Most weekdays at 7 am, he can be found either coaching or training crossfit. Nicolas enjoys collecting generative NFT art, cooking healthy food, and convincing people that esports will overtake traditional sports in the next few years. If you ever need help getting your first Warzone win, he is your man.
Title: Co-Founder & COO
Company: Treasure
Karel Vuong is the Co-Founder & COO at Treasure, a crypto-native game publisher and ecosystem connected by games, resources, and infrastructure. Before Treasure, Karel worked in VC and was a founding member of several exited startups. Karel has been in crypto since 2019 and NFTs since 2021 and is also a university dropout, lifelong gamer, former PM and software engineer, and a proud Canadian.
Title: CEO & Co-Founder
Company: Bitwave
Pat White is the co-founder and CEO of Bitwave, an enterprise software platform that provides cryptocurrency and NFT accounting, tax tracking, and customized bookkeeping – along with DeFi ROI monitoring and crypto AR/AP services.
Pat is a recognized software engineering leader with over ten years of experience building enterprise software at Intuit, Microsoft, Five9, and Fortify Software (now HP Security). Pat launched an enterprise software consulting firm (Ally Software) in 2009, which he ran for three years before creating Synata, an enterprise search engine that Cisco acquired in 2016. Pat has contributed code to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and several other cryptocurrency projects. He is a co-host of The DeFi Daily podcast and a University of Southern California graduate.