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March 9-13, 2026
Moscone CenterSan Francisco, CA

Speakers

Zac BowlingStaff Software EngineerMeta

Zac Bowling leads AI developer tooling within Reality Labs at Meta, where he focuses on accelerating and modernizing how VR applications are built. His work helps teams experiment faster, reduce friction, and ship production-ready immersive experiences with confidence. Over his 21-year engineering career, Zac has built new operating systems, programming languages, and AI infrastructure at companies including Google, Modular and Texas Instruments. At Apportable, Zac was lead architect of a mobile game engine and porting SDK that was used by over 21 titles that reached the Google Play Top 100. Today, his work centers on giving VR developers AI-powered super powers by building reliable tooling that integrates directly into the workflows teams already use, enabling them to move from idea to market faster.

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