2025 Speakers
Francesco Del Pia, Senior Sound Designer, The Chinese Room
Francesco Del Pia is a Senior Sound Designer at The Chinese Room, where he worked on the technical audio systems and sound design for Still Wakes the Deep. Previous games he worked on include Enotria: The Last Song, Star Citizen, and Squadron 42. In addition to games, he designed sounds and wrote music for film, theatre, television, and installations. Always invested in mentoring game audio students and professionals, he gave talks at several universities (Napier in Edinburgh, Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome) and industry events (twice at Sumo Developer Conference, Game Audio Deconstructed). He created the series of YouTube videos I dream of Wwise, where he talks about unusual authoring techniques in Wwise. In 2018 he started GAIN, Game Audio Italian Network, a community of 350+ members with the aim to help Italian game audio enthusiasts to enter the industry. He has a master's degree cum laude in Composition for Applied Music from Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome, and studied Sound Design for Visual Media at VFS in Vancouver.