2025 Speakers
Stephen Jacobs, Director, Open@RIT and Professor, School of Interactive Games and Media, Rochester Institute of Technology
Jacobs is the Director of Open@RIT and a Professor at the School of Interactive Games. He holds a dual appointment as a Scholar-in-Residence for The Strong National Museum of Play. He’s an interdisciplinary scholar who works in several different areas that often overlap including Free and Open Source Software and Free Culture. Digital Humanities, Game Design and History and Interactive Narrative. His Open Work has been funded by The Ford Foundation, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, The UNICEF Foundation, The All Children Reading Grand Challenge, The Zero Project, The Linux Foundation, Red Hat Inc, Northern Telecom and AT&T.
