Speakers
Ross O'Dwyer, Director Of Engineering, Oculus VR, Meta
Ross O’Dwyer is a software engineer and technical leader at Meta. He brings a career spanning game middleware, real-time physics, VR platform engineering, and large-scale developer ecosystems. Ross spent 14 years at Havok leading Developer Relations and Professional Services, partnering with studios worldwide and helping advance ragdoll and physics-driven character technology across the industry. He later joined Oculus in 2014, where he built the DevRel Engineering function and went on to lead major portions of the Rift and Quest software stack through multiple product launches. More recently he returned to an IC role to lead Generative AI technologies for Meta's Horizon platform.