Speakers
Find a full list of this year's GDC Festival of Gaming speakers here.
Josué Vera, Audio Director, Composer, Technical Sound Designer, Elsewhere Studios
Josué Vera is a Puerto Rican audio director, multimedia composer, and technical sound designer based in NYC. His work has been heard on different platforms, such as Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and Nat Geo. Josué works with multiple indie studios to help ideate and develop their audio pipeline and design. He's currently an adjunct instructor at NYU where he teaches compositional and implementation techniques for video game music. He's a firm believer in community. He co-founded Game Sound Summit, the only game audio conference in Puerto Rico. He also co-organizes NYCGameAudio, and has been a Conference Associate at GameSoundCon and [GDC] Festival of Gaming. Josué holds a Master's degree in Screen Scoring from NYU Steinhardt and a BM in Music Composition from the Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico. Outside of music, Josué is an avid fan of the tabletop game Dungeons & Dragons, hiking, and hot chocolate.