2025 Speakers
Shavonne Yu, Product Designer / Co-founder & Co-chair, Meta Reality Labs / AAPI in Games SIG
Shavonne has served as a judge for BAFTA Young Game Designers, the Games for Change Student Challenge, and AACI’s Growing Up Asian in America. Her art and game studio, Player Yu, celebrates her first-generation immigrant Hong Konger-Canadian heritage and cozy gaming. She is the founding designer on Meta's Horizon Worlds Metaverse Social Equity team, launching pronouns, live captions, and wellbeing tools—including bedtime reminders and youth time limits—for hundreds of thousands of players. She also led design efforts to enhance gender equity through the promotion of cozy games on the Meta Quest Store. She serves on the Reality Labs Inclusive Product Council and co-authored the Meta MR/VR Accessibility guidelines.
