One year on, what have we learned? Join us for Interaction 22 ↗
keynote
The Metaverse: By everyone, for everyone
Brenda Romero
05 Feb, 4:00 pm
06 Feb, 12:00 am
06 Feb, 8:00 am
45 min
The world we live in is constructed of cultural and societal considerations where opportunities and potential pitfalls are shaped by its builders. Who determines what those considerations are? Who gets left out, and who gets in?
Description
The last year brings us closer and closer to the metaverse futurists predicted. We’re all online, all the time, for business, education and pleasure. Yet, the world we live in, in person and online, is constructed of cultural and societal considerations where opportunities and potential pitfalls are shaped by its builders. Brenda Romero ask who determines what those considerations are? Who gets left out, and who gets in? Our meta verses are mirrors of their creators. Next time, let’s do it right.
Meet the speaker
Brenda Romero
Founder & CEO of Romero Games
Brenda Romero is a BAFTA award-winning game director, entrepreneur, artist and Fulbright award recipient and is presently game director and creator of the Empire of Sin franchise. As a game director, she has worked on 50 games and contributed to many seminal titles, including the Wizardry and Jagged Alliance series and titles in the Ghost Recon, Dungeons & Dragons and Def Jam franchises. Away from the machine, her analog series of six games, The Mechanic is the Message, has drawn national and international acclaim, particularly Train and Siochán Leat, a game about her family’s history, which is presently housed in the National Museum of Play. Brenda is the recipient of multiple lifetime achievement awards, a Grace Hopper Award, a GDC Ambassador Award, and many of the games she has contributed to have won dozens awards. Romero is CEO and co-founder of Romero Games based in Galway, ireland.