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Crafting a career in game development and tech for 30 years, Kelly has worked on some of the world’s most famous franchises.

Working at the top flight of video games has presented an increasing demand for understanding the gamification of concepts in other verticals from fashion to entertainment.

She loves pushing technology to its emergent edge through education, sustainability, and imagination. Kelly works around these verticals to educate, produce and develop the growth of new technologies in a changing world from the metaverse and NFT to hardware and trust.

Kelly has worked on a wide range of games: including the Tomb Raider series, Transformers and Candy Crush; she has worked with Adidas, Fila, Puma and on various LVMH projects for gamified products and services and more recently was the technical co-founder of the world’s first metaverse for children: Aequaland.

In October 2021 Kelly produced the first standard for NFTs in luxury and art and is the co-founder of NFT Consult.

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Kelly Vero has worked in game development and the tech industry for 30 years. Kelly has worked on some of the world’s most famous franchises and has worked on a wide range of games, including the Tomb Raider series, Transformers and Candy Crush.

Kelly has worked with Adidas, Fila, Puma and on various LVMH projects for gamified products and services, and more recently was the technical co-founder of the world’s first metaverse for children: Aequaland.

She is currently one of the top 100 Future Women of the World supported by Forbes Magazine.

Kelly’s memberships and compliance experience include Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule, Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command, and Chair of Video Games at European Commission’s Creative Europe 2013-2021.

Brian Gomez is a game designer, writer, and executive producer with a 25-year career spanning triple-A console, mobile, VR, and mixed reality.

He has worked on global franchises like Star Wars, Marvel, and Jurassic World, and designed interactive experiences for Disney and Universal theme parks.

He has recently relocated to Dundee, Scotland as Executive Producer & Creative Director at 4J Studios Ltd.

Elena founded Yaldi Games with the mission to make games that inspire real life activities.

Being a startup games studio located in Edinburgh, Yaldi Games are working on their debut title Wholesome – Out and About (inspired by Elena’s personal foraging adventures), and have already won the Converge Creative Challenge, Young Scottish Edge, Young Innovators Awards and the UK Games Fund.

@yaldigames for Twitter, Instagram and TikTok

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Chris Cataldi is co-founder and COO of Genvid, a company established in 2016 to focus on exploring technology and design for a new form of community-driven interactive entertainment called Massively Interactive Live Events (MILEs).

Prior to Genvid, Chris was responsible for business development and strategic planning for Shinra Technologies, the cloud gaming subsidiary of Square Enix. Chris has more than a decade of experience working in Asia, and near-native Japanese language proficiency.

During this time, he worked in management consultancy (strategic due diligence and technology innovation for semiconductor manufacturing, IoT, and wearable computing for Japanese blue chip companies specializing in the B2B sector), and in global human resources and organizational strategy (Mitsubishi Corporation).

He is an avid amateur cook, and holds his MBA from Madrid’s IE Business School with a specialization in global management and entrepreneurship.

He also acts as an Associate Professor for IE Business School’s Global Advanced Management Program.

Mick Cooke is a BAFTA-winning composer for film, TV and games.

He was a member of the BRIT award-winning band Belle & Sebastian for 15 years.

He has composed for animation since 2007, carving out a successful and varied career working with clients including Sesame Street, Nickelodeon and the BBC.

He has worked on games for Chunk, Thud Media and Playerthree. For more info, visit https://www.makefiremusic.com/

Twitter @toomanycookes1

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