Dave Bradley has worked in the media for nearly 30 years as a magazine and online journalist, writer, editor, and event host and as a senior manager and consultant. He has written and edited newsstand publications including PC Format, Planet PC, Microsoft Windows: The Official Magazine, SFX, Total Film, Comic Heroes, and more, and has written and published for online publications, including GamesRadar+, Pocket Gamer, PC Games Insider, Crime Fiction Lover, and more. He lives in Bath, United Kingdom.

Kelly Vero has worked in video games and technology for 30 years, from programming to senior management, working on titles including Tomb Raider, Halo series, Transformers series, and Subway Surfers. Vero is an international keynote speaker and leading gamification and metaverse thought leader, regularly featured in tech lists and future lists such as Forbes' 100 Women of the Future, an award-winning educator, and an award-nominated and bestselling author whose nonfiction works include Breaking Through Bytes: Women Shaping the Digital World, and From Pixels to Portals: How Video Games Made the Metaverse. She lives in Zurich, Switzerland.