Forest Anderson (he/they) is a student at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, studying computer science. Forest is a lead of the Rust Game Development Working Group and a core developer of the Veloren project. Forest is also a GitHub Campus Expert and the Vice President of the Carleton Computer Science Society. Forest also teaches a student-led course on Rust to students at his university.
Joshua Barreto is the founder and a core developer of the Veloren project. He is prevalent in the Rust open source community as a maintainer on several popular crates such as chumsky, spin, ariadne, and others.
Here are the slides from the talk Forest gave at the start of the event. Both talks have longer recordings posted online, so feel free to check them out on your own time too!
https://hackmd.io/@gamedev-rs/H18E999ps#/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4ksw3Jvq4E
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11enrnlvlAeDqtNl3XSiITLEHz9jyyMPSWSfa1aXmAhw/edit?usp=sharing