In this 2022 Future Realities Summit session, Niantic, Inc’s John King and Kellee Santiago discuss the Black Developers Initiative (BDI) to identify and support Black-led developers and game teams to increase representation — and what more game devs can and should do to ensure the people building the real-world metaverse are more representative of the people who live in the real-world metaverse. Head to GDC Vault (http://www.gdcvault.com/) for the latest video-on-demand sessions from GDC 2022—with several GDC videos available to watch for free! Join the GDC mailing list: http://www.gdconf.com/subscribe Follow GDC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Official_GDC GDC talks cover a range of developmental topics including game design, programming, audio, visual arts, business management, production, online games, and much more. We post a fresh GDC video every day. Subscribe to the channel to stay on top of regular updates, and check out GDC Vault for thousands of more in-depth talks from our archives.