Developer State of the Union

Speakers

• Anand Dass

  Director, Metaverse Content Applications (He/Him)

  Anand Dass leads Meta’s efforts to build a third-party applications ecosystem for Meta’s VR product and metaverse content. He also helped launch Meta's business platform, Workplace. He graduated from MIT, co-founded a Y Combinator startup that was acquired in 2014, and led merchant partnerships at Postmates.

  Company

  Meta
• Chris Pruett

  Director of Content Ecosystem, Reality Labs at Meta (He/Him)

  Chris Pruett is Meta's Director of Content Ecosystem at Reality Labs, where he runs third party publishing and designs content ecosystems. Prior to Meta, Chris co-founded and ran Robot Invader, where he did everything from coding to design to script writing on titles like Wind-up Knight, Rise of the Blobs, and Dead Secret. Under the cover of night he writes about obscure horror games.

  Company

  Meta
• Yardley Pohl

  Director of Product, VR (She/Her)

  Yardley Pohl is Meta's director of product for VR Ecosystem. She is the co-founder of the nonprofit Women in Product, creating a strong community of women builders. A NACD governance fellow, she was the chief product officer at Thrive Global and has worked at Apple, eBay, Zillow, and Yahoo.

  Company

  Meta