David is the most influential international advocate for escape rooms and immersive games, and has been since founding Room Escape Artist with Lisa in 2014. In this role, he has spoken to many dozens of audiences of all types about escape rooms. As co-host of Reality Escape Pod (podcast), he has spoken with a cross-section of creators in this, and adjacent, industries, all of which continually shapes his perspectives on the future of this industry.

He believes that the industry needs a dedicated event for learning, challenging assumptions, and community building. In creating RECON, he applied his professional skills as a digital experience designer to his experience speaking at conferences to design an event around the needs of escape room and immersive gaming professionals.

David is most involved in programming including producing the talks, designing conversation elements such as facilitated discussions, and creating each RECON game. He empowers the RECON team and the RECON guides (volunteers) to make an exceptional event for all who attend. He is always pushing building sustainably, while trying new things and taking calculated risks so that RECON never stands still.

Lisa is the most experienced escape room event organizer in the world, and has been since founding Room Escape Artist with David in 2014. She has organized everything from casual meetups, to Escape Immerse Explore Tours that bring 100+ people to internationally renowned escape room destinations. And of course, organizing this convention.

She believes that the industry needs a dedicated event for learning, challenging assumptions, and community building. She brings a data-driven approach to event creation, given her professional expertise leading innovation teams creating products driven by enormous amounts of data, machine learning, and AI.

Lisa is most involved in RECON’s logistics, scheduling, and the behind the scenes minutia that nobody sees… but minding the hidden details is her super power, and makes events run smoothly. She also supports RECON’s internal and external communication, making sure everyone is tuned in to key details. Most importantly, she is the team’s practical problem solver.