Well this is, interesting...
The 2016 Dice Summit is being opened by Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller) and Randy Pitchford (Creator of Gearbox) What's more interesting is the theme of the summit this year, which is:
Setting the stage as the Wednesday Opening Conference Keynote will be a special presentation by two friends: Penn Jillette, author, actor and half of legendary magic team Penn & Teller, and Randy Pitchford, magician, co-founder and president of Gearbox Software. Discussing "Assumptions and Expectations with Interactivity and Magic," this session will incorporate some lessons in misdirection of attention, expectation disruption and just plain old-fashioned lying. Jillette and Pitchford will then lead members of the audience through a magic trick that will move from the live theater to virtual reality.
So, the lead speakers for this are a magician who has (or HAD, since they haven't made any new episodes since 2010) a show called "Bullsh*t!", and a man whose recent claim to fame is simply how full of sh*t he is and actually taking PRIDE in it. Seriously,
take a look at this and then this
great follow up (NSFW language.)
Maybe the logic for the people at D.I.C.E. is that if you're going to have people speak for them, you better get the best representatives of the subject manner!
http://www.polygon.com/2016/1/21/10...dy-pitchford-open-dice-summit-next-month-with