Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.
Prior to joining AWS, Mackenzie was the Head of Technical Operations at Betterment, the world’s largest independent robo-advisor based in NYC which manages over $8B in assets. Mackenzie was a founding engineer and Head of Technical Operations at Oscar Health, an insurance startup also based in NYC, helping to grow the company to over 400+ employees.
In this virtual Builder Session, PubNub Developer Advocate, Oliver Carson will walk Unity Developers through the deployment of critical real-time workloads into a demo game using the PubNub platform. By leveraging their Unity SDK, attendees will deploy in-game chats (with or without moderation), player presence features, buddy lists, real-time leaderboards, and push notifications, all with minimal code changes and the ability to support over 100 million users! Attendees will leave this session with a deeper understanding of PubNub’s offerings, its implementation details and a new understanding of what a managed backend solution can offer. Spots are limited, so be sure to reserve your seat today!
What are Builder Sessions?
Builder Sessions are small group events where attendees are given hands-on time with different AWS or Partner solutions through an instructor-led workshop. Groups of up to 25 attendees will be guided through the deployment and configuration of a solution by senior technical staff, who discuss design choices, best practices and implementation details. Attendees are encouraged to ask questions, discuss use cases and experiment with the solution post-event.
Experience Required: Actively using Unity, even if only for 6 months.
● Unity Hub & Unity 2021.3.15f1
○ Install support for WebGL Builds.
● Visual Studio Community 2022
○ Select packages that support Unity and .NET game development.
● Install PUN 2 FREE Package on Unity.
● (Optional as we will go through this in the workshop) Signing up for free and create your own PubNub Keys
○ How to create a free PubNub Keyset
○ Enable Presence, Message Persistence, and Objects.
