Owen Harris

Owen Harris is a designer, programmer, artist and writer. He teaches Game Design in DIT and regularly speaks all over Ireland and Europe. He is a founder of Imirt, an organisation set up to improve the quality and visibility of Irish games, and runs the local community game design event dubLUDO.  Owen is obsessed with virtual reality, playfulness and the intersection of technology and wellbeing. When not working on DEEP, a VR mental health game, he builds VR experiences and games for others. His mission is to bring about an increased awareness of the value of playfulness in everyday life.

For the Grand Challenge Owen heads the Virtual Reality team. Working with Flaminia Grimaldi, Dario Bressan and Robby Becker, the team is building a cutting edge virtual lab to explore cancer in a brand new way.