Francesco has 20 years of experience in the games industry having held both technical and leadership positions at Ubisoft. In 2015 he founded Video Games Without Borders, a nonprofit organization and a global community of people who believe in digital games to change the world for the better. Francesco supervised the development of “Antura and the Letters”, a smartphone game to improve literacy among Syrian children that are out-of-school because of the conflict, winner of several international awards. He recently led the team of volunteers behind “Flatten Island”, designed to raise funds for nonprofits fighting against COVID-19.