Whitney Lawrence is a Marketing Program Manager at Autodesk. Since January 2016, Whitney has been building the Forge brand, community, and platform experience. She's worked on everything from web, brand identity, storytelling, media, social, communications, events, Forge DevCon and more. She earned a double BBA in International Business and Marketing, with a minor in Political Science and certificates in Portuguese, Italian, and German. Hailing from the University of Hawaii at Manoa she is of few alumni who can claim ALL mascots: the Rainbow, the Warrior, and the Rainbow Warrior. Since university, she has built community programs targeted at technology affinity groups (like gamers, developers, etc.) for clients like Intel, Microsoft, Vonage, Xerox, Jive! and Adobe. An avid gamer, her rig was VR ready back in 2016 and is still purring along with it's Titan. Her household has two HTC Vives; because the only thing better than gaming and VR is sharing it.