Roblox Tech Talks

Roblox Tech Talks is a Podcast created by the Roblox Corporation and hosted by CEO Dave Baszucki where he discusses with employees apart of the corporation about Roblox's principles, mission, and other subjects relating to the particular employees position within the company. The podcast first aired August 2021 and episodes are periodically created. Tech Talks is available on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, and Google Podcasts. 
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==Episodes==
===Step Into the Metaverse===
"Setting the stage for a new category of human interaction. In this episode, Dave sits down with Daniel Sturman, Chief Technology Officer at Roblox, to dive into the five key tenets of the metaverse app and what this utility holds for our future."
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===The Roblox Economy===
Not to be confused with Episode 14: Economy
"Just like in the real world, GDP is an important indicator of economic health in the metaverse, especially for developers on the platform. Kavina Kanetkar, Senior Director of Engineering, Economy, and Dmitri Essiounine, Senior Engineering Manager, chat with Dave about the virtual economy. How does it emulate and transcend real-world experiences-shopping, transacting with currency, encountering product placements-in a way that feels organic and engaging for users?"
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===Avatars and Facial Animation===
"In the metaverse, avatars are an expression of one's identity. In this episode of Tech Talks, Dave and Kiran Bhat, Senior Director of Engineering, discuss the future of avatars on Roblox. Kiran shares his path to Roblox, from graduate school to the visual effects industry to start-up Loom.ai, which Roblox acquired in December 2020. Find out how Roblox is building upon the foundation of Loom.ai's technology to further personalize avatars with facial animation."
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===Roblox Technology===
"In this episode of Tech Talks, Dave is joined by Arseny Kapoulkine, Technical Fellow, to discuss what differentiates Roblox technologyfrom other online platforms. They reflect on the rich history of technological innovation at Roblox, from iterating on the platform to preserving the fidelity of experiences across all devices. Tune in to learn more about the technological foundations of the metaverse and how Roblox has evolved and scaled to where we are today."
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===The Roblox Engine===
"In this episode, Dave continues his conversation with Arseny Kapoulkine, Technical Fellow, to discuss the Roblox Engine. In this highly technical deep-dive, they tackle the foundational pieces of the Roblox Engine, including object modeling, rendering, physics, and networking. Listen in for a comprehensive overview of the core technologies that power the Roblox platform."
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===Roblox Research===
"Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist at Roblox, joins CEO and host Dave Baszucki to chat about all things research at Roblox. The Research Team helps to accelerate innovation by combining computer science with social science and academic ideas with industry know-how. Tune in to learn more about how we're shaping the forefront of metaverse research."
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===Open Cloud===
"The Roblox platform would not be where it is today without the creativity and innovation of our developer community. In this episode, CEO and host Dave Baszucki chats with Senior Engineering Director Antoni Choudhuri to discuss Open Cloud, the exciting new ecosystem that empowers developers to maximize their productivity and take their experiences to the next level.
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===Data Science and Analytics===
"Todd Rudak, Director of Data Science & Analytics joins CEO and host Dave Baszucki to discuss the unique qualities of the team at Roblox and the work they do to support innovation at scale. Tune in to find out how the the team works to increase the speed, frequency and acumen of our decision making in building the Roblox platform."
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===Programming===
"Technical Fellow Arseny Kapoulkine is back with CEO and host Dave Baszucki to kick off our second season of the podcast. In this episode, they discuss Luau, the programming language that powers the Roblox engine, as well as the advancements we've made to make it more performant and even better to use."
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===Infrastructure===
"Max Ross, VP of Engineering, Infrastructure sits down with Dave to discuss the unique challenges of our global infrastructure at Roblox. In this episode, they discuss how we’re building our multi-region architecture, what it means to think of infrastructure like a product, and what we’ve learned as we’ve scaled to support over 50 million daily active users."
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===Creator Innovation===
"VP of Creator Engineering Nick Tornow joins CEO and host Dave Baszucki to talk about the global creator community that builds the immersive experiences on Roblox and how we support their success. In this episode, they’ll discuss the ways we’re evolving creation across the three pillars of the Creator group: Roblox Studio, our content cloud, and the services that enrich our platform."
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===Brand Partnerships===
"VP of Global Partnerships Christina Wootton sits down with CEO and host Dave Baszucki to talk about the incredible ways that brands have developed a presence on our platform. In this episode, they’ll share how we think about our relationship with other brands, what successful integrations look like, and how the foundation of our technology makes it all possible."
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===Communication===
"Senior Director of Product for the Social Team, Garima Sinha, joins CEO Dave Baszucki to talk about the future of communication on Roblox. In this episode, they’ll discuss how we’ve been working to make communication more natural and expressive on the platform – including avatar facial animation, spatial audio, and more."
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===Economy===
"VP of Product, Economy Enrico D’Angelo joins CEO Dave Baszucki to discuss their vision for the Roblox economy. In this episode, they’ll discuss how virtual economies can mirror the real world, the opportunities ahead for Roblox, and some of the technical challenges we’ll need to solve to get there."
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===Education & Verticalization===
"Vice President of Education Partnerships Rebecca Kantar joins CEO Dave Baszucki to talk about the future of verticalization on Roblox, with a deep dive on our education vertical. They’ll start out by discussing Rebecca’s past experience starting a company called Imbellus, then discuss our overall plans around verticalization and our vision of evolving education on Roblox to better serve students and educators."
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===Safety & Civility Vision===
"Matt Kaufman, Roblox’s Chief Systems Officer and Head of Safety Product, Policy, & Operations, and Naren Koneru, VP of Trust & Safety Engineering, join CEO Dave Baszucki to discuss our approach to safety and civility on the platform. Together they’ll explore the technical challenges that come along with keeping virtual environments safe at scale, our vision for civil online communities, and how we’re working to serve the needs of each individual who uses Roblox."
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===Growth Engineering===
"Anupam Singh, our VP of Engineering for the Growth team, joins CEO Dave Baszucki to talk about the technical challenges we’re solving to enhance search and discovery for hundreds of millions of creators and users. They’ll explore how our approach to growth has developed in accordance with our values to deliver the best possible experience for our community."
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===Real-Time Simulation Vision===
"Our VP of Engineering for the Engine Group John Stauffer joins CEO David Baszucki for a discussion of all things Roblox Engine. They’ll discuss physics simulation, rendering, spatial audio, and our vision for simulating the real world. Dave and John explore what we’ve learned, what we’ve built, and how we’re pushing the boundaries of virtual human co-experience."
This was the first video podcast episode, available to watch on YouTube alongside the Podcast platforms. This episode is not currently available on any of the podcasting platforms. Reasoning for such removal is unknown. Along with this the YouTube video is not currently available on YouTube either.
===Active/Active and Data Storage===
"Principal Software Engineer Jan Berktold joins CEO David Baszucki to discuss how we’re ensuring our infrastructure is fast and reliable all around the world. They’ll explore our vision for active/active architecture and the challenges we’re solving to enhance our data storage platform."
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==Appearances==
This is a full list of all the people that have been featured as guests on Tech Talk episodes, their positions (or former positions at the time of their appearance), and which episodes they appeared in. This does not include the host, Dave Baszucki, whom appears in every eppisode and it the host of Tech Talks. 
Name 	Image	Position 	Featured In
Daniel Sturman 	 	Chief Technology Officer 	Episode 1: Step into the metaverse
Kavita Kanetkar 	 	Senior Director of Engineering, Economy 	Episode 2: The Roblox economy
Dmitri Essiounine	 	Senior Engineering Manager 	Episode 2: The Roblox economy
Kiran Bhat 	 	Senior Director of Engineering, Avatar 	Episode 3: Avatars and facial animation
Arseny Kapoulkine	 	Technical Director 	Episode 4: Roblox technology
Episode 5: The Roblox engine
Episode 9: Programming
Morgan McGuire 	 	Chief Scientist 	Episode 6: Roblox research
Antoni Choudhuri 	 	Senior Engineering Director 	Episode 7: Open cloud
Todd Rudak 	 	Director of Data Science & Analytics 	Episode 8: Data science and analytics
Max Ross 	 	VP of Engineering 	Episode 10: Infrastructure
Nick Tornow 	 	VP of Creator Engineering 	Episode 11: Creator innovation
Christina Wootton	 	VP of Global Partnerships 	Episode 12: Brand partnerships
Garima Sinha 	 	Senior Director of Product 	Episode 13: Communication
Enrico D’Angelo 	 	VP of Product, Economy 	Episode 14: Economy
Rebecca Kantar 	 	VP of Education Partnerships 	Episode 15: Education & Verticalization
Matt Kaufman 	 	Roblox's Chief Systems Officer andHead of Safety Product, Policy, & Operations	Episode 16: Safety & civility vision
Naren Koneru 	 	VP of Trust & Safety Engineering 	Episode 16: Safety & civility vision
Anupam Singh 	 	VP of Engineering, Growth 	Episode 17: Growth engineering
John Stauffer 	 	Vice President of Software Engineering 	Episode 18: Real-Time Simulation Vision
Jan Berktold 	 	Principal Software Engineer 	Episode 19: Active/Active and Data Storage
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