“I felt compelled to send copies of my itinerary, passport and other IDs, speaker information, etc., to at least three other people who weren’t attending, with the instructions that if I didn’t contact them by a specified time to let them know that I had landed and cleared security, that they should take my information to the Australian consulate,” said JC Lau, a senior producer at Amsterdam’s Twirlbound who has attended every GDC since 2017.