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March 9-13, 2026
Moscone CenterSan Francisco, CA

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Speakers: Martin Singh-Blom  (Embark Studios), Alessandro Sestini  (Electronic Arts, SEED), Alexis Rolland  (Ubisoft, La Forge), Alexandre Moufarek  (Google DeepMind), Zhen Zhai  (Blizzard Entertainment), Julien Merceron  (Orion Productions)
Location: Room 3004, West Hall
Pass Type: Festival Pass, Game Changer Pass
Audience Level: All
Track: Game & Production Technology
Format: Forum
Title: Principal Engineer
Company: Tencent Games
Dr. Elvis Liu is a Principal Engineer at Tencent Games, where he leads multiple R&D teams focused on distributed virtual environments and AI technologies. He has spearheaded several groundbreaking projects that are reshaping the future of game AI. Most notably, he led the development of sparring AI agents for Naruto Mobile—the first commercial fighting game to integrate deep reinforcement learning—which has powered over two billion human-AI matches. The design of this machine learning system was presented by Dr. Liu at the GDC 2024 Machine Learning Summit. More recently, he introduced F.A.C.U.L.—the world's first FPS AI companion capable of seamless interaction with human players through natural language—unveiled at GDC 2025 Core Concepts.