Speakers
Mike Jones, Sr. Software Engineeer, Electronic Arts (EA) Canada
Michael Jones is a Senior Software Engineer at EA and has over 20 years experience working on the FC/FIFA franchise. His current responsibilities include leading the FC Gameplay Team Fundamentals group and the Advanced Features/Tech group. He is an avid soccer player and uses his real-world experience to create software systems that model the strategies, decisions and physical nature of the sport. Through his career on the franchise he has developed many core systems including: CPU AI, player positioning, passing, set pieces, career mode, Academy, and Rush amongst others. Michael is also a champion of test driven development and has established practical methods to verify complex heuristics and ML systems in game.