Paris Buttfield-Addison

The future of machine learning is big and touches the real world all the time. Paris presentation explores how you can simulate enough of the real world with a game engine to do ML.

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison is co-founder of Secret Lab, a mobile game development studio based in beautiful Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Secret Lab builds games and game development tools, including the award-winning ABC Play School iPad games, BAFTA - and IGF-winning Night in the Woods, and the Qantas Joey Playbox, and the popular open source YarnSpinner narrative game framework.

Paris formerly worked as a software engineer, and product manager for Meebo, which was acquired by Google in 2012. He has a degree in medieval history, a PhD in Computing, and writes technical books on mobile and game development for O’Reilly Media. He can be found on Twitter @parisba and online at http://paris.id.au