Julien Bouvrais is a technology leader with more than 25 years in game development, now focused on what generative AI means for how games are made and played. He is co-founder and CTO of aNormal, a game studio built from the ground up around the possibilities of AI, and co-founder of PragmaFrame, a consultancy that helps studios and creative organizations integrate AI into their production pipelines.<\/p>\n
Previously, as VP R&D Tech at The Believer Company, Julien led multidisciplinary AI\/ML teams and drove the company\u2019s push to embrace AI, including reinforcement-learning systems that produce emergent behaviors and LLM-driven dynamic experiences. Before that, he ran Eidos-Sherbrooke, where his team focused on machine-learning-assisted content creation and automated testing.<\/p>\n
Julien spent 14 years at Eidos-Montr\u00e9al, from lead programmer on Deus Ex: Human Revolution to CTO overseeing technology across franchises such as Tomb Raider and Guardians of the Galaxy. He began his career at Ubisoft, working on Splinter Cell and Rainbow Six.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Julien Bouvrais is a technology leader with more than 25 years in game development, now focused on what generative AI means for how games are made and played. He is co-founder and CTO of aNormal, a game studio built from the ground up around the possibilities of AI, and co-founder of PragmaFrame, a consultancy that helps studios and creative organizations integrate AI into their production pipelines.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":11694,"menu_order":0,"template":"","session_group":[213],"class_list":["post-11710","tec_speaker","type-tec_speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tec_group-migs26"],"yoast_head":"\n