Contest: ask a question about working with remote teams and get a premium ticket to White Nights

How to effectively solve issues by resorting to remote development will be discussed at a round table within the framework of the White Nights St. Petersburg 2019 business conference. We suggest that you first ask questions to its participants. The author of the best question will receive a premium ticket to the conference.

About the topic of the round table

Previously, working with remote studios was primarily seen as a way to save money. Today, this is a common practice for most, if not all developers.

User demand pushes developers to make games more and more difficult, add content, saturate the game with details, increase the total duration of products. All this requires an increase in teams and resources.

The round table will discuss how to use contractors to increase their own capabilities, cover an increasing number of tasks and long-term support for games.

Participants

Chris Wren
The moderator is producer Chris Wren (Chris Wren).

He has been working at Electronic Arts for more than 15 years. He started from the position of director of development, then began to engage in activities aimed at raising the qualifications of the company’s employees. In recent years, he has been responsible for the External Development Summit event dedicated to remote teams and working with them.

Mali MakGii
Mali McGehee is also from Electronic Arts, where he has been working since 2005.

She now holds the position of Senior Director of Development in Florida. There, recall, EA has Tiburon Studio, which is responsible for one of the most successful and long—lived series of the company – Madden NFL.

Cyril Barrow
The current Vice President of Operations at Rovio has an extensive track record.

Previously, Cyril Barrow managed both the studio at Gameloft and was responsible for communication between departments at the social giant Digital Chocolate.

Esteban Laura
Esteban Lora has been working with Microsoft since 2000.

He was initially responsible for supporting partners at SAP Labs, whose solutions were used by Microsoft. For the last six years, Esteban has been sitting in Redmont and is responsible for working with Microsoft Studios partners.

Louis Villegas
Louis has been working at Bungie for more than nine years.

I started as an ordinary programmer responsible for low-level systems. Now he is on the board of the company, and also holds the post of Director of Services, Infrastructure and Security.

Terms of the competition

Write questions for the round table on your social network page by sharing a link to this publication (IMPORTANT: the link must be active until June 19).

In the comments under this material, write “I participate in the contest” and leave a link to your post. We will announce the name of the winner after 18.00 on Monday, June 10, right there in the comments.

The won ticket is valid only for White Nights St. Petersburg 2019, you will not be allowed to attend another conference with it. Unfortunately, it is impossible to get the ticket price in money. If you bought a ticket before, and now you have won, you will not be able to return the money for the purchased ticket either, but with two tickets you can take someone with you!