Time
09:30	Arrival, registration
09:55	Introduction and Welcome Professor Paul Kelly Professor of Software Technology, Imperial College London
10:00	Has Game Development Gone Full Circle? David Braben Chairman and Founder, Frontier Developments
10:35	Coffee Break and Demo NeuroBot: Zafeirios Fountas, PhD Student, Department of Computing
11:00	Games and Artificial Intelligence Demis Hassabis Founder, DeepMind Technologies
11:35	Scala at Mind Candy Mark Baker (Technology Lead of Tools) and Sean Parsons (Senior Developer) Mind Candy
12:10	Cutting edge character animation for the next generation Joss Knight Head of Research and IP, NaturalMotion Ltd
12:45	Lunch
14:00	The future of AI in gaming Peter Molyneux Creative Director, 22 Cans Ltd
14:35	Glimpses of Infinity: Exploring Procedural Permutation Space in Games Tom Betts Big Robot/University of Huddersfield
15:10	Artificial Aesthetics and Meaningful Metroidvanias Michael Cook PhD Student, Department of Computing, Imperial College London
15:45	Coffee Break and Demo NeuroBot: Zafeirios Fountas, PhD Student, Department of Computing
16:15	Designing and Developing with Users at the Centre of the Experience Ryan Bartataki and Belen Albeza inensu
16:50	Work. Sweat. Achieve. Nicoll Hunt Founder, Nicoll Hunt Games
17:25	Closing remarks Professor Susan Eisenbach Head, Department of Computing, Imperial College London

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