Next Level 2024: exploring the future of science and games

Join us at King’s to hear about the exciting, surprising and playful future of games from AI researchers, game developers, digital artists and more.

Talks will cover cutting-edge ideas from the games industry, like the impact of AI on playtesting, as well as incredible scientific research done using games, like using archaeology to tell game stories, or designing a boardgame to understand urban spaces.

Whether you’re a big fan of games, curious about the future of technology, or have a burning question for the people working at the cutting edge of computing, sign up now to take part in Next Level 2024.

The full line up and programme for Next Level 2024 will follow in October 2024.

Meet the speakers

Dr Kate Compton is a generative artist, inventor, programmer and teacher. She generated planets for Spore, made Tracery which ran 20,000 community-made bots on Twitter and invented the first phone-based AR. Her longtime personal mission is to bring small playful forms of AI to poets, artists, kids and weirdos.

Dr Michael Cook is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Informatics, with his research focusing on computational creativity and applications of AI to game design and development. He earned his PhD in 2016 from Imperial College London, and currently holds a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship.

Dr Tommy Thompson is the founder of AI and Games, a company that provides consultancy, training, and development support services for artificial intelligence in the video games industry. He is largely known as a content creator on AI for video games, producing the AI and Games YouTube channel for over 10 years, plus a bi-weekly Substack and host of the ‘Branching Factor’ podcast. Before his work in the industry, Tommy was a university lecturer and researcher for 10 years in computer science and game development, authoring over 50 academic publications in game/AI research.

This event is in-person only. Register on Eventbrite.

Please note, King’s events are free, which means we routinely overbook to allow for no-shows and avoid empty seats. Admission is on a first come, first served basis, so please arrive in good time to avoid disappointment. We will not be able to admit those without tickets or latecomers.

Watch recordings from ‘Next Level – AI and the Futures of Games’, held in May 2023, on the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence YouTube channel.