Past Engagements
I have previously spoken at the following events and organisations.
2018
- UC Santa Cruz
- Gaming Analytics Summit
- GDC
- Casual Connect USA
2017
- GCAP
- Unite Melbourne
- PAX Australia
- SIEGE
- GDC
- Michigan State University
2016
- IGDA Scotland
- Konsoll
- Glasgow Caledonian University
- University of Strathclyde
- GDC
2015
- IGDA Leadership Summit
- GDC
2014
- Konsoll
- IGDA Scotland – Fireside Chat with Ed Fries
- BBC Games Expo Scotland
- University of Abertay, Dundee Game Development Society
- Dreams of Electric Sheep
2013
- IGDA Nigeria – Look Smart, Act Smart, Be Smart
- University of Abertay, Dundee – Look Smart, Act Smart, Be Smart
- Researchers’ Digest, Strathclyde – Fast? Or Good?
- British Computer Society, Glasgow – So You Want to Make Game AI
- GDC 2013 – Architecture Tricks – Managing Behaviours in Time, Space and Depth (GDC Vault subscription req’d)
- GDC 2013 – The Simplest AI Trick in the Book
- GDC 2013 – Turing Tantrums
- Develop in Brighton – Panel – The Future of Game AI (Moderator)
- Fukushima Game Jam (Chile Satellite Site) – From Zero to Hero – A Brief History of Three Years in the Games Industry
- Game Industry Support meeting, Gamescom
- The International Game Developers Association
- IGDA Scotland
- Daydreams of Electric Sheep (PechaKucha)
- Techmeetup Glasgow
- Introducing the International Game Developers Association
- Konsoll 2013, Norway
- GamesWest: Get into GameDev
- You’re Not Special, Neither am I
2012
- Bradley University, Illinois
- Game AI 101 – NPCs and Agents and Algorithms… Oh My!
- Researchers’ Digest, Strathclyde
- The Integrated Influence Architecture – Combining Reactive and Deliberative AI for NPC Control
- AltDevConf
- Game Development Group, Strathclyde
- Developing Developers – Students, Games and CIS
- What is a Game?
- Our Role in Development
- The Summer of Game AI Tour – (9 talks on 3 continents in 3 weeks)
- Video Games Extreme Workshop 2012 (Valparaiso, Chile)
- More Than Soldiers and Aliens
- Mendeley AI in Gaming Seminar (London, UK)
- More Than Soldiers and Aliens
- No Show Conference (Boston, USA)
- MIT Media Lab Invited Seminar (Boston, USA)
- More Than Soldiers and Aliens
- Boston “Post Mortem” IGDA Chapter
- More Than Soldiers and Aliens
- Lockheed Martin (Boston, USA)
- The Integrated Influence Architecture – Combining Reactive and Deliberative AI for NPC Control
- IGDA Summit / Casual Connect (Seattle, USA)
- Video Games Extreme Workshop 2012 (Valparaiso, Chile)
- Pleven Mathematics School, Bulgaria
- GeekSoc, University of Strathclyde
- Skynet and You – Game AI for the Unitiated
- Konsoll, Bergen Norway
- Skynet and You – Game AI for the Uninitiated
- University of West of Scotland
- How to Get Ahead in Games
- Glasgow Caledonian University
- Artificial Intelligence – A Beginner’s Guide to Enslaving Mankind
- Hawai’i Pacific University
- IGDA Indianapolis
- Skynet and You – Game AI for the Uninitiated
- IGDA Salt Lake City
2011
- Strathclyde Planning Group
- The Ludic Fallacy Applied to Planning
- IGDA Scotland
- What I Done on My Holidays – IGDA Scholars at E3 2011
- Paris Game AI Conference
- Tutorial – The Next Generation of Game AI Planners
- Panel – The Future of Deliberative Reasoning in Games
- Researchers’ Digest, Strathclyde
- Influence Landscapes – From Spatial to Conceptual Representations
- Society for Artificial Intelligence and Simulated Behaviour Symposium on AI and Games
- Influence Landscapes – From Spatial to Conceptual Representations
- SPREE – The Strathclyde Poker Research Environment
2010
- International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning
- Applying Clustering Techniques to Reduce Complexity in Automated Planning Domains
- University of West of Scotland (Department of Computer Science)
- Integrated Influence – The 6 Million Dollar Man of AI
- University of West of Scotland (Research Students Society)
- Knowing When to Hold ‘Em, When to Fold ‘Em and When to Blow ‘Em Up
- British Computer Society, Glasgow
- Artificial Intelligence in Computer and Video Games
- Researchers’ Digest, Strathclyde
- StrathPoker