The AI and Games Conference is coming to North America. Game AI Events CIC, the UK community interest company behind the series, has announced its first event outside London, set for June 22nd-23rd 2027 at Centre Mont-Royal in Montréal.
According to a release, the event is held with Tourisme Montréal and McGill University. The series has run three editions in London so far, which the organiser says drew hundreds of game AI practitioners. Game AI is the craft of making characters and systems in games decide, move and react: pathfinding, enemy behaviour, planning and the like.
Three people have joined an advisory board for the Montréal show. Alexandre Génier is a technical architect at Ubisoft Montréal. Andrea Schiel is Ubisoft Montréal’s AI technical lead, with more than 25 years in game AI. Dr Matthew Guzdial is an associate professor of computing science at the University of Alberta and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii).
Tickets and call for talks
Early bird tickets are on sale now. The call for speakers is open, with submissions closing at 23:59 EST on February 28th 2027, according to the conference website. The release also lists February 23rd in a summary bullet, but the site gives the 28th.
Dr Tommy Thompson, co-founder of AI and Games and of Game AI Events CIC, said: “The AI and Games Conference is where people come to meet with like-minded developers, and to hear not just from the leading voices in our sector, but also new and emerging talent who have unique perspectives that deserve to be heard.”
Thompson added that running the London event showed demand for ‘hype-free, meaningful conversations’ about game AI among professionals worldwide, and that the team wants to build the Montréal show with the North American game AI community.
About the conference
The AI and Games Conference is a series that gives games industry professionals a place to learn, network and talk about how artificial intelligence is used in video games. Game AI Events CIC is a UK-based community interest company that runs accessible events for the game AI community. Businesses and organisations can contact Shraddha Gupta at the conference about partnering on the Montréal event.
The following was sent as a press release to Inven Global.
