Yuqian (Uchan) Sun, also known as CheeseTalk, is a Chinese AI narrative researcher and artist based in London. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the Royal College of Art. Focusing on the power of language, Yuqian aims to create 'alive' narrative experiences that extend beyond video games and into our daily lives through conversational AI agents. She explores linguistic interactions through chatbots, games and interactive installations. Yuqian's interdisciplinary arts and research have been featured in galleries and tech conferences including SIGGRAPH, CVPR, NeurIPS, Gamescom, AMaze and New York Times Square. She won the Reddot Design Award and Lumen Prize in 2024. She is also a 2025 GDC speaker.

Dr Raluca D. Gaina is currently a Lecturer in Game AI at Queen Mary University of London, where she obtained her PhD in Intelligent Games and Games Intelligence. She has led innovative research in Simulation-Based decision-making and modern Tabletop Games, laying the foundation for the Tabletop Games Framework (TAG). She has co-organised top Game AI conferences, meetups, tutorials and competitions. She has over 30 publications in leading Game AI conferences (AAAI, COG) and journals (TOG), and received multiple awards for her public engagement videos. Her research interests include general video game playing AI, evolutionary algorithms and tabletop games. In 2023 she co-founded the first company offering automatic playtesting services to board game designers, Tabletop R&D.

Julia Makivic is a game designer and creative technologist who divides her time between London and Belgrade. She creates web-based narrative games and alternative controller games using Raspberry Pi, Arduino and various sensors. Her games explore what it means to have an emotional exchange with a computational system and how our emotions are mediated by technology. She graduated with a degree in Media Arts and Sciences from Wellesley College in 2015 and completed an MFA in Computational Arts from Goldsmiths College in 2019. She been working as a freelance creative technologist over the past two years, helping artists integrate interactivity and technology into their work. Her projects have been featured in a variety of international games festivals including the Open Screens room at A MAZE, Game Happens, Interactive Futures, and the Leftfield Collection at EGX Rezzed.