The 2025 Conference on Artificial Life
6-10 October 2025 | Kyoto, Japan + Online
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This year’s theme is Ciphers of Life, encouraging participants to explore the many ways that life encodes information, creates internal languages, and interacts in encrypted ways with its environment.
Artificial life research focuses on understanding, replicating, and extending the fundamental principles of life. Much of this research involves creating artificial systems that exhibit life-like behaviors.
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GENERAL CHAIR
Olaf Witkowski
Director, Cross Labs
VICE CHAIR
Alyssa Adams
Deputy Director, Cross Labs
ADVISOR
David Ha
CEO, Sakana AI
ADVISOR
Takashi Ikegami
Professor, University of Tokyo