Thank you for joining us this year! Be sure to join us next year in Waterloo, Canada 🇨🇦
Thank you for joining us this year! Be sure to join us next year in Waterloo, Canada 🇨🇦
Ciphers of Life
Join ALife 2025, the Premier Conference on Artificial Life
6 – 10 October 2025 | Kyoto, Japan + Online
Meet Emerging Researchers in Artificial Life at MiniCon October 5th!
Hosted by
Sponsored & Supported by
Hackathon Sponsors
Media Partners
Community Partners
2025 ALife Awardees!
ALife 2025 Award
Imran Khan
BEST REVIEWER
Clifford Bohm
Best Student Reviewer
Georgii Karelin
Hackathon Winners
Robb Walters
Rafael Irgolič
Rising Star
Earnest Kota Carr
Community Spirit
Piotr Walas
Best Paper Talk
Akarsh Kumar
Best Paper
Kiara Johnson
Connor Croft
Anya Vostinar
Alexander Lalejini
Emily Dolson
Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Distant: Partner Choice Can Enable Parasite Exclusion in Endosymbiotic Coevolution
Best Poster
Milton L. Montero
Elias Najarro
Eleni Nisioti
Sebastian Risi
Scaffolding Development via Morphogenetic Gradients
Best Student Paper
Nate Gaylinn
Anna Rees
Nick Cheney
Josh Bongard
Ramps and Ratchets: Evolving Spatial Viability Landscapes
And thank you everyone for attending!
Stay in touch and read attendees blogs:
November
24, 2025
SUMMER sCHOOL
Thinking with Nate
Becoming an intelligence researcher
Thinking with Nate
Becoming an intelligence researcher
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KEYNOTE
Anna Ciaunica
Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences
KEYNOTE Panel
Audrey Tang
Taiwan’s 1st Digital Minister
Keynote
Blaise Agüera y Arcas
GOOGLE Tech & Society, Google
Keynote
Chris Kempes
SANTA FE INSTITUTE
KEYNOTE PANEL
David Ha
SAKANA AI
KEYNOTE PANEL
Dominique Chen
WASEDA UNIVERSITY
KEYNOTE PANEL
Emily Dolson
michigan state university
KEYNOTE
Hector Zenil
king’s college london
KEYNOTE Panel
Hiro Iizuka
hokkaido university
KEYNOTE PANEL
Kenneth O. Stanley
LILA SCIENCES
ONLINE KEYNOTE
Michael Levin
TUFTS UNIVERSITY
ART KEYNOTE PANELIST
Nao Tokui
QOSMO
ONLINE KEYNOTE
Stephen Wolfram
WOLFRAM RESEARCH
ART KEYNOTE PANELIST
Tatsuya Daikoku
UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
ART KEYNOTE PANELIST
Takashi Ikegami
UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
SPECIAL EVENT HOST
David Hanson & Sophia the Robot
HANSON ROBOTICS
THE VENUE
Located in the Kyoto Keizai Center building in the heart of Kyoto, Kyoto Sangyo-Kaiken Hall is modern, well-equipped and easily by public transport, and surrounded by Kyoto’s rich cultural heritage.
GETTING HERE
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
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