Program

The conference will offer a rich program, including keynote lectures, presentations, poster sessions, special sessions, workshops, competitions, social programs, tutorials, mind-matching program, and art sessions.

We will soon reveal the names of our keynote speakers on these pages – stay tuned and follow our social media to be the first to know!

If you are interested in hosting a workshop, organizing a special session, or submitting a contribution, please visit the Open Calls page for more details.

The ALIFE 2025 conference will showcase a wide range of topics in Artificial Life, bringing together world-leading researchers to discuss the latest advances in the synthesis and simulation of living systems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following aspects of Artificial Life:

• Complex dynamical systems and networks
• Artificial chemistry, origins of life, computational biology
• Synthetic biology, protocells, and wet artificial life
• Ecology and evolution
• Bio-inspired, cognitive and evolutionary robotics, swarms
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Perception, cognition, behavior
• Social systems, artificial and alternative societies
• Evolution of language, computational linguistics
• Artificial Life-based art
• Artificial Life in education

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. All aspects of the accompanying program will revolve around this central theme, providing a deep dive into the complex systems of communication, information encoding, and life’s interactions with its surroundings.