Events

Dates: 10-11 September 2025

Location: The Ron Cooke Hub (RCH) Campus East University of York York, YO10 5GE Map 

The annual iGGi conference brings together PhD researchers (PGRs), supervisors and staff from the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (iGGi) with practitioners from industry and the third sector. We will share our latest work and forge new connections for research collaborations and placements. With over 120 recruited PhDs, iGGi is the world's largest doctoral programme in games research. iGGi advances game development across two fronts:

Intelligent Games (iG): Using research advances in areas such as AI, analytics, user experience design, and responsible innovation to seed the creation of a new generation of more intelligent and engaging games and thus boost the UK games industry.

Game Intelligence (Gi): Using game design and data obtained from game play to advance games as a tool for understanding and influencing human behaviour, for wellbeing, positive societal, cultural and scientific impact.

Now in its twelfth year, and having completed our final round of postgraduate researcher recruitment in 2023, iGGi continues to thrive. We have a steady stream of researchers graduating and going on to research and industry positions. The research they have produced is making a real difference to the field of games research and to our industry partners. If you are from the games industry, rest assured we still have many PGRs seeking placement opportunities – to transfer their research knowledge so that you can make novel, engaging and diverse games, and understand gamers.

For more information, please visit the conference's website: https://www.iggi2025.org/