Key Speakers

Jacek Dukaj – Visionary Novelist
Author of The Old Axolotl and After Writing, Dukaj examines how AI bends culture, language, and imagination. His keynote tracks the move from text to multimodal creation and what that shift means for authorship and originality. Drawing on the lineage from The Old Axolotl (which inspired Netflix’s Into the Night) to his broader essays, he offers concrete scenarios for creative work in the model era – where human taste still leads, and how teams can preserve it while working with synthetic media.

Przemysław “Psyho” Dębiak – Ex-OpenAI, Elite Coder
A top competitive programmer and former OpenAI researcher, Psyho is the only human to outscore an experimental OpenAI coding agent at the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2025. His talk is a clear, numbers-first map of the next five years: what models actually deliver today, where constraints bite – context, online updating, tool use, integration debt – and how those limits translate into costs, staffing, and timelines for real production. The focus is practical adoption: where agents belong in pipelines now, where they fail, and when to build, buy, or hold.

Prof. Włodzisław Duch – AI Pioneer, Cognitive Scientist
Former President of the European Neural Networks Society and head of the Neurocognitive Laboratory at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Prof. Duch grounds the discussion in evidence from AI and cognitive science. He separates feasible advances from attractive fiction, clarifying claims about understanding, memory, and reasoning under uncertainty. Expect a sober assessment of assistance side-effects – dependency, skill decay, miscalibration – and research-informed guidelines for responsible deployment that protect competence while capturing real gains.

Tracks

Bright Side – Augment, Don’t Replace

• Human – AI partnership in creation and design
• Narrative simulation, creative pipelines, personalized guidance
• Where humans still outperform – and why

Dark Side – Dependency & Limits

• When assistance becomes reliance; competence erosion
• Real technical ceilings: context windows, scaling laws, inference costs
• The line between tool and replacement

The Real Future – Next 5 Years

• Compute economics vs. capability: what scales, what stalls
• Agents today vs. marketing promises
• Lessons from a human victory over a coding agent

Who Should Attend

• Game developers/designers needing credible timelines
• Tech leaders making AI adoption decisions
• Business planners on a 3-5 year horizon
• Creatives (writers, artists, designers) using or questioning AI
• AI engineers/researchers seeking cross-disciplinary context
• Anyone tired of noise and looking for hard signal

What You’ll Learn

• Where AI is truly production-ready in gamedev
• How AI shifts cognition and team workflows
• Integration patterns that reduce risk and cost
• Strategy: where ROI is real vs. illusory

Plus: Research, Industry & Silicon Valley

• Cognitive effects of AI and responsible implementation
• Real deployments: narrative simulation, market analytics, “AI that builds AI”
• GPU/NPU inference optimization and on-device trade-offs
• Voices from ElevenLabs, Leonardo AI, and the AMD ecosystem

Proof Point

“AtCoder 2025: one human, ten hours, and a win over an OpenAI coding agent. Not a myth – an edge case that maps the border of current AI.”