Speakers
Find a full list of this year's GDC Festival of Gaming speakers here.
Kazuki Abe, Technical Director and Head of AI Solutions and Platform at Capcom, CAPCOM CO., LTD.
Kazuki Abe is the Technical Director and Head of AI Solutions and Platform at Capcom, specializing in AI-driven core infrastructure and automated technologies for game development. He currently directs advanced AI playtesting systems and runtime optimizations for major titles, including Monster Hunter Wilds, Monster Hunter Stories 3, and Onimusha: Way of the Sword. Previously, Abe led engineering for the Monster Hunter Frontier series and Exoprimal, playing a pivotal role in shaping Capcom's cross-title technical strategies. He is actively involved in the academic community—collaborating on research with academic institutions, delivering invited lectures at IPSJ, and contributing featured articles to JSAI journals. He also lends his technical expertise to support enterprise AI initiatives across Capcom's non-development divisions.