Speakers 2025

Thomas Keane is an award-winning game designer who specialises in turning speech and natural language into gameplay mechanics. As Co-Founder and Creative Lead at Meaning Machine, he oversees the development of multiple experimental projects that use conversational AI and large language models. Dead Meat, “the interrogation game where you can ask the suspect anything”, is the studio’s debut.   Previously, Thomas created the critically acclaimed game Unknown Number (2022), which explored the new gameplay possibilities enabled by voice control. His work has been showcased globally, including at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and he has spoken extensively about his ambition to pioneer a new genre - the First Person Talker - underpinned by natural language technologies.

Presenting:

• Bringing AI NPCs to Life with NVIDIA ACE On-Device Small Language Models in Meaning Machine's Dead Meat (Presented by NVIDIA)