| Name | Affiliation | Country |
| Organizers (in alphabetical order) | ||
| Ruck Thawonmas | Ritsumeikan University | Japan |
| Julian Togelius | New York University | USA |
| Georgios Yannakakis | University of Malta | Malta |
| Participants (in alphabetical order) | ||
| Rafael Bidarra | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
| Paolo Burelli | IT University Of Copenhagen / Tactile Entertainment | Denmark |
| Michael Cook | Falmouth University | UK |
| Mirjam Eladhari | Sodertorn University | Sweden |
| Daniele Gravina | University of Malta | Malta |
| David Ha | Google Brain | Japan |
| Tomohiro Harada | Ritsumeikan University | Japan |
| Amy K. Hoover | New Jersey Institute of Technology | USA |
| Hiroyuki Iida | Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | Japan |
| Ahmed Khalifa | New York University | USA |
| Kyung-Joong Kim | Sejong University | Korea |
| Luiz Bernardo Martins Kummer | Pontifical Catholic University of Parana | Brazil |
| Antonios Liapis | Institute of Digital Games / University of Malta | Malta |
| Diego Perez Liebana | Queen Mary University of London | UK |
| Simon Mark Lucas | Queen Mary University of London | UK |
| Maxim Mozgovoy | University of Aizu | Japan |
| Tomoharu Nakashima | Osaka Prefecture University | Japan |
| Mark Jason Nelson | American University | USA |
| Mike Preuss | Leiden University | Netherlands |
| Jochen Renz | Australian National University | Australia |
| Florian Richoux | JFLI, CNRS, NII | Japan |
| Ana Fernández del Río | Yokozuna Data | Japan |
| Sebastian Risi | IT University of Copenhagen | Denmark |
| Joon-Hong Seok | NCSoft | Korea |
| Gillian Smith | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | USA |
| Matthew Stephenson | Maastricht University | Netherlands |
| Shoshannah Tekofsky | Freelance Researcher in AI and Video Games | Netherlands |
| Sila Temsiririrkkul | Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | Japan |
| Alexander Zook | Blizzard Entertainment | USA |