Speakers

Marek Rosa

Marek Rosa

CEO & Founder
Keen Software House

Marek Rosa is the CEO and CTO of GoodAI, a general artificial intelligence R&D company, and the CEO and founder of Keen Software House, an independent game development studio best known for its best-seller Space Engineers (4 million copies sold). Both companies are based in Prague, Czech Republic.

Marek has been interested in artificial intelligence since childhood. He started his career as a programmer but later transitioned to a leadership role. After the success of the Keen Software House titles, Marek was able to personally fund GoodAI, his new general AI research company building human-level artificial intelligence.

GoodAI was founded in January 2014, with a $10 Million investment from Marek, it now has over 30 research scientists, engineers, and consultants working across its divisions.

At this time, Marek is developing Space Engineers, as well as leading daily research and development on recursive self-improvement based general AI architecture - Badger.

SOME OF THE GAMES Marek WORKED ON

Space Engineers
Medieval Engineers
Leadership

From programmer to CEO

A talk on transforming my mindset, from "programmer mode" to "CEO mode". A change to help me become a more effective leader and help me avoid getting stuck in the "I can do it best" mindset.