In this episode the team talk about their highlights and personal favourites from the JALTCALL 2025 Conference held at Tokyo University of Science (Katsushika Campus) from July 18th to 20th. This year we had 15 workshops, 26 poster presentations, 129 regular presentations, 2 forums, and 2 keynote speakers. With 286 participants the conference was a very good success, and we thank everyone for coming and sharing their great ideas with the community.
Highlights and favourites included the keynotes by Glenn Stockwell and Mathias Schulze, Gordon Wilson's AI workshop, and posters by Mehrasa Alizadeh, Yan Deng, and Clare Kaneko. And of course presentations by Naomi Fujishima & Junko Otoshi, Paul Daniels, Takako Aikawa, and more.
Stay tuned for the latest interview coming soon with Gordon Wilson and his AI companion demonstration, and our next live events at JALT International, where we will have a workshop on podcasting, as well as an open CALL forum, both on Saturday, November 1st.
Until then, enjoy the show, everyone. 

August 2025 Studio Talk Conference Favourites with Brian, Geoff, Robert R, and Luc

In this episode Brian Gallagher interviews Gordon Wilson, Associate Professor at HanNan University in Osaka. Gordon is an amazing advocate for Artificial Intelligence research, and he presented a workshop at JALTCALL 2025 conference on exactly this entitled "Building Our Replacements: An AI-Driven, Personalized, Anytime, Anywhere Language Teaching Expert System" 
He talks about inspiration, inclusion, creation, analysis, interaction, knowledge boards, scarcities, and personalization, as well as development and digital companions.
His outlook on AI is incredibly positive and in stark contrast to more cautionary and conservative speakers we may have heard in recent times. His positivity is something that we all need a good dose of to counter the worry that many people have about AI, and he explains well the opportunities that we can have if we can be open to more ideas. In this recording he demonstrates how to harness the benefits of AI as a companion to our lives as an assistive technology with a live walkthrough of interactions with an artificial intelligence that he has been developing through oral conversation. A first for our podcast.
Enjoy the show.

Gordon Wilson and 2 AI Conversations, interview w Brian G Sept 2025

Japan association for Language Teaching (JALT) Computer Assisted Language Learning Special Interest Group. (JALTCALL)

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