Dudi Pelesדודי פלס
03 · Lectures

Lectures

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LEC · 001

Gifts and Generative AI

Lecture · 2025

Long before my book came out I started using generative AI heavily to make gifts. In late 2025 I gave a talk about it at a conference on generative AI, where for the first time I spoke about my book in front of an audience.

Have a look at the deck.

The opening slide of the talk, a wrapped gift inside a colourful illustration made with generative AI
LEC · 002

The History of Computer Games

Lecture · 2026

For close to 20 years I've been giving talks on the history of computer games, and almost every year I update the talk because I keep being asked to give it again… every year it shifts and renews itself.

If the subject interests you, you'll find here a talk in two parts that I gave at the school of the arts at Kibbutzim College (in 2026).

The opening slide of the deck, the title above a wall of dozens of glowing game screens
LEC · 003

Video Games in Rehabilitation

Lecture · 2024

As the years went by my work with computer games narrowed more and more onto impact — teaching, politics, entrepreneurship.. so when the National Institute for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation asked me in 2024 to give a talk to therapists on games and rehabilitation, I couldn't pass it up… The talk opens by taking apart the stigmas around computer games and goes on to show the ways they're already being used in rehabilitation.

Have a look at the deck.

The opening slide of the deck, a patient in a VR headset in a rehabilitation lab lit in purple
LEC · 004

A MOOC on Games in Learning

Lecture · 2018

In 2015 I was asked to compress my whole course on games in learning into a single lesson in a MOOC that every education student at the college would take. It went well, and in 2018 it was produced again for Campus IL and an even wider audience.

My guess is that tens of thousands of teachers have already watched my interactive lesson on the subject. You're welcome to watch it too.

A frame from the lesson, Dudi Peles speaking to camera beside the figure that 28.5 percent of teenagers in Israel play for over four hours a day
LEC · 005

The History of Computer Games, for Kids

Lecture · 2018

When my daughter was in second grade she asked me to come to her class and give a talk. So I adapted one of my talks on the history of computer games for a room full of eight-year-olds. I have to say, it was an amazing experience.

I gave it again in 2021, to a general audience at a Kibbutzim College event — and that is the time that was recorded.

You're welcome to watch the recording and have a look at the deck.

The opening slide of the deck, Mario sitting on a bench playing a Nintendo Switch
LEC · 006

The Story of Games for Peace

Lecture · 2020–2025

Games for Peace, a nonprofit that brings Jewish and Arab teenagers together through computer games, has been part of my life since 2013. In the years since I've told its story in front of an audience dozens of times.

You'll find two recordings here — one in English from 2020 and one in Hebrew from 2021 — and beside them the current deck, from July 2025. I hope you enjoy the story of this organization.

The opening slide of the deck, two Minecraft characters standing together above an open landscape
LEC · 007

Games for Good

Lecture · 2021

A talk I gave at the Kavim VeMachshavot nonprofit in 2021, on the ways computer games can be put to good use.

You're welcome to watch the recording and have a look at the deck.

The opening slide of the deck, Mario and Luigi figurines standing hand in hand on a path