https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa9jnn/why-is-steve-bannon-giving-a-keynote-speech-about-nationalism-at-an-academic-tech-conference

On October 26, the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE) announced a new keynote speaker—former head of Breitbart News and White House Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon.

It’s an odd pick for ACE, a conference where experts in fields such as robotics, artificial intelligence, and game design gather to present research results, demo projects, and share ideas. Bannon is a controversial pick because he helped get Donald Trump elected and was an architect of many of his nationalist and far-right policies; earlier this year, Bannon was invited and then disinvited from the New Yorker Festival. While Bannon does have a background running World of Warcraft gold farms for a startup and has been involved in a wide variety of peculiar tech projects, in the recent past he's been known primarily for being involved in politics and media, not the topics that ACE generally talks about, making the choice stranger.