The Connections UK 2018 conference programme looks like this:
Day 1. Tuesday 4 September
The programme includes Lunch from 1.00pm to 2.00pm and Supper from 6.00pm to 7.00pm.
- Introduction to wargaming for newcomers (This will be a day-long course, interleaving example games and presentations):
- Introduction: Why Wargame?
- Example Game: Tactical Kriegsspiel.
- Types of Wargame.
- Example Game: COTS Game.
- Wargaming Effects.
- Example Game: Matrix Game.
- Concluding Discussion OR
- Megagame (This will be an all-day game on a contemporary topic)
- Component production (An informal evening session)
- Introduction: Relating the conference to the MOD Wargaming Handbook.
- Design (Matt Caffrey)
- Dilemmas and Trade-Offs in wargame design (Phil Sabin)
- Game Design as a form of Journalism (Brian Train)
- Challenges in Wargaming Design (Anna Nettleship)
- Development (Graham Longley-Brown)
- Analysis in experimentation wargaming (Dr Nigel Paling and Col Dickie Taylor)
- Developing the KCL Crisis Simulation (Nick Reynolds)
- Developing a High North nested games family (Dave Manley and Jeremy Smith)
- Model calibration (Volko Ruhnke)
- Games Fair Introduction (Phil Sabin)
- Games Fair Session 1 (includes a drinks break from 3.30pm to 4.00pm)
- Keynote addresses
- Wargames and systems thinking (Volko Ruhnke) and
- Creativity in game design and mechanics (Brian Train)
- Games Fair Session 2
- Execution (Howard Body)
- Play as Pedagogy (Aggie Hirst)
- Wargaming case study: 'Cheese, butter & milk powder' (Erik Elgersma)
- Empowering Defense wargaming through automation (Dr Karl Selke)
- Validation (Brian Train)
- Selecting, playing and assessing a COTS wargame (A Distant Plain) (Lt Col Neil Stevens & Lt Col Ranald Shephard)
- Wargaming and reality: a case study of the Ukraine conflict 2014-2018 (John Curry)
- Refinement (Graham Longley-Brown)
- Wargame refinement (Phil Pournelle)
- Wargaming lessons identified: a Senior Officer's perspective (Lt Gen (Retd) Sir David Capewell)
- Analysis (Colin Marston)
- US/DoD analysis best and worst practice (Lt Col Rob Burks)
- Designing analytical wargames with a view to successful data capture, management and analysis (Peter Williams)
- In the eye of the beholder? Cognitive challenges in wargame analysis (Rex Brynen)
- Facilitation Clinic: A panel session (Graham Longley-Brown, Rex Brynen, Jim Wallman, Tom Mouat, and Paul Strong)
I will be taking part in the Megagame on Day 1 and running a game during the Games Fair Session 1 on Day 2. Other than that, I will be sitting back, listening and learning.
A tasty menu
ReplyDeleteGeordie an Exiled FoG,
DeleteThe proof will be in the eating! (I suspect that some bits might be a bit intellectually indigestible.)
All the best,
Bob