Connections Online 2024 Registration Open

Badge registration is now open for Connections Online 2024, with event registration to follow within a day or so.

Distributed Wargaming — Recent Lessons Learned

With the onset of COVID, distributed wargaming — always of peripheral interest to the professional wargaming community, but rarely its focus — suddenly took center stage. Thrown into the proverbial deep end of the pool, wargaming institutions adapted. Let’s discuss how it happened, what worked, what didn’t, and what we learned from the experience.

And what we do next time.

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Core Events

Date/Time Title Length
16 April – 10:00 Introduction & Distributed Wargaming: Some opening thoughts 60
16 April – 11:00 Distributed Wargaming Best Practices 120
16 April – 13:00 Peter Perla and the Art and Science of Professional Gaming 120
16 April – 15:00 Zenobia Awards Panel Presentation 60
17 April – 10:00 Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory Wargaming Division 60
17 April – 11:00 Using Discord to Provide the Kriegsspiel Experience 120
17 April – 13:00 CNN Academy- Building Future Journalists 120
17 April – 15:00 Analytical Wargaming with SWIFT-G 60
18 April – 10:00 Human Factors and Cognitive Ergonomics 60
18 April – 11:00 Challenges with Online Multiplayer Events 120
18 April – 13:00 Urban Warfare Wargaming: Past, Present, Future 120
18 April – 15:00 Your Successful Professional Wargaming Career 60

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CONNECTIONS ONLINE (CNX ONL) is the premier online/distributed conference for the wargaming practitioner community. This is our 4th annual conference (held in mid-April each year).

The conference is structured around 3 days of core events, covering 6 hours each. Outside of these core event hours, extended events may include additional seminars, game sessions, or social events.


About Brant

Brant is the Editorial Director of Armchair Dragoons and host/producer of the Mentioned in Dispatches podcast. He has over a decade of uniform time, and over 25 years of game design experience in RPGs, tabletop wargames, and professional training sims. He leads the team that runs the Wargame HQ at Origins, the ACDC virtual convention, and the annual Fall Assembly convention in North Carolina. He is also part of the organizing committee behind the Connections Online conference.
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