by Armchair Dragoons PAO, 20 April 2026
Connection Online 2026 opens today with a full slate of extended events, before kicking into gear tomorrow when our core events start.
This year’s theme is Wargaming Soft Factors and our core events are largely centered around that topic.
- Tuesday-Thursday from 10am-4pm US Eastern time are the “core” events where we focus fire on the theme, and other seminars or topics we want to highlight.
- Extended events, including those proposed to the committee from other presenters, start on Monday, and will continue all week long, either before or after the core events.
- On Monday afternoon, we have our second ever “Infomercial Day” for companies and contractors to showcase their services, with four new participants lined up.
Registration is now open for Connections Online and attendees will receive the link to the conference Discord server in their registration confirmation email.
| Event | DTG | Mins |
|---|---|---|
| Teaching Wargaming: Going from nothing to something | 20 Apr at 11:00 | 60 |
| Lessons from the Australian Frontier Wars for today. | 20 Apr at 12:00 | 60 |
| Shadows and Steel: Designing an Asymetric Warfare Game | 20 Apr at 13:00 | 60 |
| Vedette Consulting | 20 Apr at 14:00 | 60 |
| Valens / Expert Theory | 20 Apr at 15:00 | 60 |
| HexWar | 20 Apr at 16:00 | 60 |
| Incident Response Game | 20 Apr at 17:00 | 60 |
| Defining, Describing, and Measuring Soft Factors | 21 Apr at 10:00 | 60 |
| Soft factors in Professional Games: No Easy Solution | 21 Apr at 11:00 | 120 |
| Popularizing wargaming – the Sakarya Kriegsspiel | 21 Apr at 13:00 | 60 |
| Best Practices of Net Assessment and Wargaming for National | 21 Apr at 14:00 | 60 |
| SCUDHunt and Shared Situational Awareness | 21 Apr at 15:00 | 60 |
| Social Hour | 21 Apr at 16:00 | 120 |
| Battlegroup Clash Baltics | 21 Apr at 18:00 | 180 |
| Wargaming in NATO & Standardization | 22 Apr at 10:00 | 60 |
| Simulating Morale in Kriegsspiel | 22 Apr at 11:00 | 60 |
| Gaming Non-Traditional Security Issues | 22 Apr at 12:00 | 60 |
| Playtesting Wargames – What, How, and Why? | 22 Apr at 13:00 | 120 |
| Modern Augury? Iterative Analytic Wargaming in the AI Age | 22 Apr at 15:00 | 60 |
| Insights on Running Serious Games for Schools | 22 Apr at 16:00 | 120 |
| Matrix Gaming Soft Factors at Swedish Defence Univ | 23 Apr at 09:00 | 60 |
| AI and the Future of Soft Factor Modeling | 23 Apr at 10:00 | 60 |
| Wargaming Civilian Harm Mitigation | 23 Apr at 11:00 | 120 |
| Soft Factors in Historical Analysis | 23 Apr at 13:00 | 120 |
| Wargaming Professional Society | 23 Apr at 15:00 | 60 |
| Fail-safe — risk-taking in gaming and mental health | 24 Apr at 11:00 | 60 |
| Easy Wins: Making Simple AI Games for Training | 24 Apr at 12:00 | 60 |
| Suggested Approaches to Wargaming Intel/Counter-Intel | 24 Apr at 13:00 | 60 |
Event schedule as of 13 April, 1600 EDT
Connections Online is an all-online professional conference for wargaming practitioners from the defense/NatSec, intel, NGO, and academic realms, as well as those who support and may be interested in joining them.
- Connections Online archive of past conferences is available here
- Connections Online can be followed on Twxtter, BlueSky, Mastodon, Facebook, and LinkedIn
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