by Armchair Dragoons PAO, 31 March 2026
Registration is now open for Connections Online, the professional wargaming conference, co-sponsored by The Armchair Dragoons, will be held from 20-25 April 2026. Core events will be held 21-23 April.
This year’s theme is Wargaming Soft Factors
The event schedule is not final, as there are a few presenters that still owe us final event descriptions that meet with the registration system length constraints. Those will be updated as soon as we receive them.
We still have the Monday afternoon “Infomercial Day” for companies and contractors to showcase their services.
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.
That doesn’t mean our extended events aren’t awesome! Some great presentations just weren’t an option during our core event hours because of schedule constraints.
| Event | DTG | Mins |
|---|---|---|
| Teaching Wargaming: Going from nothing to something | Mon Apr 20 at 1100 | 60 |
| Shadows and Steel: Designing an Asymetric Warfare Game | Mon Apr 20 at 1300 | 60 |
| Vedette Consulting | Mon Apr 20 at 1400 | 60 |
| Valens / Expert Theory | Mon Apr 20 at 1500 | 60 |
| HexWar | Mon Apr 20 at 1600 | 60 |
| Incident Response Game | Mon Apr 20 at 1700 | 60 |
| VAK Consulting | Mon Apr 20 at 1800 | 60 |
| Defining, Describing, and Measuring Soft Factors | Tue Apr 21 at 1000 | 60 |
| Soft factors in Professional Games: No Easy Solution | Tue Apr 21 at 1100 | 120 |
| Popularizing wargaming – the Sakarya Kriegsspiel | Tue Apr 21 at 1300 | 60 |
| SCUDHunt and Shared Situational Awareness | Tue Apr 21 at 1500 | 60 |
| Social Hour | Tue Apr 21 at 1600 | 120 |
| The Polish Light Infantry Wargame | Wed Apr 22 at 0900 | 60 |
| Wargaming in NATO & Standardization | Wed Apr 22 at 1000 | 60 |
| Simulating Morale in Kriegsspiel | Wed Apr 22 at 1100 | 60 |
| Gaming Non-Traditional Security Issues | Wed Apr 22 at 1200 | 60 |
| Playtesting Wargames – What, How, and Why? | Wed Apr 22 at 1300 | 120 |
| Modern Augury? Iterative Analytic Wargaming in the AI Age | Wed Apr 22 at 1500 | 60 |
| Insights on Running Serious Games for Schools | Wed Apr 22 at 1600 | 120 |
| Introducing Games Without Losing Professional Credibility | Wed Apr 22 at 1800 | 60 |
| Matrix Gaming Soft Factors at Swedish Defence Univ | Thu Apr 23 at 0900 | 60 |
| AI and the Future of Soft Factor Modeling | Thu Apr 23 at 1000 | 60 |
| Wargaming Civilian Harm Mitigation | Thu Apr 23 at 1100 | 120 |
| Soft Factors in Historical Analysis | Thu Apr 23 at 1300 | 120 |
| Wargaming Professional Society | Thu Apr 23 at 1500 | 60 |
| Exploring pol/mil/diplomatic nexus for coalition warfare | Fri Apr 24 at 0900 | 120 |
| Easy Wins: Making Simple AI Games for Training | Fri Apr 24 at 1200 | 60 |
Attendees will receive the link to the conference Discord server once they are registered.
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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