The aim of Connections UK CIC is 'To advance and preserve the art, science and application of wargaming'.
We do this by :
- Holding a Conference at least once a year.
- Maintaining a curated repository of previous conference proceedings, useful links and documents.
The main effort is our annual conference, Connections UK, which brings together a mix of practitioners, designers, analysts, academics, educators, and government personnel - in fact anyone with an interest in professional wargaming or serious games.
The Conference helps bring together:
- Experienced designers and practitioners who can share their knowledge, activities, experience within the community of practice.
- Those wishing to explore and develop their knowldege and skills in serious gaming.
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| Connections UK CIC Directors |
Connections UK is a Community Interest Company(CIC) (Company Number 12359256), which is a type of company in the UK that is designed for social enterprises where there is a wish to use any profits and assets for the public good of the community. Any surpluses are reinvested in futhering our aims. Directors receive no remuneration arising from their role.
Our Directors bring decades of serious gaming and wargaming experience, from within the Defence, Security, Corporate, Academic and Educational fields.
Graham Longley-Brown is a consultant with LBS Consultancy dedicated to successful professional wargames.
Colin Marston is a Senior Principal Analyst for the Defence Wargaming Centre at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory.
Tom Mouat is a serving officer at the Defence Academy of the UK where he is Head of the Defence Modelling and Simulation School.
Jim Wallman is a professional game designer from Stone Paper Scissors specialising in bespoke serious game design.
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Connections UK Conference Coordination Team |
The Conference Directors are supported by a team of enthuisatic volunteers, who also bring varied experience and viewpoints:
Rob Grayston is an expert in Emergincy Planning & Resilience, and is a serious game design consultant.
Fraser Patrick is a serious games designer and intelligence analysis trainer with Shortest Path Training Ltd
Evan D'Allesandro is an academic wargame designer, currently a doctoral student at King's College London
Hannah Kuperman is a wargame design consultant working with Vedette Consulting Ltd and Stone Paper Scissors Ltd
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The Connections UK Consultative Committee exists to support the Organising Committee of Connections UK in the following important ways:
- To act as critical friends and assist the Organising Committee in drawing on diversity of thought.
- Supporting the Organising Committee as we develop themes and programmes.
- Representing the wider views of senior actors in our community of interest.
The committee is completely disbanded every three years and reconstituted with new members in order to refresh our sources of advice and draw on new perspectives and insights. This will happen next in 2027.
Seb Bae from Georgetown University
David Banks from King's College London
Rex Brynen from McGill University.
Matt Caffrey the guiding light behind the flagship Connections (USA) professional wargaming conference.
Stephen Downes-Martin from the US Naval War College.
Cath Jones from the University of St Andrews
Phil Sabin formerly of King's College London.
Alex VInce from the Cabinet Office.
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| Financial and Other Support |
Connections UK CIC would like to acknowledge the support from Vedette Consulting Limited, and Qinetiq, whose donations have allowed us to provide reduced attendance fees for students and those less able to pay.
We would also like to acknowledge the unpaid support of GLB Consulting Limited, DSTL, Stone Paper Scissors Ltd, and the Defence Academy of the UK, who have been essential in enabling the conference.
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| GDPR Compliance Statement
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Privacy Notice: We are committed to respecting your privacy. This notice is to explain how we will use the personal information that we collect about you.
Personal Information: We maintain three sets of personal data relating to the Connections UK Conference: Personal biographic data relating to Speakers, Conference questionnaire quality feedback data, and a Mailing list for the purposes of updating people who have expressed an interest about the Connections UK Conference as to the dates and plans for the Conference. The biographic data is provided by the Speakers and published on www.professionalwargaming.co.uk website, with backups of the site retained by the web manager. The Conference questionnaire quality feedback is deliberately anonymised, but some items of personal information are collected for demographic purposes to improve future conferences. The Mailing list contains names and email addresses of those people who have provided that detail to the conference organisers, along with any additional information as to their organisation and specific conference related interests, so we can better design the conference agenda; and is maintained by the Conference coordinator.
Special Categories of Personal Information: We do not collect any special category information.
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Disclosure of your Personal Information: We do not share your personal information with Third Parties.
Contacting Us: If you have any questions concerning your personal data, please use the contact page here.
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