ISAGA 2026 Stockholm
International Simulation and
Gaming Association’s (ISAGA) Conference 2026
22–25 June 2026 | Stockholm, Sweden
Conference Program
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Location: T1 Floor 4 |
| 9:00am - 10:00am |
Keynote address 2: Stefan Stenbom Location: T1 Learning in Total Defence: Civil–Military Wargaming and Command Exercises |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
Scientific Papers 2: Ethics and inclusion Location: T1 Instead of Trying to Solve It, Try to Understand It – Ethics in Simulation Games 11:00am - 11:30am Speaking for the Absent: From Value Expression to Hidden Goals in Two Gaming Simulations 11:30am - 12:00pm The Assembly: Designing a Role-playing Intervention to Foster Skills in Democratic Deliberation |
| 1:00pm - 2:30pm |
Scientific Papers 3: Crisis preparedness and resilience Location: T1 Training Crisis Management Resilience through Repeated Play of the Same Scenario: Design, Play and Facilitation challenges 1:30pm - 2:00pm Games Must Better Address Real Crises: A Manifesto 2:00pm - 2:30pm Developing a Training Programme to Increase Resilience Potential and Measuring its Educational Effects |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm |
Scientific Papers 4: Complex Systems Location: T1 SocioBalance: A Network-Based Simulation Game to Rank Links' Impact Strength in a Complex Social System 3:30pm - 4:00pm Scientists and the Science-Policy Interface. What competencies are utilized when scientists play a wickedly challenging energy transition game? 4:00pm - 4:30pm Towards a Pan-African Business Simulation Framework: A Bachelardian Epistemological Analysis of the PALOP Context |
| 4:30pm - 5:30pm |
ISAGA Member meeting: Part 1 Location: T1 |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Scientific Papers5 Location: T1 Megagames as Socio-Cultural Learning Systems: A Comparative Study of Distributed Meaning-Making in Complex Societal Games 9:30am - 10:00am Experiential Simulation of Mobility Policy Futures for Research-Informed Service Planning 10:00am - 10:30am Development of Web Application Development Experience Gaming Materials Based on the New Backward Design Method |
| 11:00am - 12:00pm |
Panel discussion: The richness of a life with gaming and simulation Location: T1 A panel discussion between some of the respected (and retired) members of the ISAGA community. Confirmed participation from: Markus Ulrich, Pieter van der Heijden |
| 1:00pm - 3:00pm |
Scientific Papers 6: Educational settings Location: T1 Learning Experience as Relevance-Making – Exemplified by a Serious Megagame about Sustainability Transformations 1:30pm - 2:00pm Tactical Decision Trajectories in Educational Naval Wargaming: An Interactional Analysis of Gameplay 2:00pm - 2:30pm Enhancing project management competencies through a simulation game 2:30pm - 3:00pm Virtual Reality–Supported Simulation Gaming for Education: Findings from a Prototype-Based Focus Group Study |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
Scientific Papers 7: Economics Location: T1 Trust Game Experiments with Active Inference: Modeling the Integration of Social and Economic Values 4:00pm - 4:30pm Congestion-Based Slot Pricing in a Railway Auction Game 4:30pm - 5:00pm Serious Games for Corporate Sustainability: Integrating Structured Review Results with an Exploratory Assessment of Practice-Oriented Simulations |
| 9:00am - 10:00am |
ISAGA Member meeting: Part 2 Location: T1 |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
Scientific Papers 8: Climate Location: T1 Climate change simulation/games: What we have and what we still need 11:00am - 11:30am Ideal or Obligation? How Societal Development Moderates the Effect of Thinking Style on Environmental Behavior in Simulated Society 11:30am - 12:00pm Playing with fire – assessing a serious game for climate awareness and risk preparedness in the cultural heritage sector |
| 1:00pm - 2:30pm |
Scientific Papers 9: Psychological aspects Location: T1 The Negative Effects of Wording in Facilitation on Participants 1:30pm - 2:00pm When Boundaries Flexibly Adapt: The Weeping Willow Model for Actor-Based Simulations in Contexts of Conflict 2:00pm - 2:20pm Experience-Based Complexity Processing in Serious Games: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of the World Climate Game |
| 2:30pm - 3:00pm |
Conference Closure Location: T1 Chair: Sebastiaan Meijer |
