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Connections UK 2018 Programme and Speaker Bios. The final programme and consolidated speaker bios are available here BBC Report. For a short Radio 4 broadcast about the Megagame on Day One of the conference: Please click here. Conference Report. The PAXsims Blog about the conference is here, and the Wargaming Miscellany Blog report is here. Programme. The programme was as follows: Day 1. Tuesday 4 September 2018. Introduction to wargaming for newcomers, by Tom Mouat: Presentation and on-line Reading Pack. There is no audio for the course. A Green and Pleasant Land Megagame, by Jim Wallman. Some event photos. Website here. Component production, by Tom Mouat: Presentation here and Audio here. Day 2. Wednesday 5 September 2018. Introduction by Professor Wyn Bowen. Audio here. Relating the conference to the MOD Wargaming Handbook by Graham Longley-Brown. Audio here. Design. Introduction by Matt Caffrey. Audio here. Dilemmas and Trade-Offs in Wargame Design. Professor Phil Sabin. Audio here. Game Design as a form of Journalism. Brian Train. Audio here. Challenges in Wargaming Design. Anna Nettleship. Audio here. Development. Graham Longley-Brown. Analysis in Experimentation Wargaming. Dr Nigel Paling, and Col Dickie Taylor. Audio here. Developing the KCL Crisis Simulation. Slides with Notes. Nick Reynolds. Audio here. Developing a High North nested games family. Dave Manley and Jeremy Smith. Audio here. Model calibration. Volko Ruhnke. Audio here. Games Fair: Brochure and details of the Games. Keynote address. Wargames and systems thinking. Volko Ruhnke with Brian Train. Audio here. Day 3. Thursday 6 September 2018. Execution. Howard Body. Play as Pedagogy. Aggie Hirst. Sorry - no audio... Wargaming case study: 'Cheese, butter & milk powder'. Erik Elgersma. Audio here. Empowering Defense wargaming through automation. Slides with Notes. Dr Karl Selke. Audio here. Automation Demonstrations. Colin Marston. Validation. Brian Train. Selecting, playing and assessing a COTS wargame (A Distant Plain). Lt Col Neil Stevens & Lt Col Ranald Shephard. Audio here. Wargaming and reality: a case study of the Ukraine conflict 2014-2018. John Curry. Audio here. Wargame Refinement. Slides with Notes.Phil Pournelle. Audio here. Wargaming lessons identified; a Senior Officer's perspective. Lt Gen (Retd) Sir David Capewell. As is customary for Senior Officers, there is no audio. Analysis. Colin Marston. US/DoD analysis best and worst practice. Lt Col Rob Burks. Audio here. Designing analytical wargames with a view to successful data capture, management and analysis. Peter Williams. Audio here. In the eye of the beholder? Cognitive challenges in wargame analysis. Rex Brynen. Audio here. Facilitation Clinic (Audio only). A panel session with Graham Longley-Brown, Rex Brynen, Jim Wallman, Tom Mouat and Paul Strong. Closing Remarks. (Audio only). Professor Phil Sabin.