The King's Wargaming Network's annual Wargaming Week returns once again this year and features a range of activities that support the Wargaming Network's core mission of the expansion and democratization of wargaming as a method of inquiry.

This year's theme is focused on 'Wargaming Human Security' with panels and events that draw attention to how non-traditional security wargaming topics are modeled, studied, and understood through wargaming. Panels and moderated discussions will feature researchers and practitioners active in contemporary wargaming, while workshops and working groups will bring together academics who study wargaming or use wargaming in their research.

In addition, events will showcase the wargaming work taking place at King's, including wargames designed by the Network to inform dissertation and policy research, presentations of new wargaming research by staff and students, and a wargame design workshop for those who have never built a wargame before.

Wargaming Week 2026 Agenda

12 May

• Introductory Activities & Welcome Remarks
• Emerging Technologies & Wargaming Methodologies Panels
• Wargaming Education & Epistemology Panels
• Wargames in Practice Exposition
• Contemporary Wargaming Moderated Discussion
• Wargaming Network Welcome Reception

13 May

• Wargaming Network Strategic Analytic Wargame: Horizons
• Hosted Wargame Exposition
• Wargame Design Workshop, Dr. David Banks
• Naval & Non-State Wargaming Panels
• Historical Wargaming & Popular Conceptions Panels
• Research & Design Workshops
• Documentary Screening & Reception

14 May

• Data & Analysis in Wargaming Seminar
• Academic Working Group
• Peacegaming Exposition
• Contemporary Research in Wargaming Seminar
• Closing Remarks