gamescom congress Present Bigger Politician Debate and Full Programme
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With the two main topics of 'Games and Artificial Intelligence' and 'Games and Democracy', this year’s gamescom congress is going to be bigger in space and scope. With the programme now online, this year’s political participants are also booked now: Franziska Giffey, Fabian Mehring, Michael Kellner, Nathanael Liminski and Renate Nikolay of the European Commission.
Over 100 speakers are going to be part of gamescom congress on Thursday, 22 August on eight different stages in the new Confex at the West part of Koelnmesse. It’s going to be the biggest congress so far, owing to the new amounts of space the Confex brings to the (debate) table. Even the political discussion battle has been broadened by including a EU politician in addition to the usual German ones.
Premieres at the former Debatt(l)e Royale
The political participants of the traditional Debatt(l)e Royale are always eagerly awaited. However, the former Debatt(l)e Royale is just a "normal" political panel this year, but the participants are official now: This year’s participants are Franziska Giffey (Senator for Economic Affairs, Energy and Public Enterprises and Mayor of Berlin), Michael Kellner, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Nathanael Liminski (Minister for Federal and European Affairs, International Affairs and Media of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and Head of the State Chancellery) and Fabian Mehring (Bavaria's State Minister for Digital Affairs). For the first time, the debate features a Bavarian politician. For another political format, Renate Nikolay (Deputy Director-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology of the European Commission) is also confirmed.
Over 100 Speakers in the Schedule
The programme of this year’s congress features a big range of topics and people from different ranges of the industry as well. Notable highlighted speakers are Prof Dr Dr Rudolf Thomas Inderst from IU International University, Daniel Stolz and Jasmin Käßer from broadcaster SWR, Ahmet Murat Kılıç and Bediz Büke İren Yıldızca from the Council of Europe and Alessandro Soriani from the University of Bologna, Louisa Keight from the environmental protection initiative "Playing for the Planet Alliance" and Shirin Kasraeian from the Bavarian State Centre for Political Education. The full programme can be found here and is continuously updated with more talks. For the first time, the gamescom congress is also integrated into the official gamescom biz app.
"In the diverse and exciting programme of the gamescom congress, this year's key topics are particularly noteworthy: 'Games and Artificial Intelligence' addresses the current technological innovation that will change all our lives. At the congress, some of the world's leading experts on the topic will explain the role games play in this and how AI will in turn change game development. 'Games and Democracy', the second focus, emphasises the extensive potential of computer and video games to effectively communicate socially relevant topics with their unique strengths. With these two important and highly topical focal themes, the gamescom congress once again impressively demonstrates its topicality and relevance as well as the enormous potential of games for all areas of life," says Felix Falk, Managing Director of game - Association of the German Games Industry, the co-organiser of gamescom.
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