From artificial intelligence and industrial applications to use in schools: Nowhere else is the potential of games for economic, technological and social progress shown as broadly as at the gamescom congress. In around 40 program points, the conference will present what games can do for education, science, business and culture, as well as for our social interaction.

The congress will be opened by Sarah Brin, Head of Product and Growth at "Kythera AI" from Edinburgh, Scotland. In her keynote address, "Can AI be Creative?", she will shed light on the creative potential of artificial intelligence. Afterwards, Sasha MacKinnon, CEO of Mino Games, from Montreal, will show how even smaller development teams can use artificial intelligence to better compete in the market. The presentation by Jon Radoff (Beamable) will also focus on the potential of artificial intelligence in game development.

What modern youth protection needs will be discussed at the USK's youth protection panel. Lisa Paus, Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, Thomas Kowollik, Vice President, Consumer Sales Organization EMEA at Microsoft and Lorenzo von Petersdorff, Deputy Managing Director of the Entertainment Software Self-Regulation Body (USK) will speak.

A panel with Michael Kellner, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection, Lars Janssen (Plaion), Linda Kruse (The Good Evil) and Iris Plöger (Member of the Executive Board, Federation of German Industries) will discuss "Spillover effects of games and games tech into other industries".

The presentation by Lieutenant Colonel Cordula P. of the German Armed Forces Command and Staff College is about gamification in the training of military executives, using the example of the app "Wonderland" and the Microsoft Hololens 2 for training agile project management methods.

The fact that complex gamification projects can also go wrong and which mistakes can be avoided will be explained by Sebastian Bender (Wolpertinger Games) in his "Gamification F***-Up Stories".

The political highlight at the end of the congress day is the "Debatt(l)e Royale". Here, top politicians will face the questions of the games community and take a stand on the most important topics of games and digital politics. On the podium: Franziska Giffey (SPD), Nathanael Liminski (CDU), Emily Büning (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) and Bijan Djir-Sarai (FDP).