GAME DEVS + RAPID PROTOTYPING

Core Ecosystem Benefits

These are the fundamental goals we ask of ourselves and our partners

within all of our actions and activities, as we tackle hard problems and seek their solutions.

We create spaces where developers, industry leaders, students and experts connect in meaningful ways. These relationships often evolve into lasting friendships, partnerships, mentorships, and collaborations.

Our events must highlight the strengths that define a region—By showcasing local talent and organizations we elevate our cities, counties and communities in a positive and unique ways onto a national and global stage.

Recruitment, Retention & Refinement

Our jams give developers a chance to sharpen their skills in a fast, creative environment while companies can provide stimulating experiences that help retain their talent. At the same time, sponsors and mentors can spot emerging talent in action, creating natural pathways for recruitment and team growth.

You turn ideas into reality. Whether you build immersive games, develop cutting-edge software, or craft innovative tech solutions, your skills bring visions to life. Over an intense weekend, you’ll join forces with experts, mentors, and innovators to tackle challenges, prototype rapidly, and create something amazing from the ground up.

New to game jams, hackathons, or tech events? This is your chance to dive in, learn, and create alongside experienced developers, mentors, and industry pros. No matter your skill level, you’ll gain hands-on experience, build your portfolio, this is a safe place to fail or success and discover just how much you can accomplish in one weekend.

You know the lay of the land, of the industry, or the hard aspects of conflict, war and maintaining peace. Have you been in the field as active military or supported our guardians, warfighters, and defenders? The devs don't know what you know. We need you to guide our teams as they rapidly prototype solutions.

Building things the smart way is already hard, with limited time is even harder. If you are an expert in the  tools, devices, software, platforms and methods that can make solutions happen we need you to help guide the devs building under pressure.

You make innovation happen. You will be in front of highly skilled, trained talent, have your brand on full display and fully integrated into the weekend. Have a technology you want some R&D experimented on? Have a challenge you want others to take a stab at? Want to highlight your brand or tech? We need you!

General Categories of Interest

1. Mission-Ready

AI Training

AI Familiarization Through Interactive Assistants



Defense will be exposed to and provided with increasing levels of AI-based tools to support the highly evolving complexity of their defense domains. This will include conversational AI-based ‘personal assistants’ that make intelligence, training material, publications and manuals more interactive and accessible, and that increases the ease and speed of finding important and often time sensitive information.

However, many will need to learn how to use, interact, and affectively access the growing amounts of information available to them through these new tools. Create a game play that provides opportunities for warfighters to interact with various types of advanced AI-based assistants that allows for the growth and reinforcement of use strategies along with developing greater comfort with the use of the technology.

2. Team AI:

Trust and Tactics
Calibrating Trust with AI Teammates

Defense need to be able to best calibrate Trust with AI Teammates: Create game play that provides opportunities for players to build strategies to work effectively with AI teammates and agents within dynamic decision-making domains.

The game play should reinforce and reward effective outcomes based on mitigation of complacency, mistrust, and distrust issues.

3. Cognitive Load

Combat

Command & Decision under information overload

Defense need opportunities to practice decision making in information saturated environments.

Create a strategy game play (single and/or multiplayer) that reinforces effective information exchange (input and output), task delegation, and timeliness of outcome in a data-driven, information saturated context.

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