Sarah Le-Fevre:

Welcome everyone to this panel session on using games and gamification to explore and address the multitude of issues and opportunities for change around the climate crisis. Over the next three hours, we have two great international panels for you with experts from the UK, Sweden, Argentina, the US, Egypt and France. And my co-host joining from India. Plus an hour of external speakers from the second most exciting climate change event happening today, TEDx Countdown. This event was going to be part of that, but panel discussions are not permitted for a TEDx event. However, we do have a license to do a TEDx Countdown event later in the year.

Sarah Le-Fevre:

So watch out for announcements about on LinkedIn soon. We should probably be featuring some of the panelists here today. We are recording this session which will be available for you to watch later on as well as LIVE now. So if you're not happy with your face appearing on a recording, potentially then do turn off your videos. If you went to gallery view in Zoom, you will be able to see all of our panelists ready and waiting to start the session. And I would recommend that you do that now. We have a little PowerPoint running at the moment with some quotes from some rare favorite games theorists, but as soon as we start the panel proper, we will turn that off. And then you'll be able to see the panelists in front of you.

Sarah Le-Fevre:

My name's Sarah Le-Fevre, I'll be facilitating both of the panels today. I'm a Games-Based Learning professional with a specific interest in using games and gamification to tackle systemic wicked problems. I also edit and run Ludogogy, an online magazine, covering all things, Games-Based Learning, gamification and gainful design. And I've met many of today's panelists through the micro scene as they have between them written numerous articles for it.

Sarah Le-Fevre:

I'm greatly assisted today by Laxman Murugappan, who is acting as my technical co-host. Laxman founded his business Play-Think-Transform in 2016. He's a certified LEGO Serious Play facilitator and games design expert. He co-created with his clients using storytelling, experiential learning design, customized board games and LEGO Serious Play to help them achieve a multitude of outcomes. These include shifting mindsets, culture transformation, and instilling empathy. Laxman is not going to change his name in the meeting to Q and A.

Sarah Le-Fevre:

So if you have any questions to put to the panel which will be answered towards the end of this session, please use the chat to send them to the Q and A. Also we've made this a zoom meeting rather than a webinar, because we want you, the audience, to join in not just by posing questions, but also feel free to chat amongst each other, post links to all the participants to useful resources as they occur to join the conversation. And then we can all copy and paste at the end to maximize the value we get from this event. Please though, do not unmute yourselves, unless Laxman specifically asks you to as part of the Q and A at the end of the session. So I think we can lose the PowerPoint now and start the panel discussion properly.

Sarah Le-Fevre:

Our first panel for today is Dr. Dave Eng, who's an intellectual and creative educator, designer and researcher who combines games, theory and technology. Dave has played games for most of his life. As a result, he studies games, design and teaches others how to use games for education and learning. Dave serves as a faculty member, an educational technologist at New York University School of Professional Studies. And he also hosts the podcast, Experience Points and consults as University XP on Games-Based Learning. A fun fact about Dave is he's been seasick in every time zone.

Sarah Le-Fevre:

Nick Burk is the co-director and minority owner of Blue Ocean Analytics, LLC. Blue Ocean Analytics conducts assessments, simulations, and integrations for worst case disaster management planning in sectors, including water, health, and civil protection. BOA has a special focus on integrating the severe impacts of climate change into its simulation design. Often drawing on emerging literature in the fields of climatology and paleoclimatology. BOA is a woman and minority-owned business. Co-founded in 2018 by two disaster management professionals who experienced the ravages of climate catalyzed flooding on vulnerable communities. So welcome Nick.

Sarah Le-Fevre:

Victoria Ichizli Bartels is a top writer on Medium, on topics, gaming and ideas. Author of 18 books and instructor, and a consultant with a background in Semiconductor Physics and the electronic engineering in which she has a PhD, also information technology and business development. Well, being a non-gamer, Victoria came up with the term Self-Gamification. Again, full of playful self-help approach, bringing anthropology, kaizen, and gamification-based methods together to increase the quality of life. She approaches all areas of her life in this way. And due to the fun she has while turning everything into her life into games, she attends never to stop designing and planning them.

Sarah Le-Fevre:

Terry Pearce is a learning experience designer, specializing in Games-Based Learning and gamification for learning. He founded his business, Untold Play, to explore The Power of Play in unlocking human potential to learn and grow.

Sarah Le-Fevre:

And lastly, but by no means least Corrado De Sanctis, is Senior Agile Coach at Lloyd's Bank, and has been involved in some of the largest enterprise transformations, international level, and in different industries during the recent years. Corrado is a well-known member of the Agile Community in London where he's the community manager for Lean Agile Delivery and Coaching Network and Digital Transformations in London Meetup groups which between them have over 3,200 members. He's also the founder of SAM, Scrum Agile Milano. Corrado, strongly believes in experiential learning. And he's the creator, facilitator and player of Agile Series Games and uses them to coach people and teams at all levels of organizations. Welcome panel. Thank you so much for joining me today.