Gaming Climate Change Course

Overview:

Gaming Climate Change Course will be a three-day program on developing and executing games on climate change and associated challenges. It will not be an introductory class on professional gaming; please see our other offerings for gaming-specific courses.

The instructors will be the Hon. Sharon Burke, who has had extensive experience with gaming climate change at the national level and has led climate change policy from senior positions within the Department of Defense; Dr. Ed McGrady who has executed games examining how systems react to climate decisions, including mitigation decisions; and Dr. Roger Mason who has extensive experience in both homeland security and state and local gaming for emergency response.

Objectives:

• Understand how the political and social environment, both in game and out of game affect climate gaming
• Integrating scientific, economic, and other data into climate games
• Games as a tool for affecting policy and planning for implementation
• Building effective games for policy, mitigation, and response

While no prior gaming experience is required, understanding of the basic concepts for professional games (how and why they are played, for example) would be useful. The class and instructors are also flexible, adapting in real time to class interests and objectives (e.g. if the class is interested in food security, we can discuss gaming food security).

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Agenda

Day 1	Introduction and Policy Games for Climate Change, The Honorable Sharon Burke
Day 2	Games for Mitigation and Strategy, Dr. Ed McGrady
Day 3	Games on adaptation and response, Dr. Roger Mason

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Instructors

Hon. Sharon E. Burke

Hon. Sharon E. Burke is the Founder and President of Ecospherics. Throughout her career, she has worked to balance national security and environmental sustainability, with a focus on ideas that scale through public policy. Burke has been a leader at several civic organizations, including the Center for a New American Security, where she initiated a Natural Security program, Amnesty International USA, and New America. She has also served in the U.S. government in Congress, the State Department, and the Pentagon, most recently as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy. During the Biden-Harris presidential transition, she was on the Defense Agency Review and National Security and Foreign Policy teams. A native of Los Angeles and educated at Williams College and Columbia University, Burke is a frequent public speaker, published writer, and strategic advisor to corporate boards, national laboratories, and U.S. government agencies.

Dr. Roger Mason

Dr. Roger Mason retired after 29 years of public safety experience in Los Angeles County. For the past fifteen years he has specialized in emergency management and the development of wargames and exercises. He has designed over 50 emergency management and public safety wargames and hybrid game/functional exercises. His clients include National Defense University, Penn State University, the University of Hawaii, the US Army, and the CNA Corporation. Dr. Mason has served as the wargaming professor for the Institute for Intelligence Analysis, Juan Carlos University, Madrid Spain.

Mason is a published author on the topic of wargames.

Mason is a published author on the topic of wargames. He is the co-founder of LECMgt, a strategic management firm based in Camarillo, California. He holds a Ph. D in Management and Decision sciences from Walden University and an M.A. in Public Administration from the California State University, Northridge. He retired after 37 years of service with the Air National Guard/ USAF Reserve.

Dr. Ed McGrady

Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for New American Security Instructor and Course Coordinator on Gaming, Military Operations Research Society Principal, MonksHood Media LLC

Dr. McGrady writes, speaks, and teaches on the design of professional games. He is an adjunct senior fellow in gaming at CNAS, teaches and manages game design courses for MORS/Virginia Tech, and runs a business devoted to using games and game techniques to bring innovative experiences in new areas. His recent book, Roll to Save: Gaming Disease Response, describes designing games in support of public health professionals.

In the past Dr. McGrady built and directed a team of 10-20 analysts at CNA devoted to the design and execution of professional games. Dr. McGrady has written, taught, and presented on the topic of games and their use in organizational and individual learning. He has designed and run games for many different clients ranging from the White House to the Department of Agriculture to the automotive industry. Dr. McGrady has also built a team at CNA devoted to chemical and biological response operations, including domestic response operations. Dr. McGrady has deployed as an analyst with US Forces in Haiti during operation Uphold Democracy, onboard USS Nimitz for Desert Storm and with operational E-2C squadrons. Dr. McGrady holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan. He has published extensively in the Chemical Engineering, physics, and national security literature and is widely cited for his work on the mathematics of aggregation and fragmentation.

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Registration

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Employer	Member	Non-Member
MORS Government Sponsor*	$1,620	$1,680
U.S. Federal Government	$1,680	$1,740
National Research Partner (IDA Employees Only)	$1,653	$1,710
All Others	$1,740	$1,800

*Government Sponsor organizations include: Center for Army Analysis, HQDA/DCS Program G-8; Marine Corps Combat Development and Integration; Naval Operations, N81; Secretariat of the Air Force, Studies and Analysis SAF/SA; OSD, A&S; and DHS S&T/OSE/ORA