Helps organizations create pragmatic learning experiences that build real-world capability and sustain behavior change.
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GamiCon48V
March 21–23 · USA
March 22–24 · Hong Kong
LIVE online. Dates and Times vary by location.
View the online schedule to see dates and times in your local time zone.
Fully Online · Accessible Worldwide · U.S.-Friendly Session Blocks · Built-in Replay Access · No Overnight Viewing Required
What Participants Experience
GamiCon48V is not a passive conference. It is a 48-hour global experience focused on gamification and game-based learning for adult education and workplace training.
Designed for people who create, design, and deliver learning, the event invites participants to move between sessions, conversations, and interactive experiences throughout Sententia World.
During the event you can:
- Join live keynotes, workshops, and design conversations with leaders in gamification and learning design.
- Step into smaller discussions with practitioners from around the world.
- Explore playable learning experiences inside the Arcade.
- Connect with organizations and professionals through the Talent Exchange.
- Move freely between sessions, conversations, and game experiences throughout the 48 hours.
The goal is simple: leave with ideas you can immediately apply in your own learning programs.
Who GamiCon48V Is For
GamiCon48V is for people who design, deliver, or lead learning and know that what worked before isn’t enough anymore.
- If you’re an instructional designer who wants your work to hold up beyond a single course.
- A learning experience designer shaping journeys, not just content.
- A facilitator who knows engagement doesn’t come from energy alone.
- Or a learning leader responsible for decisions that affect real people and real outcomes.
This experience is about doing the work, not just talking about it, and leaving with clearer thinking about what comes next.
📥 Download the Brief to see why this event is a must-attend for learning professionals like you.
💼 Need approval to attend? Download a customizable letter to your boss to help make the case!
Take Part in the Learning
Learning at GamiCon48V is participatory by design. Alongside live sessions, you’ll engage in hands-on challenges, game experiences, and structured opportunities to build, test, and refine real learning designs, while learning from practitioners who are actively doing the work.
Gamified
BLUERABBIT Engagement App
Go beyond points, badges, and leaderboards and experience gamification done right inside the BLUERABBIT engagement app, where the design choices you make actually matter.
Learning Design
Experience What’s Next
GamiCon48V 2026 explores how game thinking, AI, and human creativity come together to shape the future of engagement and learning.
Access
Global by design. Flexible by intention.
GamiCon48V runs in rotating blocks so participants across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia can engage without staying up all night. Replays are available, so you won’t miss key sessions if you’re observing religious, cultural, or personal commitments.
Live
Outcome-Driven Learning Design
Every session is meticulously crafted to identify clear goals, define actionable steps, integrate meaningful practice activities, and deliver the essential information needed to drive real-world results.
Strategies
For Diverse Roles
Whether you’re an instructional designer, training manager, CLO, or LXD professional, GamiCon48V will empower you with actionable insights that go beyond theory and spark measurable change.
Interactive
Hands-on Design Labs
Expect sessions that prioritize behavior change, learner engagement, and organizational outcomes. Our speakers guide you in creating training programs that truly deliver on their promises.
Global 48-Hour Schedule
All sessions will be recorded.
GamiCon48V is a live, online event delivered across eight 6-hour blocks of learning, collaboration, and exploration, designed for a global audience.
Times vary by location. View the online schedule to see dates and times in your local time zone.
Signature Sessions include hands-on design workshops, research spotlights, panel discussions, Ask Me Anything sessions, the Throwdown Showcase, and sponsor spotlights.
World Tour Segments feature studio interviews, Man on the Street conversations, design inspiration, real-world problem solving, and built-in breaks, without the dreaded networking.
Concurrent experiences are available throughout the event, including facilitated game play, self-paced game activities, open office hours, collaboration meetups, and dedicated spaces for job seekers and those hiring gamification and game-based learning designers.
Led by experienced practitioners from around the world, sessions combine high-quality pre-recorded content with live discussion, Q&A, and real-time engagement.
SEE YOUR LOCAL TIMESNo time zone math required. The schedule displays in your local time zone.
A Global Community of Designers, Researchers, and Practitioners
GamiCon48V brings together a remarkable mix of researchers, practitioners, designers, and innovators from around the world. Our hosts, speakers, and partners help guide the experience and share ideas you can immediately apply in your own learning programs.
Community Hosts & Sponsors
Shaping the GamiCon48V Experience
Monica Cornetti
USA
Creator of GamiCon and architect of the Sententia codified process for gamifying adult learning.
Jonathan Peters, PhD
USA
Chief Motivation Officer at Sententia, exploring the science of motivation and the art of human engagement.
Bernardo Letayf
USA
Creator of BLUERABBIT, designing the gamified worlds where learning meets play and purpose.
James Bishop
Hong Kong
A master at the gamification of the virtual and live learning journeys and also workshops, conferences, and event experiences.
Isobel Wallace
Canada
The Chief Experience Officer at Thinking Cap, where she brings together LMS design, customer experience strategy, and instructional design to create learning platforms that are engaging, intuitive, and built for real impact.
Ginine Capozzi
USA
Moe Ash
Egypt
Empowering learning experiences to help individuals and organizations succeed in a fast-moving global landscape.
Jimbo Clark
Taiwan
Specialist in Accelerated and Experiential Learning program design and delivery.
Zunara Nauman
Pakistan
Designs and delivers inclusive learning systems that build employable skills and real-world capability at scale.
Ercan Altuğ Yilmaz
Türkiye
Designs and teaches gamification systems that empower teams and learners to create engaging experiences using practical, hands-on tools.
Roman Rackwitz
Germany
With his Drive Method, he exposes why tools, processes, and programs collapse after rollout and redesigns the surrounding system so behavior holds without incentives or enforcement.
Elmer Lau
Singapore
Empowers youth and families to grow in motivation, mindset, and purpose through coaching grounded in human motivation.
Kerem Yazici
Türkiye
Contributes to the advancement of gamification through research, community leadership, and initiatives that promote gameful design in learning, business, and professional development.
Claudio Perrone
Ireland
Founder of Rippily, develops tools that help facilitators and Learning & Development professionals design interactive workshops and collaborative learning experiences.
World-Class Speakers
30+ researchers, practitioners, and designers from around the world.
David Metcalf, PhD
USA
Director of the Mixed Emerging Technology Integration Lab (METIL) at UCF's Institute for Simulation and Training.
Javier Velasquez
Colombia
Award winning gamification designer and developer of the BEM gamification framework to create engagement in learning, the workplace, sales, and loyalty.
Marigo Raftopoulos, PhD
Australia
Postdoctoral research fellow on Augmented-Humans, an EU-funded project dedicated to the study of how we can augment the best of human and artificial intelligence to accelerate business innovation and human flourishing.
Thiago Barrionuevo
Brazil/Portugal
CEO of Cuboo Experience, specialist in gamification, game-based learning and creativity applied to corporate development.
Rasha Morsi, PhD
USA
Founding director of the Creative Gaming and Simulation (CGS) lab in the Department of Computer Science at Norfolk State University (NSU).
David Chandross, PhD
Canada
Specializes in health education for organizations and individuals curriculum design using narrative game-based education.
Darryn Van Den Berg
South Africa
Specializes in HR transformation, gamification, and behavioral economics. Helping organizations turn strategy into human action.
Frank Parker
USA
Retired Dir of Instructional Technology at Johnson C. Smith University.
Julia Allen, PhD
USA
Specialist in learning and development, online course design, application of technology to instruction, and remote instruction.
Carriann Lane
USA
Helps public sector writers turn complex information into clear, plain language that people can easily understand and act on.
Claudio Guz
Argentina
Uses play, gamification, and visual methodologies to support organizational transformation, leadership, and flexible thinking.
Rebecca Arnett
USA
Lead GRC Analyst at BCBS of Louisiana who uses game-informed approaches to training that helps people make better decisions in complex, high-risk environments.
Keith Lillico
USA
A strategic learning and development leader with more than a decade of experience designing and delivering high-impact learning experiences across global organizations.
Steve Abrams
USA
A people-first business leader and co-founder of Career Day, known for scaling mission-driven ideas into sustainable organizations by aligning strategy, talent, and real-world outcomes.
Dannie Jeffries
New Zealand
A University of Waikato lecturer and researcher exploring how gamification and digital business can drive meaningful behavior change and social impact.
Beatrice Chu
Hong Kong
Advances innovative teaching through gamification, immersive technologies, and authentic learning.
Bret Wardle
USA
Leads product and game design teams to build thoughtful, user-centered experiences and advocates for play as a serious design practice.
Tim Hamons
Singapore
Turns complex ideas into shared clarity through visual thinking and facilitation.
Ritika Datta
Singapore
Designs learning games that turn complex ideas into safe, playful, and behavior-changing experiences.
Cédric Pontet
Luxembourg
Applies behavioral science and gamification to design products and experiences that drive real engagement and measurable impact.
Rakshith Bhagavath
India
Uses game-based learning and storytelling to create spaces for deep thinking, reflection, and insight.
Darwin Sy Antipolo
Philippines
Applies serious play, visual thinking, and foresight to help teams explore complexity and design better futures.
Janet Livingstone
USA
Facilitates self-aware, emotionally intelligent leadership and team effectiveness across global contexts.
Rihan Mustapha
Saudi Arabia
Designs coaching-infused, experiential learning that builds emotionally intelligent leadership and lasting culture change.
Samuel Liberty
USA
Creates games for healthcare, education, and humanitarian work worldwide and teaches others to apply game design for real-world impact.
Josh Yavelberg, PhD
USA
Designs innovative learning and technology solutions that help organizations solve complex challenges and demonstrate real impact.
Alina Tudorache
Romania
Designs and gamifies blockchain ecosystems, DAOs, and Web3 experiences that connect strategy, technology, and human behavior.
Shireen Chua, PhD
New Zealand
Cultivates intercultural agility and leadership mindsets that support sustainability, purpose, and flourishing in complex systems.
Meike Sauerwein, PhD
Hong Kong
Leads research and teaching on life cycle assessment and sustainable consumption to support responsible decision-making and systems thinking.
Maytwin Pitipornvivat
Thailand
Designs simulation-based and gamified learning experiences that combine technology, leadership, and experiential practice to develop human potential.
Carol Lim
Singapore
Designs play-driven experiences for leaders and teams that enable awareness, alignment, anticipation, agency, and adaptability for bold, reimagined human futures in an uncertain world.
Sufiz Suffian
Malaysia
Designing human-centric gamification and behavioral strategies that help organizations drive meaningful action in virtual and in-person experiences.
Namitha Vijayakumar
India
Moves individuals and organizations from ideas to innovation through design thinking, experiential learning, and gamified simulations.
Bhaskar Thyagarajan
India
Designs and facilitates game-based learning experiences that drive behavioral change, social learning, and real-world action at work.
Ayman Elarby
Egypt
Designs and delivers impactful training programs that strengthen customer experience, accelerate onboarding, and support continuous learning at scale.
Jesse Sanderson
USA
Designs meaningful play-based experiences both for and with people from under-represented and under-resourced communities by creating lasting and impactful partnerships.
Dr. Amanda Friday
Hong Kong
A narrative psychologist and learning architect who builds immersive, gamified learning experiences and programs that stick.
Christian Gossan
Australia
Designs scalable digital experiences that drive staff engagement, business performance, and measurable impact across global organizations.
Chuck Sigmund
USA
A lifelong learner driven to grow daily and surrounded by forward-thinking leaders who refuse to stand still.
Vaughan O'Leary
Australia
Leads global interactive learning apps that equip teams with engaging tools to deliver stronger client experiences.
Shoshana Helfenbaum
Canada
Bringing joy, compassion, and evidence-based practice to education, psychotherapy, and coaching.
THROWDOWN SHOWCASE
FINALISTS
Mohsin Memon
Gamitar Inc.
India
Evivve
Evivve is a high-stakes, multiplayer business simulation that functions as a psychologically safe behavioral lab, using award-winning science to surface real leadership behaviors and drive measurable organizational transformation at scale.
Thiago Barrionuevo
Cuboo
Brazil/Portugal
Survivors – Digital Game
Survivors is an online, cooperative decision-making game in which each player accesses a different screen with unique and partial information. To succeed, players must actively collaborate, share insights, connect clues and make collective decisions under time pressure.
Paula Yaovamal Uebunkul
Senior HR Learning Designer
Thailand
BLACK HOLE: Mission Through the Unknown
A strategy-driven leadership simulation that immerses executives in high-stakes decision making under uncertainty, revealing the real consequences of people's choices on trust, sustainability, and organizational survival.
Brian Slattery
Teamwork Unlocked
Singapore
Submerged - Escape Room
A high-stakes submarine escape room experience that uses immersive puzzles and structured debriefs to reveal team roles, strengths, and performance gaps, transforming how teams collaborate under pressure.
Tom Zacharski
Teamwork Unlocked
Singapore
Submerged - Escape Room
A high-stakes submarine escape room experience that uses immersive puzzles and structured debriefs to reveal team roles, strengths, and performance gaps, transforming how teams collaborate under pressure.
Balint Koller
Grundfos
Hungary
Stakeholder Quest: Leveling Up Digital Learning at Grundfos
This gamified course prepares Business Project Owners and Subject Matter Experts to collaborate effectively with Learning Design Team members by working through realistic digital learning project scenarios that require choosing the right stakeholders to consult at each stage of the project.
Fiona Gironella
MacEwan University
Canada
Border Security Challenge
An interactive online simulation where students play a border security officer, practice interviewing skills through feedback-rich scenarios, and build confidence by collecting contraband items while avoiding errors that trigger a replay.
Rihan Mustapha
Executive Coach
Saudi Arabia
ICF PCC Markers Journey
A gamified learning experience I designed for coaches preparing for the ICF PCC Credential who were overwhelmed by memorization but unsure how to apply the markers.
Julie Nguyen
Babson College
USA
Biz E. Beaver’s Graduate Career Challenge
A narrative-driven, gamified journey inside Canvas for graduate students at Babson College. Students build real-world career skills while engaging in coaching, reflection, and practical application—making career learning motivating, memorable, and actionable.
Jolina Kahn
Management Strategies
Philippines
Monsters and Heroes
A reflective card game that helps individuals and teams surface unproductive “Monster” behaviors, activate their inner “Hero” strengths, and build stronger relationships through courageous, collaborative conversations.
Jak Kahn
Management Strategies
Philippines
Monsters and Heroes
A reflective card game that helps individuals and teams surface unproductive “Monster” behaviors, activate their inner “Hero” strengths, and build stronger relationships through courageous, collaborative conversations.
Snjezana Slabek
Cognite
Norway
From Chaos to Clarity with Cognite Industrial AI: Board Game
A fast, collaborative board game where teams experience how data and industrial AI turn factory chaos into clarity. The game shows how contextualized data and AI help solve complex factory challenges.
Pashmin Kamat
Cognite
India
From Chaos to Clarity with Cognite Industrial AI: Board Game
A fast, collaborative board game where teams experience how data and industrial AI turn factory chaos into clarity. The game shows how contextualized data and AI help solve complex factory challenges.
Jomon Thomas
Cognite
India
From Chaos to Clarity with Cognite Industrial AI: Board Game
A fast, collaborative board game where teams experience how data and industrial AI turn factory chaos into clarity. The game shows how contextualized data and AI help solve complex factory challenges.
Michaela Liavaag
Cybility Consulting Ltd
UK
Cyber Security Incident Response Team Experience
A blended, gamified program that turns static incident response plans into live practice. It combines short e learning, an immersive cyber drill, and a structured debrief so leaders rehearse real crisis decisions in a safe space.
Pat Yaker
Sanitas
USA
Sanitas Benefits
An interactive digital board game that utilizes a Mastery Strategy to replace passive orientation with active, measurable learning.
Maytwin Pitipornvivat
BASE Playhouse
Thailand
Storationship
Storationship (Story + Relationship) is a card game that strengthens relationships through shared stories. The game creates an intentional space where people feel psychologically safe to reveal their authentic selves, enabling meaningful conversations that build trust and connection.
Tsira Loladze
Bank of Georgia
Georgia
sCoolApp Trivia
A banking application for students, to create an engaging educational experience. Designed to foster knowledge and logical reasoning, the module presented age-appropriate questions across a diverse curriculum.
Moe Ash
The Catalyst
Egypt
PENTA: It Takes 5 to Ideate a Learning Game
A design thinking tool and framework for ideating serious learning games that drive real behavior change without needless points, badges, or fake fun.
Throwdown Showcase Judges
Meet our Distinguished Panel of International Award-Winning Judges
Jean Marrapodi, PhD, CPTD
USA
Jean Marrapodi is a senior instructional design leader with 26+ years of experience spanning corporate L&D, higher education, and consulting, known for designing effective, technology-enabled learning experiences and leading programs in leadership, talent development, and organizational change.
Keith Lillico
USA
Keith Lillico is a global learning and development leader who designs inclusive, evidence-based learning ecosystems that blend instructional design, brain science, and digital innovation to drive measurable behavior change at scale.
Sharon Goza
USA
Sharon Goza is a gamification designer and project manager with more than three decades at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, where she led training gamification, mission visualization, and advanced graphics and software initiatives in high-stakes environments.
Naomi Pariseault
USA
Naomi Pariseault is a senior learning designer at Brown University. She collaborates with faculty to create online and blended learning experiences grounded in student-centered design and inquiry-based learning.
Our Global Impact Partner
Crossroads Hong Kong
We are proud to partner with Crossroads, a Hong Kong–based nonprofit that connects global surplus with global need through logistics, experiential learning, and immersive simulations.
Crossroads redistributes donated goods to trusted organizations serving communities in crisis across more than 90 countries and uses powerful, hands-on learning experiences to build understanding of complex global challenges.
Their work reflects the same belief that drives GamiCon48V: learning is most powerful when people actively participate. Because we are broadcasting live from Hong Kong and share a deep alignment around experiential design, 20% of all GamiCon48V registration fees will be donated to support Crossroads’ global impact.
Learn More About Why This Partnership Matters
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Discover the Final Chapter
Axiom Awakens
GamiCon48V | The Time Travel Trilogy Concludes
Before Elara unlocked the Da Vinci Principles.
Before Nevan Evanstone challenged the limits of invention.
There was Axiom.
Built in the hidden city of Solmara, Axiom was created to preserve knowledge when the world could not. Not just information, but memory, judgment, and meaning. When Solmara fell, Axiom disappeared with it, sealed away and forgotten as history moved on.
Until now.
GamiCon48V marks the final chapter of the Time Travel Trilogy. As Axiom awakens, participants will explore what happens when intelligence remembers, when systems learn from the past, and when humans must decide how knowledge should be used, shared, or protected.
This story is not something you watch unfold. It’s something you move through. Axiom’s narrative will guide exploration, challenges, and discovery throughout Sententia World, inviting you to examine the future of learning, AI, memory, and design through action, choice, and play.
The trilogy concludes here.
What you uncover, and how you use it, is up to you.
Fueling the Future: Meet Our Sponsors
Sententia Gamification
A global leader in gamification and game-based learning for adult education and corporate Learning & Development, Sententia is the only company to codify the gamification of corporate training and adult education. Through certifications, consulting, and immersive learning experiences, Sententia helps organizations design engaging programs that motivate learners, strengthen capability, and improve performance.
Training Magazine
Training magazine advocates training and workforce development as a business tool. They are the industry standard for professional development and news for training, human resources and business management professionals in all industries.
BLUERABBIT
BLUERABBIT is a gamification platform designed to support engaging learning experiences for Learning & Development professionals. The platform enables organizations to design interactive journeys, challenges, and social learning experiences that motivate participation and reinforce learning outcomes.
Rippily
Rippily is a collaborative learning platform designed to support interactive workshops, training sessions, and learning experiences. Built for facilitators and Learning & Development professionals, the platform helps teams create engaging activities, capture ideas visually, and support collaborative learning design in real time.
Koru Consulting
Koru Consulting partners with organizations to design meaningful learning experiences that strengthen leadership, collaboration, and performance. Their work focuses on learning design and Learning & Development strategies that help teams build practical skills, improve communication, and create more engaging learning environments.
Thinking Cap
Built for training teams who expect more from their LMS
Whether you're managing compliance, selling courses, or rolling out internal training across departments, Thinking Cap helps you do it your way. You get real flexibility, clear control, and support that sticks with you.
Knowledge Force Consulting
Strategically-planned learning and development that improves performance and helps organizations strengthen capability through strategic Learning & Development, performance consulting, and learning design. Their work focuses on aligning training with real business outcomes, creating learning experiences that build practical skills, improve performance, and support continuous professional growth.
Acorn Training
A Singapore-based Learning & Development provider focused on professional skills, leadership development, and workforce capability building.
innoGREAT
If you want to teach innovation, you have to be innovative. This interactive workshop-in-a-box that unlocks your unconscious thinking; enabling deep and fast breakthrough change of any scope and scale!
The Catalyst
A learning design consultancy focused on creating & designing compelling learning experiences and high-impact learning programs that help organizations strengthen leadership, collaboration, and performance. Their work blends experiential learning, thoughtful learning design, and practical Learning & Development strategies to create programs that build real capability and drive measurable results.
Just Released:
The Sententia GameChangers Report 2026
Your guide to the trends and insights reshaping learning. The Sententia GameChangers Report brings together research from across the industry to help you understand the forces driving change in 2026. Inside, you’ll find the biggest shifts in AI, skills, and workforce expectations, along with Sententia’s perspective on what they mean for learning designers. This is the foundation for the conversations we’ll be exploring at GamiCon48V 2026.
