Hendrik Lesser/ remote control, Steffen P. Walz/ Dirigent Intelligence & Selina Kümmeringer/ Democratic Spin

Location: Luitpold Lab - This salon will take place at Luitpold Lab, on the first floor of the Palmengarten. Entrance to Cafe Luitpold, Palmengarten stairway.

Games shape beliefs and decisions. With 3.6B players and them being all digital, they're central to information warfare. Dr. Steffen P. Walz explores how AI enables influence at scale —NATO's "machine gun moment." Hendrik Lesser gives an overview of the landscape incl. what our adversaries are doing and gives examples how to fight with a whole of nation approach. How do we build resilience? How do we defend forward on warfare´s 6th battlefield.

This panel will be held in english.

Entrepreneur and producer Hendrik Lesser is the founder and CEO of the international game production house remote control productions, where he has built a networked family of independent studios across Europe over more than two decades. As president and long-time board member of the European Games Developer Federation and managing director of Games Bavaria Munich e.V., he has been a leading advocate for games as cultural assets and strategic media in Europe. With his politically conscious publishing label Lesser Evil and multiple leadership and advisory roles, his work spans commercial game development, purpose-driven games, and policy on disinformation, radicalization, and the weaponization of interactive entertainment and online communities, informing his perspective on how to build resilience and defend forward in the cognitive domain.