Lt. Colonel (GS) Thorsten Kodalle is head of the iLab and lecturer in security policy at the Faculty of Politics, Strategy and SocialSciences at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College.
His main topics are strategic wargaming and cybersecurity. He is a lecturer at the Institute for Peace and Security at the University of Hamburg (Practical Introduction to Wargaming and Serious Gaming), at the Technical University of Hamburg (Gamification of Strategic Thinking) and at the University of Applied Sciences Kiel (Agile Project Management). After graduating from his diploma studies in political and social sciences, he pursued a military career in the German Armed Forces, participated in the General Staff Service/Admiral Staff Service National course and, after numerous assignments from the Ministry to NATO, earned a master's degree in military leadership and international security with a thesis on“Gamification of Cyber Security/Resilience” and developed his own cyber resilience card game.
He is an intrapreneur in the German Armed Forces, a certified Scrum Master and developed a game master training for the blackout simulation Neustart and the associated resilience workshop. He combines agile project management and wargaming to create “Agile Wargaming”.