The gamescom congress is Europe's leading conference for the potential of computer and video games in society and economy.

The gamescom congress convinces with a wide range of topics and showed that games technologies help to master digitalization in almost all economic and social areas. In 2020, the congress took place for the twelfth time as part of gamescom, the world's largest event for computer and video games.

The gamescom congress functions as a think tank for digitization far beyond the games industry. The conference is aimed at cultural creators, educators, politicians, scientists, journalists and business representatives from all industries.How can games impart knowledge? Where can the industry benefit from games? How do games influence our living together? These and many other questions were the focus of the gamescom congress 2020.

The congress is organized by Koelnmesse GmbH and game e.V., the association of the German games industry.