At CYF Congress 2026 – Create Your Future Congress in Thessaloniki, we presented SeriousMind as a future-of-work tool for assessing soft skills and teamwork through serious games.
The two-day conference took place on April 24 and 25 at the Vellideio Conference Center, bringing together students, young professionals, entrepreneurs, and ecosystem stakeholders around entrepreneurship, career development, innovation, leadership, and the changing world of work.ertnews+1
For SeriousMind, it was an ideal setting to discuss how artificial intelligence, behavioural data, and game-based assessment can help organisations understand people beyond their CVs and exam scores.
Recruitment and career development have traditionally relied on qualifications, academic results, CVs, interviews, and standardised tests. These tools remain valuable, but they do not always show how someone behaves in a realistic situation.
A person’s potential is also reflected in how they:
This is where SeriousMind brings a different perspective.
Through immersive, escape-room-style assessments, players enter scenarios that require them to explore, plan, make decisions, solve problems, and work with others. Their gameplay produces behavioural data that can complement traditional assessment methods.
SeriousMind develops AI-powered serious games that combine psychology, psychometrics, game design, and behavioural analysis.
In experiences such as MindEscape, users do not simply answer questions about how they believe they behave. They demonstrate their approach through action.
The system can analyse patterns connected to:
This play-to-reveal approach can support organisations in understanding candidates and employees more comprehensively. It is not intended to replace human judgement, but to provide additional insights that make recruitment, team formation, and development conversations more informed.
During the CYF Congress presentation, we explored how AI and game-based behavioural data can support decisions across the employee lifecycle.
In recruitment, serious games may help organisations look beyond keywords, job titles, and exam scores. In team formation, they can provide information about communication, collaboration, and complementary working styles. In employee development, they can help identify strengths and areas for growth.
These applications are particularly relevant as workplaces become more dynamic. Organisations increasingly need people who can learn quickly, collaborate effectively, handle uncertainty, and solve problems that do not have a single correct answer.
Assessment should therefore examine more than what someone has already achieved. It should also help us understand how they approach the challenges ahead.
CYF Congress was especially meaningful because it brought SeriousMind into direct conversation with students and young professionals.
The careers of tomorrow will require more than technical knowledge. Hard skills remain important, but adaptability, communication, teamwork, creativity, and problem-solving will also play a central role.
Young people can prepare by developing the ability to:
A game-based assessment can make these skills more visible and easier to discuss. It can help individuals reflect on how they approach challenges and how their strengths may connect with different educational and career paths.
CYF Congress was a natural stage for connecting SeriousMind’s research roots with practical questions about the jobs of tomorrow.
The company’s work is built at the intersection of artificial intelligence, psychology, serious games, and behavioural analysis. Its connection with academic research and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) demonstrates how deep-tech ideas can move from research environments into tools for HR, education, vocational guidance, and personal development.
This connection between research and application is essential. Scientific ideas create the foundation, but real-world interaction shows whether a technology is understandable, useful, and relevant to people’s lives.
The title of the event—Create Your Future—captures an important principle. The future of work is not something that simply happens to us. It is shaped by the technologies we develop, the organisations we build, and the skills we choose to value.
At SeriousMind, we are working to create assessment tools that make human potential more visible while keeping people at the centre of the process.
Through AI-powered serious games, digital escape rooms, and behavioural assessment, we aim to help organisations make better decisions and help individuals understand how they learn, collaborate, and grow.
The future of work will belong not only to those with the strongest technical credentials, but also to those who can adapt, collaborate, and continue learning.
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