The ninth annual Mobile Games Forum is due to kick off this January in London, and the list of speakers due to take to the stage is growing.

On board are EA's director of OEMs Pete Parmenter, NaturalMotion CEO Torsten Reil, GetJar's director of marketing Berenice Kalan and Digital Chocolate's VP head of sales Robert Unsworth.

Also in the line-up are Glu's EMEA and APAC general manager Olivier Bernard and Playfish's senior product manager Andrew Chan.

Speaker central

In all, just under 30 speakers are listed in MGF 2012's roster, including PapayaMobile head of developer relations Paul Chan and Andrew John Smith, MD of Spilt Milk Studios.

"The mobile games industry may be one of the few economies accelerating in growth and promise, whilst other industries are falling by the wayside," say organisers Osney Media of the event.

"The 2012 forum will bring you the latest trends and zeitgeist developments which are keeping this industry alive. With mobile gaming attracting new interest and creativity and a whole new generation of technology before us, MGF 2012 is the best place to discuss the crucial issues of the future."

Confirmed topics for the event – for which PocketGamer.biz is an official media partner - include emerging mobile devices, the state of the developed market, the rise of the tablet, and HTML5.

Super Early Bird tickets for the event, which will run from January 25-26 in Knightsbridge, London, will cost you £849 + VAT, but will jump to £1,299 + VAT after October 31.

More details can be found on the MGF 2012 website.