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Casual Connect USA 2014 buzzing with smartphone frenzy at the Pocket Gamer Mobile Mixer

Another great show, and another great mixer

Casual Connect USA 2014 buzzing with smartphone frenzy at the Pocket Gamer Mobile Mixer

If you were at Casual Connect USA this year, and you’re a fanatical touchscreen fondler, you’re probably one of the hundreds of industry creatives that stopped by our Mobile Mixer. It was another spectacular evening, and we wanted to take two minutes to say thanks for stopping by and supporting the mobile games world.

Being a particularly sizeable and well-attended event, Casual Connect 2014 demanded an equally grand Pocket Gamer get together.

So we put on a suitably epic Mixer sponsored by Kamcord, TapSense and CashBet to ensure all you mobile game makers and industry members had the perfect way to put the ‘casual’ in Casual Connect on the evening of 21st July.

Quite a crowd

With more than 400 people from within the creative world of smartphone and tablet games visiting our free shindig, the party went on late into the night after a notable line-up of sessions and panels from an impressive number of speakers.

Our very own Chris James opens the Mobile Mixer by singing 'I'm a Little Teapot.'.

We’d like to give those speakers a special shout out, in fact, for making it so much more than an evening of drink-fuelled networking fun (although it was certainly that, too).

So one last round of applause for TapSense CEO Ash Kumar, Kamcord co-founder Aditya Rathnam, Wooga’s corporate development manager Sebastian Kriese, CEO of MobilityWare Dave Yonamine, bizdev director of social games at DeNA Jaime Ocampo, Tango’s game publishing veep Jim Ying, CashBet’s CEO Michael Reaves, and our very own US editor Brian Collins.

You can check out the Casual Connect Mobile Mixer photo gallery over on PocketGamer’biz’s Facebook page right now, and if you fancy getting together again, we’ll be hosting more great Mobile Mixers throughout the remainder of 2014 including ChinaJoy, GDC Europe and next year at the epic Pocket Gamer Connects: London.

Get your free tickets while they’re hot, and don't forget that you can give your studio, company or game a promotional shot in the arm by sponsoring your very own Pocket Gamer Mobile Mixer!

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