Event
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Pocket Gamer Connects: Helsinki 2014
Helsinki, Finland
Date & Times: |
Monday, June 16th - 17th 2014 10am to 11pm |
Location: | Helsinki, Finland |
Region: | Nordic |
Expected Size: | 500 - 1,000 |
Ticket Cost: | 500 USD |
Target Audience: | Developers, Indie Developers, Recruitment, C-Level, Marketing |
Event Type: | Conference |
Featured Platforms: | iOS, Android |
After an amazingly successful first outing in London, Pocket Gamer Connects is coming back again, this time to sunny (honest) Helsinki!
Building on our experience of running the leading mobile games industry portal alongside some of the best industry networking events, we are seeking to exceed our initial event and yet again bring something fresh, engaging, enjoyable, and genuinely useful to the conference scene.
What is Pocket Gamer Connects?
- Two Main Content Tracks – ‘East meets West’ global publishing stage and our ‘Indie Rock Stars’ game creation stage.
- Two Additional PGC Helsinki Specific Tracks – Investment & Unconference + Finnside Track.
- Stunning location on the waterfront in Helsinki
- A schedule jam-packed with fringe events, including our Very Big Indie Pitch, VIP Dinner, and a Pocket Gamer Mobile Mixer
- Interactive workshops
- Exciting exhibition area and top-notch networking
- Awesome Pocket Gamer Party – the party to end all parties!

Venue
Wanha Satama
Pikku Satamakatu 3-5
Helsinki
Finland
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Gold Sponsors

Chukong Technologies
http://en.chukong-inc.com/As the largest mobile game company based in China, Chukong Technologies is a leading game developer, international publishing partner and gaming community manager under its Coco and CocoaChina brands. Chukong has helped some of the world’s largest mobile developers navigate the complexities of the Chinese mobile market, as well as published many of the most popular mobile titles in China, such as the Fishing Joy franchise. Chukong also sponsors and manages Cocos2D-x, one of the most widely used 2D game engines in the world.

Everyplay
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Increase your revenues with in-game video ads that reward users with virtual items! Everyplay GameAds are used by top games like Song Pop, Ruzzle, Sonic Dash and Hill Climb Racing to drive industry leading monetization.
https://everyplay.com/

InMobi
http://www.inmobi.com/InMobi enables the world’s leading brands, developers, and publishers to engage global consumers through mobile advertising. InMobi platforms leverage advances in big data, user behavior, and cloud-based architectures to simplify mobile advertising for its customers. Recognized by MIT Technology Review as one of the 50 Disruptive Companies of 2013, InMobi is the world’s largest independent mobile ad network, engaging 691 million consumers across 165 countries.

MobileAppTracking
http://mobileapptracking.comMobileAppTracking.com (MAT) created by HasOffers, is one central, unbiased platform for mobile app marketers to attribute app installs, in-app engagement, and purchases back to marketing sources (such as social networks, publishers, and mobile ad networks). By implementing MAT, app developers never have to install another SDK to attribute conversion to new advertising partners. MAT is integrated with over 390 major ad networks and publishers along with Google and Twitter. It has been named the 63rd fastest growing company by Inc 500, backed by Accel Partners with Rich Wong, and has more than 150 employees across five offices worldwide, with headquarters in Seattle, WA. Learn more about the product at http://mobileapptracking.com or the company at http://www.hasoffers.com/about.

Nativex
http://www.nativex.comNativeX is the leading ad technology for games with over 165 million unique MAU from top grossing apps. For developers who want to monetize with advertising that really works, NativeX is the marketing technology platform that is reinventing in-app advertising to create more effective and engaging ad experiences that enable developers to build successful businesses around their apps. Native advertising becomes part of the user experience and out-performs standard advertising, often doubling revenue for publisher partners.
Silver Sponsors

Immersion
http://www.immersion.com/Feel your games!
Immersion’s Haptic SDK lets developers add tactile effects into Android games, like Rockstar Games’ Vice City or SEGA’s Sonic CD. The SDK is free for game developers, and comes with 124 predesigned effects. Experience effects by downloading this app or visit Immersion’s Developer Site to learn more.

Fiksu
http://www.fiksu.com/Fiksu is the leading provider of mobile app marketing products that help app and game marketers reach their user acquisition goals. The company’s patent-pending Programmatic Mobile Demand Platform applies intelligent technology to proprietary big data to master ALL the challenges of mobile advertising – including tracking, optimization, media buying and integration. This cohesive approach spans the entire mobile ecosystem and ultimately delivers the best marketing performance. Additionally, Fiksu offers FreeMyApps®, the world’s largest app discovery platform where users are rewarded. Based in Boston, Mass., Fiksu is venture-backed by Qualcomm Ventures and Charles River Ventures. More at www.fiksu.com, @Fiksu, and on the Fiksu blog

Apportable
http://www.apportable.com/Apportable technology helps iOS developers bring their apps to Android devices, allowing creators to develop native Objective-C apps on iOS while still supporting multiple app stores. The San Francisco-based company is backed by $7.4 million in funding from Google Ventures and other investors. Apportable is the sponsor of SpriteBuilder and the Cocos2D open source game engine.
These tools are used by top studios including Wooga and Pocket Gems to develop high performance cross platform games in Objective-C. Available now at www.apportable.com.

AppLift GmbH
http://www.applift.comAppLift is a mobile games marketing platform. The company was founded in August 2012 by Hitfox Group, Kaya Taner and Tim Koschella.
AppLift helps mobile game advertisers acquire loyal, quality gaming users at scale on a CPI basis. Hereby, a strong focus is placed on tracking and optimizing the Customer Lifetime Value of the users delivered.
On the supply side, media partners can easily and effectively monetize their traffic with relevant game offers, on both iOS and Android through non-intrusive and engaging native ad formats.
AppLift offers its partners extensive and personalized support in order to deliver the highest performance. AppLift partners with 100+ quality game publishers such as King, Wooga and EA and with 1000+ Media Partners.
The company is headquartered in Berlin with further offices in San Francisco and Seoul.

Metaps
http://www.metaps.com/Metaps is an Android monetisation platform, offering a one-stop series of developer solutions for monetising traffic, increasing user engagement and LTV, exchanging traffic and A/B testing. Metaps has a strong user network in Asia, as apps on the Metaps Platform have a total of over one billion downloads. Our consultants have the expertise to guide effective campaigns and help developers expand worldwide.
Associate Sponsors

BlueStacks
http://www.bluestacks.com/SPONSORING THE FREE WiFi THROUGHOUT THE EVENT
BlueStacks was founded in 2009 to bring the energy and creativity of the mobile app world to every type of device. The BlueStacks Network now reaches over 100 million users through direct downloads and mobile and PC integrations with Lenovo, Asus, Intel, AMD, MSI and the Fonelink service. BlueStacks is funded with 13M from Intel, Andreessen-Horowitz, Radar Partners, Redpoint, Ignition Partners and Qualcomm. Join their more than 1.2 million Facebook fans at Facebook.com/BlueStacksinc, or on Twitter at @BlueStacksinc

DeltaDNA
http://www.deltadna.comSPONSORING THE LANYARDS FOR THE EVENT
Launched in 2010, deltaDNA (formerly GamesAnalytics) combines extensive games industry heritage and marketing analytics expertise to deliver dedicated technology for gamers by gamers.
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