Event

Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6 (Online)
Apr 19th - 23rd 2021

Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6 (Online)

Online Event

Date & Times: Monday, April 19th - 23rd 2021
9am to 6pm
Location: Online Event
Expected Size: 1,000 - 3,000
Ticket Cost: 59 GBP
Target Audience: Developers, Indie Developers, Creatives, Recruitment, C-Level, Marketing, Students, Investors, Publishers, Tool Providers, Technical teams, Ad Companies, Media, YouTubers / Streamers, Publisher
Event Type: Online Event
Featured Platforms: iOS, Android, Console, Handheld Console, Wearables, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, A

Digital events are proving to be fantastic ways for the games industry to stay connected! Get ready for the second Pocket Gamer Connects conference of 2021, all on Zoom and MeetToMatch

A Pocket Gamer Connects online conference is the perfect way to meet, learn from, and do business with some1,500 games industry professionals, and over 250 speakers. We've run 27 Connects events now since 2014, and we're excited to announce our 2021 plans, which began with a digital event in February and continues with digital and hybrid events throughout the year. We're excited to announce Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #6, which will be 100% online.

The need to connect remains as strong as ever, even though many of us still being unable to travel. Despite hopes of an end to the pandemic, we've all accepted that early 2021 will still be an unusual time. Fortunately, running events digitally has enabled us to unite vast numbers of international guests - some 75 countries were represented at each of our online conferences in 2020! Thank you for joining us. We'll meet again in person in July, but in the meantime, let's fire up Zoom, Discord and MeetToMatch, and get connected digitally once more.

We will continue to work incredibly hard to distil as much of the content and spirit as we can from the traditional events you have come to know and love over the last eight years and hone the format so it can be as genuinely useful as possible. That means expert talks, panels and round-tables, a meeting platform, digital versions of Big Indie Pitches and fringe events like Publisher SpeedMatch, and more surprises too.

The best talks and panels
As one of an expected 1,500 delegates, you will select from a programme of great live video content, full of insight and practical advice across 14 themed conference tracks. You can watch the expert tracks live or catch up on the recorded videos within your own time, and if you're online while the speakers are performing you'll be able to interact with them and the other viewers with questions and comments.

You can expect talks from over 250 speakers who will educate and inspire through an agenda of themed tracks set to cover monetisation and growth, global game trends and company culture, development tools and stories and strategies to thrive in the modern gaming market be it mobile, PC, console, blockchain or XR. Please bookmark our editorial site www.pocketgamer.biz for news and features about our speakers as we announce them, and follow us on Twitter.

If you'd like to speak at PGC Digital #6 on a topic you know well, or join us as a speaker at another of our other events, please sign up using our Speaker Submission form.

Business networking: all week long
Business goes on, and people need to find new partners, new jobs, and new products to work with! So in addition to the talks, you'll also be able to search and connect with other attendees. You can find people, connect, discuss, do deals and make plans using the MeetToMatch online meeting platform. It enables you to search by a range of professional criteria and automatically schedules one-to-one video meetings. The platform will go live about two weeks before the conference so you can begin planning.

Plus we'll also be running online variants of our celebrated Big Indie Pitch, Investor Connector, and Publisher SpeedMatch activities, that will bring together specific groups with specific needs. Pre-registration is essential in order to take part in these - application forms will go live soon, and you'll find quick links at www.pgconnects.com.

The event is called Connects because that’s what we help you do; connect with the whole gaming industry, from students and indie studios to the media, international investors and publishers. A fantastic cross-section always attends one of our conferences No other event puts you in touch with the entire mobile gaming industry like our Connects conferences, and this remains true of our digital events. It's a true cross-section of the industry, from people taking their first steps in game design, to experience CEOs. Roughly 70% of our attendees are game creators.

We're not going to pretend that this online event will have all the benefits of a regular conference. There are no free drinks, no booths to wander or cool freebies to pocket. You obviously don't get the thrill of visiting a great city and generally there’ll be less of those incidental catch-ups and spontaneous meetings that often make the whole thing worthwhile. But please join us as we strive hard to bring a useful, information, fun business event to the games industry. We appreciate all your feedback and suggestions!

Welcoming an established global audience
More than 32,000 industry professionals have attended the Connects international conference series since 2014. Since then, the roadshow has landed in the UK, Canada, USA, Finland, Hong Kong, Jordan and India with a genuinely international client base; on average, delegates from more than 45 countries attend each physical event. With the advent of the Digital conference, we have seen this number grow! There were 75 countries represented at our 2020 online events, and we know that over 70% of our audience works in game creation and publishing.

In 2016, PG Connects became the biggest dedicated mobile games industry conference series in Europe and has stayed on top ever since. Every event has been bigger and better than the last, and our Digital events through 2020 smashed expectations. They were an example to the industry of what could be achieved despite pandemic lockdown, garnering very positive feedback.

Previous speakers and delegates from all the key industry players include Supercell, King, Space Ape Games, Niantic, SYBO, Tencent, Mythical Games, Unity, Jam City, Skybound, Apple, Rovio, Disney, Super Evil Megacorp, Wargaming, Kabam, NetEase, NTT Docomo, Ubisoft, Facebook, Google, Square Enix, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Gameloft, Sega, Capcom, Twitter, Snapchat, Twitch, NaturalMotion, N3TWORK and many more.

And because Steel Media owns and operates the leading media in this space too, including PocketGamer.com, PocketGamer.biz and PCGamesInsider.biz, our events benefit from unrivalled press coverage. A combined website readership of well over a million users a month, 300,000 engaged Twitter followers, nearly 120,000 subscribers on YouTube, all await. Our events include opportunities - like a Journalist Bar (operating in Discord for our Digital events) - where you can show writers and editors your games.

 

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Platinum Sponsors

Xsolla

Xsolla

https://www.xsolla.com

Xsolla is the video game business engine with a set of tools and services that help to operate and sell more games.

Serving only the video game industry, the Xsolla product suite caters to businesses from indie to enterprise, with: Xsolla Pay Station and its #1 Anti-fraud solution, Xsolla Partner Network, Xsolla Site Builder, Xsolla Store, Xsolla Login, and Xsolla Launcher.

These tools work seamlessly to solve the complexities of distribution, marketing, and monetization so developers, publishers, and platform partners can increase their audience, sales and revenue. Headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices worldwide, Xsolla operates as a merchant and seller of record for major gaming entities like Valve, Twitch, Ubisoft, Epic Games, and PUBG Corporation.

For more information, visit www.xsolla.com.

Meta

Meta

https://www.facebook.com/fbgaminghome/marketers

Facebook is the place to launch and grow your mobile game.

Our solutions are uniquely designed to help drive discovery and to assist with monetization strategies within our diverse global gaming community. Furthermore, when you partner with Facebook. you partner with the entire family of apps and services, which allows you to further widen your reach and gives you access, not only to Facebook. But to Instagram and Network as well.

As a whole, this presents game-marketers with the opportunity to maximise business value in a personalised, Innovative and efficient manner.

Gold Sponsors

Ten Square Games

Ten Square Games

https://tensquaregames.com/

We're mobile games developers. One of the biggest in Poland. We live and breathe free-2-play games. We create games that simulate the most popular outdoor hobbies – it's our bread and butter.

Our hits – Fishing Clash and Hunting Clash have been beating records of popularity in the App Store and Google Play.

In the humble hearts of our 320+ company pros, there’s always a desire for development and aspiration. We are self-organizing, creative team of highly experienced and crazy talented experts, who contribute actively with ideas and together shape product vision.

AdColony

AdColony

http://www.adcolony.com/

Originally founded in 2008 by game developers, for game developers, AdColony has been helping apps grow and monetize their apps since Apple first introduced the App Store.

AdColony is passionate about delivering the highest quality video advertising and beyond. AdColony is committed to delivering experiences that make monetizing a win for advertisers, developers, and users alike. They've been on the bleeding edge of instant-play video, interactive video, playables, advanced bidding, and are ready for the future with full support for SKAdNetwork, AppTrackingTransparency, IAB standards, and beyond.

Silver Sponsors

Scuti

Scuti

https://scuti.store/

"Scuti is the world’s first personalized gCommerce and NFT marketplace, which provides players a new form of engagement and exciting rewards through their games, while providing all game-makers with the most lucrative new revenue streams.

Scuti was formed by leading video game makers who, for the past 20 years, have launched many of the top global games and have designed this new platform to always ‘put players first’.

Through Scuti, players discover fully curated offerings from coveted brands and are rewarded with every engagement and purchase, completely unobtrusive to the game experience, and without ever leaving their game."

NumberEight

NumberEight

https://www.numbereight.ai/

NumberEight gives new life to untapped 1st party data, empowering app developers, ad partners, and advertisers to connect with users in a relevant, impactful, and private way.

They develop best-in-class artificial intelligence software for mobile devices to detect the real-world context (e.g., running, commuting) from devices’ sensors present and package them to deliver ID-less audiences (e.g., frequent joggers, culture vultures).

All computations happen on-device, thus producing a privacy-by-design solution that guarantees a higher regulatory immunity.

JoyPac

JoyPac

https://joypacgames.com/

JoyPac is a mobile game publisher that was created to help developers bridge the inherent gap between West and East, and go truly global.

With senior teams in Copenhagen and Beijing, we’re made up of talented developers, publishers, analysts and UA experts solely focused on working with studios at every stage.

Our goal is to bring joyful mobile game experiences to the millions of players around the world.

Catappult

Catappult

https://catappult.io/

Catappult is the World’s first Blockchain app distribution console. Applying AppCoins as the official billing to a single APK, it has the power to distribute an app through multiple channels worldwide, to a potential reach of over +430 million users.

A community of app stores and OEM’s such as Aptoide, Multilaser, or Cherry Mobile, ensures every developer will be able to unleash their potential.

Track Sponsors

CrazyLabs

CrazyLabs

https://www.crazylabs.com/

CrazyLabs is a Top 3 casual and hyper-casual mobile games developer & publisher, with over 3.8 billion downloads for games like "Acrylic Nails", "I Can Paint", "Tie Dye", "ASMR Slicing", "Soap Cutting" and many more.

CrazyLabs has offices in Israel, China, Macedonia, Germany and Ukraine, and has hyper-casual gaming hubs in India and in Israel.

Liftoff

Liftoff

http://liftoff.io/

Liftoff is a complete mobile app marketing platform that helps companies acquire and retain high-quality app users at scale.

Liftoff uses unbiased ML to find all the best users for your app, creative tech to deliver the most engaging ad experience, and a unique cost per revenue model to optimize for your LTV goals.

Headquartered in Redwood City, Liftoff has a global presence with offices in New York, London, Berlin, Paris, Singapore, Seoul, and Tokyo.

SportQuake

SportQuake

https://www.sportquake.com/

SportQuake are a leading football sponsorship agency. Working right across the global football ecosystem - all leagues, teams, players and inventory - SportQuake help brands to understand, plan and buy football sponsorship more effectively. In 2020, SportQuake launched a specialist esports division, Esportquake, adopting the same unique agency model. Our game developer clients include Garena, Plarium & Playdemic.

Pangle

Pangle

https://www.pangleglobal.com/

Pangle is the go-to-place for developers and publishers to monetize their apps, attract users, and push the boundaries of their creativity.

First establishing itself as the leading mobile advertising platform in Asia, Pangle enables global app developers maximize their earnings through exclusive superior demand, and advertisers to reach out to more than 1 billion daily active users engaging in a premium mobile app network.

AWS Game Tech

AWS Game Tech

https://aws.amazon.com/gametech/

AWS Game Tech provides the best portfolio of cloud services to help game developers of all sizes build faster, operate smarter, and create fun, innovative experiences.

To learn more visit: gametech.amazon.com

Ohayoo

Ohayoo

https://ohayoo.io/home

Ohayoo is a leading casual game publishing platform that empowers developers to monetize their games and brings joy to players worldwide.

Unity

Unity

Unity is the creator of the world’s leading real-time 3D development platform, giving users the most powerful and accessible tools to create, operate, and monetize experiences for the real-time world.

Unity empowers anyone, regardless of skill level and industry, to create 3D visual content using world-class technology, operate using resources that maximize ease-of-use, and monetize, so that they can find success with their creations.

The company’s 1,000 person development team keeps Unity at the forefront of development by working alongside partners such as Google, Facebook, Oculus, Autodesk, and Microsoft to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms.

Made with Unity experiences reach nearly 3 billion devices worldwide and have been installed more than 29 billion times in the last 12 months.

Pollen VC

Pollen VC

https://pollen.vc/

Pollen VC is the market leader in capital efficient funding for mobile app developers and digital publishers. They provide lines of credit to app publishers allowing them to unlock their unpaid revenues and eliminate payout delays of up to 60+ days by connecting to their app store and ad network platforms.

They offer on-demand working capital with simple transparent pricing so you can reinvest more quickly into ROI positive user acquisition and avoid relying on dilutive venture capital.

Big Indie Pitch Sponsors

Kwalee

Kwalee

https://www.kwalee.com/publish-with-us/

Kwalee publishes hyper-casual mobile games with over 400 million downloads to date.

Kwalee were ranked no. 4 casual game publisher on the US App Store in 2019, thanks to hit titles that including Jetpack Jump, Draw It, Shootout 3D, Off the Rails, Rocket Sky and Overtake.

Simon joined Kwalee in October 2019 to head-up the rapidly-growing Kwalee publishing team leveraging his knowledge and experience from over 30-years making hit games.

Kwalee are currently on the lookout for great games from developers with an understanding of the fast-paced and rewarding world of hyper-casual gaming.

Jam City

Jam City

https://www.jamcity.com/

Jam City is a global leader in mobile entertainment, providing social gaming experiences for millions of players around the world.

Jam City is the creative powerhouse behind some of the highest grossing and most enduring social gaming franchises for mobile, including Cookie Jam (a Facebook “Game of the Year” winner) and Panda Pop.

Jam City is the go-to studio for Hollywood, having developed immersive, narrative-rich mobile games for iconic entertainment brands including Harry Potter and Family Guy.

Jam City has more than 500 employees across studios in Los Angeles (HQ), San Francisco, San Diego, Bogota and Buenos Aires.

Associate Sponsors

AudioMob

AudioMob

https://audiomob.io/

Founded by xGoogle and xFacebook employees, AudioMob are the pioneers behind rewarded audio and non-intrusive audio advertising in mobile games. AudioMob can work alongside your video monetization strategy providing incremental revenue, without damaging retention, by allowing players to listen to an audio ad while they play.

Using the AudioMob unity plugin will allow you to increase banner revenue by over 250%!

WeQ

WeQ

https://www.weq.com

WeQ creates influencer marketing endorsement campaigns that place your apps and games in front of targeted social media audiences globally. We deliver impactful and scalable campaigns on YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, TikTok and other significant social networks.

Our company reached high results working with the leading gaming studios worldwide using tracking solutions deep- integrated with major tracking tools.

Fyber

Fyber

https://www.fyber.com/

Fyber is an app monetization company, developing a next-generation monetization platform for app developers. Fyber combines proprietary technologies and expertise in mediation and RTB to help app developers discover better ways to monetize mobile games.

Fyber FairBid, our flagship product, is built for flexibility and gives publishers the freedom to monetize through a waterfall or unified auction while simultaneously being a key source of direct inventory, transparency, and scale for our programmatic buyers.

Square Enix Montreal

Square Enix Montreal

https://www.square-enix-montreal.com/en/

Founded in 2011, Square Enix Montréal is a multi-award-winning mobile game studio that develops games based on existing franchises and new intellectual properties.

Square Enix Montréal is dedicated to the creation of innovative and carefully crafted games that become international benchmarks such as the critically acclaimed titles Hitman Sniper®, Hitman GO®, Lara Croft GO® and Deus Ex GO®. In 2021, Square Enix Montréal announced that it was in development on a newly imagined mobile experience based on Taito’s Space Invaders and the upcoming release of project Hitman Sniper Assassins (working title). 

To date, the studio’s games have been downloaded over 130 million times in 175 countries.

Green Grey

Green Grey

https://greengreystudio.com/

Green Grey is creative professional team with vast experience at the intersection of advertising, marketing, technology and investment.
An international developer and publisher of mobile games and apps.

They invest, develop and promote.

Their goal is to support and develop game studious and technology startups in Russia and CIS through
investments and many years of experience in creating and promoting products.

They have more than 15 years of experience in promoting international and Russian companies.

Their strength lies in a strong team of professionals in digital advertising and PR as well as in speed of
making managerial decisions.

Wargaming

Wargaming

wargaming.com

MS-1 is Wargaming’s premier mobile development studio behind World of Tanks Blitz, a renowned cross-platform shooter boasting over 140 million downloads around the globe. MS-1 is a multi-site studio with offices in Minsk, Moscow and Vilnius, and currently employs over 325 professionals of various backgrounds and experience across all disciplines, including development, publishing, and operations.

This cultural diversity helps deliver games that click with different audiences around the globe.

InMobi

InMobi

http://www.inmobi.com/

InMobi drives real connections between brands and consumers by leveraging its technology platforms and exclusive access to mobile intelligence.

Its Marketing Cloud creates new paths for brands to understand, identify, engage and acquire connected consumers.

As a leading technology company, InMobi has been recognized on both the 2018 and 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 lists and as one of Fast Company’s 2018 World’s Most Innovative Companies.

Darewise

Darewise

https://www.darewise.com/

Darewise Entertainment, a Paris-based independent developer creating interactive and socially-connected experiences that go beyond entertainment.

Made up of an amazing team of experienced developers who believe they can create long-term, meaningful social experiences for players and change how the world views online games.

Xsolla Diamond Club

Xsolla Diamond Club

https://info.xsolla.com/diamond-club

Just in time for PG Connects, Xsolla, Inc. is excited to announce Diamond Club, a growing collective of video game developers, publishers, and distributors with opportunities to network, share ideas, and solve mutual challenges together.

Diamond Club’s members have access to gaming events tickets, subject matter experts, and monthly meet-ups with industry colleagues facing the same business successes and challenges. Apply for membership today!

AdInMo

AdInMo

https://adinmo.com/

AdInMo’s InGamePlay brand advertising platform serves click-free immersive ads without interrupting game flow.

THey deliver engaged audiences for advertisers and quality monetization for mobile games developers & publishers by offering authentic brand experiences that keep players happy.

Their global mobile reach and InGamePlay inventory enables advertisers to target premium audiences and developers to generate additional revenue without impacting the player experience.

Alconost

Alconost

https://alconost.com/

At Alconost, they translate applications, games and websites into 80+ languages.

All translations are carried out by professional native-speaking linguists with experience in IT and gaming. They use an API-based modern online platform to manage localization projects.

They we make advertising clips, trailers, teasers, pre-rolls, videos for App Store/Google Play and provide voice-over services.

Over the past 12 years, Alconost have served 1,500 customers around the world, and have completed more than 10,000 localization projects.

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