Introducing Finnish Games Week 2025 – 5 Days of Games Industry Excellence

Meet Finnish Game Week, a week-long series of game industry events taking place in Helsinki, and powered at its core by a mighty conference quartet:

IGDA Finland – Leadership Day 2025

OCTOBER 6
Leadership Day by IGDA Finland is an international event about how we build companies, teams and working cultures to build better games. 

Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2025

OCTOBER 7–8
Celebrating its 12th year, PG Connects Helsinki focuses on connecting you with the right people from all sections of the games industry so that you can do great business.

Big Screen Gaming Summit Helsinki 2025

OCTOBER 7
Focusing squarely on the opportunities, challenges, and key trends in the world of console, PC, XR and more, this summit (held alongside PG Connects Helsinki – 1 ticket, 4 events!) will deliver a dedicated forum for discussion, content, and connections within this gaming landscape. 

Beyond Games: Transmedia Summit 2025

OCTOBER 7
This summit — created in collaboration with the Helsinki Film Lab — brings film, TV, animation, and games together under one roof. Filled with expert insight from those that are pushing the boundaries of multi-platform development.

AI Gamechangers Summit 2025

OCTOBER 8
This must-attend summit will bring together some of the brightest minds in artificial intelligence and games to explore the key facets of how AI is transforming the video game development landscape.

W Love Games 2025

OCTOBER 9–10
Dedicated to diversity and leadership, accessibility, education, and gamedev practices, the 7th W Love Games hybrid conference will host wide range of talks, workshops, portfolio and CV reviews as well IGDA Finland Mentor café. 

The action doesn’t stop there, and you can expect fringe event activity such as our new Aurora initiative – recognising some of the many female evangelists in the industry – and this year's reveal of the Top 50 Mobile Game Makers Awards – more to follow on this.

By concentrating all events into the week we can focus on bringing together indies, developers, publishers, investors, representatives from every sector of the industry, students and like-minded creatives looking to dive into all aspects of the business of games, across all formats – from the making to the marketing, launch to live ops, whilst also exploring the topics of leadership, teamwork, business development, and more.

And, of course, it’s also all about the connections. The structure and ethos of the content maximises the opportunities for all involved, whether that’s developers getting to meet investors, or publishers discovering new talent to bring onboard – at its essence, Finnish Games Week is designed to educate, certainly, but also to promote and unite, bringing potential partners together within a unique, dedicated week-long session of back-to-back conferencing.