The leading games industry conference, Pocket Gamer Connects, returns to Finland in 2026 for its 13th edition, again including the AI Gamechangers Summit and Beyond Games: Transmedia Summit as part of its offering, and once more proudly part of Finnish Games Week… but with a new name to fully reflect the event's broader regional remit this year.
As such, expect more than 1,500 mobile, PC, and console professionals from the whole Nordic and international games industry to gather for two programme-packed days of learning from 150 of the world’s leading minds.
Filling 25+ packed conference tracks across multiple stages, they will share their expert insight on everything from monetisation, funding, and AI to the latest development trends, html5, cross-media, and beyond.
Your business is our business
PG Connects has long been established as the premier independent conference series for the games industry. Our events are specifically designed to maximise networking, investment, business dealing, and knowledge-sharing opportunities, whilst maintaining our signature relaxed, 'games industry family' feel.
And PG Connects Nordics 2026 isn't about to mess with that recipe.
PG Connects Nordics 2026 At-A-Glance
Xsolla is a leading global video game commerce company with a robust and powerful set of tools and services designed specifically for the industry. Since its founding in 2005, Xsolla has helped thousands of game developers and publishers of all sizes fund, market, launch, and monetize their games globally and across multiple platforms.
As an innovative leader in game commerce, Xsolla’s mission is to solve the inherent complexities of global distribution, marketing, and monetization to help our partners reach more geographies, generate more revenue, and create relationships with gamers worldwide. Headquartered and incorporated in Los Angeles, California, with offices in London, Berlin, Seoul, Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, Raleigh, Tokyo, Montreal, and cities around the world.
For additional information and to learn more, please visit: xsolla.com
FastSpring is how gaming publishers sell in more places around the world. For nearly two decades, FastSpring has been a trusted payment provider you can use to sell games or in-game items on your website, web shop, or embedded directly into your game with fully customizable and branded checkouts just for you.
FastSpring allows you to offload the complexity of global payments, sales tax and VAT compliance, player payments support, and many other aspects of payments management. Spend less time managing your payments and compliance and more time making great games!
To learn more about how FastSpring supports game developers, visit fastspring.gg/.
Next Games creates innovative gaming experiences inspired by fresh ideas and fan-favorite worlds. As a Netflix game studio, we shape global entertainment, driven by a deep legacy in Finnish game development culture. From mobile and web, to games on TV, our games blend seamlessly into our players' daily lives.
The execution layer for modern UA expansion. One platform: licensed or managed.
SuperMedia is a standalone managed UA service powered by the SuperScale Stack — no stack licence required. You bring budget, targets, and a tracking link — we grow your spend and improve your profit across 35+ networks under one IO. The fee is published: an 8% management fee on managed spend. Onboarding is a tracking link, not an integration project.
The SuperScale Stack is the licensed product your own team runs: SuperVYZR, the app layer; SuperAI, the agent layer; SuperPlatform, the semantic layer, deployed in your own BigQuery.
70+ publishers. 200+ games. Founded in 2016, with offices in Bratislava and London. Meet us at the SuperScale stand, and hear Ivan Trancik, CEO, on "What $100M of Measured UA Spend Says About Where Profit Lives".
Epic Games operates one of the world’s largest games, Fortnite, and develops Unreal Engine, the most open and advanced real-time 3D tool. Through Fortnite, Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers to build, distribute, and operate games and other content.
Meta Audience Network empowers app developers and publishers to deliver a great user experience whilst growing a sustainable business. With Meta demand from millions of diverse global advertisers, publishers can expand their app's reach, keep users engaged and monetise globally.
AppSamurai is a mobile user acquisition platform specializing in Rewarded Playtime UA and app monetization for games. Through its offerwall product AppsPrize, AppSamurai connects game publishers and advertisers to deliver highly engaged users at scale with ROAS-driven campaigns across iOS and Android globally. Trusted by leading mobile game studios worldwide.
Bidease is a programmatic demand-side platform powered by advanced AI technology. We specialize in helping app marketers achieve their user acquisition and in-app retargeting goals through data-driven, fully managed advertising solutions.
By combining best-in-class machine learning and neural networks, with a commitment to transparency and performance, we deliver measurable results that drive business growth.
AppFollow helps apps survive in a crowded marketplace. We built a reputation management platform that turns user feedback into your advantage, acting as your unified inbox for all reputation conversations. Track what people say about your app across app stores and social media, while AI handles review responses and analytics reveal what drives downloads. Companies like Wargaming, Adobe, G5, and Activision choose AppFollow to keep their apps competitive and their users happy.
Fingersoft is the largest independent game studio in Finland, fully owned by its founders and employees. Founded in 2012, the company is best known for its global mobile hits Hill Climb Racing and Hill Climb Racing 2, which together have accumulated over 2.5 billion downloads across platforms and generated more than €220 million in net revenue. Headquartered in Oulu, Finland, with another office in Helsinki, Fingersoft employs 100 people. For more information, visit fingersoft.com.
HyprMX is a brand-only ad network delivering premium ad campaigns from Fortune 500 companies. Available for rewarded video, interstitial, and banner ad formats, HyprMX works with all major mediation solutions and is based in NYC. Visit hyprmx.com or email info@hyprmx.com to see how brand ads can add value to your games.
Nazara is India’s only publicly listed gaming company valued at ~US $1.3 Bn and operates leading brands across gaming & esports, including Fusebox, Curve Games, Kiddopia, Nodwin Gaming, Sportskeeda, Funky Monky and Smaash. Nazara plans to invest over US $200 Mn in 2026 to acquire global gaming studios.
Appcharge is a leading direct-to-consumer platform empowering game publishers to maximize profitability by selling directly to their players. Processing over $500 million in annual transactions, Appcharge delivers a purpose-built payment solution tailored for the gaming industry. Publishers benefit from fully customizable webstores, advanced player retention tools, and gamified shopping experiences.
Appcharge supports over 500 payment methods and 80 currencies, offering robust global payments infrastructure and full MoR coverage. Led by industry veterans from Rovio, Huuuge Games, Moon Active, and Play Studios, Appcharge is headquartered in Tel Aviv, with offices across key global markets.
For more information, visit appcharge.com
adjoe introduces new ways for apps to monetize and scale by improving how users experience ads – both rewarded and programmatic. From its offices in Hamburg, Boston, Singapore, and Tokyo, the company runs the world’s leading – and fastest growing – rewarded advertising channel.
Thanks to its advanced AI and first-party data, adjoe serves over 600 million mobile users globally with highly personalized ad experiences. adjoe’s market-shaping solutions like Playtime, Arcade, and adjoe Ads – backed by a $100 million investment from Bertelsmann – help app developers worldwide reach unique and highly motivated users, monetize their apps more efficiently, and ultimately maximize overall revenues.
BIGO Ads is a deep learning-based intelligent advertising platform, dedicated to becoming a global leader in one-stop marketing and monetization solutions. Leveraging full-stack AI capabilities, advanced oCPC and ROAS-based bidding models, and cutting-edge in-app bidding technology, BIGO Ads empowers global partners to efficiently scale user acquisition and maximize ad revenue.
To date, the platform has served over 55,000 direct partnered apps, with business coverage spanning key markets in North America, Europe, Japan, and South Korea, while actively expanding into high-potential emerging regions. Moving forward, BIGO Ads remains committed to advancing intelligent advertising technologies and solidifying its leadership in the global digital advertising landscape.
justtrack is the mobile measurement and attribution platform built for gaming studios, not adapted from a generic tool. Attribution, in-app analytics, and ad-revenue measurement sit in one SDK and one data layer, so user acquisition and monetisation live in a single picture.
Independent by design and not owned by an ad network, justtrack prices on MAU and how a game actually earns, and is building toward AI-driven UA workflows that turn data into decisions. Built in Hamburg, part of the applike group.
The Swedish Games Industry is the trade association for video game companies in Sweden. We represent the Swedish game industry as a whole.
Our members span from indie game developers to large publishers and distributors and even include the whole ecosystem such as game development educators and incubators for new companies.
Games Factory Talents connects top-tier games industry professionals with forward-thinking studios. Based in Helsinki, we specialize in tailored recruitment and high-impact talent events that help companies scale fast with the right people.
From boutique teams to AAA giants, studios trust us to deliver talent that fits — technically, culturally, and creatively. Let’s build your dream team!
Omdia, part of Informa TechTarget, Inc. (Nasdaq: TTGT), is a technology research and advisory group. Our deep knowledge of tech markets combined with our actionable insights empower organizations to make informed decisions. From R&D to ROI, we identify the greatest opportunities and move the industry forward.