Celebrating the finest companies backing us for our annual Helsinki conference gone online

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Amazing 250+ speaker roster includes the studios behind smash hits and stellar success stories! You can meet them all online, September 14-18

"I don’t see a bigger trend than changes because of iOS 14"

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“Content is not easy, we are building games that we hope people will love. Resilience, passion and leadership are key for success”

"While games have begun integrating social layers into games long ago, we think games will become an important facilitator of social interaction in a work from home world"

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“Making a great game is difficult as it is, but creating a sustainable & successful franchise is even harder. That is why we want to work with founders who are fully committed for the long term.”

"Our advice would be to find a way of injecting some fun into the pitch and inspiring a connection, be it through video, live gameplay, or otherwise"

250 expert speakers, 21 conference tracks, 1,500+ industry professionals, exciting fringe events - our online-only conference is set to be a cracker!

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“It appears that the real winners during the lockdown period were the companies that were willing to aggressively take advantage of the lower CPIs to significantly grow their userbases cheaply”

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Fringe benefits: beyond the conference talks and panels, there are multiple events for networking with over 1,500 industry professionals over the internet this month

"Esports is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world and yet is still in its infancy."

Talks and roundtables to help you get a job or find your next great hire

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"It's constantly changing and evolving"

Network completely over the internet with the world’s top games companies: an incredible lineup - from top publishers to talented indie studios - awaits you online

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"With Epic's recent lawsuit against Apple and Google over the app stores, I can see this having a big effect on the mobile gaming industry"

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With just one month to go until our online-only conference goes live, find out who you will be learning from digitally

Our most anticipated highlights from the 250+ sensational speakers and 21 terrific tracks, Sept 14-18

“Games that have a social element that will allow forging of new relationships as well as deepening existing relationships will likely help people with shielding from the pandemic.”

“In mobile, I believe that it will become increasingly harder to stick great products on top grossing positions, and smaller companies will be absorbed by bigger ones, until there's few fishes in the pool.”

“There is strong potential for innovation with the integration of video chat and games. I also feel a very strong player could emerge in the ‘metaverse’ space.”

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“The growth of mobile has been steady and relentless, signaling that the market will continue to expand as more people have access to great games and more practices born from mobile (like free to play) will permeate other platforms over time.”

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“Today, due to the fierce competition between publishers, indie game developers have more and more options to publish their game and more importantly, make hypercasual their business model.”

“This past year saw a rise in new studios made up of very experienced individuals also thanks to new exciting VC coming into the scene.”

The Finnish Game Jam joins us for next month’s digital conference with its fifth edition of the Pocket Jam

“The key change is gaming was shunned as an advertising medium, and now it’s the largest untapped opportunity”

“I feel 2020 generated a strong reality check with most publishers taking a more agile approach to new titles marketing more in line with the nature of those titles.”

“We like to call 1Up Ventures a community of game developers because we really focus on making strong connections between the founders of the game companies we invest in.”

“More Chinese companies are going to focus on publishing games abroad to avoid restrictions at home.”

“Mobile and free to pay have become a lot stronger, players are more used to them, understand the business, and are willing to support developers who make the games they love.”

“Huawei's struggle with Google can potentially make an impact in the mobile games industry, and could even potentially pave the way for completely new Android Stores”

“What we see today is an emphasis on watching games more than playing them and LGBTQ+ representation are products of what happened to the industry a couple of years ago.”

250 expert speakers, 21 conference tracks, 1,500+ industry professionals, exciting fringe events - next month’s online conference is set to be a cracker!

“To me the innovation is not in the game content but in how the industry is reinventing ways to market.”