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Pocket Gamer Connects – THE Global Mobile Games Industry Conference

Leading mobile gaming industry conference, Pocket Gamer Connects, returns to Helsinki in 2019 – bigger and better than ever. More than 1,300 delegates will gather for two days to hear from 150 of the world’s leading authorities from the mobile gaming industry. Filling 12 wall-to-wall conference tracks across both days, they will share their expert insight on everything from monetisation to the latest development trends.

New Features

Conference tracks for 2019 keep our audience at the cutting edge of the industry, including live ops, hypercasual & instant messenger games, blockchain, influencer marketing and blockchain gaming, as well as company culture and a brand new track, Beyond Mobile, which incorporates PC, XR, Switch and cross-platform gaming. Popular tracks The Developer Toolkit, eSports and East Meets West will also make a return.

Of course, the seminar schedule still includes classic topics such as market overviews, industry trends, indie development, and case studies. We’ve also added an all-new dedicated workshop space to help you acquire or develop industry-related skills that will help grow your career or business. Please note: we’re moving to a new venue this year! See you at the Cable Factory…

Networking For All

As ever, the conference schedule will be packed with our trademark short, sharp seminars. With no time to waffle, our speakers get straight down to business – which is what you’ll be able to do too, networking with more than 1,300 industry professionals.

The event is called Connects because that’s what we help you do; connect with the whole mobile gaming industry, from students and indie studios to the media, international investors and publishers. Unlike other event organisers, we offer our Pitch & Match meeting scheduler free to all delegates, so you can find that perfect contact and arrange to meet them in person.

No other event puts you in touch with the entire mobile gaming industry like our Connects conferences.

Pairing Developers With Publishers And Investors

Our SpeedMatch sessions pair developers in rapid succession with a series of publishers and investors in a series of speed-dating style meetings.

These short, sharp encounters enable first contact for you to follow up with a longer meeting if you find a potential partner. It’s a shop window for devs to display their wares and a pipeline of prospects for anyone looking to sign up-and-coming talent.

Meet The Media

We welcome regional and international specialist media to our events so that your work reaches the widest audience possible.

With our own publishing powerhouse behind us, you are guaranteed that our industry journalists will be onsite for demos, interviews and other ways to raise awareness of your brand or project to the online community outside the walls of the event.

If you’re looking for feedback on a project, stop by for a free consultation from professional games journalists.

All About The Indies

Indie devs are the lifeblood of the mobile games industry and Pocket Gamer Connects champions their work to our international audience.

The show floor has a dedicated Big Indie Zone for known names and newcomers alike to display their talent to an industry audience. This is a vibrant and varied expo area for publishers looking to sign promising titles.

And of course, our hugely popular Big Indie Pitches will be back in force with indie devs competing to impress a panel of expert judges. The winners walk away with armfuls of prizes and online marketing worth thousands of dollars.

Established International Audience

More than 18,000 industry professionals have attended the Connects international conference series since 2014. Since then, the roadshow has landed in the UK, North America, Canada, Finland, and India with a genuinely international client base; on average, delegates from more than 40 countries attend each event.

In 2016, we became the biggest dedicated mobile games industry conference series in Europe and have stayed on top ever since. Every event has been bigger and better than the last – and Helsinki continues to grow year-on-year.

Not only have our previous delegates voted Connects the ‘best value conference’, but 97% would recommend it to a colleague and 96% tell us they’ll come back for more.

Previous speakers and delegates from all the key industry players include Supercell, King, Tencent, Telltale, Apple, Rovio, Disney, Wargaming, Kabam, NTT Docomo, Ubisoft, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Gameloft, Sega, Capcom, Unity, Twitter, Twitch and many, many, many more.

Party Hearty

And if that all sounds a bit serious, day one closes with our infamous Global Connects party – that’s where the networking goes on into the night and you might just make lifelong friends, fortunes and memories…

• 12 tracks
• 150 speakers
• 100 sessions
• 80+ hours of content (talks + fringe)
• 600+ companies represented
• 1,300 delegates

• Entry to the main conference including access to all content tracks expo and dedicated meeting area on both days
• Access to fringe events such as The Very Big Indie Pitch (if eligible)
• Entry to the Global Connects Party
• Free coffee, tea & refreshments on both days
• Free wifi
• A personal profile on the Pitch & Match meeting system and unlimited meeting invites

**************** Book your ticket today! ******************

Select your ticket above and follow the simple online booking system. Payment is required at the time of booking, so please have your credit or debit card ready. If you don’t have a credit or debit card, please see the alternative payment methods listed.

Block bookings: To arrange a discount on block bookings, please contact us if you wish to purchase more than 5 tickets, via [email protected]

Students: Student tickets are available, but numbers are limited. You must register using an academic email address to prove your student status.

Journalists: Please apply for accreditation.

For Sponsorships or other Business Development opportunities please contact us via [email protected]

Terms and conditions apply. For full details please visit www.pgconnects.com/terms-conditions

The Crypto Games Conference will take place in the heart of IT-savvy Ukraine, its capital – Kyiv.

Located in the business area of the city, the contemporary Mercure Congress Centre conference venue, will open its doors to 1,500 attendees. It will be a pivotal gaming innovation supershow attracting the most wanted delegates from all over the globe.

It’s time to test yourself in an exciting race for the prize-pool at the hackathon, find investors, present your brand in all its glory at the stand or take part in the annual awards ceremony. Are VR/AR/AI/ Blockchain in gaming your passion? Get ready for an exhaustive list of features at the next CGC, held in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Become a part of the event that shapes the future and adrenalizes the progress with

1,500 delegates from more than 50 countries
500 leading companies from digital games industry
100 speakers covering the hottest and most important topics of forefront technologies
Flamboyant expo and showcase zones filled with the most promising startups, games and projects

CGC Pitch

First introduced during the Minsk 2018 event, CGC Pitch offers prominent startups an opportunity to present their products to investors laser focused on gaming, VR, AR and blockchain, in a series of speed dating sessions.

CGC Awards

CGC Awards is a contest designed to recognize innovation and celebrate creativity. If you have a gaming project that uses blockchain, VR, AR, and other forefront technologies, and you believe it rocks – waste no time, apply now and grab your chance to win!

CGC Showcase

An expo floor for indie game developers. 100 teams will show their games to all attendees of the conference. A perfect chance to get valuable feedback, make partnerships, and grow to the next level!

PINE

A free networking app will be used before and during the event to find the right people and arrange meetings. Search the list of attendees and companies, book meetings in dedicated meeting areas at the conference floor, schedule all your activities in one app.

Networking

CGC is proud of its signature networking events, including parties, lounges, and meetups. This time, in addition to them, attendees are invited to an exclusive trip to Chernobyl – an iconic nuclear power plant and abandoned town of Pripyat. Check out the HBO mini-series to find out more about the Chernobyl disaster. The number of seats on the bus is limited!

About CGC

Pioneered in 2018, CGC (AKA Crypto Games Conference) is a business event for gaming professionals harnessing the power of blockchain, VR and AR. The past three conferences have brought together more than 2,000 delegates from over 40 countries, creating hundreds of new partnerships and opportunities. Designed as a global knowledge centre, a marketplace and a platform for networking, CGC strives to evangelise and to bring mass adoption to disruptive technologies set to change the gaming industry landscape.

More information at www.cgc.one

Venue: Mercure Kyiv Congress Kyiv, 6, V. Getmana Str.

Contact persons:

Mary Yakovleva – [email protected]

Lora Veremeenko – [email protected]

Blockchain Life 2019 is one of the most significant events in the world and the biggest event in Russia and Europe.

Every year forum gathers more than 6,000 participants from 70 countries, bringing together industry professionals and the ones who have just started their profitable way in the crypto market.

The price starts from $47

Get your Early Bird Ticket online: https://blockchain-life.com/

The world leading Blockchain Expo series will return to the Santa Clara Convention Center in the heart of Silicon Valley on November 13-14^th to host its fourth annual North American event.

It will bring together key industries from across the globe for two days of top-level content and discussion across 5 co-located events covering Blockchain,  IoT, 5G, Cyber Security & Cloud, AI and Big data.

12,000 attendees are expected to congregate for the event including CTO’s, Heads of Innovation and Technology, IT Directors, Developers, Start-Up’s, OEM’s, Government, Automotive, Operators, Technology Providers, Investors, VCs and many more.

The Blockchain Expo will showcase the most cutting-edge technologies from more than 350 exhibitors and provide insight from over 500 speakers sharing their unparalleled industry knowledge and real-life experiences.

The Blockchain conference agenda will present a series of expert keynotes, interactive panel discussions and solution-based case studies. All exploring the key industries that are set to be disrupted the most by this new technology, including; legal sectors, retail, financial services, healthcare, insurance, energy, music, government, real estate and more.

BlockShow is a festival of decentralized technology.

The event will include 9 conferences:

Investments – all about investment & fundraising trends. Insights from top international funds and VCs.

DeFi – payments, tokenomics, stablecoins, digital assets. Crypto & finance experts from all over the globe.

Trading – major traders and exchange experts will tell about the changes the Decentralized Tech is bringing to the trading field.

Gaming & DApps – blockchain-enabled gaming and DApps. From locally renowned companies tackling innovations to triple-A studios adopting decentralization.

BaaS – corporate Blockchain specialists and global industry representatives will find out how major sectors are being disrupted by Decentralized Tech.

Marketing & PR – it’s hard to promote Decentralized Tech when global and social media are turning their back on Crypto & Blockchain. The experts will share their insights on why the ecosystem is still in need of image improvement. How to establish a win-win situation with the media.

Regulations – blockchain & Crypto regulations all across the globe. How do we work with legislators to establish a friendly and fully open regulatory framework?

Privacy & Security – daily surveillance, insufficiently secured networks, the abundance of personal info in the web, the increasing number of identity frauds. The whole spectrum of current problems and solutions.

Development – decentralize Tech mass adoption issues and solutions. AI – will gather up top-level scientists and experts to share knowledge, solve problems and push the innovations forward – ‘cause everyone knows Blockchain and AI are belong together!

Find out more at Blockshow.com

More than 2,800 delegates will gather at The Brewery for the two days on 20-21 January to hear from 300 of the world’s leading authorities from the gaming industry. Mobile, PC, blockchain and more will be covered, across 25 unmissable conference tracks. Across two full days, our speakers and panellists will share their expert insight into the influencer marketing scene, studio growth, design and development tips, company culture and loads more.

One Ticket, Three Conferences

Mobile is the most important area in gaming right now, and we’ve been championing it for years through our Pocket Gamer brand. But there’s more than mobile in 2020: our dedicated blockchain and PC games conferences are back too.

Blockchain technology has the potential to truly revolutionise the games industry, whether through the creation of a whole new category of dApps, enabling secondary markets for in-game digital assets, or creating new models for rewarding players. There are opportunities and incredible rewards on offer, but there’s no shortage of pitfalls to avoid and trends to follow.

Which is precisely why we introduced blockchain gaming to our conference series last year, to great success in places like San Francisco and Helsinki. The games and tech industries are changing for good. Discover more, and meet the people at the heart of it, at this dedicated conference from the makers of Pocket Gamer Connects – access to it is included in all PG Connects London tickets (and vice versa).

And returning for its third year in London is PC Connects. After a successful event in Seattle at the heart of the PC scene, PC Connects will be back in London with 50 speakers to educate and inspire with an agenda set to cover trends, marketing, publishing, development know-how, and strategies to thrive in this evolving sector. As with blockchain, this dedicated series is all included in the one ticket.

New Themes, Core Issues

As well as the evergreen topics like live ops and monetisation, you’ll find new conference tracks for 2020.

We’ll be looking at Visions & Values, for instance, getting to the heart of how we build the best possible games industry. We’ll cover eSports, hypercasual and instant messenger games, AI, influencer marketing, VR and AR, cross-platform gaming and streaming.

You can expect a mix of short, sharp talks and longer panels, as well as workshops, cast studies and more.

Networking For All

A PG Connects conference is a place to get business done. We’re famous for being a place where new connections are made (hence the name) and productive meetings take place. You’ll be able to network with some 2,800 industry professionals at this London event, and we do our best to make that easy.

We’ll bring together the whole gaming industry, from students and indie studios to the media, international investors and publishers. Unlike some other events, we offer our Pitch & Match meeting scheduler free to all delegates, so you can find that perfect contact and arrange to meet them in person.

No other event puts you in touch with the entire mobile gaming industry like our Connects conferences.

Pairing Developers With Publishers And Investors

Our Publisher SpeedMatch sessions pair developers in rapid succession with a series of publishers and investors in a series of speed-dating style meetings.

These short, sharp encounters enable first contact for you to follow up with a longer meeting if you find a potential partner. It’s a shop window for devs to display their wares and a pipeline of prospects for anyone looking to sign up-and-coming talent. And we run similar Investor Connector sessions too, putting creators together with firms looking to invest in the next big thing.

Meet The Media

We welcome regional and international specialist media to our events so that your work reaches the widest audience possible. With our own publishing powerhouse behind us, you are guaranteed that our industry journalists will be onsite for demos, interviews and other ways to raise awareness of your brand or project to the online community outside the walls of the event.

If you’re looking for feedback on a project, stop by our Journalist Bar for a free consultation from professional games journalists. Our editors can also be contacted through the Pitch & Match system.

All About The Indies

Indie devs are the lifeblood of the mobile and PC games industry and Connects London 2020 will champion their work to our international audience. The show floor has a dedicated Big Indie Zone for known names and newcomers alike to display their talent to an industry audience. This is a vibrant and varied expo area for publishers looking to sign promising titles.

And of course, our hugely popular Big Indie Pitches will be back in force with indie devs competing to impress a panel of expert judges. The winners walk away with armfuls of prizes and online marketing worth thousands of dollars.

Established International Audience

More than 18,000 industry professionals have attended the Connects international conference series since 2014. Since then, the roadshow has landed in the UK, North America, Canada, Finland, and India with a genuinely international client base: on average, delegates from more than 45 countries attend each event.

In 2016, we became the biggest dedicated mobile games industry conference series in Europe and have stayed on top ever since. Every event has been bigger and better than the last – and London continues to storm ahead year-on-year.

Not only have our previous delegates voted Connects the ‘best value conference’, but 97% would recommend it to a colleague and 96% tell us they’ll come back for more.

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

Party Hearty

And if that all sounds a bit serious, Day 1 closes with our awesome Global Connects party – that’s where the networking goes on into the night and you might just make lifelong friends, fortunes and memories…

Your conference ticket Includes:

• Entry to the main conference including access to all content tracks expo and dedicated meeting area on both days
• Access to fringe events such as The Very Big Indie Pitch, Workshops, Journalist Bar, SpeedMatch (if eligible)
• Entry to the Global Connects Party
• Free coffee, tea & refreshments on both days
• Free wifi
• A personal profile on the Pitch & Match meeting system and unlimited meeting invites

**************** Book your ticket today! ******************

Select your ticket above and follow the simple online booking system. Payment is required at the time of booking, so please have your credit or debit card ready. If you don’t have a credit or debit card, please see the alternative payment methods listed.

Block bookings: To arrange a discount on block bookings, please contact us if you wish to purchase more than 5 tickets, via [email protected]

Students: Student tickets are available, but numbers are limited. You must register using an academic email address to prove your student status.

Journalists: Please apply for accreditation or email [email protected]

Please note all conference tickets are subject to UK VAT at a rate of 20%. You will be sent a VAT receipt by email along with confirmation of your booking.

For Sponsorships or other Business Development opportunities please contact Lisa at [email protected]

Terms and conditions apply. For full details please visit www.pgconnects.com/terms-conditions