First dedicated blockchain gaming show unites 850 professionals in San Francisco

Blockchain Gamer Connects, our inaugural B2B conference for the blockchain gaming industry, took place this week in San Francisco and was a huge success.

Taking place this week at Bespoke in San Francisco’s Westfield Center, and co-hosted by Super Game Chain with support from WAX, the event combined panels, lectures, networking, the Roadshow Pitching sessions, a party and full access to mobile-focused Pocket Gamer Connects. Across Blockchain Gamer Connects, PG Connects and the Global Connects Party on Monday night, the event hosted 850 engaged professionals for two full days.

World-class speakers included Benny Giang from CryptoKitties, Philip Rosedale from High Fidelity, Toni Xu from Super Game Chain, Nicolas Pouard from Ubisoft, William Quigley from WAX, Randy Saaf from Lucid Sight and loads more. We’ve summarised the hot topics that arose during the event here.

Feedback on the event was massively positive, including Twitter threads like these:

Learned a lot from @KilianKunst about his project @AgeofChains at Blockchain Gamer Connects today in San Francisco. pic.twitter.com/WMarkf8sBf

— Dan Anderson (@droplister) May 15, 2018

Loving it here at the #BGCSanFrancisco Conference! #blockchain #blockchaintechnology #gamedev #blockchaingame #cryptogames #cryptogaming pic.twitter.com/OrvqKBlI3m

— Hedgie (@hellohedgie) May 15, 2018

Thanks @ChaseFreo and @Alto_io for including @CS_Commander @LucidsightInc in your awesome talk at #BGCSanFrancisco @BCGbiz @PGConnects #PGCSanFrancisco #cryptogames #dApps #dappgames #blockchaingaming pic.twitter.com/qnZ178H2Sl

— Octavio Herrera (@ovherrera) May 15, 2018

The Roadshow Pitching session was a huge part of the event and saw teams presenting their new crypto games to a panel of experts. The competition – which included a $15,000 investment prize – was won by Axie Infinity. The developer was welcomed up on stage, to take his bow, by Toni Xu of Super Game Chain.

A huge thanks to all the people who supported us, our sponsors, participants, speakers and delegates. Watch out for videos from the conference, featuring the best of the events’ talks, on this site very soon. Remember to join our Telegram group for insights into upcoming conferences (search for BlockchainGamer on Telegram); you can expect to see Blockchain Gamer Connects in Helsinki in September.

In the meantime, we’ve launched a YouTube channel where we’ll be uploading videos of the key talks from Blockchain Gamer Connects shortly. Subscribe now!