Gwen Foster

Gwen will teach you how  to pitch your game successfully. Need we say more?

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“We don’t have enough bugs in JIRA!” “The programmers aren’t fixing the bugs!” We keep hearing these phrases since the early days of game development. But the gap between production and testing is now becoming a thing of the past. And the future looks good. Let’s explore it together!

Karol Sobczak

A session dedicated to all professionals from the games industry interested in using this hugely succesful platform to attract players and engage with their community.

Dariusz Wais 

If you can’t self-fund your projects or you want to grow faster, then you’ll need to raise external funding. Equity finance is one common way for businesses to get the money they need. How is it working in the gamedev industry ?

Andreea Gabriela Mandroiu & Liviu Totolici

What started out at first as an R&D project at Massive Entertainment (a Ubisoft Studio), has grown into an engine used worldwide in Ubisoft. Join Andreea and Liviu to find out more about Snowdrop’s amazing features and how it helps unleash the developers’ creativity.

James Gallagher

Allowing players to participate in the direction of your game is a positive part of modern gaming culture – how many authors or musicians offer to change their work based on input from the reader or listener? But listening to a growing community is a major commitment, especially for indie teams that don’t have dedicated community manager.In this session James Gallagher (Senior Social Media Manager at Keywords Studios) shares practical examples for gathering feedback and engaging with your players, without taking too much focus away from game development.

Vlad Muscalu

An honest look at the ‘what, how and why’ of mobile gaming, and the prejudice that comes with them

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In this panel we will discuss with representatives of the German and Serbian industry about the impact state support can have on the game development industry but also why such state support is desirable for our specific domain. Raoul Trifan, MP and vice-chair of the IT&C Committee in the Romanian Parliament will also join the panel to explain why he chose the role of the ambassador of the local industry in the Parliament and why he believes the state has a lot to benefit from supporting game developers producing original IP in Romania./p>

 Johannes Roth , Andreea Medvedovici-Per

A chat with Johannes Roth, Co-Founder on Business, Strategy and Funding.

George Lemnaru, Catalin Butnariu

This session will explore the reasoning, preparation and potential pitfall in getting investment as an independent games studio. The panel’s guest is George Lemnaru, one of the most successful video game entrepreneurs in Romania, who has been involved in multiple rounds of investment and two successful exits.

Marty Caplan, Roy Liu

It’s the hottest trend in games at the moment. NFT, cryptocurrencies and Play-to-Earn are bringing in a lot of new investments in the industry and are creating a lot of buzz. But while these concepts and technologies have the potential to disrupt the digital entertainment industry, they are also sparking some controversy. Join this session to learn more about the impact these will have on the industry.

Catalin Butnariu, Brett Crawford

This live session will feature Brett Crawford – Lead Designer on Heroes of the Storm and will cover the main aspects of working on a AAA live game, how this compares to the regular development cycles of such a title and what are the unique challenges of working in a live environment.