Save 25% off your PGC Digital #8 Ticket

IGDA Finland is delighted to be partnering with Pocket Gamer Connects to offer you an exclusive 25% discount on tickets to attend the leading B2B conference for the mobile games industry.

PG Connects Digital #8 will feature 250+ international superstar speakers to entertain and enlighten you with expert talks, panels, and power panels, plus an improved digital meeting platform. You can also expect a digital version of the Big Indie Pitch for PC & console, the brand-new Big Hypercasual Pitch, Journalist Bar, Discord channel, and other matchmaking activities like Investor Connector and Publisher SpeedMatch, all delivered to the comfort of your desktop wherever you are in the world!

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Leadership Day by IGDA Finland: Save the Date and Call for Speakers

Leadership Day by IGDA Finland is an international event about how we build companies, teams and working cultures to build better games and will be taking place online on September 27th.

The inner workings and cultures of games companies are some of the least documented aspects of game development. Yet we and our work are all defined by these choices every single day. Join us in learning and challenging the cutting edge of leadership in games from some of the brightest minds in the industry!

Do you have a thought provoking talk on nurturing and building people and teams or shaping company culture? If so then apply to be a speaker. (Deadline September 3rd)

Interested in supporting this event and helping us make it a little more special? Then please consider sponsoring it.

IGDA Game Art SIG Roundtable at GDC21!

Calling all #gameart practitioners attending GDC Official the IGDA Game Art SIG is hosting a #conceptart roundtable and we're looking for exciting panelists to join the line-up on Wed, July 21st, 8:30am PT. Please contact Chris Solarski (csolarski@gmail.com) or Natasha Skult (natasha.skult@igda.fi) for more info.

GIC: Call for Speakers

The Game Industry Conference will return this year with a new hybrid format from October 22-24, 2021. This show be a connecting point for the game industry, combinng streams and online features with on-site elements, while provide meeting opportunities for those who seek knowledge and business opportunities.

The organizing committee just announced their call for speakers. Speakers have the option of speaking at the show in Poznan, Poland or remotely online.

The deadline for submissions is October 10th and submissions can be made here.

For more information visit the conference website.

Game Wave: Call for Speakers

The Game Wave Festival is an international event currently planned to take place from September 24-26, 2021 on-site in Jūrmala, Latvia. The event is created to be a balance between fun, relaxation, education and business.

It incorporates a conference, exposition/showroom of games, technology and art, job market/talent pool, B2B meetings, games pitching, a game jam and an afterparty. The conference will take place in Jūrmala, the largest resort city on the shores of the Baltic Sea, in a 5 star spa & resort hotel, right by the beach.

The conference is currently looking for speakers with industry experience to talk in any of the following tracks: board, mobile and extended reality games. Talks can cover a wide range of topics including business, design, technical, software, hardware etc.. The conference will have a diverse audience from beginners to industry veterans.

Visit the conference website for more information.

And apply here to be a speaker.