We’re less than a month away from the next Digital Dragons – the leading European B2B conference aimed at the gaming industry. The core of the event, taking place online on September 7 and 8 and offline on September 9, are lectures and discussion panels with industry experts. Among the invited guests, we will see David Jaffe, who worked on the God of War series, and Darren Korb – the composer for Hades, Pyre and Bastion. The promoters would like to present other highlights of the program.
This year’s Digital Dragons will feature over 60 different and interesting talks, lectures, and discussion panels. On the first day of the conference Benjamin Charbit of Darewise Entertainment will speak on the virtual stage about how he and his team set out to prove that there was another way to create and distribute a high-quality game as a small developer with a limited budget.
Conference participants will also be able to watch a discussion panel dedicated to perspectives on the Polish game market. Experts will discuss how Poland has become one of the hottest places in the world of gamedev and how it can maintain its position as a key player on the global stage in the long term. The invited experts are:
• David Chang (Managing Director at Tyr Advisors),
• Jason Della Rocca (Co-Founder of Execution Labs),
• Alexander Champlin (Senior Analyst, Esports at Niko Partners).
The second day of the conference will begin with a discussion on women’s leadership in the games industry. Among the invited experts we will hear:
• Kate Edwards (Executive Director of the Global Game Jam, CEO of Geogrify),
• Sophie Vo (CEO of Rise and Play),
• Ana Pohrib (People Ops Manager at Amber),
• Taina Ionita (Live Associate Producer at Ubisoft Romania),
• Andreea Medvedovici-Per (Executive Director of RGDA, Vice-President of EGDF, Co-Founder of Women in Games Association Romania, BizDev manager of KillHouse Games).
On the same day the acclaimed speaker Johnny Monsarrat, an icon among MMO game developers, will have his lecture on games utilizing AR technology. But what comes after Pokémon GO in AR Gaming? Johnny will share his vision of what’s to come. Another interesting topic will be covered by Martin Mittner of Tiny Hydra. In his talk, Martin will explain how Custom Tools can help save dozens of hours of work and avoid bottlenecks during the game development process.
The second day will also involve startups competing for the Golden Ticket to the Digital Dragons Accelerator. It’s a program for ambitious developers from outside Poland who get a chance to claim up to 70 000 euros for the development of their project and an opportunity to enter the acceleration program for young development studios. The winners will be announced on the last day of the conference.
Find the full schedule on the official Digital Dragons Website.