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Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #4 (Online)
Nov 9th - 13th 2020

Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #4 (Online)

Online Event

Date & Times: Monday, November 9th - 13th 2020
8am to 8pm
Location: Online Event
Expected Size: 1,000 - 3,000
Ticket Cost: 149 USD
Target Audience: Ad Companies, C-Level, Creatives, Developers, Indie Developers, Investors, Marketing, Media, Publishers, Recruitment, Students, Technical teams, Tool Providers, YouTubers / Streamers
Event Type: Online Event
Featured Platforms: Android, Augmented Reality, Blockchain, Console, Handheld Console, iOS, PC, Smart TV, Steam, Virtual Reality, VR, Wearables

Following three fantastic digital events in 2020, Pocket Gamer Connects will celebrate this year's final November edition online too!

The need to connect and do business remains as strong as ever, despite many of us still being unable to travel. We love meeting you all and we had hoped that IRL games industry networking events would return to normal as the year continues, but we've accepted that 2020 is going to be an unusual one all the way to the winter. And running events digitally has enabled us to connect with hundreds more international guests - nearly 70 countries were represented at our September online conference! Thank you for joining us. Let's do it again in November...

Our pledge: we will continue to work incredibly hard to distil as much of the content and spirit as we can from the traditional PG Connects events you have come to know and love over the last seven years, and hone the format so it can be as genuinely useful as possible. That means expert talks, panels and round-tables, a MeetToMatch meeting platform, digital versions of Big Indie Pitches and fringe events like Publisher SpeedMatch, and more surprises too.

Expert Insight
As one of an expected 1,500 delegates, you will have access to an innovative online platform for five days in November.

You'll be able to select from a programme of great live video content full of insight and practical advice across ten themed conference tracks. You can watch the tracks live or catch up on the recorded videos within your own time, and if you're online while the speakers are performing you'll be able to interact with them and the other viewers with questions and comments.

Please bookmark our editorial site www.pocketgamer.biz for news and features about our speakers as we announce them. You can expect the usual inspiring talks from over 250 speakers who will educate and inspire through an agenda of themed tracks set to cover monetisation and growth, global game trends and company culture, development tools and stories and strategies to thrive in the modern gaming market be it mobile, PC, console, blockchain or XR.

24-Hour Networking For All
Business goes on, and people need to make new connections! So in addition to the talks, you'll also be able to search and connect with other attendees. You can find people, connect, discuss, do deals and make plans using the MeetToMatch online meeting platform. It enables you to search by a range of professional criteria and automatically schedules one-to-one video meetings.

Plus we'll also be running online variants of our celebrated Big Indie Pitch, Investor Connector, and Publisher SpeedMatch activities, that will bring together specific groups with specific needs. Registration for these events will be live soon.

Taking place alongside this event will be PocketGamer.com's LaunchPad #2 and more - watch the site for details.

The event is called Connects because that’s what we help you do; connect with the whole gaming industry, from students and indie studios to the media, international investors and publishers. No other event puts you in touch with the entire mobile gaming industry like our Connects conferences, and this remains true of our digital events. It's a true cross section, with roughly 70% of our attendees being game creators.

We're not going to pretend that this online event will have all the benefits of a regular conference. There are no free drinks for a start (although you could crack open a bottle at home), no booths to wander or cool freebies to pocket, you obviously don't get the thrill of visiting a great city and generally there’ll be less of those incidental catch-ups and spontaneous meetings that often make the whole thing worthwhile. We're also not going to pretend we'll get everything faultlessly perfect, there's a lot of tech platforms involved and we're evolving our approach all the time. But please bear with us as we strive hard to bring a useful, information, fun business event to the games industry. We appreciate all your feedback and suggestions!

Established International Audience
More than 28,000 industry professionals have attended the Connects international conference series since 2014. Since then, the roadshow has landed in the UK, Canada, USA, Finland, Hong Kong, Jordan and India with a genuinely international client base; on average, delegates from more than 45 countries attend each event. With the advent of the Digital conference, we have seen this number grow! There were 69 countries represented at our September online event, and in 2020 we know that over 70% of our audience works in game creation/publishing.

In 2016, PG Connects became the biggest dedicated mobile games industry conference series in Europe and has stayed on top ever since. Every event has been bigger and better than the last, and since 2017 we’ve added VR/AR, PC, console and blockchain to the mix. Our Digital events in April and June smashed expectations with over 1,400 attendees.

Previous speakers and delegates from all the key industry players include Supercell, King, Space Ape Games, Niantic, SYBO, Tencent, Mythical Games, Unity, Jam City, Skybound, Apple, Rovio, Disney, Super Evil Megacorp, Wargaming, Kabam, NetEase, NTT Docomo, Ubisoft, Facebook, Google, Square Enix, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Gameloft, Sega, Capcom, Twitter, Snapchat, Twitch, NaturalMotion, N3TWORK and many, many, many more. If you'd like to speak at PGC Digital, or another of our upcoming events, please sign up using our Speaker Submission form.

And because Steel Media owns and operates the leading media in this space too, including PocketGamer.com, PocketGamer.biz and PCGamesInsider.biz, our events benefit from unrivalled press coverage. A combined website readership of well over a million users a month, 300,000 engaged Twitter followers, nearly 120,000 subscribers on YouTube, all await. Our events include opportunities - like a Journalist Bar (operating in Discord for our Digital events) - where you can show writers and editors your games.

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.

Group bookings from the same company: to arrange a discount on block bookings, please contact us if you wish to purchase more than 5 tickets, via [email protected]

Please note the final ticket price is in £UK, and conference tickets may be subject to UK VAT at a rate of 20%. You will be sent a VAT receipt by email along with confirmation of your booking.

Journalists: free media accreditation is possible. Please request access from [email protected]

If you have expertise to share and would like to be considered for a speaking slot, please submit a talk idea using our online form.

For sponsorships or other business development opportunities please contact the sales team via [email protected] and [email protected]

For all other questions, please contact [email protected]

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

Joint G-STAR package: save 20%

We are proud to present a special option for those looking to save even more on additional online events this year.

On November 17-21, South Korea will celebrate G-STAR, a huge international exhibition and conference for the games industry. Every year it’s a chance to connect with the world’s largest games market, because it represents the most friendly and accessible route to the enormous APAC games industry (with Japan, China and the ever-growing SEA market alongside it's very much in the ascendancy)!

G-STAR will be held online this year, and standard tickets cost $100. But book your ticket at the same time as your ticket to Pocket Gamer Connects, and you’ll receive 20% off the whole package!

Can you afford NOT to attend? G-STAR is the biggest show in Korea (the world’s fourth largest market on its own); all the top Korean companies will be together and eager to connect; plus meet leading Japanese, Chinese and SEA companies too; the region is super-friendly and accessible – everything is in English; it’s a digital edition this year so you don’t even have to fly; there’s an easy access meeting system to make connections, then video calls for face-to-face; and it includes access to G-CON conference tracks and fringe events.

PG Connects is a partner of G-STAR. Buying your ticket through Eventbrite with this combined package means you’ll take part in Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #4 and G-STAR (all online) and save 20% off the lot.

Simply choose a + G-STAR option when you hit TICKETS, above.

Please note that we will need to pass your information to G-STAR for the purposes of processing your ticket if you register with this combined ticket offer.

More Information

Find out more information on Pocket Gamer Connects Digital #4 (Online)

Diamond Sponsors

Microsoft

Microsoft

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games

Microsoft Game Stack is a full portfolio of game development tools and solutions powering today’s biggest games.

Platinum Sponsors

Facebook Gaming

Facebook Gaming

https://www.facebook.com/fbgaminghome

Facebook Gaming helps developers, publishers, marketers and streamers find success on a global scale, providing comprehensive business tools, monetization solutions, and meaningful connections to the world’s gaming community

Gold Sponsors

AppLovin

AppLovin

https://www.applovin.com/

AppLovin is a global leader in mobile entertainment. Its studios create popular, immersive mobile games and its technology brings games to more players around the world.

Since 2012, the company’s platform has been instrumental in driving the explosive growth of mobile games, resulting in a richer ecosystem and more games played by millions of people every day.

AppLovin is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with several offices globally. Learn more at applovin.com.

Silver Sponsors

Vungle

Vungle

https://vungle.com/

Vungle is the leading in-app performance marketing platform.

Advertisers depend on Vungle's creative and LTV optimization technologies to reach and acquire high-value consumers. Top publishers rely on Vungle to generate superior revenue through video ads. Trusted by 50,000+ mobile apps worldwide with key developer partners such as Supercell, King, Zynga, EA, Ubisoft, Smule and MZ, Google, Honda, Allstate, L'oreal, Coca-Cola and Nissan.

Vungle serves 4 billion video views per month on 1 billion unique devices, and is consistently top-rated in user quality by mobile industry performance indexes. Vungle is backed by Google Ventures, Thomvest Ventures and Crosslink Capital.

The company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in London, Berlin, Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Singapore.

Track Sponsors

GameAnalytics

GameAnalytics

https://www.gameanalytics.com/

GameAnalytics is a popular analytics tool for games used by indies, studios and publishers around the world to refine gameplay, improve retention and increase revenue.

With an average of 1.7 billion players seen each month across 100k+ titles, GameAnalytics powers insights for more than 1/3 of the world’s mobile gamers.

AdColony

AdColony

http://www.adcolony.com/

Originally founded in 2008 by game developers, for game developers, AdColony has been helping apps grow and monetize their apps since Apple first introduced the App Store.

AdColony is passionate about delivering the highest quality video advertising and beyond. AdColony is committed to delivering experiences that make monetizing a win for advertisers, developers, and users alike.

They've been on the bleeding edge of instant-play video, interactive video, playables, advanced bidding, and are ready for the future with full support for SKAdNetwork, AppTrackingTransparency, IAB standards, and beyond.

Tilting Point

Tilting Point

http://tiltingpoint.com/

Tilting Point is a leading free-to-play publisher that powers up existing live games using deep marketing and product expertise, cutting-edge technology and a user acquisition war chest.

Founded in 2012, Tilting Point has grown to a staff of over 150 people with offices in New York, Barcelona, Boston, Kyiv, Seoul, San Diego & St. Petersburg.

Tilting Point’s most successful games include Star Trek Timelines, Warhammer: Chaos & Conquest, and SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off.

Play 3arabi

Play 3arabi

https://www.play3arabi.com/

Play 3arabi is a leading games publisher specializing in the MENA market and the Arabic language. We partner with developers to localize and adapt their great games to Arabic and publish them in the region.

MENA is considered the fastest growing region in the industry and home to some of the highest ARPPUs in it, and we are here to help you unlock that potential by making sure your game fits the regional culture, taking care of the marketing, user acquisition, and store relations, helping you enhance the game's KPIs, and performing stunning, region-focused LiveOps.

Voodoo

Voodoo

https://www.voodoo.io/

Voodoo was founded in 2013 and are one of the world's largest mobile publishers and developers.

They were the number one free mobile game publisher worldwide in 2019, across the Appstore and Google Play. The company creates games internally, and in collaboration with hundreds of studios worldwide.

Voodoo supports existing and potential developers by offering an industry leading platform to test and learn about their game/s, as well as supporting on scaling their game. The company attracts and works with the top talent in the industry.

Voodoo has had over 2.6 billion downloads in total, with 300 million monthly active users, and has launched more than 100 mobile games.

Crazy Labs

Crazy Labs

https://www.crazylabs.com/

CrazyLabs is a Top 10 casual and hyper-casual mobile games developer & publisher, with over 3.5 billion downloads for games like "Acrylic Nails", "I Can Paint", "Tie Dye", "ASMR Slicing", "Soap Cutting" and many more.

CrazyLabs has offices in Israel, China, Macedonia, Germany and Ukraine, and has recently launched new gaming hubs, in India and in Israel.

Big Indie Pitch Sponsors

Plug In Digital

Plug In Digital

https://plugindigital.com/

Plug In Digital is one of the largest independent video game distributors. 

Theyhelp studios and publishers distributing their games worldwide on PC, consoles and mobile. They are a driving force behind indie successes such as Dead Cells, FURI or Northgard and a key partner for high-profile companies such as SNK, Raw Fury, Paradox, Konami, Bigben, Bandai Namco, CI Games or Curve Digital.

Dear Villagers, their publishing label, is a warm hearted invitation to join them in a place where talented studios can unleash their creativity and where players enjoy playful, distinctive and audacious games made for PC and consoles.

Kwalee

Kwalee

https://www.kwalee.com/publish-with-us/

Kwalee publishes hyper-casual mobile games with over 400 million downloads to date.

Kwalee were ranked no. 4 casual game publisher on the US App Store in 2019, thanks to hit titles that including Jetpack Jump, Draw It, Shootout 3D, Off the Rails, Rocket Sky and Overtake.

Simon joined Kwalee in October 2019 to head-up the rapidly-growing Kwalee publishing team leveraging his knowledge and experience from over 30-years making hit games.

Kwalee are currently on the lookout for great games from developers with an understanding of the fast-paced and rewarding world of hyper-casual gaming.

Associate Sponsors

Playtika

Playtika

https://www.playtika.com/

Playtika is a leading gaming company over 30 million monthly active users playing its titles.

Founded in 2010, the company was among the first to offer free-to-play social games on social networks and, shortly after, on mobile platforms.

Headquartered in Herzliya, Israel, the company has over two thousand employees in offices worldwide including Tel-Aviv, London, Berlin, Montreal, Chicago, Las Vegas, Santa Monica, Sydney, Buenos Aires, Kiev, Bucharest, Minsk, Dnepr and Vinnitsa.

Pollen VC

Pollen VC

https://pollen.vc/

Pollen VC is the market leader in capital efficient funding for mobile app developers and digital publishers.

They provide lines of credit to app publishers allowing them to unlock their unpaid revenues and eliminate payout delays of up to 60+ days by connecting to their app store and ad network platforms.

They offer on-demand working capital with simple transparent pricing so you can reinvest more quickly into ROI positive user acquisition and avoid relying on dilutive venture capital.

Digital Turbine

Digital Turbine

http://www.digitalturbine.com/

Digital Turbine simplifies content discovery and delivers relevant content directly to consumer devices.

The Company's on-demand media platform powers frictionless app and content discovery, user acquisition and engagement, operational efficiency and monetization opportunities.

Digital Turbine's technology platform has been adopted by more than 40 mobile operators and OEMs worldwide, and has delivered more than three billion app preloads for tens of thousands of advertising campaigns. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with global offices in Arlington, Durham, Mumbai, San Francisco, Singapore and Tel Aviv.

For additional information visit www.digitalturbine.com.

Ubisoft Abu Dhabi

Ubisoft Abu Dhabi

https://www.ubisoft.com/en-US/studio/abu-dhabi.aspx

Opened in October 2011, Ubisoft Abu Dhabi is one of the first major video game studios based in the UAE capital and is focusing on developing and bringing to market successful mobile games for a worldwide audience.

Ubisoft Abu Dhabi successfully released two hidden-object/investigation free-to-play mobile titles: CSI: Hidden Crimes™ and NCIS: Hidden Crimes™. With the acquisition in 2017 of the MMO game Growtopia, the studio works on creating exciting content and updates.

They are developing a major new unannounced title, which the team are excited to create and launch.

Hypixel Studios

Hypixel Studios

https://hytale.com/

Founded in 2018, Hypixel Studios is a team of more than 40 developers. Hytale is the studio's first project.

The company’s goal is to apply years of collective experience in the modding and minigame server scenes to independent game development, providing community-oriented games that meet the needs of players and content creators alike.

AppSealing

AppSealing

https://www.appsealing.com/

AppSealing is a trusted player in the world of mobile application security. In today’s application-focused world, security can’t slow down your speed of development.

They utilize runtime application self-protection features to build scalable security solutions for your mobile apps business in quick time without "ANY CODING".

Their powerful security suite ensures real-time in-depth application security like source code protection, anti-reverse engineering, cheat tool & emulator detection/blocking, and enforces app integrity. It protects 800+ mobile apps and 800 million+ devices, successfully blocking 70 million+ threats across the globe.

Their esteemed clientele spans across Gaming, Fintech, Movie apps, E-comm, Healthcare, and O2o.

AppTweak

AppTweak

https://www.apptweak.com/en

AppTweak is the leading ASO Tool for Apps & Games driven by Data Science. With the recent addition of Market Intelligence, App Intelligence, and Social Advertising insights we’re now the most complete tool to help grow app businesses!

They support +1,400 mobile leaders in +90 countries, including Zynga, Yelp, Zalando, Jam City, EA, Babbel, Tui, Amazon, among many others. They also support top developers and publishers in their daily operations by providing in-depth ASO recommendations and audits. This year, they supported four highly anticipated game launches in +18 countries.

AppTweak have 4 offices in Brussels, San Francisco, Bengaluru, and Tokyo.

ZEBEDEE

ZEBEDEE

https://zebedee.io/

ZEBEDEE is a payment platform for virtual worlds. They build software developer kits to enable true in-game commerce using globally interoperable digital value protocols. Virtual worlds need the native currency of the internet.

With one foot in the gaming industry and another in Fintech - they bridge the divide to the next payment frontier. Their platform will be the next generation Stripe, Visa, PayPal... Come and join them!

Apptutti

Apptutti

https://www.apptutti.com

APPTUTTi is a 24/7 online portal that enables developers to publish mobile apps and games in China. Developers of all sizes can now enter China easier than ever. We offer different partnership options according to the needs and ambitions of developers.

Want to have an initial feel for the Chinese market? Start by registering and submitting your game for free! With our standard RSPP option you can launch your apps and games into 3 major app stores within 10 days. Learn more.

Unity

Unity

https://unity.com/

Unity is the creator of the world’s leading real-time 3D development platform, giving users the most powerful and accessible tools to create, operate, and monetize experiences for the real-time world.

Unity empowers anyone, regardless of skill level and industry, to create 3D visual content using world-class technology, operate using resources that maximize ease-of-use, and monetize, so that they can find success with their creations.

The company’s 1,000 person development team keeps Unity at the forefront of development by working alongside partners such as Google, Facebook, Oculus, Autodesk, and Microsoft to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms.

Made with Unity experiences reach nearly 3 billion devices worldwide and have been installed more than 29 billion times in the last 12 months.

data.ai

data.ai

https://www.appannie.com/en/

App Annie is the industry's most trusted mobile data and analytics platform. App Annie helps game publishers and other companies create winning mobile gaming experiences and achieve excellence.

Companies use App Annie to understand detailed gamers data and discover how hottest games acquire, retain and monetize users in crowded app stores.

More than 1100 enterprise clients and 1 million registered users across the globe rely on App Annie to revolutionize their mobile business.

Dive

Dive

https://dive.games/

Solving Game Studios’ Data Problems with Custom Analytics.

With Dive, game studios and publishers can now gain deep, actionable and revenue-driven insights into player behavior and game economy.

Fyber

Fyber

https://www.fyber.com/

Fyber is an app monetization company, developing a next-generation monetization platform for app developers. Fyber combines proprietary technologies and expertise in mediation and RTB to help app developers discover better ways to monetize mobile games.

Fyber FairBid, our flagship product, is built for flexibility and gives publishers the freedom to monetize through a waterfall or unified auction while simultaneously being a key source of direct inventory, transparency, and scale for our programmatic buyers.

Frameplay

Frameplay

http://www.frameplay.gg/

Frameplay is a global in-game advertising company headquartered in San Francisco, California with global sales and development offices and teams supporting EMEA, LATAM and APAC.

Frameplay truly enables game developers to place advertising easily and intrinsically within video game environments without interfering with or degrading the gameplay performance or experience.

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