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The Global Mobile Games Industry Conference
Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2024, the leading mobile gaming industry conference, venue - Wanha Satama, Helsinki in 2024 - bigger and better than ever. Join us during Finish Games Week!
More than 1,700 delegates will gather for two days to hear from 200 of the world’s leading authorities from the mobile gaming industry. Filling 15 wall-to-wall conference tracks across both days, they will share their expert insight on everything from monetisation and the latest development trends to blockchain and exploring the metaverse.
New Features
Conference tracks for 2024 keep our audience at the cutting edge of the industry. And there are new themes this year. Mapping The Metaverse explores developments in the immersive space, while ASO Insights, Marketing Mavens and UA Update cover the best ways to promote your game and bring in users. There's also a CFO Insider track for those working at the sharp end of studio finance. Building on Blockchain provides an introduction to the blockchain gaming scene, and we also see the return of favourites like Live Ops Landscape, Esports Innovation, Monetiser, The Growth Track and more.
Networking For All
As ever, the conference schedule will be packed with our trademark short, sharp seminars. With no time to waffle, our speakers get straight down to business - which is what you’ll be able to do too, networking with more than 1,700 industry professionals.
Three Events at Finnish Games Week
By concentrating 3 events into the week we can focus on bringing together indies, developers, publishers, investors, representatives from every sector of the industry, students and like-minded creatives looking to dive into all aspects of the business of games, across all formats – from the making to the marketing, launch to live ops, whilst also exploring the topics of leadership, teamwork, business development, and more.
Other events running during Finnish Games Week are:
Head over to Leadership Day 2024 by IGDA to find out more!
Head over to W Love Games 2024 to find out more!
Learn more about Finnish Games Week
FastSpring is how gaming studios sell in more places around the world. For nearly two decades, FastSpring has been a payment provider you can use to sell games or in-game items on your website, web shop, or embedded directly into your game with fully customizable and branded checkouts just for you.
FastSpring allows you to offload the complexity of global payments, sales tax and VAT compliance, player payments support, and many other aspects of payments management. Spend less time managing your payments and compliance and more time making great games!
Appcharge is a Tel Aviv based direct-to-consumer, white-label sales platform for mobile game publishers that operates as a merchant of record. It was built by a team of gamers and monetization mavericks with a background in mobile free-to-play & payments from companies like Moon Active, Rovio, Tilting Point & more.
Appcharge platform thrives on the endless possibilities that come from having a more direct relationship with players and provides its partners with opportunities to grow their revenue outside of app stores. It does so through a multitude of solutions such as the web store and AI-driven personalised sales.
Geeklab is your trusted partner in app growth and expertise with the mission to turn impressions into installs. A/B testing App Store, Google Play, and Steam product pages, analyzing market data, and surveying your audience with Geeklab can be a real game changer.
Our team of ASO experts provides expertise so that you can run successful tests and get better results.
AppsFlyer for games. Supercharging the gaming arena. Increase players' LTV by unlocking a world of gaming measurement solutions, unique industry insights, and proven best practices.
The KashKick Mission is to Help Members Put More Cash in Their Wallets. We do this by aligning with products and services that help our members earn, save or grow their money. KashKick is the easiest way to earn cash by doing things you already do online!
Over 3M+ people are earning extra cash right from their devices! Earn cash by testing new mobile games, taking surveys, or simply trying new products or services. KashKick is a US-based company made up of individuals who genuinely want to help put more money in people's pockets. Get Paid to Have FunTM
Epic Games operates one of the world’s largest games, Fortnite, and develops Unreal Engine, the most open and advanced real-time 3D tool.
Through Fortnite, Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers to build, distribute, and operate games and other content.
Photon is the world’s leading Multiplayer service provider, with thousands of live games and more than 1.4 billion monthly active players.
Photon makes it simple to launch AAA grade multiplayer games with Unity and Unreal by providing the benchmark for State-Sync and Deterministic multiplayer engines. Kickstart your project with our 60+ multiplayer samples and join the biggest community of multiplayer developers.
To find out more, visit www.photonengine.com
Usercentrics is a global market leader in the field of Consent Management Platforms (CMP). We enable businesses to collect, manage and document user consents on websites and apps in order to achieve compliance with global privacy regulations while facilitating high consent rates and building trust with customers.
Usercentrics is active in more than 180 countries, with 2000+ resellers and handles more than 100 million daily user consents. Learn more on usercentrics.com
CrazyGames is the go-to browser games platform for 35 million players every month.
Our seamless experience immerses players in diverse games that run smoothly on mobile and desktop. Ads are optimized for high earnings without being intrusive, ensuring steady revenue and a loyal player base.
We offer comprehensive support, including dedicated team assistance, an easy-to-use SDK, and integrated analytics, to maximize earnings and ensure success on our platform.
GameAnalytics provides game developers, studios and publishers with a full suite of powerful analytics tools, helping them better understand their users and optimize their entire game portfolio.
Their analytics platform enhances overall app performance, offering insights into crucial user metrics such as retention, session count, or length. It also provides advanced Live Ops features, reports on health and design issues, and much more. Suitable for all game stages, whether you’re building, growing your audience or optimizing games at scale.
A global mobile-first games developer, publisher and investor, Sandsoft is committed to providing engaging and entertaining gaming experiences to an international audience, supported by an experienced global team with a proven track record and deep-rooted knowledge of the video games market.
Headquartered in Saudi Arabia, with offices in Spain, Finland, and China, Sandsoft aims to bridge continents, cultures, and people, fostering closer connections and contributing to the development of the global gaming ecosystem as a market leader.
Quicksave Interactive, based in Finland, specializes in providing innovative tools for seamlessly embedding high-quality games into apps, utilizing our powerful WebGL / HTML5 technology for a native app-like gaming experience.
Our branch, Quicksave Studio, leverages these tools to develop and publish integrated games and experiences that have already been enjoyed by millions of players!.
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world.
Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology.
The web is poised to become the leading gaming platform and the ultimate distribution channel for mobile games. However, many mobile game developers find it daunting to navigate the complexities of the web. This is where Pley steps in with a clear mission: to empower mobile game publishers and studios to effortlessly expand their presence to the web and unlock the benefits of extended playtime and increased revenue per user.
With our comprehensive toolchain and cloud distribution platform, encompassing hosting, monetization, browser compatibility, and cross-platform play, we offer developers a seamless pathway to port their games to the web and efficiently manage release cycles.
Xsolla is a global video game commerce company with powerful tools and services designed for the games industry. Xsolla solves the complexities of global distribution, marketing, funding, and monetization for games across mobile, PC, and the web.
To learn more, please visit xsolla.com.
Gamelight is the world's largest rewarded marketing platform for mobile games. Our award-winning AI Algorithm analyzes user behaviour, playing patterns and demographic data to identify games that align with each user's specific interests and gaming history.
The platform connects gamers and game developers through its own game recommendation systems, offering top-tier user acquisition services to mobile game publishers worldwide.
Appier is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to power business decision-making. Founded in 2012 with a vision of democratizing AI, Appier’s mission is turning AI into ROI by making software intelligent.
Appier now has 17 offices across APAC, Europe, and the U.S. and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Ticker number: 4180). Visit www.appier.com for more information.
Jam City is an award-winning mobile entertainment company providing unique and deeply engaging games that appeal to a broad, global audience. The company is the creative powerhouse behind some of the highest-grossing games, generating over $4 billion in aggregate lifetime bookings and nearly 1.5 billion downloads for hundreds of millions of players around the world.
In addition to conceiving and developing the hugely popular Cookie Jam and Panda Pop franchises, the company is a partner for some of the biggest global IP holders, having developed immersive, narrative-rich mobile games around iconic entertainment brands from NBCUniversal, Disney, and Warner Bros. Games. The company’s popular RPG game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery has generated over $500 million in bookings and 135 million installs since launch, Cookie Jam has generated over $1 billion in aggregate lifetime bookings, and Jurassic World Alive continues to be one of the top-grossing geo-location-based, AR mobile games in the market.
Jam City has studios and talent located in Los Angeles (HQ), Burbank, Cedar Falls, Las Vegas, San Diego, San Francisco, and, internationally, in Berlin, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Montreal, and Toronto. For more information, please visit www.jamcity.com.
Award-winning developer and publisher of mobile games since the dawn of the mobile entertainment revolution to present day as a leader in the Web3 video game realm.
Established in 2002 in Ottawa, Canada, Magmic is a pioneer in the mobile gaming industry and has developed and published over 100 mobile games, many of which have reached #1 in the Card and Board game categories on the App Stores.
Magmic’s most popular games include Hasbro’s Scattergories and Scattergories Blitz, Mattel’s Phase 10, Skip-Bo and Texas Hold’Em King, to name a few.
PopScreen Games is a midcore self-publishing studio founded by veterans from leading companies like EA, gumi, Ubisoft, and Gameloft, uses Generative AI and its in-house game engine tech (running on their first CCG RPG Wacky Battles to slash content production and deployment costs and target new markets.
Leveraging the processes, tools, and pipelines developed for their current AI-generated games, they are also developing a SaaS solution to serve other studios, with their own projects serving as the initial client.
Metacore is a game company, based in Helsinki and Berlin, building a portfolio of global hit mobile games. Launched in 2020, Metacore is one of the fastest growing game companies in Europe with a team of 230 professionals.
The studio’s first global hit game Merge Mansion already has 50+ million players. Metacore is one of Supercell portfolio companies.
Founded by a group of gaming industry veterans, Golden Whale Productions provides machine learning and data science tools that empower game developers to understand and engage players on a granular level.
Using the power of machine learning, developers use Golden Whale to provide tailored gaming experiences, thereby drastically improving player retention and LiveOps. We’re is based in Vienna, with 20+ years of experience building scalable systems for both the video games and gaming industries.
Our technology layer seamlessly connects with your existing platform and elevates your product’s engagement to the next level. Our partners experience up to 30% uplifts in activity and growth effects of 100%+ overall. This is changing the way LiveOps have to be run!