The Nordic GDC Breakfast Workshop takes place on Tuesday, March 19th.

The Annual Nordic GDC Breakfast Workshop provides an opportunity for the Nordic game developers to network with their Nordic peers, while also listening to a number of short presentations about latest market developments & trends relevant to the game developers from Nordic region. The event is organized by Nordic Innovation House in collaboration with Epic Games, Neogames, Goodbye Kansas and Nordic trade promotion organizations.

We are serving some breakfast, coffee, tea and refreshments.

Welcome!

Schedule (more details to come later)

8:00am – 8:30am: Registration & Breakfast

8:30am -8:45am: Welcoming words, introduction of organizers and word from our sponsor Nasdaq (Jack Cassel, Vice President of New Listings and Capital Markets)

8:45am - 9:15am: Sjoerd de Jong, Senior Engine Evangelist Epic Games EMEA: Supporting the games industry the Epic way
A look through Epic's recent announcements and ambitions nurturing the global game dev community. From the Unreal Engine and its games, to the Epic Online Services, to our new PC games store. Sjoerd will talk about the Unreal Engine and our overall vision, and how our approach of helping game developers is accelerating"

Followed by Q&A

9:15am-9:45am: Ralph Barbagallo, Founder of FLARB: The state of XR

Followed by Q&A

9:45am - 10:25am F2P for PC, hypercasual games on mobile, battle royale, AR / VR on gaming: What does our expert panel think about these and other on-going industry phenomenan

Moderator:

Henrik Jonsson, Goodbye Kansas

Panelists:

Dan Thronström, Executive Producer Goodbye Kansas Game Invest
Albert Säfström, Marketing Coffee Stain Studios
Harri Manninen / Play Ventures

10:25am-10:30am: Closing

10:30am-> Networking and finishing the breakfast

11:15am Event ends

Special Thank You to our Sponsor

Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) is a leading global provider of trading, clearing, exchange technology, listing, information and public company services. Through its diverse portfolio of solutions, Nasdaq enables customers to plan, optimize and execute their business vision with confidence, using proven technologies that provide transparency and insight for navigating today's global capital markets. As the creator of the world's first electronic stock market, its technology powers more than 100 marketplaces in 50 countries. Nasdaq is home to over 4,000 total listings with a market value of approximately $12 trillion.

Organized in partnership with:

Epic Games

Neogames accelerates, coordinates, and supports the development of the Finnish game cluster.

Goodbye Kansas Game Invest is the only Pre Seed and Seed investor in the game industry

Play Ventures is the premium early stage VC fund investing in games and games services start-ups around the world.

Coffee Stain Publishing enables unique games live up to their full potential.