The Southern Indie Games Development Conference

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Come and join us for our Global Enterprise Week conference aimed specifically at students, graduates and indie games companies based in the South of England

Key industry speakers plus top tips for starting your own games development company

Conference 12.00-5.30pm with opportunity to network and connect with other people from your industry after the conference

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

12.00-13.00 - Lunch & Conference Registration & Games Showcase

13.00-13.10 - Introductions and Housekeeping

13.10-13.25 - Introduction to the Southern Indie Games Network

13:30-14.00 - Being Indie - Ben Gunstone (Stainless Games)

14.00-14.30 - How to Fail at Kickstarter - John Haskell

14.30-15.00 - Redshirt: A Business Postmortem - Mitu Khandaker-Kokoris (Tiniest Shark)

15.00-15.30 - Panel session: Established indie devs & student/recent graduate company start-up stories with Q&A

16.00-16.30 - Coffe Break - Networking and games showcase

16.30-17.10 - Keynote speaker with Q&A - Failing and Learning to Be an Indie - Mike Bithell [Thomas Was Alone and Volume]

17.10-17.30 - Closing remarks & next steps for SIGN network

17.30 onwards - Networking (Social)

There will be an opportunity to submit questions prior to the conference via social media

*This event is to launch the Southern Indie Games Network (SIGN), a not-for-profit network, established to represent and support independent video games developers and facilitate the growth of the independent video games development sector in the Southern region of the UK