As now is good tradition, here are the slides to the talk I delivered at Games Convention Online last week in Leipzig. Have fun and remember that sharing is caring… 😉
Gaming With the World
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Yes, yes, do we remember the good old days in Leipzig? Yes, we do. Since the German games industry did however decide that the travel connections weren’t up to scratch, they moved on to Cologne (in August) but did this bother the good folks in Leipzig? No, it didn’t. Not in the least. Instead they set up their very own Games Convention (with the added “Online” bit) and stage a very successful show in spite of all the adversaries.
I will be giving a talk on “Gaming with the World” (yes, I know, it sounds a bit grand) but there is also (!?) a lot of other good stuff to look forward to, i.e. valuable insights from leading players, such as:
- Mindmatics
- Nokia
- Bigpoint (they of 100m+ online gamers)
- VZNetzwerke (who successfully took on Facebook)
- Playdom
- Digital Chocolate
- and many, many, many more.
So make your way to Leipzig, one of the prettiest German cities and home to Johann Sebastian Bach (who was cantor at St Thomas) and host to some venues of Goethe’s famous Faust (Auerbachs Keller). It is well worth it. Bach thought so, Goethe thought so. So who are you to doubt them? 😉 Register here and be quick…
I hope to see you there!
Tomorrow, I will be heading to London to attend and speak at the Virtual Goods Forum. I will be delivering a completely shiny new and all around better iteration of my “Mobile + Social: Show Us the Money” talk.
The conference is organised by the same fine folks who have made the Mobile Games Forum such a stalwart of industry networking, and I am looking forward to learning more from what looks like an excellent speaker line-up. Here’s some of their speakers:
- Mark Curtis, CEO Flirtomatic (and great presenter!)
- Ray Anderson, CEO Bango
- Phil Guest, EVP Ad Sales Sulake (the Habbo guys)
- Benjamin Joffe, CEO +8*
- Alex Krug, CEO Softgames
- Alex Brutin, VP Biz Dev Offerpal
- and many more…
If you are getting the appetite, Osney Media did give me a promotional code, which gives you a 50% discount. It is C0015SPK. I hope to see you there!
And if you cannot make it, you can at least follow the thing on Twitter: @virtualgoodsuk.
On 17 June, a wonderful conference opens its doors: organized by the formidable Rudy de Waele and his team, the beautiful city of Barcelona (but without the usual Mobile World Congress stress and with better weather than in February!) is host to Mobile 2.0 Europe.
You will find a great line-up of speakers from across the mobile ecosystem, which should allow for a wonderfully balanced overview of what’s going on. The organizers have lined up senior guys from the giants of the industry, such as:
- Nokia
- RIM
- Vodafone
- Opera
- Telefonica
- Orange
- PayPal Mobile
- Microsoft
But they then coupled them with the nimble and agile guys like us, so you will also find:
- Distimo (analytics)
- Scoreloop (yes, I will be speaking)
- The Astonishing Tribe (UI experts)
- W3C
- Future Platforms
- and more…
As if this wasn’t enough, the AppCircus will also stop at the event with an on-stage show of the best and brightest apps around.
Join us, it should be tremendous fun! The registration page is here.
Next week, I will be speaking at the 1st Apps Summit, a conference organized by the Conference Group in Wiesbaden (near Frankfurt). The event, which runs on 4/5 May, features high-profile speakers from the creme de la creme of German (and international) business, including:
- Otto
- Lufthansa
- Deutsche Post
- Axel Springer
- Avis
- HRS
- G+J
- Volkswagen
- Yahoo
- Admob
- Madvertise
If you’re close, come by. It should be great! The conference programme and more info are here: www.conferencegroup.de/m-commerce