For the third year in a row, Belgrade is visible on the dense spring calendar of European conferences and b2b events for video game creators. For the Win!, a versatile conference intended for all professionals from the gaming industry, but also from other creative-tech industries such as CG, VFX, animation and all types of digital design and storytelling, presents a rich program through several parallel program units and at three locations – May 29 and 30 at Bitef Theater, mts Dvorani and Karmakoma club.
For the Win! is conceived as a “new meeting point of the European gaming industry”, and year after year it expands its program. The goal is to pay attention to both mobile and PC game dev, as well as services and related sectors, as well as looking at the development of the wider ecosystem of the gaming industry. Therefore, it bears the label of b2b/stakeholder event. Domestic developers and creatives have the opportunity to listen to and meet the leaders of the global industry, to connect and make new contacts with colleagues from the region and the whole of Europe.
For the first time, FTW! has its own website, where you can find out everything about the event, program details, lecture schedule and biographies of our esteemed speakers. And there are almost 70 of them at the entire conference, and they come from about 20 different European countries! More than 500 registered participants, either by invitation (which until now was the only way to attend the event, for free), or by applying for the so-called wildcard, i.e. a limited number of tickets at a price of 70 EUR, for which all interested professionals could register via the website. We also add up about 150 students who will follow the special Shift2Games track.
Google remains a faithful partner FTW! conference, so Apphub and Gamecamp are with us again, and will satisfy the needs of all mobile enthusiasts and professionals. For all those who have specific questions for experts of various profiles, ASK THEM ANYTHING free consultations will give them the opportunity to speak directly and for free with top experts in specific fields. Overall, at one point mts Dvorana will host as many as four parallel tracks!
This year’s program marks the presence of some of the veterans of the European industry, then the first visits of professionals from Poland, the arrival of representatives of the Unity company in Serbia and the presence of a number of high-caliber companies when it comes to both software and hardware – Epic Games, Google, Unity and Intel. On the other hand, two leading Scandinavian mobile studios – Rovio and Supercell – will have their lecturers, while guests from around the world will be presented with the “new wave” of domestic indie titles, as well as some of the Russian companies and professionals who have been working from Serbia for some time.
All in all, there is so much to explore in just one day, and we will end it at Karmakoma, with the domestic premiere of the Demagog Studio music show, entitled Powerpoint Music. On this occasion, we will share with you the complete list of lecturers in mts Dvorana, and we invite you to visit the conference website and explore everything. details about them and their lectures!
Mihajlo Jovanović-Džaril (CEO, Serbian Games Association), Kim Nordstrom (Author of “Up Down Up”), Nikola Čavić (Founder & CEO, Gamebiz Consulting), Bojan Brankov (Engine Programmer, 3 Lateral/Epic Games), Georgy Molodstov (Award-winning Director & Producer), Mark Schoennagel (Advocacy Manager & Evangelist, Unity), Aleksandar Marković (General Manager of “Clash Royale”, Supercell), Elisa di Lorenzo (Co-Founder, Untold Games), Artem Shevoldaev (Deputy Development Director – World of Warships: Legends, Wargaming), Marco Ponte (CEO & Creative Director, Nacon Studio Milan), Artur Maksara (Senior Developer Relations Manager, Intel), Wojciech Becla (Business Development Manager, Madmind Studio), Mišo Vukčević
(‘Co-Founder, Bleak Faith), Vuk Banović (Founder & Art Director, Lav Games), Nikola Stepković (Art Director, Demagog Studio), Sergey Snegirev (Associate Art Director, Sperasoft), Surabhi Bhardwaj (Head of SMB Gaming, Appdev Sales – EMEA, Google), Ilia Eremeev (GP and Managing Partner, The Games Fund), Vera Tariko (Admob Strategic Partnerships Development Manager, Google), Vitaly Porunov (Product Strategy and Go-to-Market Manager (Privacy and Regulatory Compliance), Google), Urška Leskovar (Lead Product Manager, Outfit7), Žan Žveplan (Senior Creative Director, Outfit7), Milen Glechev (Google Cloud Customer Engineer, Google), Marko Žulj (Global Product Lead – Immersive InGame Ads, Google), Stan Minasov (VP of Product, AppMagic), Richard Lakucs (Senior Gaming Growth Manager, Google), Hen Gelberg (Co-Founder & CBDO, Kinoa), Alfredo de Francesco (International Growth Consultant – Gaming, Google), Andrej Kugonić (VP, Marketing, Nordeus), Mariusz Gasiewski (CEE Mobile Gaming and Apps Lead, Google), David Verbrugen (General Manager, Flemish Games Association), Aleksandar Gavrilović (General Secretary, Croatian Game Developers Association), Relja Bobić (Program Director, Serbian Games Association), Igor Margan (Head of Study Program Game Development, Algebra University), Adam Kovač (Solutions Specialist, 3 Lateral / Epic Games), Vanja Knežević (Game Developer, Euclidean Studios), Aleksa Jeremić (Producer/Sound Designer, Shosha Games), Đorđe Marković (Founder, Bohemian Pulp), Ivan Koroknai (Founder, Phobos), Kristina Janković Obućina (Executive Manager, Serbian Games Association), Kamila Dulska (Owner, Doradztwo Prawne Kamila Dulska), Pavle Kutlešić (Head of Tax & Finance, Gamebiz Consulting), Mike Geig (Senior Manager, Games/Digital Productions, Unity), Dejan Tonić (Associate, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development), Nikola Kliska (Head of IP, Karanović & Partners), Božo Janković (Head of Ad Monetization, Gamebiz Consulting), Marija Vlajković Zdravković, Andrea Radonjanin (Partner, Moravčević, Vojnović and Partners in cooperation with Schoenherr), Pavle Vučetić (Associate, Karanović & Partners), Mlađan Stojanović (Program Manager Katapult Accelerator, Innovation Fund of Serbia), Ramiz Trtovac (Head of User Acquisition, Gamebiz Consulting), Shane Berry (Audio Director, Demagog Studio), Igor Simić (Creative Director & CEO, Demagog Studio) & Bagheera (Resident DJ, Drugstore/Karmakoma).
For the Win! is supported by Outfit7, Epic Games and 3 Lateral, Google, Unity Technologies, the Embassy of Poland, the Embassy of Belgium, Media Desk Creative Europe Serbia, and other ecosystem partners of SGA.