Intended Audience:

Game Developers, Publishers, Freelancers, and Service Providers who attend or plan to attend virtual conferences in 2021

Overview:

The world turning to online events for dealmaking, offers developers challenges and opportunities. Without face-to-face meetings, parties, and showcasing, how do you stand out from the crowd? This will be a hands-on tips & tricks course on how to use the current situation to your advantage: find that publisher contract, gameplay feedback or needed team additions.

Takeaways:

• How to stand out now that you need to compete with the entire world
• How to make a remarkable and memorable virtual connection to your potential business partners
• How to get off the beaten track and try a new approach for finding an investor or publisher
• How to use your the budget you used to allocate for events and travel effectively
• How to make events part of your game development planning"

Instructor: Fedor van Herpen

Fedor van Herpen is the co-founder of MeetToMatch, the world's market leader in the international games industry as premium event experience platform. Since 2009, he is connecting people in the games industry to enable them to grow faster and more easily. With personal connection to more than 1000 publisher and investors, he and his team have been able to land game developers publishing contracts and investment deals all across the globe. As Fedor is a very extravert person, he misses real-life games events massively, and wants to share his expertise on how to replicate real-life connections in a virtual environment.