Arctic Game Conference 2022
May 25, Skellefteå Sweden
Arctic Game Conference, northern Sweden’s annual meeting place for game developers, publishers, investors and game students.
SPEAKER TRACKS
Meet some of the industry’s best game developers and listen to their thoughts on game development. TRACK PARTNER: WANDERWORD
PROGRAM
Listen to the game industry’s insights on how to make the most out of your game business. TRACK PARTNER: GLOBAL TOP ROUND & TURBORILLA
PROGRAM
This speaker track focuses on how to create, license, develop and expand intellectual properties. TRACK PARTNER: HEROIC SIGNATURES
PROGRAM
A unique conference with new business opportunities based on Intellectual Properties
Speakers Arctic Game Conference
25 may
Speakers
Agnes Larsson | Mojang
As the Game Director of Minecraft Agnes is the creative lead of the game. Together with the amazing team and community, Agnes is working a lot on developing new experiences for the players in upcoming Minecraft updates. She also works with the creative vision and direction of Minecraft.
25 may
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Peter Zetterberg | Wanderword
Peter Zetterberg who resides in Kirkland, WA has a video game and business development background dating back to 1990. As co-founder of UDS in 1993, one of the first established video game developers in Sweden, he was part of producing several titles with various publishers and distributors. In 2004 he changed his career path to represent publisher Codemasters, and later, in 2007, Microsoft, with a focus on business development, talent scouting and relationship building with both games studios and publishers. After working closely with Mojang, creator of Minecraft, and later a member of the Mojang/Microsoft acquisition partnership, he is today director of business operations for Xbox Game Studios in Redmond, USA.” Peter is the founder of Wanderword.
25 may
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Vladislav Tsopljak | Neon Doctrine
Vladislav Tsopljak used to manage QA teams at EA Games, and later on worked at Microsoft. Several years later, he co-founded Neon Doctrine, an international video game publisher based in Taiwan, and has since been with company for 8 years.
25 may
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Pontus Mähler | Global Top Round
Pontus “Zlapped” Mahler is an ex-professional gamer who has attended and won multiple tournaments globally in Heroes of Newerth. He simultaneously ran his Twitch & Youtube and had over 40M views and 300,000+ followers. He transitioned from a player to a CEO of an Esport company in Thailand and managed over 80 athletes and influencers. Now he’s transitioned to Director at GXC (HQ of Global Top Round & Game Round) and uses his knowledge and experience from his pro-gaming career as well as his Esport and Gaming consulting for major companies to assist gaming startups & publishers grow. Pontus primarily leads Investor & Publishing relations for the various portfolio companies under GTR securing long-term partnerships and strategy for Game Round.
25 may
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Henrik Lindfors | Wanderword
With an extensive background in Radio Broadcasting, Henrik joined Wanderword as an Audio Designer but quickly rose to the ranks of Lead Designer as the studio pivoted from interactive books to more gamified productions. Together with Jens Sundqvist, they later set to work on a spiritual prequel to The Bard’s Tale 4.
25 may
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Erik Brattlöf | Elias Software
Erik has been working with interactive sound and music in different forms for the last 15 years. As of last year he’s part of the product team at Elias Software where his aim is to make life easier for anyone involved in game audio.
25 may
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Patty Toledo | Yahaha Studios
From world traveller to Director of Creator Relations at YAHAHA and Leader of IGDA Sweden, Patty Toledo has been deeply involved in creative media and games for 30 years. Taking the gaming industry by storm, Patty is shaping business and creative opportunities for developers, publishers and creators, enabling them to explore the metaverse and beyond.
25 may
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Robert Bäckström | Aurora Punks
Games producer with more than 15 years of development experience and 10 plus titles. Fatshark, Raw Fury and now Aurora Punks. Extensive knowledge of console and PC development, publishing and business development, mainly premium games within the indie segment but also games as a service and live ops. Angel investor and DIY-believer.
25 may
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Irene Hjort | Hjorth Insights
Irene Hjorth has extensive experience in data analytics and deriving insights from data. She is a founder of data analytics consultancy Hjorth Insights AB, supporting some of the most exciting publishers of PC, Console and Mobile games.
25 may
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Mattias Wiking | Turborilla
Mattias Wiking is the CEO of Turborilla, one of Sweden’s leading game studios, behind the smash hits ‘Mad Skills Motocross’ and ‘Mad Skills BMX’. Mattias has been in the industry since 1999 and, according to him, his biggest assignment as a CEO at Turborilla is to optimize company conditions and pave the way for his team to succeed.
25 may
Host
André Bernhardt | Speaker track host
André Bernhardt is part of the German games industry since 25 years and worked on online and offline as well as mobile and console titles. In the beginning of his career, he was part of the classical boxed console and PC-games business with the release of the Playstation at Sony Computer Entertainment. Afterwards he was working at different focusing on “next-gen” console publishing and business development. In 2009 he joined the F2P-revolution working for Travian Games in Munich. Due to his love to innovative “indie” games he left Travian in 2012 and started working as a freelance agent called Indie Advisor which he turned into a limited as Indie Advisor & Company in 2019. Nowadays he is offering external business development and funding support for indies while also curating indie expos at events like devcom in Cologne. He is guest lecturer at different universities like FH Salzburg.
25 may
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Sang Chung | PlayDapp
Sang has two decades of experience in the Korean game and IT industry. Currently he is heading up the domestic and overseas operations at PlayDapp. Previously he was responsible for overseas business development at NCSOFT and KOCCA.
25 may
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Kirstin Bosc | GxC
Kirstin joined the games industry in 2006 and has held business development and product management roles at publishers and developers of various sizes. She is also an active educator to professionals, students and start-ups, focussing on business development, company strategy and building sustainable partnerships. At GxC, she leads efforts to build and further relationships with governments, trade organisations, education, associations, accelerators and incubators, supporting G.Round and Global Top Round.
25 may
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Laurent Duvault | Mediatoon
Mediatoon Audiovisual Rights represents the audiovisual and audio and gaming rights for all publishers of the Media-Participations Group, like historical graphic novels leaders such as Dargaud, Dupuis, Le Lombard… and traditional literary powerhouses like Le Seuil/La Martinière, as well as few independent publishers and some outstanding talents. After Luc Besson’s Valerian, and Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin, Samba by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, Farewell, my Queen by Benoît Jacquot or Mama Weed by Jean-Paul Salomé, to name a few, Mediatoon Audiovisual Rights has currently more than 200 cinema and TV projects in the works in France and around the world. To promote their catalogues of 100.000 novels (fiction and non-fiction) and 5.000 graphic novels and comics I.Ps, the team attends more than 20 French and International book fairs and festivals each year.
25 may
Host
Orvar Säfström | Host for the conference
With many years hosting the film show on Sweden’s largest television network, Orvar Säfstrom is a household name in Sweden. Since 2005 his main focus has been games and game culture, writing several books on the subject, as a columnist for numerous newspapers and magazines and has lectured on popular culture and has held a seminar on the importance game culture in Swedish parliament. He has been awarded the Swedish video industry Honorary Award as well as the Swedish Gaming Federation SVEROK “Gamer of the year”. Orvar Safstrom is also the leading producer of symphonic concerts with film and video game music in Scandinavia.
25 may
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Fredrik Malmberg | Heroic Signatures
Fredrik Malmberg, hailing from the icy north (Sweden) has been a fan of Robert E. Howard since his teens. Notably, he was a pioneer in introducing tabletop games and was the first publisher of Conan in the Swedish language. Since acquiring the rights to Conan in 2004, and the rest of the REH estate in 2006, Fred has worked with the comics, game, toy, videogame and entertainment industries, bringing Conan and Howard to a broader audience than likely ever before, in particular through computer games, such as the Age of Conan and Conan Exiles games from licensee Funcom. Currently, he is serving as an Executive Producer of a Conan entertainment package at Netflix, and heads up the Heroic Signatures team in Los Angeles.
25 may
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Jay Powell | The Powell Group Consulting
Jay has successfully negotiated and closed countless deals for licensing, development and distribution over the past 25 years. His consulting firm, The Powell Group, focuses on building positive relationships between various forms of media and the game space, and helping a wide variety of clients succeed in the video game industry. The firm tracks over 4,000 developers and another 750+ publishers globally. In 2018 he founded the “IndieGameBusiness” initiative to educate and empower industry professionals on the business side of gaming, with a focus on independent publishing and bringing new indie games to market. As one of the few experts in the industry who has approached growth from a publisher, developer, and licensor side of the table he approaches each opportunity and challenge with experience from each angle.
25 may
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Tianyi Gu | New Zoo
Tianyi Gu is the Market Lead of Mobile at Newzoo, the leading provider of games and esports analytics. She is the product owner of Newzoo’s annual Global Mobile Market Report, the industry’s gold-standard for market analysis and forecast. What’s more, she is the local expert of the Chinese games and esports market. Tianyi leads many of Newzoo’s custom/consultancy projects on mobile and China. After obtaining a MSc degree in Information Technology Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tianyi moved to the Netherlands to pursue her passion for connecting the East and the West in the internet business.
25 may
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Sylvain Runberg | Dark Riviera
Born 1971, Sylvain Runberg grew up in Provence (France) and now lives in Sweden. With a master degree in Political History he started his career in the publishing industry before writing graphic novels. His first book came out in 2004. He has since published more than 100 graphic novels, published in 25 countries, creating his own IPs from fantasy, science fiction to thriller, horror and supernatural drama while working on others, known worldwide (“Wonder Woman”, “Millennium”, “Watchdog Legions”, ” Liu Cixin Universe” etc…) He is at the origin of the TV serie “Cryptid” (2020 Cannes TV festival official selection) for Viaplay and is currently working on several other TV series, graphic novels and video games projects. Sylvain Runberg is also the co-founder of Dark Riviera, a Stockholm based intellectual property generator for television, graphic novels and video games
25 may
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Mark Venturelli | Rogue Snail
Mark has been in the games industry for 14 years, working on multi-award-winning games such as Relic Hunters Zero and Chroma Squad and entertaining millions of players around the world. He is now the CEO and Creative Director for Rogue Snail, a fully-remote Brazilian studio with a diverse and loving team of 40 working on the next iterations of the Relic Hunters franchise.
25 may
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Zachary Strebeck | Legal Moves PC
Zachary Strebeck is a California video game and board game lawyer who represents clients from indie devs to global game publishers. He helps clients with everything from company formation to publishing agreements, trademarks, copyright, and other game-related legal issues. He hosts the Legal Moves podcast, has appeared on Gamesindustry.biz, The Dice Tower, and several other game-related publications, and has been a featured panelist at GenCon and other games industry conferences.