Our key speakers 2022


25 may


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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.

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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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Maria Fröhlich | Marvel Comics

Maria Fröhlich, is a writer, comic artist and illustrator. She was first published as illustrator in the US in 2013 with the comic The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury, based on Neil Gaiman's short story. In 2021 she became the first Swedish artist for Marvel Comics, when she participated in the anthology Women of Marvel #1 (april, 2021).

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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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.

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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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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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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.

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Martin Barreby | Elias Software

Martin is an experienced music composer and he works now as an in house composer and Content Manager at Elias Software since almost a decade back. Elias Software is dedicated to providing innovative solutions in the field of video game music rendering. Elias, Elastic Lightweight Integrated Audio System, is our new music engine which attempts to change the way we perceive and experience interactive music in video games today. With the Elias music engine, composers and game developers can easily collaborate to create musical scores that adapt themselves based on the player's actions in the virtual world. With the Elias engine, the music is just as dynamic and flexible as the corresponding composition would have been in a movie.

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.

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Magnus Widgren | Edisen

Magnus Widgren is Head of Growth at two times Oscars award winning Edisen. A now global Swedish unskippable content company, earlier nominated for the Government's Export Prize for the Cultural and Creative Industry. Magnus is author of several books in rhetoric and communication and will explain to us how to use AI to optimize moving content and how virtual production now takes major leaps from Hollywood film making into everyday content creation.

25 may


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Aymeric Castaing | UMANIMATION

With more than 15 years of experience in entertainment, Aymeric CASTAING is a all-rounder: music producer, music publisher, and animation producer (cofounder and CEO for 10 years of a kids animation prodco). He founded and now runs as CEO of UMANIMATION Group (http://www.umanimation.com), a group of companies developing a catalogueof narrative and immersive content designed for new media (TV, Video Games, VR, AR, MR, Immersive Music Shows). UMANIMATION’s aim is to define the next generation of entertainment content by producing transmedia universes that enlist different technologies and platforms. Interested in new ways to tell and produce stories, Aymeric CASTAING is specialized in transmedia content and shares his expertise and passion through various activities: he is a founding member of the French national transmedia association PXN (www.pxn.fr), he is the co-founder and president of Transmedia cluster CoBo (www.co-bo.org), and he brought Cartoon Movie event to Bordeaux.

25 may


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Emilie Blézat | Dark Riviera

Emilie Blezat is Managing Director of Dark Riviera, and Intellectual Property company based in Sweden, focused on 360 international premium content. We create and produce books, graphic novels, TV series, films, games and more. Member of the International Academy of Televion Arts and Sciences, Emilie Blezat has been the founder and CEO of Studiocanal China (2014-2019), China Cultural Attachée for the French Government (2012-2014), and the has been a film and TV producer and creator for 20 years in Europe and China, working on films like Paddington, Non-Stop, Shaun the Sheep and Earlyman, with directors like Academy Award nominee Michael Roskam, Grace Jones, Birdy Nam Nam, Feng XiaoYue, Sophie Fiennes, Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker... She produced over 20 European feature films & documentaries, wrote TV series and distributed and licensed more than 600 films and IPs in China. Emilie is also a strategy consultant on media, culture and China working for the like Smithsonian Institute and Ubisoft.

25 may


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Joshua Garrity | Team 17

I have been working in the video game industry since 2015, first as a Product Manager and then moved into Business Development roles. I’m currently a Senior Game Scout at Team17 and I listen to and seek out pitches for projects that Team17 could potentially sign to their label. I have been responsible for the signing of titles such as Gord and Batora: Lost Haven at Team17.

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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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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Olivier Jalabert | Dupuis

27+ year experience in Publishing (graphic novel, books, animation and video games) and IP Development: - Talent and comic book project management - Management of editorial partnerships - IP development - Sourcing of content - Market study - Business development

25 may


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Ervin Rustemagić | SAF Comics

Ervin Rustemagić is a legendary IP rights agent and publisher. In 1972 he founded Strip Art Features (SAF). SAF handles the IP rights of hundreds of graphic novels and characters. They are closely associated with Dark Horse Comics in the US, which publishes many of the European comics that SAF represents. Among the creators that Rustemagić has represented are Hermann Huppen and Joe Kubert, founder of The Kubert School. Originally based in Sarajevo, Rustemagić and SAF is located in Slovenia since the 1990s. During the Bosnian War, Rustemagić communicated via fax to business associates and artists, giving eyewitness accounts on the horrors of war and his family's escape to safety. These fax messages were the basis for Joe Kubert's award winning graphic novel Fax from Sarajevo.

25 may


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Anders Fager | Gottick

Anders Fager is one of Sweden's leading horror writers. He made his debut in 2009 with the short story collection "Swedish Cults" which has become a modern classic of Swedish horror. He has since then written short stories, novels and and also written for apps and games. The graphic novel "The Crows" by Anders Fager and the artist Peter Bergting is published in the US by Dark Horse Comics.

25 may


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Don Hudson | Neowiz

Don Hudson is a Product Manager for Neowiz's Global and Western operations. With experience in a large breadth of the gaming industry from Community, Customer Service, Production, Live Operations, BizDev and Product Management Don is well equipped to navigate the various challenges of game development and publishing. His current focus is on identifying business opportunities and partnerships as Neowiz continues their westward expansion.

25 may


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Bobby Wertheim | Curve Games

Current Vice President of Partnerships at Curve Games. With 10+ years in the industry, Bobby’s Hawkeye will be instrumental to determining what is a good game.

25 may


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Raphael Penasa | Executive Producer

Raphael Penasa was the founder and creative producer of Fauns, an independent award-winning animation studio, for 10 years. 2 years ago, he sold it to AtlasV, an immersive group, renaming the company as Albyon. Since then he works as an independent development executive producer. He spent the last 2 years working on projects for Google, Sun Creature (EP on Splinter Cell for Netflix), and other companies (Noor, Worldcrunch). He works at the edge of narrative and innovation, focusing on new approaches for the market and how to develop new IPs learning from both the wins and fails over the years. Today, he focuses on live-action and animation tv series, video games (AA), and immersive projects. His latest productions are Battlescar (VR experience - 48 awards in 2 years) and Glimpse (VR experience - 13 selections and 3 prizes since the Mostra of Venice last year). Raphael works mostly with authors, directors, producers, and distributors, and offers support to the core team to keep the big picture, fit the scope (with ideas and talents), and define the overall budget. Raphael is currently developing the tv series Orbital, the VR game Amazing Monster! (produced by wowl and Small Studio), the next-gen game Robot+Butterfly, and a young-adult tv series of adventures and dark fantasy... And some others. But everything takes time as you know.

25 may


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Dave Connely | Goodbye Kansas Studios

Dave studied at Game Design at Huddersfield University and did his Masters in Game Development at Abertay Dundee in Scotland. After his studies he started to work as freelancing Character artist before he was approached by Plowman Caven, a company working with Lidar, Cyber scanning and Prop scanning specialising in on-set capture. He was soon working with onset capture for films like “The Great Wall”, ”Dr Strange”, ”Alien Covenant”, ”Fast and Furious 8” and VFX Oscar winner “Blade Runner 2049”. He continued to Dneg, where he revamped their inhouse pipe for scan data ingestion, before being offered to start and set up a lidar department for Clear Angle Studios. This turned into the largest dedicated VFX Scanning department for Lidar in Europe and the list of projects he worked on includes productions like “Black Panther”, ”Ready Player One”, ”Game of Thrones”, “Avengers: Infinity Wars”, “Avengers Endgame” and the VFX Oscar winners “First Man” and “1917”. He also worked on “Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald” and on the new upcoming Fantastic Beast film, before joining Goodbye Kansas in 2020.

25 may


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Patrik Forsberg | Stiller Studios

Patrik Forsberg founded what is today known as Stiller Studios back in 1992. The company dominated Swedish advertising production well into the 00’s winning numerous national and international awards for its writing and production of radio and TV-advertising. Pioneering digital cinematography, non-linear editing, digital sound and inhouse postproduction was followed of establishing what Apple, Adobe, Unreal and Autodesk have called ”The worlds technically most advanced studio of its kind”. Today, the company is focused on ”Building a mini-Pixar” out of Sweden. In his free time, 58 year-old Patrik plays an age-mate Gibson Les Paul jr, but is unfortunately as bad on it today as he was in his punk days of the late 70’s

25 may


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Samuel Fast Hurtigkarl & Philip Engström | Brikk

Brikk is a Stockholm based animation studio & directors collective. Brikk crafts character-driven game trailers and cinematics for big, small, and medium-sized game developers.

25 may


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Agnes & Elias Våhlund | Handbok för superhjältar

Agnes & Elias Våhlund are the creators of "The handbook for superheroes", one of the most successful book series created in Sweden.

25 may


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Karl Johnsson | Imperiets Arvingar

Karl Johnsson is a comic artist and illustrator. Together with Sara Bergmark Elfgren, he created the epic fantasy graphic novel Vei. Together with Oskar Källner he is the creator of the book series Imperiets Arvingar, which will be published in the US under the title Children of the Phoenix.

25 may


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Oskar Källner | Imperiets Arvingar

Oskar Källner has previously published several fantasy novels, which also have won several awards. Together with Karl Johnsson he is the creator of the book series Imperiets Arvingar, which will be published in the US under the title Children of the Phoenix.

25 may


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Jim Kenning | Blockmarknaden

Co-founder of Blockmarknaden, Crypto enthusiast.

25 may


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Alexander Kenning | Blockmarknaden

Co founder of Blockmarknaden and crypto enthusiast with a passion for games and hairdos!

25 may


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Kurtis Wiebe | Writer and Game Creator

Kurtis Wiebe is an award winning creative expert, writer and director with over 15 years in the comic, prose, tabletop RPG and video game industries. His original works have been translated into 8 languages and distributed world-wide, have landed on the New York Times Bestselling list multiple times and have been adapted into various transmedia projects. He has created eight original, critically acclaimed intellectual properties with Image Comics, Dark Horse, and Oni Press and as well have written for established properties at Marvel and IDW Comics. He has deep creative experience in video games working directly with Ubisoft, The Coalition, Black Tusk, XGen Studios and Fathom Interactive. His specialties are tone, storytelling, character and dialog writing, world building, intellectual property creation and transmedia adaptation and game design.

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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Miki Montlló | DC Comics

Originally from Barcelona, Miki has worked on storyboards for TV advertisements, designing characters and backgrounds for videogames and animation, and doing concepts for feature films. He has created the graphic novel series Warship Jolly Roger together with Sylvain Runberg, and now they are working on their first Wonder Woman story for DC Comics.

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.

25 may


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Luis Jané Ippel | Tilting Point

Experience in M&A and Transaction services before joining the Gaming industry. Tilting Point is a leading Free-to-play game publisher with the objective of progressively build deeper partnerships with 3rd party developers.

25 may


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Peter Jakobsen | Games Branding

Peter has built and handled all PR activities for a large number of game and film publishers. He has more than 23 years of PR experience from the gaming industry, with an impressive list of successful PR and award-winning campaigns as well as events. Previously been the PR manager for game brands like: 2K Games, Acclaim, Disney interactive, Rockstar Games, Take-Two Interactive, THQ, Virgin, and Interplay to name a few. Being the first in the Nordic region to plan and execute PR campaigns for indie developers, mobile games and the free-to-play segment. Worked with developer personalities / startup indie studios / large scale AAA productions / tech / toys / sport brands / series / movies / entertainment / shows / music artists and events. Experience from regional, national and global campaigns. Worked with more than 1.000 games releases.

25 may


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Harry Hamer | London Ventures Partners

With Harry's experience in helping out with many different VC projects for tech startups, he now has his eyes set for the games industry.

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Måns Mårlind | Camp David Film

Well-known in the TV series circuit for both writing and directing, Måns’ credits include the award-winning Midnight Sun, which has sold to more than 120 territories worldwide, and critically acclaimed series Bron (The Bridge), which has been shown in 161 countries and remade for a numerous territories. He has also directed many award winning commercials and features, including Swedish feature Storm, the Hollywood feature Shelter starring Julianne Moore, and the Hollywood blockbuster Underworld: Awakening, with box office receipts of over $160 million. Måns also directed the critically acclaimed Känn Ingen Sorg (Shed No Tears) a film which received two Guldbagge awards as well as the Swedish feature Eld och Lågor (Swoon), which Måns wrote, directed and produced. Måns latest work is the TV series Shadowplay (aka The Defeated) starring Taylor Kitsch, Nina Hoss, Tuppence Middleton, Michael C Hall and Sebastian Koch which he wrote, directed and co-produced.

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.

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Bryan Stealy | Turborilla

Bryan Stealey is the CMO of Turborilla, one of Sweden's leading game studios, behind the smash hits 'Mad Skills Motocross' and 'Mad Skills BMX'. Bryan has 20+ years in the motocross industry and 10+ years in the games industry. He knows exactly how to make a game for their target group. He's also great at bringing the best out of his colleagues.

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.

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Thomas Ghyselen | Game Seer Venture Partners

Thomas started in the early 2010's by organising events in the rising esport scene across France, then chose to pursue his studies in the field of video game Production and Marketing. It led to great opportunities at Ubisoft, Xbox and Focus Home Interactive, where he was part of the Release team, connecting peoples to ensure smooth deliveries. Now as a Portfolio & Acquisitions manager for Game Seer, he's looking for awesome games to be shipped!

25 may


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K. A. Pedersen | Fireshine Games

After more than a decade in the industry, I currently work as a Game Scout at Fireshine Games, always looking for the next big indie hit. I started out as a games journalist before becoming a Community Manager at places like PlayStation and Team17. Eventually, I ended up at Fireshine Games doing the most fun job I could imagine; working closely with amazing developers from all over the world to bring some incredible experiences to the masses. If you’re looking for an indie publisher, don’t hesitate to get in touch!

25 may


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Jonas Darnell | Herman Hedning

Survived 36 years so far without a decent job, cosplaying "a cartoonist", mainly producing "Herman Hedning". Also suffers from an addiction to creating complicated and successful Kickstarters.

25 may


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Patrik Norrman | Bacon & Egg

Patrik Norrman has created comics since the late 1970s, including his own creations Bacon & Egg. Today he uses crowdfunding to self-publish his comics.

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Kim W Andersson | Love Hurts

Kim W. Andersson is a Swedish comics creator and entrepreneur. He found success in Sweden with his romantic horror comics Love Hurts and Alena (which was made into a live action film), and the space adventure comic Astrid. His comics are crowdfunding success stories in Sweden, and have also been published in USA, France, Spain, Brazil, South Korea, Denmark, and Germany.

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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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Alberto Torgano | 505 Games

Alberto has 20 years of experience in the industry, mostly working in 505 Games, almost from the start of the company. He has been involved in various areas of video game production, starting as a project and submission manager, passing through various producer roles, and now with his activity in business development, where he takes care of scouting new project and discussing deal with developers and other partners. In his career he did work on tens of games from the Nintendo DS era forward.

25 may


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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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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.

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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.

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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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Anna Erlandsson | Speaker track host

Anna Erlandsson is a passionate Queen of Nerds with long experience in the gaming culture and industry. She is a former president for the gaming association Sverok and has worked for diversity and inclusion in the gaming industry and gaming culture for years. With a background as a journalist aimed towards social media and the digital world, she has been writing and lecturing about everything from fake news and writing to ethnicity in larp and representation and queerness. She currently works as a Nordic Community Manager for Bethesda and is an ambassador for Women in Games.

25 may


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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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Josefine Sundström | Speaker track host

Josefine Sundström is a TV host on shows like Melodifestivalen 2001, Voxpop, and Junior Jeopardy, In 2010 she debuted as a writer, and has since written 15 books (both novels for adults and children's books), translated to about ten languages.

25 may


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Gabrielle de Bourg | Speaker track host

Gabrielle de Bourg is a writer to many tabletop role-playing games, such as Call of Cthulhu, Vaesen and Tales from the Loop. In 2020 she debuted as a writer of fiction, with a short story for Swedish radio. She has received multiple awards for her writing and her work, such as being named Player of the Year by Sverok, the Swedish Gaming Hobby Federation, in 2019. She’s also a lecturer focusing on pop culture and media, which has earned her the title of Professional nerd. Her nerdiness is translated to a lot of passion in her work and in 2019 she received the highest award as Player of the Year from Sverok, the Swedish gaming hobby federation, for her work in making RPGs more visible and inclusive. She’s also a familiar face in media and has been seen and heard on both radio and TV. In her spare time she enjoys playing games, both RPGs, board games and video games, get sucked into horror movies, meet friends and create music.

25 may


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Andreas Eriksson | Speaker track host

Andreas Eriksson is a writer, editor and publisher of comics. He is the current editor of the long running Swedish comic books Fantomen and Agent X9/Modestly Blaise, as well as writer of Phantom stories for Egmont, Frew Publications and Lightning Strikes Comics. His own publishing company Ades Media has been active since 2013, and the imprint Retrobokklubben launched in 2021.

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MerrySumiko | UK

Merry sumiko, Jasmine. British born Chinese Game dev working with Jelly Brain Games. Content creator & designer. Someone who's a clinomaniac, librocubicularist and poking at art. https://linktr.ee/merrysumiko

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RouzVega | Spain

Content creator since 2015, currently specialized in just chatting, art and gameplays. Her channel is characterized by giving special attention and resources to the chat, creating a fun environment where everyone is welcome to interact.

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Fruitbats | USA

Fruitbats aka Brian, Full-time gamer turned lawyer turned full-time gamer, providing thoughtful discussion, playful hijinks, and bat facts from Portland USA, who was introduced to video games by his grandmother!

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Pisty | Egypt/Oman

My name is Ahmed, but everyone calls me Pisty. I'm half Omani, half Egyptian, but my arabic accent is purely an Egyptian one. I started creating content because of my passion for Indie Games and Comedy, so my aim is always to introduce my viewers to new games and make them laugh.

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Agent | Croatia

Agent is a Partnered Twitch Streamer from Croatia, Europe streaming a verity of different games. Works as Streaming manager for G.Round and like to make new friends, make them smile and provide them with entertainment!

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Supremenexus | Serbia

SupremeNexus, owner of one of the biggest gaming channels in the region. My videos are full of tech, travel, vlogs and amazing games. I am open to try anything new, exciting and unique, gaming is my passion and my life.

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Core | Brazil

Henrique, better known as Core hails from Brasil and loves to play & talk about games with a focus on Indie games in the genre's: Rhythm, Horror, Survival, Craft, Puzzle and Enigma.

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Fems | Netherlands

Fems is an 26 year old Dutch variety streamer that focusses on IRL, variety games and even Music streams! She started streaming 6 years ago and loves to put all her creativity in her streams.

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Noobcleaver | Bulgaria

Dimitar ( Noobcleaver) has been streaming from early 2014 . Started streaming right after giving up on professional basketball. He has been a fulltimer ever since day 1. The focus of the stream is making a family like community . PC Hardware, New Game Releases, Product reviews are the main focus of the stream - after all streaming is about having fun but also learning something new every day

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Lynx/Chema | Spain

Chema (Lynx Reviewer) is a Spanish influencer and video game reviewer who has a significant fanbase of developers, enthusiasts and a target audience perfect for G. Round’s launch. He manages 3 different Youtube channels, as well as livestreaming frequently. He attended GTR’s conference in Korea in 2019, and is now onboard and ready to bring quality users to G. Round in 2020.

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