The Game Industry Conference 2024 announces first speakers

The Game Industry Conference 2024 announces first speakers and closes Early Bird sale with a record

David Santriago, André Berg Bragason, Martha Weiss and Sami Mylly join speaker lineup of the ´24 edition

The Game Industry Conference, a leading European gaming conference based in Poland, is set to return once again, and this time, it is expected to be even bigger than before, with estimated 4,000 attendees. As in previous years, the organizers kicked off the showcase of the upcoming edition’s program early by presenting the first big names who will share their knowledge during lectures and workshops. Mark your calendars for GIC’24, scheduled to take place from October 24th to 27th, running alongside the Poznan Game Arena (PGA).

International speakers

Like in the years before, the GIC schedule will be divided into basic, intermediate, and advanced talks, with topics ranging from art and audio, through business, PR, and marketing, up to VR, AR & new technologies. GIC’24 speakers list will include:

• David Santiago – Principal Technical Artist at Insomniac Games, with over 15 years of experience and has contributed to projects like “Marvel’s Spider-Man 2,” ” Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart,” and “Sunset Overdrive,” where he bridges the gap between art and technology. The topic of David’s talk will be “Procedural Tool Development for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.”
• André Berg Bragason – Lead VFX Artist at CCP Games with 17 years of experience in gamedev. Worked from tech art, through 3D and environment art, to VFX in EVE Online. André will give the audience a behind-the-scenes look at his work on Eve Online in a lecture titled ‘Reigniting Stars: A Decade of VFX in “EVE Online”’.
• Martha Weiss – Senior Character Concept Artist at IO Interactive. Worked at CD Projekt RED on Cyberpunk and Cyberpunk: Phantom Liberty as a concept artist. Martha’s lecture will focus on the theme of ‘How to Design Characters that excel in Games?’
• Sami Mylly – Senior Game Programmer at Fingersoft with over 25 years of gamedev experience as coder, designer, UX/UI developer of mobile games. The title of Sami’s lecture will be ‘(Ab)using Addressables’.

The diverse group of speakers at GIC brings a wide range of perspectives and experiences to the conference. GIC’s commitment to showcasing industry trends, challenges, and opportunities through this diversity enhances the gaming community and advances the industry on a global level.

Industry professionals can now submit their talk proposals at https://gic.gd/call

Special ticket discount

Five months before the event, a record over 400 participants bought their tickets as part of the Early Bird sale. This is the best result in the history of the conference since its beginnings in 2008.

More details can be found at the official GIC website: https://gic.gd/tickets/.

Women in Games Day

GIC’s yearly Women in Games Breakfast broke all the records in 2023. With over 150 attendees and 4 separate roundtables, surveys, networking, and giveaways, it surpassed our expectations.

To boost this growth and fill the evident need of women in our industry, this year GIC will, for the first time, hold a Women in Games Day. The traditional breakfast will be followed by a whole day of networking, workshops, panels, talks and mentoring sessions – for women by women. More details will be disclosed soon.

About Game Industry Conference (GIC)

The GIC, along with Poznan Game Arena, forms the biggest game event east of Cologne. It features professional knowledge exchange, workshops, roundtables, a B2B exhibition area, GRIP-meetings, Geek Careers recruitment opportunities, and networking parties. Not to mention the Central Eastern Europe Game Awards ceremony, GameDev Investment Forum and many more. Since its beginnings in 2008, the GIC grew to become one of the most significant events in Europe’s gaming landscape. For more Information, please visit https://gic.gd/.

The Game Industry Conference 2024 will take place in Poznan, Poland from October 24th to 27th. Tickets are available at https://gic.gd/tickets/.

About Poznan Game Arena (PGA)

Poznań Game Arena is the largest gaming and multimedia entertainment fair in Poland and this part of Europe, organized for both the industry representatives and individual visitors. PGA already has a more than 10-year history that we have built together with over 370,000 Polish and foreign fans of gaming equipment, production and multimedia. More information: https://gamearena.pl/en.