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Industry Conference

Scottish Games Week

 

Thursday 27 October 09:00am ‐ 5:15pm

Friday 28 October 2022 09:00am ‐ 1.15pm

Malmaison Hotel, 44 Whitehall Cres, Dundee, DD1 4AY

Industry Conference Sponsors

Aream & co logo Scottish Games Week Sponsor
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4Players Logo Scottish Games Week Sponsor
Johnston Carmichael Where sharp minds meet Scottish Games Week 2022 Gold Sponsor
Blackadders Scottish Games Week Gold Sponsor
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Escape Technology Scottish Games Week Associate Sponsor 2022

Industry Conference Speakers

The Industry Conference is a two-day long event held in Dundee, the beating heart of Scotland’s games community. The conference features founders, pioneers, leaders and innovators from around the world, offering expertise and insight and from the forefront of the global games market.

The key trends from the forefront of games, as well as personal reflection and deep technical understanding are on offer from speakers which range from veteran global Scots, through to up-and-coming studios with their whole future ahead.

No matter your role within the games ecosystem, there’s something for every designer, developer, creator, publisher, educator, academic and organisation within the programme.

Tom Arthur

Tom Arthur

Minister for Public Finance, Planning and Community Wealth

Chris van der Kuyl CBE, FRSE

Chris van der Kuyl CBE, FRSE

Chairman

Lisa Bennett

Lisa Bennett

Scotland Manager

Patty Toledo

Patty Toledo

Marketing Director

Luca Suma

Luca Suma

Investment Director

Luca's Bio

Luca has 4 years of experience as professional investors in Games, Esports/Streaming and Digital Sports/Wellness.

As Investment Director at Hiro Capital, Luca is responsible to assess, review and diligence opportunities in these verticals. Engineer by background and top-MA Management class at University of Westminster Business School, Luca’s expertise ranges from KPIs and metrics assessment to financial forecasts and business plan validation.

With many years of experience as market and business analyst Luca believes in the potential of highly scalable and mass market propositions.

David Mullich

David Mullich

Game Producer/Professor/Consultant

Cinemoi
David's Bio

David Mullich is a veteran game designer, director, and producer of more than 60 titles over his four-decade career.

His most popular titles include Heroes of Might & Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia for The 3DO Company, Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines for Activision, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream for Cyberdreams, and DuckTales for The Walt Disney Company. 

More recently, David has focused on consulting and mentoring, serving on the team that developed the Game Design Merit Badge requirements and pamphlet for The Boy Scouts of America and directing the Game Design and Production degree program at The Los Angeles Film School. 

He is currently a Game Design Professor at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Facebook: david.mullich

Instagram:david.mullich

LinkedIn: davidmullich

Twitter: david_mullich

He/Him/His/Himself

Vaughan Holloway

Vaughan Holloway

CEO

John Thornewill

John Thornewill

CEO & Co-Founder

Simon Meek

Simon Meek

Director

Simon's Bio

Simon is an award-winning writer, designer and director who has been innovating in the narrative games space for the best part of 15 years.

His new studio, Stacking Chairs, is creating a bold new wave of third-person adventures aimed at a modern adult gamer market.

Simon brings a wealth of experience from across the creative industries and has worked with numerous games studios in a consultancy capacity for narrative design and IP development.

He is perhaps best known for his own game releases Beckett, which won the Scottish BAFTA and is featured in V&A Dundee’s gallery, and The 39 Steps.

Stephen Hey

Stephen Hey

Consultant

Stephen’s Bio

Stephen’s career spans nearly 30 years of games PR, advertising, marketing and latterly the role of Marketing Director at EA studio, Chillingo.

Although Stephen loves games, he is terrible at them, but has a deep understanding of why people play games and what triggers people to buy them.

He is lucky enough to have worked on some stand out games and franchises from Worms, Lego Star Wars, Resident Evil, Cut The Rope and Micro Machines to WWE, FIFA, PES and other acronym based classics.

He now runs games marketing consultancy HeyStephenHey where his clients have included Red Bull, Merge, RevRooms, Northern Ireland Screen, Bossa Studios and Les Enfants Terribles. Stephen is a BAFTA and Ukie member and humbled to be an ambassador for the gamer’s charity, SpecialEffect. 

Twitter: @HeyStephenHey

Instagram: @Stephen Hey

Pronouns: He/Him

Graeme Devine

Graeme Devine

Creative Technical Officer

QXR Studios
Mitchell Baxter

Mitchell Baxter

Director

Chris Hainsworth

Chris Hainsworth

CFO

Audrey Opdycke-Barnes

Audrey Opdycke-Barnes

VP of Place

Kirk Dailly

Kirk Dailly

Head of Corporate & Commercial

Shaun Millican

Shaun Millican

Partner

Joakim Linna

Joakim Linna

Product Evangelist

Day 1 Line-Up

*Programme is subject to change*

09:00 - 09:15 | Official Opening of Scottish Games Week Industry Conference with Tom Arthur MSP Minister for Public Finance, Planning and Community Wealth

Official Opening of Scottish Games Week Industry Conference with John Swinney, Deputy First Minister

09:15 - 09:20 | Welcome to Scottish Games Week with Brian Baglow

Welcome to Scottish Games Week with Brian Baglow, Scottish Games Network

Brian Baglow, Scottish Games Network, Scottish Games Week

09:20 - 09:25 | Welcome to Scottish Games Week Industry Conference with Chris van der Kuyl CBE, FRSE. Chairman, 4J Studios

Welcome to Scottish Games Week Industry Conference with Chris van der Kuyl CBE, FRSE. Chairman, 4J Studios

Chris van der Kuyl CBE, FRSE. Chairman, 4J Studios Scottish Games Week

09:25 - 10:25 | Superstar Session with Graeme Devine | A history in games

Superstar Session with Graeme Devine

A history in games

Graeme Devine Creative Technical Officer at QXR Studios

10:25 - 10:55 | Session with Dr Helen Mullen & Dr Matthew Barr | Scotland's Games Ecosystem

Session with Dr Helen Mullen & Dr Matthew Barr

Scotland’s Games Ecosystem

10:55 - 11:10 | Break
11:10 - 11:55 | Panel with Johnston Carmichael, Matthew Short, Luca Suma and Audrey Opdycke-Barnes | Building a profitable game business

Panel with Johnston Carmichael, Matthew Short, Luca Suma and Stephen Coleman

Building a profitable game business

11:55 - 12:40 | Panel with Brian Baglow, Elena Hoege, Vaughan Holloway and John Thornewill | Future game superpower: What is Scotland missing?

Panel with Brian Baglow, Elena Hoege, Vaughan Holloway and John Thornewill

Future game superpower: What is Scotland missing?

12:40 - 13:55 | Lunch
13:55 - 14:40 | Superstar Session Kirk Dailly, Blackadders LLP | Ethical Entertainment: how law & culture shape the modern studio

Kirk Dailly, Head of Corporate & Commercial at Blackadders LLP, will be leading an expert panel session at the Industry Conference on Ethical Entertainment: how law & culture shape the modern studio.

Joining Kirk on Thursday are:

  • Brian McNicoll, Head of Entrepreneurship, University of Dundee; CEO of 532 Design
  • David Greenspan, Adj. Professor at Santa Clara University School of Law; Co-Author of Mastering the Game 2nd ed. (2022)
  • Carol Clark, Chief Operating Officer at Tag Games
  • David Hamilton, Executive Vice President at Ninja Kiwi
14:40 - 15:10 | Session with Chris Hainsworth | Building a company for scalability

Session with Chris Hainsworth, The Game CFO.

Building a company for scalability

Chris Hainsworth CFO The Game CFO

15:10 - 15:25 | Break
15:25 - 15:55 | Session with Luca Suma | How to raise money from a VC: Tips and Processes

Session with Luca Suma, Hiro Capital

How to raise money from a VC: Tips and Processes

Luca Suma Investment Director Hiro Capital

15:55 - 16:25 | Session with Chris van der Kuyl CBE, FRSE | The future of publishing

Title Sponsor Session with Chris van der Kuyl CBE, FRSE

The future of publishing

Chris van der Kuyl CBE, FRSE. Chairman, 4J Studios Scottish Games Week

 

16:25 - 16:40 | Panel with Charly Harbord, Sahil Gupta, Rob Madden, YAHAHA and Marc Williamson | Choosing your poison: In which platform should we invest our time and money?

Panel with Charly Harbord, Sahil Gupta, Rob Madden, Joakim Linna and Marc Williamson

Choosing your poison: In which platform should we invest our time and money?

Day 2 Line-Up

*Programme is subject to change*

08:55 - 09:00 | Welcome to Day 2
09:00 - 10:00 | Superstar Session with David Mullich | Designing Games for Engagement and Expansion.

Superstar Session with David Mullich

Designing Games for Engagement and Expansion.

09:30 - 10:30 | Superstar Fireside Chat: A life in games

With Brian Baglow and Dave Jones, Epic.

11:00 - 11:15 | Break
11:15 - 11:45 | Session with Patty Toledo, 4Players

More information coming soon.

11:45 - 12:15 | Session with Lisa Bennet | From mobile games to the metaverse. How communications has evolved

Session with Lisa Bennet, Scotland Director, Dimoso

From mobile games to the metaverse. How communications has evolved

12:15 - 13:15 | Panel: Gaming of the future: where is the game industry going?

With Lisa Bennet, Dimoso

Stephen Hey, HeyStephenHey

Simon Meek, The Secret Experiment

Brentton White, North Sea Games

Mitchell Baxter, Lazy Monday Games

Douglas Hare, Outplay

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Created and organised by the Scottish Games Network, with support from the Scottish Government’s Tech Ecosystem Review (STER) fund.