Poznan, Poland, September 22nd, 2022: This year, one of Europe’s important games industry summits Games Industry Conference (GIC) will be organized as a hybrid-style event again, following last year’s successful return to a mostly on-site-event with some online elements for those unable to travel. In 2022, most events will be held on-site with the option of joining the majority of talks and business meetings online. After a fully remote event in 2020, gaming enthusiasts and industry professionals can now look forward to attending Poland’s biggest video games event – and one of the five biggest B2B- and developer conferences in Europe – in person once again. GIC will take place from October 6th to 9th at Poznan International Fair alongside Poznan Gaming Arena (PGA), Poland’s biggest video game consumer event.
This year’s top speakers
Raluca Percec, a Freelance Marketing Consultant with more than 15 years of gamedev experience and Global Marketing Assets Manager at Gameloft, will host a beginner level talk session on marketing art. It is directed at an audience of marketing specialists as well as artists. She will provide general information and elaborate on best practices for creating engaging content. Raluca is also going to reveal some day-to-day-advice for those new to this field of art.
Demetrius Leal is Art Director at Striking Distance Studios and currently working on The Callisto Protocol. He will deliver a talk on the game’s artwork development in context of his studio’s horror engineering framework. Using examples from the game, Demetrius will explain the process from the forming of first ideas to the execution of art assets. As former EA Technical Art Director and Activision CG Supervisor, who has worked on the Dead Space and Call of Duty series as well as Dante’s Inferno, he is a true expert of his trade.
Head of Publishing at Fast Travel Games Patrick Liu hosts an intermediate level talk session on goal setting problems and team misalignment issues in game companies. As former Head of Games at Mojang, Creative Director at Rovio and Senior Producer at Dice, Patrick is experienced in dealing with these challenges at large scale developer studios. He will share his insights from an insider’s point of view and explain how these issues can be overcome.
Lead Graphics Programmer at People Can Fly Peter Sikachev, who has formerly worked on major IPs such as Cyberpunk 2077, Red Dead Redemption 2 at CD Projekt Red, will focus on the fluid-based simulation of wind in UE 5. The session will start with an introduction of the theory behind it. Then Peter will point out the most crucial aspects for practical real-time simulation before showcasing his company’s in-house solution for extending and improving the UE 5 graphics engine.
A gradually updated overview of the already confirmed 62 of the 120+ expected talks is available via this link.
Other GIC Highlights
Besides highly informative talks, #gicweek will host the Gamedev Investment Forum and the GIC legal Summit, the Geek Careers Recruitment Zone, and various side events. This year’s B2B exhibition zone will feature around 40 exhibitors and offer best chances to connect industry professionals with new and old business partners. For increased convenience, the app GRIP will be used to manage meetings on-site and online. Business talks at the venue can take place from 1 – 6 pm on Friday, 11 – 7 pm on Saturday, and from 11 – 4 pm on Sunday.
On Saturday, October 8th, the Central & Eastern European Game Awards (CEEGA) gala will commence at 3 pm. After it’s great success in the last years, Eastern Europe’s most important video games award show will honor the region’s best new titles in eight different categories.
Information about contests, speakers and more can be found on the official website: https://gic.gd/#
Music enthusiasts can enjoy the Epic Game Music event, which starts at 6 pm on Friday (tickets are sold separately). Featuring conductor Adam Domurat, singer Carolin 'Wønder' Mrugała, a professional orchestra and the Poznan University Choir, the concert will offer an outstanding performance of video game music to the audience.
For those interested in the city of Poznan, city tours will be offered on all three days of the conference. During the 2-hour-excursions, a guide will take visitors to the city’s most important sightseeing spots such as the castle, the cathedral, and the old market. For speakers and GIC ticket holders the tours are free of charge.
Festivities
Attendees with a Premium or Business Pass have access to the pre-GIC Party, that starts at 8 pm on Thursday, October 6th. Friday’s Xsolla & GIC Party will be open for all holders of GIC and Indie Zone exhibitor passes. The Poznan Game Arena Party, which starts at 8:30 pm on Saturday, requires a business pass for entrance.
Press assets are available under this link.
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ABOUT GAME INDUSTRY CONFERENCE
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 la
ndscape with about 3.600 attendees, 140 talks and 1400 MeetToMatch meetings in 2019.
For more Information, please visit https://gic.gd/.
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