Finnish Game Day 2019 is taking place in St.Petersburg on June 18th

Traditionally Finnish Game Day event is taking place a day before the summer session of the White Nights gaming business conference in St.Petersburg. This year is no exception. On June 18th, the representatives of Finnish gamedev industry will meet with peers from other countries at the Consulate of Finland in St. Petersburg to discuss the current state and challenges of the industry.

What is the event about?

Finnish Game Day is a business networking event. His primary goal is to enable the Finnish teams to share their experience, as well as help them find investors, publishers and partners in Russia, Eastern Europe and Asia. This event has helped Finnish studios to attract investments and close publishing deals before. 

For example, this time the participants of the event will discuss in details topic such as investment in games and, in particular, how venture companies choose games and teams to invest in. In addition, a separate round table will be devoted to the state of the current PC gaming publishing.

Finland offers great opportunities for foreign game developers and that is one of the topics that will be discussed at the event.

What’s the format?

Last year, the format of the Finnish Game Day changed. The event does not have any presentations anymore and changed in favour of focused round tables. This format will remain this year as well. 

The event will hold the three discussion panels. After each panel there will be a break during which the panellists and attendees can chat more over a cup of coffee.

This year, participants of the event will be able to schedule and pre-book meetings at the Consulate via the White Nights Business Assistant system, and the Consulate will be allocated a separate room with tables for comfortable face to face meetings. 

Who is coming?

Matias Myllyrinne

Veteran of the Finnish gaming industry, heading Remedy Entertainment for 15 years. After that, he was the executive vice president of Wargaming Development for three years. Since November last year, he co-founded and heading the Redhill Games based in Helsinki.

Markus R?mark

The founder of the investment gaming company Playco at the beginning of 2000, worked at Nokia, where he was responsible for game development. Today, his main business is the GameRefinery analytical gaming platform.

KooPee Hiltunen

Having started his career as a game producer, KooPee is now heading the association of the Finnish game studios - Neogames. KooPee knows in detail what’s happening in the Finnish games industry and knows all the Finnish game studios. 

Among the participants of the event there will be not only Finns. Here are some of the confirmed participants Ilya Karpinskiy from Mail.Ru Games Ventures, Aurelien Merville from Phoenix Games, Anna Baidachnaya from Braavo Capital, Alexey Savchenko from Epic Games, Evgeny Maleev from Super.com and many others will speak at the panels.

Check out the details of the event and apply to participate! Only 100 people will attend the event.