Amazon, Team17, Jagex and Skybound complete PAX East Investment Summit line-up
Four more companies looking to meet indie game developers
Publishers Team17, Jagex and Skybound Games, plus the tech specialists at Amazon, have signed-up to meet indie creators at this month's GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit at PAX East.
The event will take place on Thursday, March 28th in Boston, US. Tickets are on sale right now.
The four new names joins a list of attendees including: Digital Extremes, Double Fine, Epic Games, Gearbox, Graffiti Games, Humble Bundle, Kickstarter, Kongregate, Kowloon Nights, Krafton (formerly Bluehole), Limited Run, Merge Game, Nintendo, PlayStack, PlayStation, Snail Games, Sold Out, Super.com, Thunderful, Velan Ventures, Versus Evil, Xsolla, Yacht Club Games and Xbox.
The Summit is sponsored by Xsolla and Limited Run.
If you're an indie developer interested in meeting and hearing from these companies, tickets are running out. Get them here. Tickets include lunch, drinks and a pass to PAX East for Thursday AND Friday. The deadline for entering the meeting system is this Friday.
Before the meetings is the summit itself, which include advice on how to raise funds and make money from your games. Talks this year include executives from Epic Games, ID@Xbox, Kickstarter, Humble Bundle and more.
The full schedule is listed below.
10:00 - 10:05: Introduction by Jamie Sefton, Event Organiser
10:05 - 10:25: Chris Charla, ID@Xbox
10:25 - 10:40: Anya Combs, Kickstarter
10:40 - 10:55: John Polson, Humble Bundle
10:55 - 11:20: Epic Games Fireside Chat with Sergey Galyonkin and David Stelzer. Hosted by Rami Ismail.
11:20 - 11:35: Break
11:35 - 11:50: Guha Bala, Velan Ventures
11:50 - 12:00: David Daniels, Xsolla
12:00 - 12:30: The Games Investment Panel hosted by Chris Dring. Featuring:
Tammy Levy (Kongregate)
Keizac Lee (Kowloon Nights)
Luke Keighran (Merge Games)
Greg Rice (Double Fine)
Steve Gibson (Gearbox Publishing)
12:30 - 13:30: Networking Lunch
13:30 - 18:00: Formal Meetings
For more information on the Investment Summit, including how to take part. Please check out our microsite.
The GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit comes to the US after ten years of operation in the UK. This year's UK event will be returning at EGX in October, taking place at London's Excel venue. Stay tuned for more details.