Thursday 28th May 2020

Meetings: 08.00 - 24.00 (UK time BST)

Live Talks: 10.00am - 18.45pm (UK time BST). All talks will be recorded and made available after the live broadcast.
Quiz: 19.00 - 20.30 (UK time BST)

The GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit is going digital on Thursday 28th May with Event Sponsor Xsolla. The world's premier games investment event has previously taken place in Seattle, Boston and London, and now invites the entire world to take part in our first ever virtual conference and meeting event.

The Investment Summit is FREE for games developers, publishers, platform-holders and investors. There is a paid ticket for service companies to access the event. Each ticket gives you access to the Investment Summit meeting system (run by MeetToMatch), all the talks, and the GamesIndustry.quiz event.

The objective is the same: to get your game funded. Featuring games studios, publishers and investors from Australia, US, Europe and around the globe, the event includes access to the live talks (all of which will be recorded so you can access them at your convenience throughout the day) and the chance to apply for and secure one-to-one meetings via our online meeting system with publishers, platform-holders and investors. At last year's Investment Summits, there were more than 1000 formal meetings between investors and games developers.

All ticket-holders can also take part in the GamesIndustry.quiz, a fun online live quiz delivered by our resident quiz master, James Batchelor.

150+ investors, publishers, platform-holders and speakers already confirmed include: Ubisoft, Team17, Electronic Arts, Kickstarter, Oculus, Humble Bundle, Valve, Kowloon Nights, Fellow Traveller, GamesCo London, MRGV, Bossa Studios, ID@Xbox, Sold Out, PlayStack, Galaxy Digital, Animal Kingdom, WINGS, Square Enix Collective, Wired Productions, Super.com, 11 Bit Studios, Nintendo, Those Awesome Guys, Snail Games USA, Digital Extremes, Miniclip, Curve Digital, Gearbox Publishing, tinyBuild, Quantum Astrophysicists Guild, Makers Fund, The Irregular Corporation, Xsolla and more on the way...

Schedule (UK GMT time)

08:00 - 24:00: You can specify the times you have for meetings based on your availability and location around the world

09.30 - 9.35: Welcome To GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit Online — Jamie Sefton (GamesIndustry.biz)
09.35 - 10:15: New Frontiers: From Self-Published To Third-Party Publisher — David Braben OBE (Frontier)
10.30 - 10:55: Opportunities with ID@Xbox — Ago Simonetta (Microsoft)
11:00 - 11:45: Panel: Exit Strategy: Being Acquired or Selling Your Studio — Debbie Bestwick (Team17), Jens Hilgers (Bitkraft Esports), Simon Iwaniszak (Red Kite Games), Christopher Dring (GamesIndustry.biz - Host)
12:00 - 12:25: Angel Investment: Are You Investor Ready? — Ian Livingstone CBE
12:30 - 13:15: Panel: How To Get Your Game Funded — Anh Luong (Miniclip), Ella Romanos (Fundamentally Games), Mitsuo Hirakawa (Irregular Corporation), Roberta Lucca (Bossa Studios), Steve Illes (Symvan Capital), Matthew Handrahan (GamesIndustry.biz - Host)
13:30 - 14:00: LEGO Ventures: Digital Play Beyond the Brick — Robert Lowe (LEGO)
14:00 - 15:30: Break
15:30 - 15:50: By the Numbers - Xsolla Funding Club — Aiman Seksembaeva (Xsolla)
16:00 - 16:25: Successfully Relaunching Your Kickstarter Campaign — Anya Combs (Kickstarter)
16:30 - 16:55: How To Pitch Your Game — Christina Seelye (Modus Games), John Polson (Humble Bundle), Harry Hamer (London Venture Partners), James Batchelor (GamesIndustry.biz - Host)
17:00 - 17:25: Is Your Indie Game Viable? How To Research The Market — Cassia Curran (WINGS)
17:30 - 17:55: Indie Publishing Is Dead, A Talk By An Indie Publisher — Alex Nichiporchik (TinyBuild)
18:00 - 18:45: Panel: How Is The Pandemic Changing Games Investment? — Astrid Refstrup (Kowloon Nights), Cassia Curran (WINGS), Richard Browne (Digital Extremes), Sam Englebardt (Galaxy Digital), Rebekah Valentine (GamesIndustry.biz - host)
19:00 - 20:30: GamesIndustry.quiz with James Batchelor

* Please note: Any formal meetings will be at the discretion of the investors. Also, ReedPOP and GamesIndustry.biz cannot guarantee that any meetings with investors will result in investment for your company.

Buying a ticket for the Investment Summit will see you signed-up to our MeetToMatch meeting system.