Reliance Games has announced the advent of an international mobile gaming conference – Pocket Gamer Connects to be held at Bangalore on 16 and 17 April 2015. The event will feature some of the most sought after developers, Indie superstars and global publishers known for games such as Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, Candy Crush Saga, Warhammer 40000: Carnage and many others amongst a remarkable list of business leaders.
In association with Steel Media this conference will connect the entire Mobile Gaming fraternity, where developers and the academic community will get a chance to interact with the who’s who of the sector, investors, publishers and government representatives to know what it takes to succeed in this fast growing space. The conference will have short-form lectures, super smart engaged speakers dispensing practical advice, intensive networking and will wrap up with a mega entertainment night featuring eastern and western cultural influences.
One of the highlights of the conference would be finale of the pan-
India Gaming competition, ‘Game Hack’ that marks the culmination of over 1500 indie developers participating in a Big Indie Pitch format where the winner takes home a million rupees in cash prize along with incubation, publishing, investment and global media exposure.
Announcing the launch of PG Connects Bangalore, Reliance Entertainment Digital CEO Manish Agarwal said, “We are glad to announce our collaboration with Steel Media to bring Pocket Gamer Connects to India. It’s a dream come true to give global exposure and world class knowledge to a young Indian developer community so we can build the next billion dollar game from India. This event will be a true inflection point for mobile gaming to surge to great heights in our country.”
“Pocket Gamer Connects has already established itself as the leading mobile games event in the Western world, catering to over 1,500 of the global mobile games industry’s top professionals in 2014 alone through its inaugural events in London and Helsinki,” said Steel Media MD Chris James. “In 2015 we’re looking to go even bigger with our first Asian show in Bangalore, India,” he added.
