The
MGF Asia has just kicked off its annual event in
Hong Kong on April 12. After the success of inaugural MGF Asia 2015, MGF Asia 2016 will be bigger than last year with all attendees at least 'Director' level. MGF is the leading and longest-standing ‘mobile-first’ forum for games industry professionals who are shaping strategy and revolutionising the landscape of mobile gaming, and this year more and more global gaming giants have been invited to the forum, including Tencent, Ubisoft, DeNA, SEGA, Bandai, Wargaming.net etc.
This year, MGF Asia will be bringing you the very first ‘Venture Den’: the no nonsense pitching sessions where the brightest and best independent and smaller studios will be presenting before a panel of world class investors and publishers with a total investment capacity of $131M+, and who will be looking to partner with the most promising indie developers out there. You can check out some indie developers
here.
In addition, the MGF Asia 2016 summit is also focus on the future trends of the industry, covering key topics such as future of mobile industry, virtual reality, eSports, live streaming, cross-platform convergence, innovation and more. The headline speakers are below.
• Sean Lee, Chief Strategy Officer, Wargaming
• Robby Yung, CEO, Animoca Brands
• Taewon Yun, General Manager of Asia Pacific, Super Evil Megacorp
• Narin Siritaranukul, General Mangaer of Southeast Asia, Gamevil
• Dan Brody, VP Tencent Games, Tencent
• Arthur Chow, CEO, 6waves
• Cody Chen, Head of eSports, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, Riot Games
• Henry Yeh, Managing Director, gumi Asia
"Asia is firmly established as the gaming industry’s biggest continent, and while the Western industry is in a period of consolidation, Asia continues to boom. After the success of our inaugural MGF Asia last year, we’re excited for an even bigger year in 2016, bringing together the most important figures from across Asia and the globe to network and discuss gaming’s most vibrant and flourishing continent.” Anna Bashall, the organizer of MGF Asia 2016, said.