Business

Events during Business Day

The Business Day, on October 3 at Kulturhuset, will focus on game developers, indies and startup companies, and offers a variety of activities for building connections and making business happen.

Sweden Game Pitch

Pitch your latest game to a panel of judges, publishers and investors during the biggest pitch event in Sweden.

Indiecator

Showcase your latest game or project at Sweden Game Conference's popular expo for indies, Indiecator.

The Mighty Diamonds

Workshops, talks and free consultation sessions with the Mighty Diamonds.

Game Educators Summit

The Council of Swedish Games Researchers meet to discuss Game Literacy.

Talks & Panels

Talks and panels presented by top developers and other people from the games industry with focus on business.

Mixer

Network, meet new people and old friends during the Sweden Game Conference Mixer.

Time	Event	Link
From 09:30 to 10:00 Valhall	Badge Pick-Up (Business Attendees) Fetch your badge before the stage sessions starts at 10:00!
From 10:00 to 10:30 Valhall	Opening of Sweden Game Conference 2024 Welcome to Sweden Game Conference 2024! Ingi Jonasson, CEO at Science Park Skövde, Kenneth Johansson, Skövde Municipality and Per Strömbäck at the Swedish Games Industry welcomes you to this year's conference.
From 10:30 to 11:20 Valhall	Key Note Speaker Julian Togelius, Associate Professor: A roadmap to the AI revolution in games Artificial intelligence is on everyone’s lips, and for game developers and researchers it is clear that there are plenty of opportunities for AI technologies to improve games and how we make them. But which kind of AI methods in particular? And where would they fit into your game? After all, AI research has been intertwined with games since its inception in the 1950s, although these days people tend to think about chatbots when prompted with the word AI. I will take you on a whirlwind tour of actual, near-future and far-future applications of AI in games and game development. The tour will cover game-playing, level generation, player modeling, NPCs, AI-based game engines and more.
From 10:30 to 12:00 Odeon	Föreläsning: Nyfiken på spelbranschen? I samband med Sweden Game Conference i oktober bjuder Sweden Game Startup in till en förmiddagsföreläsning om den svenska spelbranschen. Där har du möjlighet att lära dig mer om spelbranschen och om hur spelföretagen och vår verksamhet under tjugo års tid vuxit fram och skapat en miljö som är världsunik. Du kommer även att få lära dig om en av de vanligaste affärsmodellerna hos ett spelbolag och hur programmet stöttar startups och värderar dem inför investering.
From 11:00 to 12:30 Kulturiet	Workshop: Launching a Game In 2025, Marketing Redefined A workshop with CEO and founder of Mighty Diamonds, Casey Al-Kaisy. This workshop aims to help indie studios realise the full potential of guerilla marketing of their game.
From 11:30 to 17:00 Expo	Indiecator Indiecator is the expo space at Sweden Game Conference, dedicated for indies from all over Sweden to showcase their latest projects. Playtest, talk to the developers and give some feedback!
From 11:30 to 12:20 Valhall	Panel: Indie Funding A panel with focus on funding for indies with Tim Browne from Bright Gambit, Bibbi Wikman from Aurora Punks and Carl Bjerkne from Windmill Game Invest.
From 11:30 to 17:00 Expo	Indiecator Companies and teams from all over Sweden showcase their latest games in the Indiecator.
From 12:30 to 13:00 Rådhusgatan	Invigning av Walk of Game Välkommen på invigning av Walk of Game på Rådhusgatan i Skövde. Walk of Game är en hyllning till de framgångsrika dataspel som har utvecklats här i Skövde. Fem bronsplattor, som vardera representerar ett framgångsrikt spel, kommer att avtäckas på Rådhusgatan.
From 13:00 to 16:00 Kulturiet	Game Educators Summit The theme of this year’s game educators’ summit, to be held in conjunction with Sweden Game Conference is Game Literacy.
From 13:00 to 13:45 Valhall	Joakim Larsson, Invanotion: Project Grants From Creative Europe For innovative startups, video game producers and audiovisual production companies there are a number of grants from Creative Europe available to apply for. Get an overview of the political framework that the Creative Europe funding scheme rests on and understand the foundations of the main project grants. Receive valuable tips and advice for the whole journey, from prospective applicant all the way to project delivery and financial reporting.
From 13:00 to 17:00 Freja	Sweden Game Pitch Teams from all over Sweden will pitch their latest projects to a live and online audience and a jury. In this year's jury we find Bibbi Wikman from Aurora Punks, Karl Magnus Troedsson from Behold Ventures and Sandra Neudinger. One of the teams will win Pitch of the Year.
From 13:45 to 14:30 Valhall	Panel: Public Funding A panel about public funding with Johanna Nylander from Swedish Games Industry, Björn Flintberg from RISE and Joakim Larsson from Invanotion.
From 14:30 to 15:20 Valhall	Interview: First-Time CEO CEO and founder of Mighty Diamonds, Casey Al-Kaisy, interviews Joakim Kopriva Hedström, CEO of FRAME BREAK, about his business journey.
From 15:30 to 16:20 Valhall	Lars Håhus, Llama Lane: Starting a Studio? What I Have Learned After Doing It 4 Times After having co-founded and managed 4 different studios (10-25 people) with their own unique challenges, (Shortfuse games, Paradox South, Relax gaming Malmö, Paradox Thalassic) I will go through what went wrong, what went right, mistakes I keep repeating and what I’ve learned through the years.
From 19:00 to 23:00 Scandic Billingen	Business Day Mixer ONLY FOR BUSINESS ATTENDEES. Join us for a casual mingle at Scandic Billingen to round off the Business Day at Sweden Game Conference 2024.