Discussing The Future of the Mobile Computer Games
All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Metaverse and Web 3.0
meeting 'Discussing the Future of Computer Gaming’-
Speakers:
Chris James (CEO at Steel Media / Pocket Gamer) - linkedin.com/in/chrisjamespg
Publishing entrepreneur with a strong background in both editorial and commercial activities in print, online and mobile. The vast majority of experience has been focused in the games, football and consumer technology spheres in a career spanning over 25 years.
Originally a journalist and editor at Future Publishing for leading games and technology titles such as PC Format, PC Gamer and Broadband World writing articles and running teams, this graduated into a broader role of creative and commercial oversight as creative director at Future Plus and JPP, producing projects for companies like Sony Pictures, BT, Blockbuster Movies and Virgin.
Most recent years have been focused on founding and running the leading media and events company Steel Media Ltd (as Managing Director), publishing world-leading b2b and consumer websites for the mobile and broader games industry (such as pocketgamer.biz. pocketgamer.com, thevirtualreport.biz, blockchaingamer.biz and beyondgames.biz), creating projects for leading companies (e.g. Microsoft, Nokia, EE, Samsung) as well as the PG Connects series of global conferences (www.pgconnects.com), the www.MobileGamesAwards.com and numerous other events designed to connect, support and celebrate the growth of the industry.
Alongside this Chris has a business, running the leading fantasy football advice site www.FantasyFootballScout.co.uk, which serves millions of fans as well as working directly with the Premier League, UEFA, Bundesliga, Sky and many others in the space.
Most recently, Chris has also have also begun to make angel investments in the games and technology space.
Specialties: Media, Games, Football, contract publishing, publishing, editing, writing, ad sales, online ad sales, project management, business development, brand expansion, presenting/speaking.
2. BORGET Sebastien -Co-Founder & COO of The Sandbox, decentralized gaming virtual world. President of the Blockchain Game Alliance, advocating for #NFTs & blockchain in games. linkedin.com/in/borgetsebastien
Entrepreneur & Dad with 14 years experience in growing startups. 4 years in Blockchain and 11 years in Mobile Gaming. Worked for numerous startups with diverse business models as advisor.
Sébastien is the Co-founder and COO of The Sandbox, a unique virtual world where players can build, own, and monetize their gaming experiences using NFTs & SAND, the main utility token of the platform.
Sebastien also became the President of the Blockchain Game Alliance in 2020, a non-profit organization of 250 key members of the industry. He was recently named in the Top #100 most influential people in crypto by CoinTelegraph https://cointelegraph.com/top-people-in-crypto-and-blockchain/sebastien-borget
Sebastien holds a Computer Science Engineer Degree from Telecom SudParis, one of France's leading graduate school of engineering in Information and Communication Technology.
3. Kadri Harma (Serial Entrepreneur (Game Founders) - linkedin.com/in/kadrix
Entrepreneur, leader, business strategist and investor with extensive global experience including conceptualizing and launching several startup ecosystem initiatives globally, initiating partnerships, fundraising for 3 funds (Europe and Asia), returning capital to investors, generating deal flow of 1000+, investing in 100+ teams from 30+ countries, building brands and operational systems, managing teams, speaking at conferences, mentoring, judging at competitions.
Reached Pocketgamer MENA top 30 no 1 spot with Nine66 in less than a year! In short, contributing to the growth of exceptional teams, ideas and people that make a positive change in our world.
Educated in business management, finance and international relations, Kadri love being creative and executing that vision. As a passionate entrepreneur, investor, mentor, CEO and an advisor, my strengths lay in the areas of strategy and business development. Started a number of companies in various sectors on the side. Lived in Europe, US, Asia and MENA and love to travel.
4.Oscar Clark (CEO of Fundamentally Games) -linkedin.com/in/oscarclark
Oscar is a pioneer in mobile and connected games. He has been working with online games since 1998 running BT’s online games platform, Wireplay. Since then, he has been global lead for games for Hutchison Whampoa and their mobile operator Three in the UK, the most successful mobile games platform in terms of revenue per user in the world in 2005. He was also Home Architect for Sony’s Online Virtual World, PlayStation Home and evangelist for Unity Ads, one of the most successful advertising networks in games.
Prior to Fundamentally Games, he spent nearly 10 years consulting and working with a wide range of teams, most notably Unity, helping to communicate how to deliver effective monetisation, game development and live services.
He literally wrote the book “Games as a Service” which was published in 2014 by Routledge. and is sought after speaker, host, and moderator at major games industry events around the world. He is also a contributing author for the "Mobile Developer's Guide To The Galaxy" published by www.enough.de and an ambassador for the gamer's charity SpecialEffect (https://www.specialeffect.org.uk/)
5.Robby Yung -CEO at Animoca Brands linkedin.com/in/robyung
- Focused on bringing digital property rights and Web3 to the world
- Invested in over 30 companies and raised dozens of rounds of venture and public capital
- Did 4 IPO's, 5 triathlons, 4 duathlons, and 7 marathons
Animoca Brands, a Deloitte Tech Fast winner and ranked in the Financial Times list of High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2021, is a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, and gamification that is working to advance digital property rights and contribute to the establishment of the open metaverse. The company develops and publishes a broad portfolio of products including the REVV token and SAND token; original games including The Sandbox, Crazy Kings, and Crazy Defense Heroes; and products utilizing popular intellectual properties including Disney, WWE, Snoop Dogg, The Walking Dead, Power Rangers, MotoGP™, and Formula E. It has multiple subsidiaries, including The Sandbox, Blowfish Studios, Quidd, GAMEE, nWay, Pixowl, Forj, Lympo, Animoca Brands Japan, Grease Monkey Games, Eden Games, Darewise, Notre Game, TinyTap, and Be Media. Animoca Brands has a growing portfolio of more than 380 investments, including Colossal, Axie Infinity, OpenSea, Dapper Labs (NBA Top Shot), Yield Guild Games, Harmony, Alien Worlds, Star Atlas, and others.
6.Thomas Huxter📍 Raptor PR Director - B2B comms for games industry & emerging tech brands 🚀.linkedin.com/in/thomashuxter . Raptor PR is the
The world’s only pure b2b tech PR agency for the video games industry .Public Relations and Communications Services.
7.Sergej Svircenkovs -CEO at Elcoin . Talks about #cefi, #defi, #web3, #openfinance, and digitalbanking.linkedin.com/in/sergejs-svircenkovs-5a835ba7 . Elcoin Ltd is an international information technology company established in 2017. launched in the United Kingdom, and also have the R&D office in Latvia. We create financial technologies for the growing fintech community. For the last two years, they have managed to develop a complete set of technological solutions which organically blend into the powerful Financial Technology Platform.
Please ARRIVE EARLY-10.30 RECOMMENDED
In Committee Room 4a , House of Lords-
Entry (Commons Main Entrance- St Stephens Entrance ) On
Wednesday, January 24th at 11:00 am
Address: St Stephens Entrance - Palace of Westminster, House of Lords, London SW1A 0P