What’s Trending: The Evolution of the Gaming Industry
📌Topic: What’s Trending: The Evolution of the Gaming Industry
📆Date: 18th November 2021 (Thursday)
🕙Time: 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM (GMT +08)
⭐️ WHAT IT IS ABOUT?
The gaming industry is bigger than ever. In 2020, the industry generated $155 billion in revenue and is expected to generate more than $260 billion in revenue by 2025. With so much room for growth and innovation in the gaming industry, have you wondered what the gaming industry would look like in 5 years?
There are more than 2.7 billion gamers worldwide now. With new technological innovations like the metaverse emerging, it is an exciting time ahead for the gaming industry. Learn how games will be distributed and marketed in the near future!
Gaming is no longer the niche it used to be 30 years ago. Want to find out how huge the impact of gaming really is? Hear it from Adrian Watkins, Growth and Marketing Director of AdColony, Doki Tops, CEO and Founder of Utomik, and Raymond, Marketing Manager of SEA Gamer Mall, specialising in gaming platforms.
🧠 WHAT WILL BE COVERED?
(1) An introduction to the gaming industry in 2021
(2) How the future of gaming will look like in relation to the metaverse
(3) How you or your business can be a part of the next wave of gaming innovation
👥 WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
• Anyone who is interested in the future of the gaming industry
• Anyone in the gaming industry looking to gain valuable insight from industry experts in relation to the metaverse
• Aspiring business owners looking to get into the gaming industry
• Marketers looking to capitalise on the gaming industry
🗣 MODERATOR & PANELLISTS:
MODERATOR:
About Paddy Tan
Paddy is a business and technical strategist armed with over 15 years of experience helping businesses propel to a greater height. Paddy dissects a challenge into pieces and formulates solutions from various perspectives. He also advises business leaders on strategic planning and positioning, helping them increase profitability and pivot their business to gain a competitive advantage in their respective industries.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paddytan/
PANELLISTS
About Adrian Watkins
Adrian is ‘the’ Business Growth & Transformation Guy in APAC. A full-service digital sales and marketing veteran with a focus on strategy, innovation, transformation and product and revenue across blue-chip companies and SMEs and in different continents, he specialises in leading/advising cross-functional teams, creating and executing strategic plans, building effective sales and marketing strategies and teams, forging partnerships – especially on how to harness the digital, technology and gaming ecosystems to achieve desired outcomes.
He is also one of the foremost experts when it comes to planning award-winning marketing strategies within a gaming ecosystem – the single biggest marketing channel in the world.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianwatkins/
About Raymond Foo (Speaker)
Raymond is the Senior Marketing Manager of SEA Gamer Mall, global online game e-commerce. He leads SEAGM's marketing outreach and engagement initiatives, growing the business via high efficient bottom-funnel strategy.
With 11 years of advertising agency experience and industry insights, he strives to bring the gaming communities and industry players together via shared interests to further SEAGM's mission of developing a sustainable gaming ecosystem.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raymondfsw/
About Doki Tops
Doki is the CEO and Founder of Utomik, an unlimited gaming subscription akin to a Netflix for games running on unique patented instant play tech and the ability to onboard games on the platform with zero effort from developers no matter the build, 1300+ games live from over 70 content partners.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dokitops/