The IMGA Summit and awards ceremony

Join all the main players in mobile gaming to discuss the hottest issues affecting the sector, and discover the winners of this year's IMGA

Now in its second edition, the International Mobile Gaming Awards Summit brings together the entire mobile gaming ecosystem - from handset manufacturers to game developers, publishers and journalists - to discuss the hottest issues that affect the sector.

Mobile games are the main driver of innovation in the smartphone industry and the most successful category in the apps economy. The IMGA Summit offers an opportunity for participants to keep ahead of fast-paced changes in global markets and technologies.

Providing a unique networking platform for the sector, the summit will close with the awards ceremony for the 8th International Mobile Gaming Awards, awarded by a jury of key players from the mobile gaming industry.

The IMGA Summit and awards ceremony
will take place on 1 March 2012
Auditorium C, App Planet, Mobile World Congress, Barcelona

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Please note that registration for the IMGA Summit and Awards Ceremony doesn’t grant you access to the Mobile World Congress. You will need a MWC pass to attend the Summit.

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Programme

  • 09.00Breakfast
  • 09.30Welcome
    • Maarten Noyons, Founder of the International Mobile Gaming Awards
  • 09.45Opening of the day
    • Markus Büchtmann, Managing Director, ProSiebenSat1 Games GmbH
    • Opening of the 8th IMGA Summit and Awards
  • 10.00Challenges in the App Economy
    • The Chinese Mobile Games Market
      Simon Li, Dep. General Manager of Wireless Gaming Product Dept., Tencent
    • New Players in the App Econmy: Europe's 2nd largest Media group.
      Markus Büchtmann, Managing Director, ProSiebenSat1 Games GmbH
    • Generating revenues with mobile advertising
      Limvirak Chea, Director, Business Development, EMEA InMobi
  • 10.45Coffee break
  • 11.15New ways to work
    • Bertrand Schmitt, CEO, App Annie
    • Jason Cho, SVP EMEA, Jibe Mobile
    • Oren Tversky, VP of business development, Unity.
    • Rob Simister, 3rd Party Global lead for XBOX on Windows Phone, Microsoft (to be confirmed)
  • 12.00Networking lunch
    9 passionate developers present their apps and games to a panel of journalists:
    • Jeff Scott, 148 Apps
    • Jon Jordan, Pocketgamer
    • Andrew Podolsky, SlideToPlay
    • Eli Hodapp,TouchArcade
    • David MacQueen,Strategy Analytics
  • 14.00Innovation panel
    • Nizar Romdhane, Ecosystem Manager - Media Processing, ARM
    • Neil Trevett, VP NVIDIA
    • Manish Sirdeshmukh, Sr Product Manager, Qualcomm
    • David McQueen, Director of Wireless Media Strategy, Strategy Analytics
  • 14.45The 8th IMGA judging outlook
    The IMGA jury looks back at the entries of the 8th IMGA
  • 15.15The Awards Ceremony Presented by Steel Media's CEO Chris James
    • Best Casual Game
    • Best Sport Game
    • Best Real World Game
    • Best Mobile Social Game
    • Excellence in Gameplay
    • Most innovative Game
    • Operators' Choice Award
    • Public's Choice Awards
      • Grand Prix