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What is GDCy Executive Lounge?

This fall we decided to try a new event format in an unusual location for GameDev Founders and C-Level Executives with insightful sessions about doing business in turbulent times. Great Gaming IP’s are aging like a good wine, so we decided to gather best industry professionals on a best Cyprus winery to discuss how to grow their games in 2025 and beyond, covering few topics:

agenda

Lounge Agenda:

12:00

Doors Open, Welcome Drinks & Networking Reception

12:50

Executive Lounge Opening Ceremony 

by Tim Fadeev, Andrey Ivashentsev
with welcoming speech from Berkley Egenes, CMO at Xsolla

1New Revenue

Developing business through 3-rd party App Stores, Web Shops and Web3

13:00

5 rules of success for your Web Shop

discussion with Artem Liubutov,
Head of Monetization Products at Xsolla

2Platform Deals

Is it worth joining GamePass? How companies operate after M&A by publisher?

13:30

Let’s Make a Platform Deal!

insights from Mike Fischer,
Professor at University of Southern California, Former CEO of Square Enix, COO at Sega, CMO at Xbox, and Publishing Director of Fortnite

14:00

M&A in Gaming Industry – operating gaming studio after acquisition by bigger player

experience of Andrej Kugonič,
Vice President Marketing at Nordeus, recently acquired by Take-Two Interactive

14:30-15:30

Lunch Break & Wine Tasting at Vlassides Winery

3Growing Audience

Working with User Acquisition and finding new audiences for your games keeping them profitable

15:30

State of the Mobile Gaming Business – Growing audience in 2025

analytics from Mariusz Gaziewsky,
CEE Mobile Gaming Lead at Google

4Gaming IP

Growing your own IP to TV Series or creating a new game with popular IP, is it worth it?

16:00

Growing your Game to evergreen IP franchise with merchandize, movies and TV series and re-engage players back to the game

story of Angry Birds by Teemu Hämäläinen,
Product Director at Rovio Entertainment

16:30

Visual identity of your gaming franchise – how to stand out from the crowd

Mike Fischer revealing vision of Viktor Antonov,
Co-Founder and Art Director of Eschatology Entertainment, Former Art Director and “Worlds Builder” for Half-Life 2, Team Fortress, Fallout 4, Dishonored series and more.

17:30

The musical story behind video games, when every video game has something to tell.

fireside chat with Mike Fischer and David Wise,
renowned video game composer known for Donkey Kong, Battletoads, Super Smash Bros, and other Nintendo titles

18:30-20:00

Networking

event venue

Vlassides Winery

GDCy Executive Lounge 2024 would take place in Vlassides Winery –  a fabulous place where winemaking innovations meets passion and tradition. Modern winery in a picturesque setting, afar from city noise with possibility to disconnect for a day for exclusive business networking with industry leaders.

AddressKoilani, Limassol 4776, Cyprus

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