Scopely co-CEOs will handle Monopoly Go’s success at GamesBeat Summit 2024

We’re happy to introduced that the highest leaders of Scopely will discuss on the GamesBeat Summit 2024 occasion concerning the monumental success of Monopoly Go, successful cell recreation that generated $2 billion in income simply 10 months after launch.

Walter Driver and Javier Ferreira, co-CEOs of Scopely, and chief income officer Tim O’Brien will communicate on a panel at our summit, which takes place in Los Angeles on Could 20-21 on the Marina del Rey Marriott. You may also enroll right here to attend utilizing You may get 25% off with this low cost code: gbs24dean25.

(Brian Ward, CEO of Savvy Video games Group, the cell recreation firm that Savvy Video games Group purchased for $4.9 billion a 12 months in the past — will even communicate at GamesBeat Summit). Monopoly Go’s is fairly uncommon at a time when a lot of the sport trade has been struggling by means of layoffs.

However it’s an indication that whereas instances are difficult, there are nonetheless rewards for corporations that persevere. Monopoly Go took a complete of seven years to return to the market, and its success is an instance of resilience and adaptation, which is the theme of our convention.

The sport had a troublesome gestation, with improvement stretching throughout seven years. Scopely has 2,300 workers, and that offers you a way of scale of recreation improvement. That is the type of wager that corporations are making within the fashionable age of gaming.

Girls in Gaming Breakfast and Range in Gaming lunch

And we’re additionally proud to notice we could have one other Girls in Gaming Breakfast on the summit on the morning of Could 21, sponsored by Xsolla. And we’ll even have a Range in Gaming lunch on Could 21.

Indie recreation devs at corporations with fewer than 25 individuals can enroll right here. And for the primary time we have now an indie sponsorship bundle listed for Rising Stars.

Rachel Kaser, GamesBeat author, will as soon as once more average a panel for the breakfast. We’re nonetheless determining the precise subject and panelists for the session through the breakfast, which is targeted on girls.

We’re additionally blissful to have key girls audio system at our occasion, together with Lisa Cosmas Hanson, president of Niko Companions will average the session with Brian Ward, the CEO of Savvy Video games Group.

Our audio system embrace Rachel Kaser, GamesBeat; Dean Takahashi, GamesBeat; Jordan Fragen, GamesBeat; Purnendu Mukherjee, Founder and CEO of Convai; Caroline Stokes, founder/government coach of Ahead; Mark Chandler, founding father of TIGS; Songyee Yoon, president and CSO of NCSoft; Alex Seropian, CEO of Look North World; Ed Fries, common companion at 1Up Ventures; Eric Goldberg, cofounder Playable Worlds; Kim Kunes, common supervisor, Xbox Belief & Security at Microsoft; Mike Morhaime, CEO of Dreamhaven; Cynthia Williams, president, Wizards of the Coast; Alina Soltys, cofounder of Quantum Tech Companions; Amir Satvat, Tencent; Lisa Cosmas Hanson, president of Niko Companions; Jim Huntley, affiliate professor at USC College of cinematic arts; and Jia Shen, who cofounded RockYou.

Return to Los Angeles

Final 12 months, our occasion in Los Angeles on the Marina del Rey Marriott drew greater than 900 individuals. We’ll shoot for a extra intimate viewers this 12 months, however we stay dedicated to getting among the most fascinating audio system within the gaming world, together with contemporary faces.

Our convention will handle find out how to adapt to a quickly altering world, and can handle huge subjects like GenAI, cross-media variations (video games and Hollywood), and the problem of layoffs in an trade that’s turning into a part of mainstream tradition.

As Matthew Ball famous in a lengthy piece on the sport trade, gaming has robust secular tailwinds that sign good years forward. The brand new era of children performs a variety of video games and so they’re changing generations that not often performed video games. Gamers are gaining access to extra platforms with entry to high quality video games.

Gaming tradition is being elevated to the mainstream, and gaming is evolving as an artwork and tech platform. Entry to high-quality gaming units continues to enhance. Gaming tradition continues to proliferate, and the artwork type of gaming continues to evolve. However these tailwinds don’t assure that yearly will see uninterrupted development, important development, or worthwhile development.

In different phrases, development isn’t assured. Now we have to work at it. We’ll convey the highest minds within the trade to debate these subjects in an interactive format.

You’ll be able to pitch us on audio system/sponsorships at this hyperlink.

We respect the help of our sponsors together with our longtime companions Xsolla, Playtika, Modulate, TikTok, Scopely, Fastspring and Heroic Labs. However we may use extra help to make the convention into an awesome occasion that can be as memorable as final 12 months’s occasion, which featured Robert Kirkman, creator of The Strolling Lifeless. You’ll be able to contact us for sponsorship data right here.

The gaming media has struggled as properly. We’re not resistant to that, however I consider our occasions have an actual neighborhood following and one thing particular to supply. I hope you’ll all proceed to see worth in supporting GamesBeat because it additionally helps the sport trade.

We may additionally use sponsor help and audio system for our different occasions, together with GamesBeat Subsequent on October 28 to October 29 in San Francisco and GamesBeat on the Sport Awards on December 12. We’ll be launching signups for these occasions as properly. Our sponsorship workforce is at [email protected].

My upcoming posts can be concerning the Visionary Awards, the younger CEOs panel and job discovering guru Amir Satvat.