The first edition of the “Videogame Economics Forum” was a success, thanks to you.
With more than a hundred participants, we believe that we helped editors, development studios and talents in the production of their brilliant projects.
This new event was also a moment of reflection about economics solution and strategy for the videogame industry. We learnt a lot, many thanks to stakeholders for their lights.
Hope this event made a notice introduction in the landscape of videogame.
Thanks for your support!
Guillaume de Fondaumière - Co-CEO, Executive Producer – Quantic Dream
The VEF is an inspiring event gathering some of the brightest people in the industry who openly share their best business practices and their vision
John Taylor - President Arcadia Investment Corporation
This event was enormously informative, even for seasoned people. I really loved the roster of presenters, many of whom had decades of experience. Their insights about design, business models, industry trends and financing alternatives opened a lot of eyes at the conference. Best of all, the intimate setting really gave everyone a chance to get acquainted, follow up with questions and go much deeper into subjects of mutual interest. It was really worthwhile!
Thierry Platon - Creative Director and Co-Founder – Bip Media – Primi
Financer un jeu vidéo, c’est finalement le plus difficile ! Au VEF, on est donc au cœur du sujet…
Carsten van Husen - CEO – Gameforge 4D
Videogame Economic Forum impressed me for two reasons: 1) the rare concept of fast-paced 15 mins contributions is both entertaining and rewarding and 2) the intimate atmosphere amongst the small group of professionals gathered is truly unique – I never found a more friendly or accessible crowd on any conference world-wide.
Frédérique Doumic - CEO Ouat Entertainment
Le VEF l’a prouvé ! Dans le monde du jeu online, l’innovation en matière de modèle et d’intelligence économiques est aussi importante que celle en matière de contenu !
Terence Mosca - Founder TM Consulting
Un premier forum très réussi, un vrai lieu de rapprochements, de partage d’expériences et de réflexion en commun.
Xavier Liard - President Dotemu
Participant à la plus part des salons et conférences de jeux vidéo, le Videogame Economics Forum a sorti son épingle du jeu pour deux raisons : La pertinence et le format très court et dynamique des présentations et la qualité du networking permettant d’échanger ses best practices en matière de modèle économique dans un cadre agréable. Bravo!
Abrial Da Costa - CEO Funforge Digital
Le videogame economic forum a le potentiel de devenir un événement incontournable du jeu vidéo pour traiter de toutes les questions économiques ! On attend la nouvelle édition avec impatience
Thomas Lagemann - CEO / Nadja Bastawi CVO – Two Pi Team
The first Videogame Economics Forum was held in Angoulême, France. And it was a typical French event: like good old French wine, it already tasted fantastic and will even get better and better with every year. We look very forward to have an annual tasting of this wine for many, many years.
We all know it: After ZX 81, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Atari ST and Commodore Amiga early days, videogame industry has been going through well known cycles, mostly based on arrival of new platforms from Sega, Sony, and Nintendo. Business models were more or less under control. Developers, Publishers, Distributors, and Manufacturers were playing their part in a fine tuned orchestra. At the same time, triple AAA titles were more and more expensive to create. It was getting more and more difficult for small and medium studios to stay in the race.
Social games, smart phones, tablets, Facebook, cloud computing, free-to-play, premium, freemium – just to name a few – shook the whole system. Bankers and investors, who were reluctant when looking into game company business models in the past, are getting attracted to it again when they take into consideration the high-speed development and quick investment return of companies like Zinga or BigPoint.
Clever minds speak about business and technology paradigm shift. We prefer to talk of a maelstrom, a tsunami, a tectonic shift.
Videogame Economics Forum is all about that.
Videogame Economics Forum (VEF) gathers venture capitalists, private equity firm specialists, and executives from major games companies and independent games studios to discuss the challenges the game industry is facing and explore the magnificent opportunities this tsunami brings with it.
You want to know more? Join us for two days of conferences, workshops, face-to-face business meetings. Attendees will come out of the two-day intensive brainstorm with a better understanding of the diversity of videogame industry new business models, new ideas, new partners, and more importantly, with more money to grow faster.
As old Egyptians were saying: a bad Niles flood is good for us. A small flood or no flood at all would mean famine.
Join VEF beginning of April (5 & 6) and learn about the best ways to take more advantage from this fantastic flood!
VEF is the perfect opportunity to learn more about videogame industry new business models, improve studios strategy, and meet with investors and business angels.
From Financial Directors to Studio Executives, from Investors to Business Angels, VEF is the European largest annual gathering of the best and brightest minds in developing, distributing, funding and financing videogames.
Keynotes, lectures, case studies, panels will give VEF audience a deeper understanding of the funding and financing videogames market issues.
