On June 20, the White Nights and Talents in Games conferences ended in St. Petersburg. A total of 2,237 participants from 49 countries visited them. This is a record high figure for this series of events.
Summer White Nights is traditionally held in St. Petersburg. At the last one, representatives of game dev from all over the world gathered for communication and exchange of experience. For two days, more than 70 speakers, including employees of Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Tencent, Microsoft and Google, gave lectures for them.
By the way, this year all the speeches at the White Nights business conference could be watched online for the first time. Viewers from Russia, the USA, China, Germany and Israel joined the live broadcast.
At the same time, the first Talents in Games conference was held at the White Nights venue. It gathered about 500 experienced game developers: experts in art and programming, techlids and engineers. On the first day, artists from King, Playrix, Game Insight, Sperasoft, etc. read their reports on the TiG base. The second day was devoted to presentations by programmers Bungie, Larian Studios, Unity, MyTona, etc.
The next White Nights Conference will be held on October 16-17, 2019. Its venue is Moscow. Registration for the event will open next week.
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