The conference on the development and promotion of mobile games, held on February 9-10 in St. Petersburg, was attended by a record number of participants for the event.
“Of course, we expected more than 900 people for sure,” says Yulia Lebedeva, Business Development Director at Nevosoft, who is responsible for organizing the event. – “But just a couple of minutes before the opening of Winter Nights, we registered the thousandth participant.”
Despite the vastness of the Park Inn Pulkovskaya hotel, which hosted the conference for the fourth time (from the cozy Sokos Hotel Palace Bridge, where the first two WN took place, the “nights” quickly grew), all two days, both in the exhibition area and in the business zone, “there was nowhere to fall”.
While some got acquainted, exchanged business cards and concluded preliminary agreements, others chose one of three lecture streams suitable for them (two, first of all, were devoted to business development and marketing, one to direct development), within which it was most convenient to ambush this or that speaker.
There was plenty to choose from. This time, representatives of Rovio, Nekki, Mail.ru , Unity, A-Steroids, Playkot, Wargaming.net , not to mention the authors of such games as Siberia, Monument Valley, Two Dots, Contract Wars and many others.
Of course, everything was not limited to this. There were also traditional conference parties. As part of one of them, the winners of the WN Awards competition were awarded. Recall, according to its results, the best companies in their fields were:
- Best Advertising Platform: Facebook
- Best Analytical Solution: AppsFlyer
- Best Sound in Games: Universal Music
- Best Localizer Company: Alconost
- The best platform in terms of communication with partners: Google
“In my opinion, it was our best conference in three years!”, – Yulia sums up. – “We have passed the mark of a thousand people, gathered a lot of developers, significantly improved the program by making a technical track, presented statuettes to the five best companies in the framework of the WN Awards. And the best part is that it is absolutely clear to me now – this is just the beginning, the growth potential of WNconf is huge and it is not afraid of any crises. The industry is developing, which means that we will also develop. So we promise to make an even cooler event by June 26-27.”
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- Nevosoft is a developer of casual games for various platforms (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, PC, Mac, social networks).
Founded in 2002. Its head office is located in St. Petersburg. The company’s portfolio includes such titles as “Planet of Gems”, Landgrabbers, “Super Cow”, “Wizards”, “My Kingdom”, the series “Half the Kingdom for the Princess” and many others. Nevosoft’s B2B projects are the WN Mobile Games Conference, the largest mobile games conference in Eastern Europe, and a news resource App2Top.ru .