Game Industry Conference 2024: A Record-Breaking Gaming Extravaganza in Poznan, Poland

Gaming Staff • October 28, 2024

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The Game Industry Conference (GIC) was held in Poznan, Poland, from October 26-28, 2024, and attracted over 3290 business attendees and participants. The conference featured 199 professional talk sessions, panels, and roundtables, with 290 speakers across nine parallel stages. This year's conference offered more side events than ever before, including Geek Startups & Feedback Battle Royale, Women in Games Day, GameDev Investment Forum, HowToMultiplayer - Dev Summit, GIC Legal Summit powered by dotlaw, and Mobile Summit in partnership with Game Camp and Google.

The B2B zone featured a record-setting 57 booths, with major companies participating in the CEE region's largest job fair. The Central and Eastern European Game Awards (CEEGA) took place on Saturday, October 26, with Croteam winning the Best Game award for Talos Principle 2. The CEEGA Awards featured additional "Code the Rights" awards presented by Amnesty International in collaboration with industry experts. The Special Award was given to 11 Bit Studios for their impactful game This War of Mine.

The GIC partnered with the event networking app GRIP, which digitalized the ticketing system and facilitated the planning of business meetings on-site and online. The date of the 2025 edition will be announced in the upcoming weeks. The GIC has established itself as the biggest and most significant business event in the region's gaming industry, with a record number of speakers and side events. For more information, please visit .

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