#XmasJKL 2023 – The Finnish Game Industry Seminar Fri 10th of Nov, at Ilokivi, Jyväskylä, Finland – EARLYBIRD IS ACTIVATED – GET YOUR TICKETS NOW WITH – 20% OFF

2023 #XmasJKL - The Finnish Game Industry Business Seminar

EARLYBIRD IS ACTIVATED – GET YOUR TICKETS NOW WITH – 20% OFF
– Earlybird ends at 5th Oct 2023, so act now!
– Join the Fun, More the Merrier!

 

 

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#XmasJKL 2023 – The Finnish Game Industry Business Seminar

 

Join us for an exciting in-person event, #XmasJKL 2023 – The Finnish Game Industry Business Seminar, on Fri Nov 10, 2023 at 10:00 AM. This seminar will take place at Keskussairaalantie 2, 40100 Jyväskylä, offering a fantastic opportunity to network and learn from industry experts.

 

Discover the latest trends and insights in the Finnish game industry, as well as valuable business strategies. Gain valuable knowledge from renowned speakers, engage in interactive discussions, and forge new connections with like-minded professionals.

 

Whether you’re a game developer, entrepreneur, investor, or simply interested in the gaming world, #XmasJKL 2023 is the place to be. Don’t miss out on this incredible event that promises to inspire, educate, and entertain.

 

Mark your calendar, and get ready to level up your game industry expertise at #XmasJKL 2023 – The Finnish Game Industry Business Seminar!


#XmasJKL 2023 – The Finnish Game Industry Business Seminar Fri 10th of Nov, Ilokivi, Jyväskylä , Ilokivi, Jyväskylä The most relaxed game business seminar and networking event. Put your Christmas hat on and join us!

 

PROGRAM*

Demonstration area – 10.00-17.00*

Opening words 11.00

Expert speakers – 12.00-18.00*

After Party Networking + Next Level Awards – 18.00-23.00

*schedule may be subject to change

 

SPEAKERS slots 45 min + QA 10 min

 

TICKETS

 

Academic Pass – 75 € (inc. VAT. 10%)

* Access to Seminar and After Party* Includes Lunch and Evening snack* 2 Drink tickets

 

Business Pass – 99 € (inc. VAT. 10%)

* Access to Seminar and After Party* Includes Lunch and Evening snack* 3 Drink tickets

 

VIP Pass – 155 € (inc. VAT. 10%)

* Access to Seminar and After Party* Includes Lunch and Evening snack* 5 Drink tickets,

* Sauna at opinkivi some freshments

 

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GET A DEAL!

Going to attend as a group of over 3 people? We’ll give -15% of the total price for bigger groups!

 

Email us tuomas.roininen@expa.fi or mira.oja@expa.fi and get your offer.

Check out our TBA hotel offers from our website www.xmasjkl.com

Learn all about Digi & Game Center:

https://www.digigamecenter.org/

Learn all about #XmasJKL

https://www.xmasjkl.com

Learn all about Expa Game Business Co-operative:

https://expa.fi/

Peliosuuskunta Expan hallitushaku – Join to the Peliosuuskunta Expa’s new board and make a impact to the Game Industry Scene in Central Finland!

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Expa Game Business Cooperative

Peliosuuskunta Expa on avaamassa hallitushakua seuraavalle kahdelle vuodelle. Osuuskuntakokous, jossa seuraava hallitus valitaan, pidetään 2.6.2023  Digi & Game Centerillä.

Mikäli koet olevasi aktiivinen ja oma-aloitteinen persoona, kuka kokee intohimoa Keski-Suomen pelialan eteenpäin viemisestä, kannattaa hakea hallitukseen mukaan.

 

Hallituksesta löytyy monenlaisia vastuualueita, joten mukaan voi lähteä monella eri taustalla.


Lue lisää dokumentista Peliosuuskunta Expa
hallitus edut, vastuut, roolit ja toiminta:


Hae rohkeasti mukaan, täytä lomake:

https://forms.gle/NFDkVxq2G2Hr6Y7E9

Join to the Peliosuuskunta Expa’s new board and make a impact to the Game Industry Scene in Central Finland!

Annual cooperative meeting shall be on 2nd of June 2023 at Digi & Game Center. more details coming later, but we are looking for new Board members and volunteers to join our ranks to make Jyväskylä, Central Finland Game Industry scene more awesome!

Are you interested to be a Peliosuuskunta Expa’s board member?

Read more about the benefits and roles you could jump into:

Learn all about Digi & Game Center:

https://www.digigamecenter.org/

Learn all about IGDA Finland

https://www.igda.fi/

Learn all about Expa Game Business Co-operative:

https://expa.fi/

The Central Finland Games & industry report and index 2022 – by Expa Game Business Cooperative

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Expa Game Business Cooperative

Dear reader,

You are currently viewing the Central Finland Games Industry Report: a very special document born out of the fruitful collaboration between the City of Jyväskylä and Expa Game Business Cooperative. This report was created to collect and summarise the vast amount of local game industry knowledge, generated over the past ten years, in a single practical piece.

The purpose of this report is to serve anyone interested in working in or with the Central Finland game industry. Narrating the history, the current status and the future opportunities of the local industry, this report provides detailed answers to many relevant questions featuring infographics, interviews, career and company listings, glossaries and many more.

To stay relevant in this rapidly changing world, a new update to this report is produced annually. So whether you are looking to establish a game company, soft-landing your existing business or searching for career or education opportunities, be sure to read through the latest version of this report.

 

On behalf of Expa Game Business Cooperative and the City of Jyväskylä, we warmly welcome you to join our growing professional ecosystem.

 


Link to dowload PDF of the report:

Download

 


Regards:
Valtteri Lahti

Chairperson of the board

Peliosuuskunta Expa
(Expa Game Business Co-operative)

This industry report was ordered and financed by Business Jyväskylä.

Learn all about Expa Game Business Co-operative:

https://expa.fi/

 

A Thrilling Partnership Announcement: Digi & Game Center and YAHAHA Studios

Digi & Game Center is thrilled to announce a new exciting partnership with YAHAHA Studios

YAHAHA is a UGC all-in-one game development platform that makes creating 3D multiplayer games easy without a need to know how to code. Yahaha takes a high-level approach offering an intuitive editor for game development with drag-and-drop-ready components and logic. Headquartered in Helsinki and founded by a team of Unity veterans in 2020, the platform launched an early alpha version this year in April and went on to amass over 100,000 creators on both PC and Mac.

 

Digi & Game Center has built an incredible game ecosystem in central Finland. We look forward to this partnership to help support more people to step into the game industry and support indie developers and studios in bringing their ideas to life,” says Pengfei Zhang, Co-Founder and COO at Yahaha Studios.

 

We at Digi & Game Center believe that this partnership is highly beneficial for both parties. DGC works closely with students and future professionals, so we can promote YAHAHA easily to them. Since the user doesn’t need prior coding experience, the platform is great when you’re starting. This makes it easily accessible for people who want to try game development.


This partnership with YAHAHA Studios is significant for us as it allows us to build the ecosystem further. We believe it will open up new opportunities in the Central Finland area.

Learn more about YAHAHA Studios:

https://yahaha.com/

 

Learn more about Digi & Game Center partnerships:

Co-working with amazing people and network!

https://www.digigamecenter.org/for-investors/

Exciting Partnership Announcement: Digi & Game Center and K-S Konttoripiste Oy

Digi & Game Center is thrilled to announce a new exciting partnership with K-S Konttoripiste Oy

K-S Konttoripiste Oy is a Finnish expert company selling office equipment. The product range includes
computers and mobile devices, multifunctional devices and printing solutions, info- and interactive screens,
coffee machines and office furniture. K-S Konttoripiste also offers comprehensive ICT services for
companies and associations.

“We operate on a turnkey basis and we also take care for the maintenance of the devices we sell,” says
Account Manager Mikko Nirkkonen, K-S Konttoripiste Oy.


Digi & Game Center
offers its customers and partners a great framework and the opportunity to succeed.
At K-S Konttoripiste, we want to do our part to support, but also to develop as part of Digi & Game Center’s
network of experts.

 

We at Digi & Game Center got a big professional information screen with software in the shared spaces. It allows us to show relevant information with it to our visitors. Also, the companies which reside in DGC gain partner pricing from K-S Konttoripiste.

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Learn more about K-S Konttoripiste Oy:

https://kskp.fi/

Learn more about Digi & Game Center partnerships:

Co-working with amazing people and network!

https://www.digigamecenter.org/for-investors/

Welcome to learn about Digi & Game Center’s activities! 💜

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Welcome to learn about Digi & Game Center’s activities! 

Welcome to learn about Digi & Game Center’s activities!  Digi & Game Center is an ecosystem for the development of the digital and game industry, around which a large group of entrepreneurs, students and other actors interested in the digital world have gathered! GamePit Matara and our stage and studio space are located within the red brick walls of DGC in Tourula, and we invite those interested in our activities to visit us every other Tuesday! During the open doors, it is possible to get to know the GamePit gaming space and our e-sports activities, marvel at the studio equipment with recording and streaming possibilities, test VR gaming equipment and get answers to mind-boggling questions from our experts.

 

► WHAT? Digi & Game Center open doors
► WHERE? Matarankatu 2, second floor
► WHEN? Every second Tuesday from 13:00 to 16:00 – starting from 4th of Oct 2022

 


How to get to the Digi & Game Center?

https://youtu.be/zG9dPwpSa6o




Hope to see you at DGC! 

Expa logo

Learn more about Peliosuuskunta Expa:

at website: https://expa.fi/

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Learn more about JAMK :

Study Game Production and become a BBA in our degree programme in business information technology

more details at website: https://www.jamk.fi/en/Apply-to-Jamk/bachelors-degree/study-game-production-and-become-a-bba-in-our-degree-programme-in-business-information-technology

Learn more about Digi & Game Center parnerhips:

 

 

Co working with amazing people and network!

 

https://www.digigamecenter.org/for-investors/

 

The work to produce a Jyväskylä region game industry report has been started!

Game Insustry report Central Finland

We Need Your Help. WE NEED DATA

We want Central Finland to be the powerhouse ecosystem of the games industry in Finland. No matter if it is about developing games or products, doing e-sport activities, doing research studies of it or using the game technology in other industries. The Game Industry is an international and usually scalable business and that is what this region needs to help to grow.

 

Now is our time to shine.

 

To that end, the city of Jyväskylä has asked Peliosuuskunta Expa to produce a game  industry report in the Central Finland region. The data will include how many businesses operate, their products, turnover, employment, forecasts, education, wellbeing and also how many use the services and networks of the Peliosuuskunta Expa, IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub and Dig & Game Center. So please be active and let others know too if they have not been in contact with us yet.

 

Why is there a need for a Game Industry report from Central Finland?

All the open knowledge and the data from this report will be used for the benefit of the Industry in the region. There have been smaller size surveys about this subject back in the past, but now we have a great opportunity to do this properly and what is most important is that we can do this annually.

 

The Chairman of Peliosuuskunta Expa, Valtteri Lahti says that “For the past 10 years Expa has been an active grassroots operation with a simple goal: getting things done to boost the local game and digi scene. We’ve helped companies get started, we’ve been involved in numerous successful projects and we’ve maintained and developed the local digi and game community continuously. We have acquired and accumulated huge amounts of information about the state of the industry, the opportunities and challenges that companies face, connections to other industries, and national and international networks. It’s magnificent to be finally able to structure all this valuable information into a single clear document that will be updated every year henceforth.”

 

Once complete, this report will be available for everyone who has an interest in the sector both public and private.

“The industry report gives us an overview of the development of the game industry and the opportunity to be on the pulse of one of the fastest growing and changing industries.”  Says Anne Sandelin, Director of Business Development and Employment, City of Jyväskylä

 

Then, together we can make a development strategy to push us all up, over and beyond! 

So we need your help to gather data and let us know about any small scale developers in the games industry that are outside our radar. No matter what size and stage of development, we are all important. 

 

Below is a quick and easy form to help us in this process. 

 

Link to the questionnaire https://forms.gle/yeq4Qbt4E3PvWUGN8

No trade secrets or sensitive data will be required. 

Expa logo

Learn more about Peliosuuskunta Expa:

Peliosuuskunta Expa at their website: https://expa.fi/

Learn more about Digi & Game Center parnerhips:

 

 

Co working with amazing people and network!

 

https://www.digigamecenter.org/for-investors/

 

Cool Partnership Announcement: Digi & Game Center and Seltimil Oy

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Digi & Game Center is super excited to announce new cool partnership with Seltimil Oy

Seltimil Oy (Limited Liability Company) is Finnish private owned telecommunications company.  Founded in 2006.

The company is dedicated to provide next generation broadband connections in central Finland region, operator network services and FTTx infrastructure consultancy. Seltimil Oy provides Data Center services from a Data Center located in Jyväskylä.

 

”Cooperation is mutually very benefical and we can help creating new business together” says Pertti Salmijärvi, CEO, Seltimil Oy

 

We at Digi & Game Center are very excited with this partnership with local provider Seltimil Oy to take services and internet in the DGC premises to the next level and make success stories together and we highly recommend their services to our customers and partners.

Seltimil

Learn more about Sseltimil Oy:

 

Seltimil at their website:
https://seltimil.fi/

 

Learn more about Digi & Game Center parnerhips:

 

 

Co working with amazing people and network!

 

https://www.digigamecenter.org/for-investors/

 

The Peliosuuskunta Expa and Digi & Game Center are now also members of the National Digital Support Network.

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The Peliosuuskunta Expa (Expa Game Business Co-operative) and Digi & Game Center are now also members of the National Digital Support Network. This mark indicates that the organization provides or develops digital support and is committed to adhering to the ethical guidelines for digital support.

Link to Digi & Game Center
www.digigamecenter.org


Link to network
https://lnkd.in/dcfzWz-p

OP Central Finland The Let’s Do Good Together donations gives help and opportunities for many – Digi & Game Center was selected to receive a significant donation

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The Digi & Game Center issued 10 000 euro

 

The 2021 The Let’s Do Good Together donation pot of EUR 25,000 was widely distributed to actors reaching different target groups. A total of 27 donation applications were received, of which six applicants received donations. The donations were decided by the bank’s board at its August meeting. The Let’s Do Good Together donation campaign is part of OP Central Finland’s responsibility work, which is guided by the bank’s own and OP Financial Group’s responsibility program. The Let’s Do Good Together donation received 27 applications from clubs, associations and other third sector entities operating in the bank’s area of operation. Eighty-five per cent of the applications came from the Jyväskylä region and 15 per cent from elsewhere. Five of the donors are from the Jyväskylä region and one from elsewhere. The need for help is still great and without volunteering, the activities of the associations would not work. The selection of recipients of donations has focused on diversity, different target groups and timeliness. The selection criteria have been activities in line with the bank’s values, i.e. closeness to people, responsibility and success together, regional and target group size effectiveness, and the widest possible consideration of different target and age groups.


Digi & Game Center is a Central Finnish brand founded in 1/2020, an ecosystem operated by Peliosuuskunta Expa. The aim of the activity is to create synergies between companies in the digital and gaming sectors and in other sectors and thus help to create cooperation projects, companies and jobs between companies and educational institutions. The donation supports e.g. space use costs and benefit young entrepreneurs, students, cultural operators and actors in various fields who need help, e.g. digitization or gaming technologies. The activities are international and the aim is also to engage international students and actors in Central Finland. The work is currently done on a voluntary basis. In 2020, the operations helped the creation of 12 companies.

With Peliosuuskunta Expa and Digi & Game Center, we are extremely taken and grateful for this accolade.


Source:
https://www.op.fi/fi/web/op-keski-suomi/-/teemme-yhdessa-hyvaa-2021?icmp=yl-atiili-1


Additional information:
Pia Saikkonen, communications manager , pia.saikkonen@op.fi, p. 010 256 5610.
Tuomas Roininen, Vice Chairman, tuomas.roininen@expa.fi p. 050 38 00991