As the midnight sun shines over northern Sweden, we once again open the doors to a week filled with business conferences, networking, entertainment, and the public event Nordsken where games, culture, and creativity meet.
More key speakers to Arctic Game Week
The conferences will have speaker tracks in Game development, Game business development, Intellectual property, Film/TV/VFX, and Graphic novels with 40 top speakers from around the world, including Patty Toledo (Director at Yahaha Studios), Robert Bäckström (founder at Aurora Punks), Joshua Garrity (senior scout at Team 17) and Emilie Blézat (director at Dark Riviera).
Investors and publishers
On the 27th Global Top Round will host a pitching event at the Nordsken main stage for 20 prequalified international studios. On site and in the jury you will find 10 publishers including Tilting Point, Focus, Curve, Team 17, Thunderful, 505 Games, and Neon Doctrine as well as 10 large international influencers.
The pitch will be streamed and the best studio gets a paid trip for two persons to the Annual Global Top Round conference. The top two studios also receive, except for the publisher’s attention, vouchers for G.Round.
“Arctic Game Week brings an incredible roster of talented game studios to one event and we’re ready to help them make some noise,” said Pontus Mähler, Vice President at Global Global Top Round. “GTR pushes partners to the next level and we believe the next big hit will be the studio who wins this year’s submission.”
High quality business meetings with MeetToMatch
MeetToMatch will be onsite during May 25th – 28th, 2022 offering premium meeting services that ensure you have quality business meetings with some of the best people from the industry and the industry nearby. The conferences tracks are business development, game development, IP, literature & graphic novels and VFX & film. The conference provides a great opportunity to find new business relationships based on your IP!
The film and game concert Memory and Time with the acclaimed soprano Sabina Zweiacker to Skellefteå
On the 27th of May, during Arctic Game Week and Nordsken, a special concert will be arranged in Sara Kulturhus. It is the famous soprano Sabina Zweiacker who gives us an unforgettable experience during the concert Memory and Time where musical masterpieces from The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Game of Thrones, Skyrim, Final Fantasy, and others. played.
Sabina has been a soloist with Scandinavia’s largest orchestras, such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the radio symphony orchestras in the sold-out Berwald Hall. Now she is visiting Nordsken and Skellefteå in a unique and stripped-down solo concert together with Caroline Karpinska (violin) and Gerda Holmquist (cello). Experience intimate and sensitive interpretations of beloved songs from, among others, The Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, Skyrim and Final Fantasy, and much more. She is also well known on youtube where videos of her work have been seen by millions of people.
Previously announced speakers:
- Peter Zetterberg (Senior Director at Microsoft and founder to Wanderword)
- Agnes Larsson (Game Director at Mojang)
- Fredrik Malmberg (one of the founders of the swedish game industry and president at Heroic Signatures)
- Lloyd Levin (known american film producer at Predator, Lara Croft, Event Horizon, Hellboy, Watchmen and more)
- Vladislav Tsypljak from the Asian publisher Neon Doctrine
- Elias och Agnes Våhlund (creators of the swedish book serie “Handbok för Superhjältar”)
- Johan Egerkrans (one of our times most famous swedish illustrators)
- Orvar Säfström host for the conference, known film critic, musician, front figure in games and IP’s.
