November 5, 2020
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India’s online gaming industry has been growing rapidly over the past few years and is poised to become one of the fastest-growing technology sectors.  While it has grown at a CAGR of 22% over the past few years, the online gaming industry in India is expected to grow at a CAGR of 47% by FY22. With many new entrants this year, the gaming sector which has already attracted over $350 million  in investments between 2014 and first few months of 2020, will continue to attract investments and continue along its unprecedented growth curve. This one of the few industries which is experiencing tailwinds in the current times, given players have more free time on their hands. There’s no better time than now to capitalise on the increasing number of smartphone users, penetration of data services and advancements in delivering low latency, high performance games to mobile users which is accelerating the growth of the industry.

YourStory in association with AWS is hosting the GameTech Forum, a space to showcase, ideate and celebrate
the innovation which is creating world-class online gaming solutions. 

GameTech Forum will bring together startups, scaled-up companies, investors, technology leaders and innovators to discuss, debate and develop ideas & engagements that build and shape the gaming innovation and entrepreneurial narrative in India.

Agenda
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Networking followed by Welcome Note
Shradha Sharma, Founder & CEO, YourStory
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Keynote - New ‘Rules of the Game’ for Gaming Businesses
Puneet Chandok. President, India and South Asia, Amazon Internet Services
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
AWS GameTech Overview: Why Build Your Game in the Cloud?
Rob Schoeppe, Head, WW Strategy & Operations, Games at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Panel Discussion
Evolution of Games industry and how to build Games that delight players
Navdeep Manaktala, Director & Head, Startup Business, Asia-Pacific & Japan, AWS (Moderator)
Anand Adkoli, Chief Operating Officer, Moonfrog Labs
Manish Agarwal, CEO, Nazara Technologies
Piyush Kumar, CEO, Rooter
Shubh Malhotra, Co-founder, Mobile Premier League
11:45 AM to 12:30 PM
Panel Discussion
Building a scalable GameTech business on Cloud
Nari Gopala, Worldwide Technical Leader, Games, AWS (Moderator)
Nitish Bugalia, Head of Product & Strategy, MyTeam11
Prakash Kumar, Co-founder & CTO, Rheo TV
Rishab Mathur, Co-founder & CTO, 9Stacks
Sandeep Agarwal, CTO, Games24x7
12:30 PM to 1:15 PM
Panel Discussion
Building and Scaling a Games Startup: Investors’ Perspective
Sameer Pitalwalla, Head – India, Epic Games (Moderator)
Karan Mohla, Partner, Chiratae Ventures
Prayank Swaroop, Partner, Accel
Salone Sehgal, General Partner, Lumikai
Tejeshwi Sharma, Principal, Sequoia Capital India
Track 1: Best Practices
1:15 PM – 1:35 PM
Game server hosting: how to choose the best suited solution
Yogish Pai, Technical Account Manager, AISPL
1:35 PM – 2:10 PM
Faster, Smarter decisions with AWS serverless data analytics
Suman Debnath, Principal Developer Advocate, AISPL
2:10 PM – 2:35 PM
Architecture patterns for high performance multi-region multi-player games
Jasmine Maheshwari, Senior Solution Architect, AWS
2:35 PM - 2:45 PM
Journeys of Games on AWS: WB Games, Gearbox Software,
Supercell and Super Mega
Track 2: How It’s Built
1:15 PM – 1:40 PM
How Junglee Games migrated to the cloud and scaled the business
Abhishek Bharti, VP of Technology, Junglee Games
Gopal Sharma, Head of Engineering - DevOps & Cloud Services, Junglee Games
1:40 PM – 2:05 PM
Journey of Pocket Aces and the role of the cloud
Anirudh Pandita, Founder, Pocket Aces
Viral Mehta, VP, Product & Engineering, Loco, A Pocket Aces Product
2:05 PM – 2:45 PM
Managing the Mayhem: Launch of Borderlands 3 by Gearbox Software
Comb Hua, Director of Platform, Gearbox Software
Caleb Tote, DevOps Technical Director, Gearbox Software
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Closing Note
Speakers
Abhishek Bharti
VP of Technology, Junglee Games
Anand Adkoli
Chief Operating Officer,
Moonfrog
Anirudh Pandita
Founder, Pocket Aces
Gopal Sharma
Head of Engineering - DevOps & Cloud Services, Junglee Games
Jasmine Maheshwari
Senior Solution Architect, AWS
Karan Mohla
Partner, Chiratae Ventures
Manish Agarwal
CEO, Nazara Technologies
Narayanan (Nari) Gopala
Worldwide Technical Leader, Games, AWS
Navdeep Manaktala
Director & Head, Startup Business, Asia-Pacific & Japan, AWS
Nitish Bugalia
Head of Product & Strategy,
MyTeam11
Piyush Kumar
Founder & CEO,
Rooter
Prakash Kumar
Co-Founder & CTO, Rheo TV
Prayank Swaroop
Partner, Accel
Puneet Chandok
President, India and South Asia, AISPL
Rishab Mathur
CTO and Co-founder, 9stacks
Rob Schoeppe
Head, WW Strategy & Operations, Games, AWS
Salone Sehgal
General Partner,
Lumikai
Sameer Pitalwalla
Head – India, Epic Games
Sandeep Agarwal
CTO, Games24x7
Shradha Sharma
Founder & CEO,YourStory
Shubh Malhotra
Co-Founder, Mobile Premier League
Suman Debnath
Principal Developer Advocate, AISPL
Tejeshwi Sharma
Principal, Sequoia Capital India
Viral Mehta
VP, Product & Engineering, Loco, A Pocket Aces Product
Yogish Pai
Technical Account Manager, AISPL
What is in it for you?
Presentations and Q&A with AWS Games customers
Join customer-led sessions to hear how developers at successful Games startups design and build Games that their players love.
Discussions with Games investors
what do investors look for when investing in Games companies.
Under-the-hood of fan-favourite games
Dive into the architecture behind some of the successful games.
Demos from AWS experts
Get to know about various AWS GameTech services and get to interact with AWS Solution Architects.
Who should attend?
CXOs, designers, product and technical leaders of Games, Sports and e-Sports startups
Game and App developers
Indie game developers
Mobile gaming platforms
Partners
Ecosystem Partner
Startup Community Partner
Videos
Keynote - New ‘Rules of the Game’ for Gaming Businesses
AWS GameTech Overview: Why Build Your Game in the Cloud?
Panel Discussion:
Evolution of Games industry and how to build Games that delight players

Panel Discussion:
Building a scalable GameTech business on Cloud

Panel Discussion:
Building and Scaling a Games Startup: Investors’ Perspective

Game server hosting: how to choose the best suited solution
Faster, Smarter decisions with AWS serverless data analytics
Architecture patterns for high performance multi-region multi-player games
Journeys of Games on AWS: WB Games, Gearbox Software, Supercell and Super Mega
How Junglee Games migrated to the cloud and scaled the business
Journey of Pocket Aces and the role of the cloud
Managing the Mayhem: Launch of Borderlands 3 by Gearbox Software
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