GameTech Forum 2022

What's new

Gaming is one of the fastest growing verticals expected to reach $7Bn in size by 2026 from $2.2Bn currently. This is driven by increasing consumption of media & entertainment by a large and growing user base of ~450M gamers (projected to increase to ~700M by 2026) fuelled by fast data speeds at one of the lowest costs in the world. Growth is further fuelled by high growth in number of 1st time players for mobile games (+40% in FY20 and +50% in FY21), and fast growing IAPs ($18/paying gamer/annum).

With many new entrants this year, and the advent of Web3/GameFI, the gaming sector has already attracted millions in investments in the last 2 years, along with the emergence of sector specific Indian and International Games funds. 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.

What is in it for you?
Discussions and Q&A with leading Games startups

Join customer-led sessions to hear how developers at successful Games startups design and build Games that their players love.

Women Leaders redefining landscape of Games

How are Games evolving to cater to increasing women players and how are Games companies playing a role in including women in their leadership

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
Gamers/
Influencers

Speakers

Shradha Sharma
Founder & CEO,
YourStory
Shubh Malhotra
Co-founder, MPL
Manish Agarwal
CEO, Nazara Technologies
Piyush Kumar
Founder and CEO, Rooter
Deependra Singh
Lead GameTech BD, Amazon Web Services (AWS) APJ
Nirav D. Doshi
Principal Tech Strategist (APJ Game Tech), Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bhanu Pratap Pradhan
Cloud Support Engineer, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ankit Agarwal
Head of Engineering, Rooter
Annappa Patil
Sr Business Development Manager, Amazon Web Services (AISPL)
Abhijeet Pandey
India lead - Edge and Elemental Services
Vatsal Shah
Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services (AISPL)
Abey Alex
Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services, (AISPL)
Chris Melissinos
Worldwide Game Technology Strategy and Business Development - Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Vivek Anurag
Sr. Edge Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AISPL)
Deepak Das
Specialised Solution Architect at AWS Elemental, an Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Yashash Agarwal
Co-founder, Gamezop
Chetan Dhembare
Chief Technology Partner, Loco
Nitish Bugalia
COO, MyTeam111
Salone Sehgal
Partner, Lumikai
Gina Chiang
Director - APJ Startup BD, AWS (moderator)
Saumya Singh Rathore
Co-founder, Winzo Games
Laxmi Khanolkar
CEO , Co-founder, Apar Games
Jyoti Gupta
VP - Engineering, Zupee
Puneet Sharma
Engineering Leader, Winzo Games
Sanjay Singh
Head – DevSecOps, Games24x7
Atul Aphale
Vice President, Data &Reliability Engineering, MPL
Bhawesh Vithalani
Associate Director - Data Engineering, MPL
Jaydeep Punjani
AVP Data Engineering and Platform, MPL
Rahul Sharma
Senior Software Engineer, Winzo Games
Agenda
21st September 2022
10:30 am – 10:45 am
Networking followed by Welcome Note
Shradha Sharma
Founder & CEO, YourStory
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
Panel Discussion - The new era of Games and how to build Games that delight players
Shubh Malhotra
Co-founder, MPL
Manish Agarwal
CEO, Nazara Technologies
Piyush Agarwal
Founder & CEO, Rooter
Deependra Singh
Lead GameTech BD, Amazon Web Services (AWS) APJ
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Panel Discussion - Technology driving Innovation in Next Generation of Games
Nirav D. Doshi
Principal Tech Strategist (APJ Game Tech), Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Chetan Dhembare
Chief Technology Officer, Loco
Nitish Bugalia
COO, MyTeam11
Puneet Sharma
Engineering Leader, Winzo Games
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Panel Discussion - Women Leaders redefining landscape of Games
Salone Sehgal
Partner, Lumikai
Gina Chiang
Director - APJ Startup BD, AWS (moderator)
Saumya Singh Rathore
Co-founder, Winzo Games
Laxmi Khanolkar
CEO , Co-founder, Apar Games
Jyoti Gupta
VP - Engineering, Zupee
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
DDoS Resiliency and Edge Security for Gaming Customers
Bhanu Pratap Pradhan
Cloud Support Engineer, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Leveraging AWS media services to build interactive and engaging streaming experiences
Ankit Agarwal
Head of Engineering, Rooter
Annappa Patil
Sr Business Development Manager, Amazon Web Services (AISPL)
2:00 PM -2:30 PM
Reimagining Gaming Experience At The Edge
Abhijeet Pandey
India lead - Edge and
Elemental Services
Rahul Sharma
Senior Software Engineer, Winzo Games
2:30 PM -3:00 PM
Building Cost Effective Gaming Infrastructure
Sanjay Singh
Head – DevSecOps, Games24x7
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Open 3D Engine : "An open engine for an open metaverse"
Chris Melissinos
Worldwide Game Technology
Strategy and Business Development -
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Elevate user experience and prevent fraud with AI/ML in Games
Vastal Shah
Senior Solutions Architect,
Amazon Web Services (AISPL)
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Automated Game Testing & Devops Using AWS
Abey Alex
Solutions Architect,
Amazon Web Services, (AISPL)
2:30 PM – 3:15 PM
Real time Data engineering at Scale
Atul Aphale
Vice President, Data &
Reliability Engineering, MPL
Bhawesh Vithalani
Associate Director - Data Engineering, MPL
Jaydeep Punjani
AVP Data Engineering and Platform, MPL
Bangalore - 22 Sep, 2022 | Gurugram - 23 Sep, 2022
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Networking lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Using ML and AWS Sagemaker for designing Game level
If you are Building casual games or hyper casual games , this is a short workshop which will give you a perspective on how you can use ML to understand the difficulty/playability of your Game Levels.
Abey Alex
Solutions Architect,
Amazon Web Services, (AISPL)
Swapnil Tiwari
Solutions Architect,
Amazon Web Services, (AISPL)
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Coffee break
2:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Securing your Game Backend using Edge services
We look at some of the quick ways you can strengthen your Game from DDOS attacks using Edge services. This would cover all types of Data Protocols - UDP, TCP/IP, Websockets, HTTP/HTTPS which may be used by the Game. At a service level you will learn about how Amazon Global Accelerator, Amazon Shield Advanced, etc. are used to protect your Game backend
Vivek Anurag
Sr. Edge Specialist Solutions Architect,
Amazon Web Services (AISPL)
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Coffee break
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Using IVS to build an InGame or Native Esports Platform for broadcasting Player Gameplay and Live Commentary
This a crash course on setting up your own Esports or Tournament platform within your game or standalone. You would spend the first 45 minutes getting your hands dirty on the features of IVS and get to know how IVS works. And after playing with IVS, we will demo you the art of the possible by showing you a live Game tournament demo using IVS.
Deepak Das
Specialised Solution Architect,
AWS Elemental,
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Cocktails and dinner
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