Exclusive networking coffee
Join us at the SAE Institute to kick off VIP Day, exclusive to VIP ticket holders!
Welcome Address
Nick Hall
Rex Bowden
Welcome Address by SAE
Insights from the 2025 Games Industry
Kirsten-Lee Naidoo
Insider Q&A with Unity
Mike Geig
Corrie Green
The Audience Imperative: How To Build Value in Indie Games Companies
Kristian Roberts
Playing the Long Game: 30 Years of Industry Disruption and Personal Reinvention
Odile Limpach
Insights From Harsh Times - Thoughts on navigating the evolving games industry landscape
Tim Campbell
Incubation Workshop: The New Timeline for Indie Success
Jason Della Rocca
Board buses for tour of Cape Town
Bus tour of Cape Town
Lunch & Networking at Canto Boutique Wines
Return to Black Brick Hotels
Networking morning coffee
📍Event floor
Register at the front desk before enjoying a morning coffee and chat ☕
Welcome Address
📍 Main Auditorium
Nick Hall
Rex Bowden
Alderman JP Smith
IFAS Workshop | NPCs With Braincells: AI Levels Up South African Games
📍 Seminar Room A
Katleen Evers
Pascal Jarde
Mobile VS PC - Preferred platform for African Studio
📍 Main Auditorium
Stephen Lee
Ben Myres
Dean Gichukie
Olivier Madiba
Edu Shola
Google Play Best Practices: Building for Quality
📍 Main Auditorium
Steph Pio
Breaking into the Global Market with a Niche: How African Game Studios Can Attract Investment
📍 Main Auditorium
Zoran Roso
Jason Della Rocca
Limpho Moeti
Ilayda Bayari Erdinc
Olivier Madiba
John Eternal
Games For Change Africa Fireside Chat
📍 Main Auditorium
Glenn Gillis
Lisa Adams
Adapting Film Financing for Games
📍 Main Auditorium
Nthabeleng Phora
Kristian Roberts
Cam Rogers
Isaac Mogajane
Vanessa Ann Sinden
Lunch
B2B Meetings
📍 B2B Networking Area
Level Up Together: Bridging Game Devs & Microsoft ISV Innovation
📍 Main Auditorium
Welcome & Opening delivered by Peter Zetterberg to kick off talks and fireside chats until 5:00PM (see below)
Peter Zetterberg
Benefits to High Growth Startups partnering with Microsoft
📍 Main Auditorium
Gerald Maithya
What Investors are looking for when selecting winning startups
📍 Main Auditorium
ISV Fireside chat on Microsoft partner success stories
📍 Main Auditorium
Gerald Maithya
Tobie Van der Spuy
Lance Fanaroff
Xbox Selects Game Creators
Peter Zetterberg
Dean Gichukie
Networking: Speed Dating
📍 Seminar Room A
Invite Only Games4Change Devs in the Deep Networking Function
📍 Two Oceans Aquarium
🔗 Sign up form
Networking morning coffee
📍 Event floor
Register at the front desk before enjoying a morning coffee and chat ☕
Welcome Address
📍 Main Auditorium
Nick Hall
Josh Palm
Build the Bridge: How African Studios Can Become Reliable AAA Outsourcing Partners
📍 Main Auditorium
Katleen Evers
Reece Coetzer
Thiago de Freitas
Juney Dijkstra
Nicky Visentin
David Christensen
Level Up with Digital Lab Africa: Launching the 9th Edition
📍 Seminar Room A
Avuzwa Nthsongwana
Lodi Matsetela
Games are Art, but Art is dying
📍 Main Auditorium
Ben Myres
Playing for Tomorrow: Aspiration in Kenyan Gaming
📍 Seminar Room A
Kasyoka Mwanzia
Playstation Independent Partners Session
📍 Main Auditorium
Lewis Speller
Mike Geig
Corrie Green
Understanding Every Step A Funder Takes Before Saying Yes To Your Game
📍 Main Auditorium
Matt Spall
GamesConnect AFRICA: Looking Back, Planning Ahead...
📍 Main Auditorium
Michael Oscar Esio
Estelle Makhoba
Odile Limpach
Lilian Moraa Momanyi
Vulane Mthembu
Lunch
Games for Change Africa Festival Powered by Xsolla
📍 Seminar Room A
Why Coproduction as an Alternative Funding Model? Building Euro-African Cooperation
📍 Main Auditorium
Olympe Challot
Money Talks - But No One Wants to Talk About It
📍 Main Auditorium
James Matthes
Beyond Funding: Supercell’s Strategic Commitment to Africa’s Creative Ecosystem
📍 Main Auditorium
Deborah Mensah-Bonsu
Nick Hall
There is no such thing as the African Market
📍 Main Auditorium
Dean Gichukie
Kristian Roberts
Tutaleni Ihonga
Youssef Boufaied
Nick Hall
Shipping Your Game on Steam: Insider Q&A with Valve's Steam Team (Virtual)
📍 Main Auditorium
Alden Kroll
Erik Peterson
Policymakers networking morning coffee (by invite)
📍 Event floor
Register at the front desk before enjoying a morning coffee and chat ☕
Welcome Address
📍 Main Auditorium
Nick Hall
Advisory Committee Announcement
📍 Main Auditorium
Raymond Ledwaba
Ntombi Makwetu
A Retrospective Chat: The Jobs Fund and its Impact on Gaming
📍 Main Auditorium
Raymond Ledwaba
Benon Maguta
Accelerating Africa's Game Industry: Training & Skills Development
📍 Main Auditorium
Filomena Oliveira
Lars Espeter
Sho Sato
Tshepiso Teffo
Kieran Reid
Future-Proofing the Industry: Unlocking Government & Industry Collaboration on Gaming's Economic Future
📍 Main Auditorium
Asif Valley
Bonno Louis
Olivia Dyers
Raymond Ledwaba
Kagisho Bapela
Interval
B2B Meetings
📍 B2B Meeting Area
ROUNDTABLE 1 | Unlocking Potential: Investment & Incentives
📍 Main Auditorium
Eldon Edwards
ROUNDTABLE 2 | Cross-Border Policy & Harmonisation
📍 Main Auditorium
Ntombi Makwetu
ROUNDTABLE 3 | Talent Pipeline & Education
📍 Main Auditorium
Kyle Smith
ROUNDTABLE 4 | IP & Legal Frameworks
📍 Main Auditorium
Jesse Wrensch
Report Back & Call-To-Action: Facilitators summarise key findings from each roundtable
📍 Main Auditorium
AGW Awards Ceremony
📍 Main Auditorium
Closing Cocktails
Project is supported by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and the Institut Français as part of the strategy for the international export of cultural and creative industries.