13.2.2024

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup 3/2024 Teemu Vilén, Makea Games

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Hybrid Meetup 03/2024

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Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup 3 / 2024

In the March meetup, we dive into the Eternal questions in Game development. Come to Digi & Game Center and hear what Teemu Vilén has to say about the subject.

Guest: Teemu Vilén, COO at Makea Games
Topic: Game development with those pesky humans
Time: 18:00
Interviewer: Wanda O Rly (Valtteri Lahti, chairman of Expa)

Date: Tuesday 26.03.2024
Where: LIVE @ Digi & Game Center, Matarankatu 2
– STREAM on Expa’s Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/expajkl

SCHEDULE
17:30 Doors open
18:00 Streaming starts, Teemu’s presentation
18:30 Q&A with Teemu Vilén, COO at Makea Games
19:00 Free mingling on-site

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the Meetup event is English! – Invite your friends, questions welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup 2024 (23.04.2024)

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Hybrid Meetup 04/2024

It’s meetup time once again! This time, instead of having one speaker, we will have two of them! So brace yourselves as these two gentlemen will take us on a ride of “Junior employment in the Game industry”.

Please note, that the schedule for April’s meetup is a bit different than what it usually is. Before the meetup, the Bit1 – PreBit, will be held and the actual meetup starts right after that one at 19.00. The doors open already at 16.00, so welcome all!

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup 4 / 2024

Guests: Dmytro Zhovtobryukh, CEO & Co-Founder at Snowhound Games & Klaus Kääriäinen, The Jester at Jestercraft
Topic: Junior employment in the Game industry
Time: 19:00
Interviewer: Wanda O Rly (Valtteri Lahti, chairman of Expa)
Date: Tue 23.04.2024

Where: LIVE @ Digi & Game Center, Matarankatu 2, Jyväskylä
– STREAM on Expa’s Twitch channel: https://lnkd.in/dqPkebC

SCHEDULE for the evening
16:00 Doors open at DGC
16.30-16.40 Welcoming ceremony and judges’ introduction
16.40-17 Pitches
17.30-18 Judges game testing, free game testing for participants
18-18.30 Judges retreat to discuss, free game testing for participants
18.30-18.45 Judges announce winners, give the basics for the choices and photos
19.00 – IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Meetup speakers (Dmytro Zhovtobryukh & Klaus Kääriäinen)
20.00 – 20.15 Demo booth disassembling, Judges stay to discuss with participants proceeding to finals

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the Meetup event is English! – Invite your friends, questions welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!

12.2.2024

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup 2/2024 Tarmo Jussila, Zaibatsu Interactive

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Guest: Tarmo Jussila, CTO at Zaibatsu Interactive
Topic: My Game Industry journey

Time: 18:00
Interviewer: Wanda O Rly (Valtteri Lahti, chairman of Expa)

Date: Tue 27.02.2024
Where: LIVE @ Digi & Game Center, Matarankatu 2, Jyväskylä

– STREAM on Expa’s Twitch channel: https://lnkd.in/dqPkebC

SCHEDULE
17:30 Doors open
18:00 Streaming starts, Tarmo Jussila’s presentation
18:30 Q&A
19:00 Free mingling on-site

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event. This time we have students from Metropolia University of Applied Sciences showcasing their games. Come and check them out!

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the Meetup event is English! – Invite your friends, questions welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!

28.11.2023

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup #1 / 2024 (30.01.2024) with Mika Tammenkoski, CEO / CO-Founder of Metacore

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Hybrid Meetup #1 / 2024

Let’s start 2024 with a bang, shall we?

We’re honoured to announce, that Mika Tammenkoski, CEO / CO-Founder of Metacore is our first meetup speaker of the year!

The topic of the evening is as follows:
“How to stand out in mobile in 2024”

The predictions for 2024 are in – and it looks like competition will only increase in an already saturated mobile games market. Based on their experiences of scaling Merge Mansion into a global hit game with over 50M downloads, Metacore CEO and Co-Founder Mika explores how Finnish mobile games can stand out with their brand in an increasingly competitive, still largely UA-driven market.”

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Hybrid Meetup #1 / 2024

Guest: Mika Tammenkoski, CEO / CO-Founder of Metacore
Topic: How to stand out in mobile in 2024
Time: 18:00
Interviewer: Wanda O Rly (Valtteri Lahti, chairman of Expa)

Date: Tue 30.01.2024
Where: LIVE @ Digi & Game Center, Matarankatu 2, Jyväskylä
– STREAM on Expa’s Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/expajkl

SCHEDULE
17:30 Doors open
18:00 Streaming starts, Mika Tammenkoski’s presentation
18:30 Q&A with Mika Tammenkoski
19:00 Free mingling on-site

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the Meetup event is English! – Invite your friends, questions are welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the Meetup event is English! – Invite your friends, questions welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!

11.10.2023

“Day Zero“at Digi & Game Center 9th of Nov!

“Day Zero“at Digi & Game Center!

We shall have a day before the main event a “Day Zero” networking event at multiple times awarded Coworking space and Ecosystem Digi Game Center (DGC). Digi & Game Center is also the place where IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetups happens now days. The Premises are just 15 min from Matkakeskus by walking or about 5 min walk from Jyväskylä city center .

Get to know the premises and network: 14.00-18.00 (2-6pm)

Sauna at the DGC 20:00-23.00

Special Speaker Event: Professor Tae-Jin Yoon: “Female Game Players in Korea: Can they shoot guns?” (24.08.2023)

Special Speaker Event: Professor Tae-Jin Yoon: “Female Game Players in Korea: Can they shoot guns?”

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Guest: Professor Tae-Jin Yoon
Topic: “Female Game Players in Korea: Can they shoot guns?”

Date: Thursday, August 24th, from 11:15 to 12:00
Where: LIVE @ Digi & Game Center, Matarankatu 2
– STREAM on Expa’s Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/expajkl

Professor Tae-Jin Yoon (Graduate School of Communication and Arts, Yonsei University) will be visiting University of Jyväskylä – Jyväskylän yliopisto in August and will also give a public lecture on the topic “Female Game Players in Korea: Can they shoot guns?” at the Digi & Game Center on Thursday, August 24th, from 11:15 to 12:00.

Tae-Jin Yoon is also the president of the Korean Game-n-Science Institute, and he has been teaching and writing about media-related topics for over 20 years. Yoon’s research has explored topics such as TV shows, video games, esports, webtoons and the “Korean wave” phenomenon.

Welcome to join and listen to his intriguing presentation!

Digi & Game Center

#JYU #digigamecenter #esportsfi #keynotespeech #gaming #culture

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the event is English! – Invite your friends, questions welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!

27.6.2023

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Special Meetup with Epic Games (04.07.2023)

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Guest: Ari Arnbjörnsson, Evangelist at Epic Games
Topic: Epic Games and Unreal Engine
Time: 18:00
Interviewer: Wanda O Rly (Valtteri Lahti, chairman of Expa)

Date: Tue 04.07.2023
Where: LIVE @ Digi & Game Center, Matarankatu 2
– STREAM on Expa’s Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/expajkl

SCHEDULE
17:30 Doors open
18:00 Streaming starts, interview with Ari Arnbjörnsson
18:30 Q&A with Ari Arnbjörnsson
19:00 Free mingling on-site

Hope to see as many as can at the site Digi & Game Center to meet Ari in person!

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the Meetup event is English! – Invite your friends, questions welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!

20.6.2023

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup #8 / 2023 (28.11.2023) – TBA –

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Hybrid Meetup #5 / 2023

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Guest: TBA
Topic: TBA
Time: 18:00
Interviewer: Wanda O Rly (Valtteri Lahti, chairman of Expa)

Date: Tue 28.11.2023
Where: LIVE @ Digi & Game Center, Matarankatu 2
– STREAM on Expa’s Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/expajkl

SCHEDULE
17:30 Doors open
18:00 Streaming starts, interview with TBA
18:30 Q&A with TBA
19:00 Free mingling on-site

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the Meetup event is English! – Invite your friends, questions welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup #7 / 2023 (31.10.2023) – Fireside chat with One Trick Entertainment

Topic: Fireside chat with One Trick Entertainment – How to start a game company with zero experience

Guests: Esko Maijala & Oskari Pelli

Company: One Trick Entertainment

Time: 18.00 (doors open at 17.30)

Date: Tue 31.10.2023

Where: LIVE @ Digi & Game Center, Matarankatu 2

– STREAM on Expa’s Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/expajkl

SCHEDULE

17:30 Doors open

18:00 Streaming starts, interview with Esko Maijala and Oskari Pelli

18:30 Q&A with Esko and Oskari

19:00 Free mingling on-site

One Trick Entertainment won the Rookie of the Year award by Finnish Game Awards 2022. On September 7th, they released their first game Lempo – a Finnish mythology themed horror exploration game available on Steam. On October 31st, they will join us at Digi & Game Center to discuss their entrepreneur journey and the production of Lempo

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the Meetup event is English! – Invite your friends, questions welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup #6 / 2023 (26.9.2023)

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Hybrid Meetup #6 / 2023

Guest: Antti Makkonen, Director of Games, AirConsole https://www.airconsole.com
Topic: In Car Gaming Opportunities
Time: 18:00
Interviewer: Wanda O Rly (Valtteri Lahti, chairman of Expa)

Date: Tue 26.9.2023
Where: LIVE @ Digi & Game Center, Matarankatu 2
– STREAM on Expa’s Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/expajkl

SCHEDULE
17:30 Doors open
18:00 Streaming starts, interview with Antti Makkonen
18:30 Q&A with Antti Makkonen
19:00 Free mingling on-site

Description:

Antti has been a founder of two startups and worked in the games industry for more than 10 years in leadership positions in companies like Rovio, Scopely, and others making games for the masses. Currently making car rides more fun than ever with gaming!

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the Meetup event is English! – Invite your friends, questions welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!