Our grand return to Jordan was larger and higher than even we anticipated! It was by far our largest present but within the area, nearly doubling the dimensions of our final convention there in 2019. It was a roaring success in all metrics, and we received to spend two superb days with 1,400 video games business professionals from throughout the globe sharing future-gazing insights and forming a whole lot of latest connections. To all our attendees: thanks a lot for becoming a member of us and making our return to Jordan our best enterprise to the MENA area but! It was a pleasure, and we will’t wait to be again subsequent 12 months.
This stay present was the thirty sixth instalment of our Connects convention collection and our second PG Connects in Jordan. It happened at an all-new venue: the biggest conference centre in Jordan positioned proper on the shore of the Useless Sea on November twelfth to thirteenth. We received to welcome a whopping 1,400 attendees from over 400+ main firms from each the MENA area and world wide. Over 35 international locations had been represented, making it an extremely various crowd representing many various corners of the worldwide video games business! This doubles our numbers from our first convention within the area again in 2019 (700+ attendees), and makes PG Connects Jordan certainly one of our most extremely attended occasions and our third largest convention this 12 months.
Two insights-filled days to recollect
Our two days in Jordan had been packed stuffed with forward-gazing knowledgeable insights, and we couldn’t be prouder to carry our 1,400 attendees our largest and greatest convention in Jordan by all metrics! There have been extra subject tracks than ever earlier than with extra audio system and nearly double the variety of attendees from our final convention within the area. We welcomed attendees from over 400+ main firms from all world wide, representing 35 totally different international locations. We received to listen to from 85 world-class audio system from each the MENA area and the worldwide video games business as an entire, and welcomed quite a few attendees from international locations we don’t often see as represented in our European and North American exhibits, making it certainly one of our most various conferences but.
This was an extremely triumphant weekend for everybody that attended! The Jordan Gaming Lab App Problem competitors provides college students the chance to showcase their abilities and creativity to a panel of esteemed business professionals, and the profitable groups acquired $5,000 every to develop a cell gaming lab at their faculty. The winners had been introduced this weekend, and we need to give a large congratulations to the profitable groups: You’re the way forward for the video games business, thanks for taking part!
We additionally noticed the winner of the King Abdullah II Award for Youth Innovation and Achievement (KAAYIA) revealed in the course of the ceremony. The launch of KAAYIA got here as a part of His Majesty King Abdullah’s assist of youth tasks, their initiatives and pioneering concepts. The winners acquired monetary assist of a whopping $50,000 to develop their neighborhood entrepreneurial mission. We had been honoured to host the ceremony. The expertise witnessed was immense! Congratulations to all of the finalists and to the pioneering winners.
Due to our associates on your assist!
A present of this magnitude and unimaginable success would by no means be doable with out the assist of our companions, associates and sponsors! This present was made doable because of our phenomenal companions that we labored in affiliation with: The King Abdullah II Fund for Growth (KAFD) and the Jordan Gaming Lab. These spectacular, trailblazing organisations are paving the way forward for the video games business in Jordan, and we couldn’t be happier to have gotten to collaborate with them to carry Pocket Gamer Connects Jordan to life.
A large thanks to our diamond degree sponsors Jawaker and Babil Video games, our platinum degree sponsors Tamatem and Sandsoft Video games and our gold degree sponsors GameChangerSF, Xsolla and Freeverse for serving to carry PG Connects Jordan to life. Thanks to each different model that supported us in making this occasion doable – we couldn’t have placed on our largest occasion within the MENA area but with out your formidable assist.
Our largest and most profitable present in Jordan to this point
Metal Media CEO Chris James expressed gratitude for the unimaginable turnout and emphasised PG Connects’ dedication to rising the model’s presence within the area, “I actually couldn’t be happier with PGC Jordan 2022 or prouder of everybody concerned in making this our largest and greatest occasion within the area….by some margin. In truth we nearly doubled attendance from the final pre-Covid occasion in 2019!”.
He continued, “I’m intensely grateful to everybody who made this occur from our unimaginable sponsors and companions, to our knowledgeable audio system and all of our enthusiastic attendees. I have to say a particular because of Maysalward CEO Nour Khrais and Hussein Bino and his superb workforce on the King Abdullah II Fund for Growth, our occasion companions, who ensured the venue was each bit as spectacular as this area’s gaming expertise deserves! Suffice to say we’ll return subsequent 12 months! Though it isn’t too late to take pleasure in some spectacular surroundings and join with the cream of the MENA video games market as each might be current in our PGC Leaders Summit Riyadh later this month”.
What’s subsequent for PG Connects?
On November thirtieth to December 1st, we’re returning to the MENA area! We’ve got an unmissable, unique alternative for the worldwide video games business’s high executives to return collectively and form the way forward for the MENA video games market. It will happen within the marvellous metropolis of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, and when you’re a member of senior administration at your organization, you received’t need to miss becoming a member of us within the quickest rising area of the video games business and discover the best meals, tradition and journey of Saudi Arabia. You’ll be able to register now over on the official web site!
In the event you’re looking forward to 2023 and planning your subsequent journey, our subsequent Connects convention is simply across the nook and it’s a chief alternative you received’t need to miss. This January 23 to 24, our flagship Connects convention is returning to London as soon as extra, and it’s going to be incredible. Don’t miss signing as much as our largest and hottest convention, we’re that includes all-new observe themes and future-gazing enterprise content material. E-book Early Chook immediately and you may safe your ticket now and save a whole lot!
Need to become involved?
There isn’t a higher place than Pocket Gamer Connects occasions to share your wealth of data with the video games neighborhood at giant, and we wish to prolong the invitation for famend producers, builders, executives and leaders within the house to steer a session on a subject they’re keen about and have experience in at our upcoming exhibits. In the event you assume you is perhaps a match and this appears like one thing you’d like to do at our upcoming conferences, full our speaker submission type right here.
Moreover, when you’re trying to put your model in entrance of the worldwide cell video games business, you possibly can focus on our diversified sponsorship alternatives or different methods to become involved with our b2b gross sales workforce. Please contact lisa.bisset@steelmedianetwork.com or chris@steelmedia.co.uk for extra particulars.
