GameON Finance 2.0 conference wrapped up in Toronto yesterday. It brought together 100+ people from the gaming industry: entrepreneurs, investors, professional service providers and industry leaders. It was held at the swanky Grand Ballroom of 1 King West in downtown Toronto.
The full day of panel discussions and presentations explored topics such as gaming companies business models, financing options for gaming start-ups, angel investment in Canada and economic motivations behind games based on different forms of intellectual property. Networking options for the delegates included 1-on-1 10 minute sessions with other delegates, including some of the speakers. Check out the follow-up posts from some of the sessions I attended.
Overall a fun, informative and useful event, especially for those in the gaming industry. Kudos to Interactive Ontario for putting it together. Their next event would be in March '09 - Interactive Content Exchange (ICE) at the Carlu in Toronto.
io is a not-for-profit industry trade organization committed to the growth of the Ontario interactive digital content industry. To this end "io" is... [more]
Varun Mathur
Varun Mathur is the Techvibes Community Manager in Toronto, focused on covering local tech startups, news and events. He is also a Co-founder and Product Manager at Zytran, a Toronto-based web startup which developed and launched Alertle.com - a personal news aggregator (Alertle's version 1.0 got widespread global coverage, with reviews written about it...[more]
