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The year is 2030 and, during the great cascading layoffs of the early 20's, companies started using external, specialized teams more and more Now about half of all teams are composed of internal experts who know the game inside and out, alongside ext......

Enjoy a light afternoon snack and some coffee in The Hub, brought to you by Overturn Studio......

This session features 9 different Table-Topics Seats are limited, book early......

Enjoy a hot cup of tea, brought to you by Neobards......

Join Story Kitchen co-founders Dmitri M Johnson and Mike Goldberg, producers behind Sonic the Hedgehog, Tomb Raider, and more, alongside BAFTA North America board member and games committee chair Julia Bianco, for a focused round-table on expanding g......

Outsourcing has evolved, we are no longer just sending a list of assets to be done, Co-development is becoming the standard This brings a new set of challenges such as fully allowing external teams into your ecosystem and being a part of your team Ho......

External development is no longer just about outsourcing—it’s about building strategic, long-term partnerships that drive innovation and production stability Emerging markets, such as Southeast Asia, have evolved beyond cost-efficient labor pools......

In an era of increasingly complex pipelines and distributed teams, AI isn’t just a buzzword, it’s a competitive advantage This session explores how External Development Managers and Directors can harness AI tools to streamline vendor collaboratio......

Over the past decade, the appetite from traditionally underrepresented players to see characters like them in the games they play has grown As studios and their Ex Dev partners look to meet this need by adapting this diverse reality into their games,......

Whether you're a large publisher working with multiple external partners or a small studio offering specialized development services, effectively evaluating, engaging, and managing external development is both an art and a scienceIn this practica......

In an industry where large-scale co-development is often entrusted to even larger studios, we’re asking a simple but disruptive question: Can a carefully coordinated collective of small, expert studios actually do it better This Table Topic challen......

The topic for discussion is external development, specifically through staff augmentation What is Staff Augmentation and how can it be used for external development needs on a variety of different sized projects Let’s take a chance to talk to all p......