Digital Dragons 2022: Bigger, better and back offline

13 December 2021

Digital Dragons, the leading game industry event in CEE organized by Kraków Technology Park, is coming back to the ICE Congress Centre with new names and a changed formula.

With the world changing and the number of vaccinated people constantly rising, we can look forward to a return to the outstanding atmosphere of Digital Dragons in the ICE Congress Centre where game industry experts would finally meet again, exchange experiences, network and start new projects together. For the last ten years Digital Dragons proudly provided space and unique conditions for the gamedev community to rise, expand and better itself in every way. The coming conference is going to be special as it marks the 10th anniversary of the event. Ten years of giving wings to the business makes us happy, proud and even more determined to go on.

Anna Krampus-Sepielak, Head of Digital Dragons

The Digital Dragons Conference will be held May 16-17, 2022. Recruitment of speakers for the upcoming edition has just opened. You can register by December 20. The Advisory Board will announce the first group of speakers in January.

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A new feature of this year's conference is the emphasis on greater interaction with the audience, so there will be more Q&A sessions planned and opportunities to ask questions. The programme will include interviews with key speakers and round tables. A novelty of this year's conference is also the introduction of curators, who sign individual thematic tracks. This time we are introducing the role of Curator to our Advisory Board. Not only is their role to supervise the track but also to lead the process of program building. With the help of reviewers, the curator will decide upon the final shape of the track - creating a more specified, verified and most valuable choice of lectures for our guests. We are relying on experienced and well-known experts from the fields of gamedev associated with the specific tracks. We hope that their long experience in the industry and direct contacts with professionals in the field will allow them to prepare a programme that will satisfy even the most demanding conference participants.

Błażej Grygiel, Program Manager at Digital Dragons

There will be six tracks of lectures: Game design, Business and marketing, Art in games, Programming and Technology, Production and Leadership, Mobile and F2P.

Meet the curators of this year's Digital Dragons Conference!

Business and marketing – Marta Adamska (PTW)
Art in games – Kacper Niepokólczycki (CD Projekt RED) and Konrad Czernik (Flying Wild Hog)
Production and Leadership – Błażej Żywiczyński (Moon Studios GmbH)
Mobile and F2P – Mariusz Gąsiewski (Google)

After online meetings during the global pandemic, the event will return to the offline format at the ICE Kraków Congress Centre - one of the best conference venues in Poland with a view on Wawel Castle. Additionally, some of the lectures will be streamed live. There will be opportunities for online meetings for business attendees.

The anniversary edition will include such highlights as: Indie Showcase, Digital Dragons Awards Gala, Expo, Digital Dragons Arena and Business Networking Zone both online and offline.

Business Networking Zone will be available online on the PINE platform on May 12-13 and offline during the Conference.

Submissions for the Indie Showcase have just begun. Participants can submit games via an online form available on the Digital Dragons’ website by February 28.

The Indie Showcase will be held in two stages . The first stage will be held on the Steam. 40 selected games will be showcased on Steam just before the Conference on May 12-13. During the Digital Dragons conference at the ICE Congress Centre you will be able to play the 40 titles presented on Steam - 20 of them will compete for prizes in the second, final stage of the competition.

This year the organizers decided to create a separate category for mobile games. Submissions start now until February 28. The 5 best mobile games will be chosen by the jury to be presented at the Indie Showcase during the Conference. One of them will be awarded the Best Mobile Indie Game title.

Submissions for Indie Showcase have just begun

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The CEE Showcase will return at Digital Dragons 2022, once again featuring gamedev associations, organizations and studios from Central Europe, establishing a gaming melting pot in Kraków. The list of participants in the CEE Showcase will be revealed at a later date. One game out of all entries in all the showcases will receive the Community Vote award. The organizers invite you to keep an eye on the website and social media where the latest information will be published. Ticket sales are scheduled to start in January.

Kraków Technology Park (KPT) has contributed to the development of proper conditions for the development of entrepreneurship for 20 years. For 10 years it has managed the Technology Incubator for IT start-ups. The KPT inspires the start-up community by organising numerous events including workshops, hackathons, and conferences that help to verify business concepts. Besides these, it runs KPT ScaleUp acceleration programme. Companies may count on the support of seed funds, tax reliefs offered by the Polska Strefa Inwestycji (Polish Investment Zone) programme, and preferential office space rental conditions. The KPT is particularly focused on Industry 4.0 and the video games industry. It is the leader of the hub4industry consortium aiming to provide comprehensive support for companies wishing to implement Industry 4.0 solutions. The KPT also organises Digital Dragons – the leading games industry event in Europe.