BIG Festival 2022 Is on this Week — Here’s What’s Happening on Day One!

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BIG Festival 2022 Is on this Week — Here’s What’s Happening on Day One!

Best Independent Games Festival (BIG Festival) 2022 — the largest independent games festival in Latin America — officially kicked off today! Brazil Games (the Brazilian Games Export Program), which is carried out by Abragames (Brazilian Games Companies Association) and ApexBrasil (Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency), is here to provide a guide to the hottest speakers, games, and events happening each day of the event!

BIG Festival 2022 is offering more than 120 sessions by the best professionals from the games industry, over 200 games available to play, and featuring more than 500 industry-leading professionals. Tickets for the in-person event happening at the São Paulo Expo may be purchased via the official website.

Here’s what’s happening on Day One of BIG Festival, Thursday, July 7, 2022:

  • Epic Games’ Vision for Latin America — For the first time at a Latin American event, Sean Palomino (Epic Games Store), Hector Sanchez (Epic Games Publishing), Paulo Souza (UE Biz Dev & Evangelism), Martina Santoro (UE Evangelism) will be joining us LIVE at an exclusive panel to share with you everything about Epic’s Vision for Latam. Sandro Manfredini will also be sharing with you all the details about our latest partnership with rockstar Brazilian team Aquiris.
     
  • Brazil: Overview of a Booming Industry! — Brazil is booming! This session brings you the 1st Brazil Industry Report, brought you by Abragames, the Brazilian Game Studios Association, and ApexBrasil, the Brazilian Trade and Promotion Agency. The research will be presented by Carolina Caravan Laubisch and Rodrigo Terra, vice president and president of Abragames, respectively, Eros Ramos Tomaz da Silva, from ApexBrasil, and Eliana Russi, from Brazil Games.
     
  • YouTube Gaming’s Role in Uncovering New Games — Two-thirds of the gamer population in Brazil uses YouTube to search for new games, through reviews and gameplays developed by our creators. Join Douglas De Souza Rodrigues (Google), where he will delve deeper into the characteristics that make YouTube so relevant to this journey of discovery, as well as exploring ways that a developer can use the platform and its entire ecosystem of creators to promote their releases, news and create communities around their games.
     
  • GameDev Under Bombs. Stay? Leave? Fight? Work? — Join Andrew Sakhno (Clever Ads’ Solutions) who tells the story about the CleverAds’ employees and offices in Kharkiv and Mykolaiv cities, which were severely bombed by the Russian army. The story about “before” and “after”, how they managed to keep business alive, how they organized the evacuation of the staff, the work in real war conditions, and how they went from developing games in cozy offices to evacuation shelters. 

Despite the setbacks caused by the pandemic and the shift to an online-only format, BIG Festival 2021 achieved record-breaking numbers — making it the most successful iteration of the event in its 10-year history. With over 70 hours of bilingual content, in Portuguese and English, the event was broadcast live with more than 300 speakers and 545 companies across 64 countries, with over 5,000 meetings scheduled. The estimated value of business generated from BIG Festival 2021 alone generated over $65 million USD in revenue.

Last year’s event generated a staggering amount of business partnerships and opportunities with 5,642 business meetings between developers and publishers. With industry giants like Epic and Nintendo forming close relationships and partnerships with Brazilian Studios, BIG Festival is an incredible opportunity for business development in one of the hottest gaming markets in the world.

Brazil is now the largest market by games revenues in LATAM and #12 in the world in 2022. The $2.3 billion (USD) Brazilian games industry has seen explosive growth over the last several years, with the number of local gamers reaching a staggering 94.7 million as of 2021. The mobile gaming market accounts for nearly half the revenue, and is the fastest-growing sector, however, both console and PC account for $657 million and $556 million respectively.

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