Northern Exposure: Full Conference Details Announced

The Northern Exposure conference returns to the Discovery Museum, Newcastle this week on Thursday 12th September.

Bringing together industry experts from the UK, Europe, and the US to discuss the business of games, Northern Exposure promises to be the most inspirational, thought-provoking, and explorative to date with topics ranging from leadership, publishing and marketing to art, technology, and design.

Leading the proceedings as MC for the day will be George Osborn, Head of Communications at Ukie. Northern Exposure’s line up for the day includes*:

Dante Buckley, Founder at Downpour Interactive
Take a Chance: What I learned in Remote Game Development & VR

Alex Peters, Senior VP at SEGA Searchlight
Two Point Studios: a journey with SEGA Searchlight

Si Lumb, Senior Producer at BBC R&D
Virtualisation, convergence and the emergence of Metamedia

Colin Macdonald, Director at All 4 Games
Lessons from both sides of the pitching table

Becky Jackson, Client Service Director at Atomhawk
The Value of Art

Craig Duncan, Studio Head at Rare Ltd
Superhero leadership in games

Tracey McGarrigan, CEO and Founder at Ansible PR & Comms
Think Long, Go Big; how a long tail PR & Marketing strategy can help indies succeed

Gabrielle Kent, Writer and Narrative Consultant
Creating Characters and Worlds without Limits


Secret Sauce’s Managing Director and Conference Producer Carri Cunliffe said: “We can’t wait to welcome all our expert speakers to Newcastle, and are delighted to have George as our host for the day. His experience as a journalist, event organiser, and business owner means he’s well versed in the business of games and we’re excited he will be leading us through a packed day of inspiring chat. It’s going to be a busy day for the business of gaming in Newcastle and it’s gaming community.”



Exhibitors on the day include:

Coatsink
Formed in 2009, Coatsink develop, fund, and publish Indie Games and has grown into a diverse and versatile development studio who have created platformer and puzzle games for console and PC, plus a plethora of games for Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Go. Coatsink is at Northern Exposure looking for fantastic talent to join their growing team in Sunderland, UK.

Wolf and Wood, Hotel R’n’R
The VR game where you are a failed musician who makes a deal with me, the Devil. I give you musical talent, infamy and hard cash, and all you have to do is smash up some hotel rooms for me. Build up your armoury with weapons from Hell’s own pawn shop - oh and don’t let the maid in.

TUCan Studio
The TUCan Studio is an award winning and innovative in-house digital production studio based in the School of Computing & Digital Technologies at Teesside University. Working in partnership with the private and public sector our experienced academic staff work alongside top graduate talent to create R&D solutions and final products in animation, immersive technologies, film production, app development, 360, AI and data analytics.

Escape Technology
A reseller and technical support company based in the UK and Germany. For over ten years they've been working with computer graphics artists and studios to bring them the best hardware, software, and infrastructure to deliver their work.

Cyberpower
Ranging from the ultimate gaming rig, to the stand alone office system, Cyberpower endeavour to create the best possible PC system for your needs, and importantly your budget. With their extensive list of component choices, they guarantee to create the PC of your dreams, exactly how you imagined it to be!

Invest North East England
The team will be chatting to anyone interested in finding out more about the North east and it’s gaming community.



Northern Exposure is powered by Invest North East England, Invest Newcastle and Escape Technology, Coatsink, Atomhawk and Tag Games

The last few remaining tickets are available now via https://www.north-expo.co.uk/

Keep up to date with all the action on the day and further announcements by following Northern Exposure on twitter @north_expo