Selection and Pixel United will host the first-ever Leaders in Gaming & Leisure Breakfast on Oct. 4. The in-person breakfast, held in Los Angeles, will deliver collectively a few of the greatest names within the gaming trade.
Marc Merrill, co-founder and president of video games for Riot Video games, and Shauna Spenley, president of Riot Video games Leisure, will take part in a keynote dialog, moderated by Andrew Wallenstein, president and chief media analyst of Selection Intelligence Platform, in regards to the profitable display screen crossovers of Riot’s video video games, reminiscent of their Emmy-winning animated collection “Arcane: League of Legends.”
Michael Lang, CEO of Pixel United, might be in dialog with Selection Co-Editor-in-Chief Cynthia Littleton about his imaginative and prescient for the cell video games trade, figuring out alternatives for the broader leisure trade to align with the passionate gaming group.
The breakfast can even function the panel dialogue Constructing a Franchise By Gaming and Experiential Leisure that includes Sean Shoptaw, senior VP of world video games and experiences at The Walt Disney Firm; Gio Hunt, VP of Oculus Studios for Meta; David Baronoff, founder and chief cross media officer for Dangerous Robotic Video games; and Helen Chiang, company VP of Minecraft Franchise. Moderated by Selection Intelligence Platform Correspondent and Media Analyst Heidi Chung, the panel will discover the intersection between gaming and movie/TV, and tackle how the industries are collaborating to create an increasing universe for content material.
“Because the primary leisure enterprise information model, Selection understands the importance in making a discussion board for a dialogue between the leisure trade and the video gaming trade,” mentioned Dea Lawrence, chief working and advertising officer at Selection. “Selection is thrilled to associate with Pixel United on this inaugural occasion which can study traits in gaming that can profit the bigger leisure trade.”
“The video video games trade is an extremely necessary a part of the material of the broader leisure panorama and Pixel United is proud to assist shine a highlight on this highly effective section,” Lang mentioned. “As a worldwide mobile-first video video games firm participating thousands and thousands of gamers around the globe each day, we perceive the significant outcomes that may be achieved when world-class gaming content material and unmatched fandom converge with different areas of the leisure trade.”
On the identical day, Selection will publish its inaugural Leisure Gaming Leaders report, spotlighting essentially the most impactful executives working on the intersection of gaming and leisure. Selection’s Leisure Gaming Leaders report is an up-to-the-minute have a look at the important thing figures driving this dynamic intersection, the place nothing lower than a visible media revolution is going down.
The breakfast might be coated in print, on Selection.com and throughout Selection’s social media.
