The weekend will start on Thursday afternoon with a (free) mini-conference by IGDA Estonia. A strong lineup of industry professionals will share their insights on the business of the game. The evening will continue with a Pocket Gamer Mobile Mixer with some solid speakers as well as some drinks and networking. From Friday to Sunday we welcome a bunch of game developers to develop games, hear short seminars on aspects of building a game and compete for top prizes. Join in as a developer or mentor!
On Friday, June 28th, 2013 at 9:00am at the Plug & Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale Enterprise Estonia Silicon Valley held their Innovative Estonia & the Skype Phenomenon event. In truth I do not know much about Estonia, except it has an obscure language and unenviable weather that produces more startups per head of population than any other country in Europe.
There does appear to be an Estonian secret sauce that brought us Kazaa and Skype and continues to grow the next generation of startups going global.
If you are an entrepreneur, you will learn if the fledgling tech tiger Estonia is the best place to start your next start-up or out-source your development. If you are an investor, you might find the next Skype. You will see and hear from established players and young hot startups.
Here are some videos of the event. Opening Remarks: Andrus Viirg, Enterprise Estonia Silicon Valley Keynote: Disruptive Innovation & Entrepreneurship Steve Jurvetson, General Partner, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ):
