Creative Coast Festival 2016

Creative Coast Festival returns for the second year running and is already shaping up to be a humdinger of an affair, with a rich line-up of speakers and jury members confirmed. The event which was founded and organized by Johan Toresson, the business developer at Blekinge Business Incubator is also a primer for the Game Concept Challenge which aims to to stimulate the games industry in Karlshamn and to encourage more people to take their ideas from concept to the market as finished products.

So far confirmed speakers and jury include:
Torill Kornfeldt – SCIENCE (www.kornfeldt.se / twitter: @vet_Torill)
Mariam Zakarian – Amaryllis VR
Sally-Anne Kellaway – Zero Latency
Martin Kvale – Krillbite Studio
Sina Els – Crytek
Robin Hjelte – Forgotten Key
Niklas Odén – United Screens
Jennifer Kanary – Labyrinth Psychotica
Joonas Turner – Sound designer (Badlands, Nuclear Throne amongst others)
Armin Ibrisagic – Coffee Stain Studios
Ed Valiente – Nintendo
Tijmen Tio – Sokpop Collective
Tatiana Vilela – Mechbird

The deadline for submissions for GCC is April 25th with Creative Coast Festival set to take place on May 16th and May 17th. The event is free and open for all ages during the days!