GameOps Sets Its Sights on Producing a New Game Development Summit in the Philippines Sights on Producing a New Game Development Summit in the Philippines
GameOps is taking another step in its commitment to Philippine game industry development as it begins work on GameDev Summit, a new international B2B event envisioned to connect the Philippines and the wider Asia-Pacific region with the global game development community.
March 2023, Philippines — After more than a decade of working with game developers and publishers around the world, GameOps, Inc. is setting its sights on a new undertaking: creating an industry event that brings game development professionals, businesses, and advocates together in the Philippines.
GameOps is currently working on the development and production of GameDev Summit (GDS), an upcoming business-to-business game development event envisioned as a platform for meaningful conversations, knowledge exchange, networking, and long-term industry partnerships.
The initiative is part of GameOps’ broader commitment to helping grow the Philippine game development industry and creating more opportunities for the country to connect with the international games market.
Creating a New Meeting Point for the Game Development Industry
The global video game industry is built on collaboration.
Behind every successful game is an increasingly interconnected ecosystem of developers, publishers, external development partners, technology providers, service companies, investors, and other specialists working across different markets.
For GameOps, this presents an opportunity for the Philippines.
With a growing pool of game development talent and years of experience supporting international game companies, the country has the potential to become a stronger part of the global game development ecosystem.
GameDev Summit is being developed with that opportunity in mind.
Rather than creating another consumer gaming convention, GDS is envisioned as an industry-focused B2B game development summit where professionals can build relationships, exchange ideas, discover opportunities, and have conversations that can lead to meaningful partnerships.
Why GameOps Is Producing GameDev Summit
Since its founding in 2010, GameOps has worked closely with companies across the international video game industry.
Through that experience, the company has seen firsthand just how important relationships are in game development.
Projects often begin with a conversation. Partnerships grow from introductions. New markets become accessible because the right people meet each other. Knowledge is shared when industry professionals are given the opportunity to sit together and talk openly about their experiences and challenges.
This is the thinking behind GameDev Summit.
For GameOps, producing GDS is not simply about organizing an event. It is about creating another platform for industry development.
The company wants to use the international relationships and industry experience it has built over the years to help bring more global conversations and opportunities closer to the Philippine game development community.
At the same time, the summit presents an opportunity to introduce international industry professionals to the talent, capabilities, and potential emerging from the Philippines and the wider Asia-Pacific region.
Putting Business and Relationships at the Center
GameDev Summit is being designed around a fundamental principle: the most valuable part of an industry event is often the people you meet.
While talks, panels, and workshops will play an important role in exchanging knowledge, GameOps wants GDS to create an environment where conversations can continue beyond the stage.
The team is exploring a program centered around B2B networking, industry discussions, knowledge sharing, business matchmaking, workshops, and opportunities for developers and companies to connect directly with potential partners.
The intention is to make it easier for attendees to move beyond exchanging business cards and toward building genuine professional relationships.
GameOps also wants the summit to encourage conversations around the broader realities of making games—from development and production to external development, operations, investment, publishing, original IP, talent, and the future of the industry.
Connecting the Philippines to the Global Games Industry
The Philippines has long contributed talent and expertise to international game projects.
Filipino developers, artists, quality assurance professionals, game operations specialists, player support teams, and other professionals have worked behind the scenes on games played by millions of people around the world.
GameOps believes there is an opportunity to make those capabilities more visible.
Bringing international game development professionals into the Philippines can provide a new way for global companies to experience the local industry firsthand, meet Philippine companies and developers, and better understand what the country can contribute to the global games ecosystem.
At the same time, having an international industry event closer to home can give Philippine developers and studios greater access to conversations and relationships that often require traveling to major industry events overseas.
GameDev Summit aims to help shorten that distance.
Strengthening Asia-Pacific Game Development Connections
While strengthening the Philippine game development ecosystem is an important motivation behind the initiative, GameOps’ vision for GameDev Summit extends beyond the country.
The Asia-Pacific region is home to some of the world’s most important and fastest-evolving video game markets, as well as an increasingly diverse network of development studios, service providers, independent developers, publishers, and technology companies.
However, opportunities remain to create stronger connections between these communities and their counterparts in North America, Europe, and other international markets.
GameOps sees GDS as an opportunity to help build those bridges.
By bringing professionals from different markets into one environment, the summit can create space for new partnerships, greater knowledge exchange, and a better understanding of the capabilities emerging across the region.
More Than an Event: An Investment in Industry Development
GameDev Summit is also part of a larger direction for GameOps.
As the company continues to work with international game developers and publishers, GameOps believes its role in the industry can extend beyond the services it provides to its clients.
The company wants to contribute to building an ecosystem where more Philippine game companies can grow, more local talent can access international opportunities, and more global industry players can discover what the Philippines has to offer.
That means creating opportunities beyond GameOps itself.
Producing GameDev Summit is one way the company hopes to do that.
A stronger Philippine games industry benefits everyone participating in it. More international connections can create more partnerships. More partnerships can create more projects. More projects can generate opportunities for companies and talent, while greater knowledge exchange can help raise the capabilities of the ecosystem as a whole.
Building Something for the Industry, With the Industry
GameOps is still in the early stages of developing GameDev Summit, with more details about the event, its program, participants, collaborations, and other opportunities to be shared as plans progress.
But the ambition behind the project is already clear.
GameOps wants to create a summit that feels purposeful, collaborative, and genuinely valuable to the people building games and the businesses supporting them.
It is an ambitious undertaking—but one that reflects what GameOps believes industry development should be about: bringing people together, opening doors, sharing opportunities, and creating the conditions for meaningful partnerships to grow.
With GameDev Summit, GameOps hopes to create a new meeting point for the Philippine, Asia-Pacific, and global game development communities.
And this is only the beginning.
Stay tuned for more information about GameDev Summit as GameOps continues to develop the event and work with industry stakeholders in the Philippines and around the world.