WINGS Lounge 2025, powered by MeetToMatch

Join us at the WINGS Lounge, powered by MeetToMatch! - ACCESSIBLE TO ALL INDIES, with a focus on women and other gender-marginalized industry-professionals.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION:
Where: GoTo 10 Malmö - Carlsgatan 12A, Malmö
When: Wed May 21, 9.30-16.30, Thurs May 22, 9.30-16.00
Who: This year we can only accommodate indie game developers and publishers/investors.
Access: Registration is required

WINGS Tickets for INDIE developers and Publishers/Investors - FREE

This event is focused on women and gender-marginalized indie game developers meeting with publishers and investors. If we combine this with the limited space of our venue, we currently do not have an option for suppliers to partake in this event. We hope to be able to grow our event (location) in years to come, to be able to include suppliers.

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Highlights/Schedule

Wed May 21st

Breakfast [9:30am-10.30 am]

Hosted by WINGS, this unique initiative aims to create a supportive and inclusive environment where game industry professionals can book their business meetings and connect with fellow game developers, industry professionals, and potential collaborators in a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere.

Meeting Space [ALL DAY] Book your meeting via the MeetToMatch platform. Limited tables are available.

”Spill the Tea” Panel [1.30pm-2.15pm]

The games industry is in the gutter—and it’s time to flip the script.

Starting a studio today? Good luck. No transparency, shady deals, and a system stacked against you.

So we’re done playing nice. This panel’s all about spilling the tea. No NDAs, no filters. Just raw, real talk—from platform pros and cons to the worst publishing deals we’ve seen (and how bad they messed things up). We'll be discussing industry deals and current trends related to publishing deals, royalties, recoup, deals structure, up ownership, and more.

• Panel start time: 1.30 PM-2.15 PM
• Panel lead: Sophie Atkin, founder at Secret Sauce
• Panel Guests:
  🎤 Rebecca Lautner - Chief Business Officer at Landfall
  🎤 Lína Ingvarsdóttir - Founding Partner at Behold Ventures
  🎤 Johan Toresson - Head of Scouting at Raw Fury
  🎤 Astrid Refstrup - Business Development and Developer Relations at WINGS
  🎤 Yves Le Yaouanq - Chief Content Officer Chez Focus Entertainment
  
  Thu May 22nd

Meeting Space [ALL DAY]Book your meetings via the MeetToMatch platform

Sophie is one of the co-founders of SECRET SAUCE, a marketing and co-publishing agency founded in 2024. She has been in the games industry for five years, working across everything from events to marketing to business development and has worked on numerous games across AA and the indie space. When not working, she is probably being overly competitive in a video game, boogying to zumba or tearing out weeds in the garden.

Rebecca is Chief Business Officer at Landfall, an indie studio based in Stockholm, Sweden and the dev behind games such as Clustertruck, Stickfight, TABS, ROUNDS, Content Warning and most recently Haste. She is responsible for everything related to brand-building and business development. Landfall also functions as an investor for external indie games. Before joining Landfall she was heading an initiative funded by the European Union that focused on building a global network for the industry and nurturing business opportunities across borders.

Sigurlína Ingvarsdóttir is a founding partner at Behold Ventures, a venture capital fund investing in early-stage game industry companies across the Nordics and Europe. With over 15 years of experience in game development, she has played a pivotal role in shaping some of the industry’s most renowned projects.

Before co-founding Behold Ventures, Sigurlína worked as a producer at leading studios, including CCP in Iceland, Ubisoft Massive, and EA DICE in Sweden, where she led the Star Wars Battlefront franchise. At EA Sports in Vancouver, she guided strategy for the globally successful FIFA series, and from 2018 to 2020, she worked at Bonfire Studios in California, contributing to the very recently announced game Arkheron.

Sigurlína holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Iceland and combines her technical expertise with a passion for fostering the next generation of game industry innovators.

Helping with scouting @ Raw Fury, previously bizdev in games incubation etc. Avid french speaker.

Developer Relations & Business Development at Wings, supporting their portfolio studios and looking for new games by female and gender minority leads. Parttime law student. She was previously the CEO and Founder of Triple Topping Games, Advisor to Kowloon Nights, and served on the board of Global Game Jam. Astrid is working dedicated to a more transparent and inclusive games industry.

Yves started his career over 25 years ago in the games industry, first on MUDs and MMORPGs, to then join Ubisoft for 11 years in strategic positions to help expanding the PC and Online expertise, while building bridges with external developers.In 2021, Yves joined Focus Entertainment as Chief Content Officer, to support the Publishing and Acquisition Portfolio transformation, welcoming new games, talents and studios from across the world.

Note: Guests are NOT required to hold a Nordic Game Conference ticket to join. This event is independently organised by WINGS and is not connected to the conference program.

Learn more about us and apply for our funding at wingsfund.me