Speakers 2015
Alexey Burdyko
CEO GAME SHOW CIS
His portfolio includes organization of cyber-sport events with on-line audience of more than 4,5 million participants. Alexey founded three successful startups in advertisement, internet and gaming industries.
Successful cases:
*TECHLABS CUP – the biggest cyber-festival in CIS, which used to be in the top-5 list of the world’s biggest cyber-festivals;
*DreamHack Moscow – the world’s biggest international cyber-festival, presented in CIS in the frames international franchise (Game Show CIS is an exclusive representative of Dream Hack in CIS);
*Game Show Studio – gaming on-line television, owning the license rights for broadcasting of the key cyber-sport events from all over the world;
* Game Show is an exclusive operator of cyber-sport zone on the Game World exhibition;
* Since year 2014 Game Show has been organizing series of on-line leagues in computer sports – The Game Show League.
I play myself, when I have time for this.
If somebody told me that cyber-sport has no future, I would remind him that one day football was not considered to be the game for everybody.
If somebody told me, that cyber-sport is not a sport, I would remind him about chess and other intellectual sports, and also I would remind him, that in 2004 the State Sport Committee of Russian Federation included computer sports in the official register of sports. And if somebody told me, that there is no intellectual basics, I would suggest him to try the game. He would understand, that advantage is not the speed of pressing the buttons.
Most of all I dislike the prejudice, that gamers are geeks in glasses and old t-shirts. Gaming community has overcome these frames for a long time ago.