List of Game Industry Events in Finland

IGDA Meetups (many cities)

Monthly meetups where the entrance is always free and doesn’t require an IGDA membership. Meetups happen in:

• Helsinki

• Turku

• Tampere

• Jyväskylä

• Kymenlaakso

• Pori

• Vaasa

• Outokumpu-Joensuu

• Kajaani

• Oulu

• Rovaniemi

• Kuopio

• Lahti

Finnish Game Jam (many cities)

Finnish Game Jam, is part of the Global Game Jam event always taking place at the end of January – all over the globe.

Games Job Fair (Helsinki)

An event dedicated to recruitment, career-building, and networking in the games industry!

IGDA Finland Leadership Day (Helsinki)

Leadership Day by IGDA Finland is an international event about how we build companies, teams and working cultures to build better games.

Assembly (Helsinki)

Big demoscene and gaming event in Finland.

Boozembly (Helsinki)

Boozembly is the biggest annual demoscene shadow party.

Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki (Helsinki)

Pocket Gamer Connects is the leading international conference series for the global games industry.

Press Start (Helsinki)

Kick off your Slush week with a gathering of 1,000 game developers.

Indie Beer Helsinki (Helsinki)

An event where indie game developers, and interested people, get together for a beer, milk, wine, or whatever suits their taste, to talk about games, game developement, and maybe even see some unreleased stuff!

Northern Game Summit (Kajaani)

An annual event for networking between people of all skill levels of game development.

Vaasa Game Days (Vaasa)

Vaasa Game Days is an international event focusing not only on digital and analog games but also on companies operating in the gaming industry.

Note: This list isn’t definitive and we will keep adding new events here when we encounter them.