{"id":7586,"date":"2020-08-12T13:05:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T10:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlinelearning.aalto.fi\/?post_type=event&#038;p=7586"},"modified":"2020-08-12T13:06:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T10:06:23","slug":"online-panel-and-lectures-founding","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/onlinelearning.aalto.fi\/aol\/events\/online-panel-and-lectures-founding","title":{"rendered":"Online panel and lectures: Founding a Game Company (in Finland), Again! (panel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Games Now!<\/strong> is an open lecture series on the dominant topics and emerging trends in games.\u00a0 In Games Now! we dig deeper to what is current at the game scene \u2013 and what will happen in the near future. The topics and speaker invitations are curated in collaboration with Finland\u2019s game industry leaders and companies. Our guest speakers are industry leaders and inspiring individuals providing their insights and advise for students and practitioners.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The lecture series is run by Aalto University\u2019s Media Lab and is open for public.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>The lecture series has been developed as part of the Aalto University\u2019s Aalto\u00a0Online Learning \u00a0program.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Online Panel and Lecture:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Founding a Game Company (in Finland), Again! (panel)<br \/>\n<\/strong>Karoliina Korppoo, CEO and Creative Director (10th Muse), Samuli Syv\u00e4huoko<br \/>\n<em>more speakers will be confirmed later<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finland is a country of many successful game companies. The community of game developers is active and supportive of any new entrepreneurs and many of the industry actors have irreplaceable insight in how to found a game company \u2013 and still stay alive!\u00a0 On this lecture, experienced game professionals share their personal lessons on how to put together a game startup as they have done it first, second or even multiple times!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mon 25th January<br \/>\n15-17 (EET, UTC\/GMT+2)<br \/>\n@ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/gamesnowaaltofi\">https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/gamesnowaaltofi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-624\" src=\"http:\/\/gamesnow.aalto.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/pelikaroliina-512x484.png\" alt=\"Karoliina Korppoo\" width=\"256\" height=\"242\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Korppoo wants to create systems for others to express their creativity. These can be sandbox city-simulators like Cities: Skylines where she was the lead designer, or interactive story apps that her current startup is working on. Korppoo is one of the few Finns ever to have done a TED-talk and has spoken at many events around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-700 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/gamesnow.aalto.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Samuli_Syv%C3%A4huoko-256x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Syv\u00e4huoko is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He has founded 7 game studios and invested in 51 since 1995.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25\/01\/2021 @ 15:00 &#8211; 17:00 &#8211; Games Now! is an open lecture series on the dominant topics and emerging trends in games.\u00a0 In Games Now! we dig deeper to what is current at the game scene \u2013 and what will happen in the near future. The topics and speaker invitations are curated in collaboration with Finland\u2019s game industry leaders and companies. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":7564,"template":"","tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinelearning.aalto.fi\/aol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/7586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinelearning.aalto.fi\/aol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinelearning.aalto.fi\/aol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinelearning.aalto.fi\/aol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinelearning.aalto.fi\/aol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinelearning.aalto.fi\/aol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinelearning.aalto.fi\/aol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}