Ollie swapped the abacus for Sonic on the SEGA Mega Drive at neighbor Frank's house at an early age and has never looked back. With thousands of hours in Dota 2 (and no ability to show for it), he still clings on to the hope that one day, he will replicate Natus Vincere at gamescom 14 years ago and lift the Aegis of Champions.
Ollie has been at the intersection of video games, esports, and gambling for over ten years and has also worked in consultancy in the gambling industry. Ollie's work can be found on the likes of: BBC, Red Bull Gaming, Esports Insider, CasinoBeats, PC Gamer, Green Man Gaming as well as his own thought-leadership substack "Esprouts" looking at specific studies and stories where games meet gambling.
The Future Games Summit 2016 is a two day event getting underway on Wednesday. Esports Insider’s Ollie Ring will be present across both days.
Ollie will be moderating the closing panel on Advertising & Media Buying in Esports. The panel will be introduced by Matt Andrews and will feature the following names:
Tom Wallace – Director, Target Media
Mark Reed – Director, Heaven MediaOllie Ring, Esports Insider
Oliver Boden – Head of eSports Europe, IMG
Malph Minns – MD, Strive Sponsorship
Additionally, Ollie will be introducing two sessions on the Thursday.
The first is Regulation and protecting the integrity of Esports. The panel will be moderated by Dean Barrett – MD of Bastion.
The panellists are as follows:
Ian Smith – Esports Integrity Commissioner, ESIC
Jordan Fawcett – Marketing Executive, William Hill Adam Leadercramer – Partner, Onside Law
Kurt Pakendorf – Chief Strategy Officer, FACEIT
The second is a presentation made by Peter Warman, CEO of Newzoo. The presentation is set to cover the role of analytics in esports monetisation.
Lastly – Ollie will be appearing as one of the experts for the “VIP Speed Networking” on the Thursday morning.
The two day event covers a variety of events across the entire spectrum of esports and gaming. It’s to be held at the Millennium Mayfair Hotel and with over 50 speakers appearing across the two days – it should be a great event.
The first day covers “Finance, Investment & the Economics of the Games Industry” with the second day set to cover “Esports in 2016: Understanding the Growth Trajectory”.
Esports Insider says: I’m looking forward to attending the event and moderating a panel with some great minds. It’ll be great as always to meet like-minded individuals in the esports realm and also reach out to those who still aren’t sure exactly what esports is about.
Ollie Ring
Contributing Editor
Ollie swapped the abacus for Sonic on the SEGA Mega Drive at neighbor Frank's house at an early age and has never looked back. With thousands of hours in Dota 2 (and no ability to show for it), he still clings on to the hope that one day, he will replicate Natus Vincere at gamescom 14 years ago and lift the Aegis of Champions.
Ollie has been at the intersection of video games, esports, and gambling for over ten years and has also worked in consultancy in the gambling industry. Ollie's work can be found on the likes of: BBC, Red Bull Gaming, Esports Insider, CasinoBeats, PC Gamer, Green Man Gaming as well as his own thought-leadership substack "Esprouts" looking at specific studies and stories where games meet gambling.
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