Dubai GameExpo Summit 2025
2025-05-07..2025-05-08
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
[Dubai GameExpo Summit 2023, Dubai GameExpo Summit 2025]
who it's for
indie developers, mobile game publishers, platform partnerships managers, growth marketers, monetization managers, cloud engineers, localization managers
topics
ai generated video ads; ad creative a/b testing; xbox developer accelerator; cross platform porting support; mena market expansion; web3 crypto adoption; edge cloud game hosting; serverless workers and durable objects; web gaming optimization; mobile iap trends; telco distribution partnerships; platform distribution feeds
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| AI-Video Ads – Built 90% Faster & 80% Cheaper | Sam Wallace | 14m |
Claims an end-to-end platform that funnels competitor and ad‑library data into five pillars — analyze, ideate, create, test, scale — and uses AI agents to… | ||
| Xbox Discovery Day | Temi Afolabi | 01h 01m |
ID@Xbox actively recruits from expansion regions (Africa, MENA, LatAm, SEA) and reports 4,600 studios in program, ~2,600 games in development and ~2,400… | ||
| Global Strategies For Indie Success – Publishing, Monetisation, & Market Expansion... | Chris Meredith, Nick Poole, Stu Dinsey, Rytis Joseph Jan | 44m |
Counts: MENA has ~380 million Arabic speakers, 65% aged 18–35, and average ARPU cited around $85; one publisher reports MENA is only ~1.5% of revenue while UK… | ||
| A Year Of Growth Dubai’s Rise In Gaming & Web3 | Belal Jassoma | 18m |
Dubai reports that over a third of residents transact or own crypto with roughly $30 billion in transactions and about 500,000 daily users, plus 3.5 million… | ||
| Pushing To The Edge: Unlocking Gameplay Potential With The Cloud | Jason Attwood | 22m |
Cloudflare runs 335 POPs in 125+ countries with ~150 Tbps capacity and claims ~50 ms latency to 95% of users, used by CCP (300k monthly players), Subway… | ||
| Playhop: Current State & Opportunities For Developers | Nikita Bokarev | 23m |
PlayHop reports 20,000 games and 10M monthly players with average session lengths over 50 minutes and about 40M visits if counting short sessions. Platform… | ||
| State Of Gaming | Josh Skinner | 22m |
Sensor Tower mobile data shows consumer spend growing even as downloads shrink: 4% YoY increase in mobile game IAP alongside a global downloads decline… | ||
| nothing matches | ||