INNOVATE® Gaming & Esports

Innovations of the World

INNOVATE® Gaming & Esports

INNOVATE® Gaming & Esports is OTW. (That’s game-speak for “on the way.”)

This comprehensive overview of one of the fastest-growing industries on the planet is not just for gaming royalty, it’s perfect for any business-minded person who wants in on the world of gaming and esports.

The INNOVATE® Gaming & Esports book showcases the people, companies, products, and services that are leading the race within the gaming/esports industry’s innovation ecosystem.

Complete with augmented reality video, game demos, an online platform, and networking opportunities, INNOVATE® Gaming & Esports is helping innovators and innovation enablers in the industry to connect and succeed.

In addition to the great content within the book, there are bonus videos, articles, research papers, event passes and so much more that can be unlocked with your purchase of INNOVATE® Gaming & Esports. 

Gaming Esports

Featured Thought Leaders

Featured Thought Leaders

Featured Innovators

Featured Innovators

BETTER THAN UNICORNS

VIRTUAL REALITY- A Powerful Tool for Connection and Compassion

Virtual reality is an essential tool for building compassion and expanding awareness about how we relate to failing and learning from those moments....

FULL SAIL UNIVERSITY

FULL SAIL UNIVERSITY-Every Single Degree That We Have Is Touching Esports In Some Capacity. We’re Seeing It Everywhere

Every Single Degree That We Have Is Touching Esports In Some Capacity. We’re Seeing It Everywhere

For Full Sail University, esports came naturally. Since the school has offered gaming degrees for over 25 years, it came as no surprise when esports culture became widespread among Full Sail’s students. The wildly popular degree programs have made gaming just as prevalent on campus as music or film. And...

LimpidFrog

Joins the INNOVATE® Scholar Gamers Program

LimpidFrog is an art and design service to Indie and small-sized gaming companies in India, Chile, Hong Kong, France, and the United States....

GUARDIANGAMER

GUARDIANGAMER-GAMING FROM A DIFFERENT VIEW

GAMING FROM A DIFFERENT VIEW

Heidi is an entrepreneur and computer scientist who anticipates the needs of businesses and society as they’re transformed by digital technology. She earned her Master’s in Computer Science at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. She is constantly seeking the edge of change and where she finds it, she...

NUTRIGMR

NUTRIGMR-TO EQUIP GAMERS WITH “BETTER FOR YOU” PERFORMANCE BACKED BY INNOVATIVE NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE

TO EQUIP GAMERS WITH “BETTER FOR YOU” PERFORMANCE BACKED BY INNOVATIVE NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE

Innovative, science-backed product portfolio with cognitive health ingredients for esport athletes, gamers and streamers to consume before and during games and streams, designed to meet the needs of the gaming community.     Our team started studying esports athletes in 2018 and quickly saw a need to provide a healthy...

CODECOMBAT

CODECOMBAT-How An EdTech Startup Is Reinventing Esports And Providing A Competitive Platform For Creative Coders

How An EdTech Startup Is Reinventing Esports And Providing A Competitive Platform For Creative Coders

At the start of 2021 we launched the CodeCombat AI League. Built on the foundation of our annual CodeQuest competitive coding hackathon, this new and innovative esport was born. The CodeCombat AI League is the first of its kind, part AI battle simulator and part code engine for learning real...

302 INTERACTIVE

302 INTERACTIVE- IS A STUDIO OF GAME DESIGNERS ON A MISSION TO SAVE THE WORLD BY BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY AND REAL-WORLD SOLUTIONS

IS A STUDIO OF GAME DESIGNERS ON A MISSION TO SAVE THE WORLD BY BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY AND REAL-WORLD SOLUTIONS

Over the last seven years, their mission has been to provide an environment that brings game developers together to build the games of today and the metaverse of tomorrow. As digital experience developers, 302 Interactive has adopted the best practices of modern game development, product design, lean, and agile methodologies...

THEGAMEHERS

THEGAMEHERS-IS THE FIRST AND LARGEST MEDIA PLATFORM

IS THE FIRST AND LARGEST MEDIA PLATFORM, SOCIAL NETWORKING COMMUNITY, AND LIFESTYLE BRAND FOR WOMEN WHO GAME AND WHO WORK IN THE GAMING SPACE

The global gaming market is forecast to worth $257 billion by 2025 and of the 2.7 billion gamers worldwide, 46% of them are women. The majority of these women experience hate and toxicity while gaming, simply for being women. In fact, in an effort to avoid harassment, 75% of women...

BASHER

WE WILL HELP YOU POSITION YOUR BRAND INTO THE GAMING & ESPORTS INDUSTRY WITH THE MOST CREATIVE CAMPAIGNS ACCORDING TO YOUR BRAND

“At the beginning of this pandemic, during my free time, I started consuming video game streams, and on one of the many channels that Facebook Gaming has, I met again with Jose Vargas, who had just started streaming #Dota2 content from Amsterdam. In the coming months, we understood how big...

SUGAR GAMERS

SUGAR GAMERS- MEET THE NEW FACE OF GEEK CULTURE

MEET THE NEW FACE OF GEEK CULTURE

GAMING APPEALS TO OUR INNATE SENSE OF HUMANITY. IT INSPIRES CREATIVITY, PLAY, CONNECTIVITY, AND COMMUNITY These also happen to be the fundamentals of today’s video games. This wasn’t designed by accident, either. Playing video games empowers people no matter their backgrounds, religion, politics, race, gender or location. Sugar Gamers exemplify...

GALAXIS

Reimagining Content Sharing To Make Monetization Better For Everyone

This is the story about a company with such potential, it could become a top 10 startup. A bold claim? Sure! Backed by facts? Stay tuned. It has adventure, love, death, and much, much more. It’s the story about a company with a concept so innovative, its creator accurately predicted...

UKNIGHTED XP

UKNIGHTED XP- We Play For The World

We Play For The World

A 501(c)3 nonprofit charity dedicated to communities, leaders, and organizations by offering innovative consultant services. In 2018, UKnightedXP, Inc. (UKXP) was like all ventures in the beginning – an idea and a dream. Devastated by hurricane Michael, the Panhandle of Florida was reeling from one of the most devastating category...

EMOTIONAL IDEAS

EMOTIONAL IDEAS-BATTLE RACING: A New Combat Motorsport Built for Drivers

BATTLE RACING: A New Combat Motorsport Built for Drivers, Designed for Gamers… THE NEXT EVOLUTION OF RACING

Emotional Ideas, inc. aka EI, is a sports and entertainment technology company revolutionizing known attractions, games, and products for the next generation of entertainment thrill-seekers. We are currently taking the popular sport of go-kart racing and combining it with the strategy and skill of Esports gaming to pioneer a new...

Most Vicious Players

Most Vicious Players (MVPs)- Is A Stylishly Unstoppable Call Of Duty Team That Displays Its Community’s Talents Through Esports Events

Is A Stylishly Unstoppable Call Of Duty Team That Displays Its Community’s Talents Through Esports Events

Most Vicious Players is now the parent company of the Amateur Esports Union (AEU). But before the AEU was created, MVPs has been most well known for its individual players having live-streamed over 1000 wins in a row on YouTube, in which this live stream record has not been broken...

MEDIA INDIE EXCHANGE

MEDIA INDIE EXCHANGE-THE MIX BIOGRAPHY AND IMPACT

THE MIX BIOGRAPHY AND IMPACT

The Media Indie Exchange (The MIX) is a platform all about celebrating amazing games and the diverse creators who make them. The organization was started by indie developers for indie developers worldwide in order to provide grassroots networking showcase opportunities to help further their success at a time where it...

JOHNSON C. SMITH UNIVERSITY (JCSU)

ESPORTS AND GAMING TRIFECTA, THE FIRST AT AN HBCU

In February 2019, a mere conversation that I had with a JCSU athletics administrator about the paucity of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that possessed structured on-campus esports programming became the impetus behind my development of a proposal later that day for an esports and gaming academic program. The...

FEMME GAMING

FEMME GAMING-#TheFutureIsFemme

#TheFutureIsFemme

Our mission is simple: to shake the foundations of the gaming industry, one empowered woman at a time by providing a safe space for female gamers to play and showcase their talents. While we’re not the first to recognize the stigma of women in video games, we’re one of the...

FLAMEHAWK STUDIOS

FLAMEHAWK STUDIOS-“PLAY YOUR HOMEWORK” WITH THE MECHANICAL WORLD OF DR. GEARBOX

"PLAY YOUR HOMEWORK” WITH THE MECHANICAL WORLD OF DR. GEARBOX

Flamehawk Studios is a “games for good” startup that focuses on three main themes: e-learning, diversity and inclusion, and charity. Flamehawk’s first effort is The Mechanical World of Dr. Gearbox. Teachers may consider it a remote learning tool but students consider it a fun game that is clearly inspired by...

WELCOME TO PHORCE MANAGEMENT GROUP

WELCOME TO PHORCE MANAGEMENT GROUP - WHERE WE SHOWCASE THE BEST TALENT AND CONTENT IN GAMING

WHERE WE SHOWCASE THE BEST TALENT AND CONTENT IN GAMING

As a Sport Management professor, I sat and spoke to my students about the various aspects of gaming. Knowing the majority of my classes were filled with gamers, we would have countless discussions about the business and possibilities of esports. From these conversations I saw first hand how limited the...

BRASS CITY GAMERS

BRASS CITY GAMERS-WE BELIEVE THAT EVERY PERSON

WE BELIEVE THAT EVERY PERSON, REGARDLESS OF AGE OR SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS, CAN LEARN ADVANCED COMPUTER SCIENCE AND DIGITAL MEDIA SKILLS

Brass City Gamers Tournament’s mission is to educate our local community in STEM learning including digital media, gaming, coding, and information technology, our aim is to foster strong computer competency skills to prepare for the developing new-collar jobs of the 21st Century. We are a 501c3 nonprofit organization located in...

WETHINK

WETHINK-Build Better Humans By Empowering Individuals With Data-Driven Feedback In Regards To How They Interact With Others Through Esports And Gaming

Build Better Humans By Empowering Individuals With Data-Driven Feedback In Regards To How They Interact With Others Through Esports And Gaming

The team at weThink spent years working directly with schools, coaches and players to develop programs that focused on social and emotional skill growth backed by research with the Assessment and Achievement institute at Kansas University. Team-based games and esports are the perfect environment for social skills to flourish, and...

EsportScholar

EsportScholar-Is located at the intersection of esports and education

Is located at the intersection of esports and education, and is home to the future of learning and competition

Our after-school league coalesces in-game coaching with STEAM instruction into a dynamic, engaging program for organizations, schools and school districts. We’re in the business of building vibrant esports communities with the goal of being the highlight of our students’ days. We believe in recognizing abilities that have (for far too...

METARENA

METARENA - BUILDING THE (INCLUSIVE) BRIDGE BETWEEN WHERE ESPORTS IS AND WHERE IT COULD BE

BUILDING THE (INCLUSIVE) BRIDGE BETWEEN WHERE ESPORTS IS AND WHERE IT COULD BE

MetArena provides an easy and positive way for communities and companies to engage using gaming and esports. Democratization and education are the driving forces behind our mission to provide the world with an opportunity to experience all the good games can bring. If you’re working in esports, one of the...

Respawn Therapy

Respawn Therapy- Is A Group Of Doctors Of Physical Therapy That Strive To Help Gamers Play With Healthier Habits And Less Pain

Is A Group Of Doctors Of Physical Therapy That Strive To Help Gamers Play With Healthier Habits And Less Pain

We’ve taken the lessons learned from our extensive experience in working with professional players to teach gamers of every level how to play while simultaneously reducing risk of injury. Everyone plays better when they play pain-free and we want to help them achieve that.   I started Respawn Therapy in...

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