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

GIIKS GAME CITY

GIIKS GAME CITY-Live Streams

Live Streams, Discussions, Co-Operative And Competitive Games. What Are You Waiting For?

We are Giiks Game City (GGC), a non-profit organization with the primary goal of organizing gaming events, TV content, creating and re- modify existing local and contemporary games, for a wider audience.  Video gaming, a subculture of E-Sports (Electronic Sports) is seeing rapid growth in Ghana. The ubiquity of PC...

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...

QUILES LAW

QUILES LAW-POWERLEVELING ESPORTS BUSINESSES AND TALENT SINCE 2015

POWERLEVELING ESPORTS BUSINESSES AND TALENT SINCE 2015, WE ARE A BUSINESS-FORWARD LAW FIRM FOR THE GLOBAL ESPORTS AND GAMING INDUSTRIES

Quiles Law is one of the world’s first esports and gaming focused law firms. Based in New York City and founded by Roger Quiles in 2014, Roger merged his interest in sports and video games to focus the firm on the then nascent esports industry in 2015. Our firm represents...

CODE COVEN

CODE COVEN-BEWITCHINGLY DARING TO DEFY THE ODDS IN GAMING AND BEYOND

BEWITCHINGLY DARING TO DEFY THE ODDS IN GAMING AND BEYOND

The gaming community has always been full of diverse people and communities. However, the developers of games have not always reflected the same diversity. Marginalized people have not been offered many of the same opportunities as their counterparts. It’s time to move across the country, and the only person with...

JUST ESPORTS

JUST ESPORTS – BUILDING A BETTER WORLD FOR EACH AND EVERY GAMER

BUILDING A BETTER WORLD FOR EACH AND EVERY GAMER

Just Esports is an organization that is dedicated to working on justice initiatives in the esports and gaming space. Much of their work focuses on educational programs aimed at empowering others to promote justice in their respective groups and providing individuals with the best tools to build out esports communities...

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY

TO ENGAGE WITH OUR COMMUNITY OF STUDENTS, FACULTY, STAFF AND PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS WITH GAMING AND ESPORTS TOPICS WHILE PROMOTING EDUCATION AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN THIS SPACE

As is common with many of the great things that universities do, it all started with the students. The UK Esports Club was organized around 2017 by students who were interested in growing the community and helping different clubs focused on individual games to pool their resources and better leverage...

RITUAL MOTION

IS THE LEADING WELLNESS MEDIA BRAND SERVING AN AUDIENCE OF MILLIONS IN THE GAMING AND ESPORTS COMMUNITIES

The products and services we offer are all aligned with our strategic mission: creating products and content for the good of gamers. Dana Paul, the co-founder and CEO of Ritual Motion, realized there was a gap in the gaming and esports industry around health, wellness, diversity, and true human connectivity...

METRO ESPORTS

METRO ESPORTS-IS A BLACK-OWNED GAMING PLATFORM AIMED AT MAKING ESPORTS FOR EVERYBODY

IS A BLACK-OWNED GAMING PLATFORM AIMED AT MAKING ESPORTS FOR EVERYBODY

METRO IS A MULTICULTURAL ESPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTION AGENCY, CREATING AND PRODUCING DIGITAL, SOCIAL, MOBILE AND LIVE EVENTS DESIGNED TO ATTRACT, ENGAGE AND UPLIFT A BROAD AND DIVERSE AUDIENCE OF GAMING AND TECHNOLOGY ENTHUSIASTS. A college football player, I don’t come from the world of esports as I only understood...

CINEVVA

CINEVVA-DECENTRALIZING GAMING CONTENT AND STORIES FOR CREATIVES LEFT BEHIND

DECENTRALIZING GAMING CONTENT AND STORIES FOR CREATIVES LEFT BEHIND

Have you ever wondered what it takes to create content for games or interactive stories. The overwhelming number of 30+ tools you must juggle? What is the chance for you to succeed amidst the endless pool of published games? The team developing VIO, Oleg Sidorkin, CTO, xIBM Chief AI Architect...

LEARN2ESPORT'S

LEARN2ESPORT'S MISSION IS TO HELP YOUTH LEARN VALUABLE LIFE SKILLS THROUGH ESPORTS

MISSION IS TO HELP YOUTH LEARN VALUABLE LIFE SKILLS THROUGH ESPORTS

Their core product, Gameplan, helps players of all ages acquire real-world skills that aid professional development, cognitive abilities, promote healthy habits, and more.   Rasmus Sandstöm and Dan Andreasson started Learn2Esport in 2016 with the vision of engaging students through esports, and teaching them valuable life skills to prepare them...

HEY LISTEN GAMES

HEY LISTEN GAMES-Teaching With Video Games

Teaching With Video Games

Hey Listen Games was born out of my passion for gaming and my desire to find ways to best teach my students. I teach at Ellis Preparatory Academy, a public high school in New York City dedicated to a one hundred percent immigrant and ENL (English as a New Language)...

DREAMCRAFT

We Are Hands-On Venture Engineers Who Support Dreamers And Crafters Building Legendary Companies

At Dreamcraft, we invest in European tech-driven companies from pre-seed to Series A. We are generalists with a proven track record in iGaming, gaming, esports, D2C, B2B SaaS, and decarbonization. We believe success is created by a team of dreamers and crafters – and we are venture engineers who help...

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...

ONWARD PLAY

ONWARD PLAY-WE PUT GAMING TALENT TO WORK

WE PUT GAMING TALENT TO WORK

Onward Play is a nationwide game staffing agency specializing in freelance and direct hire. Onward Play’s niche is linking up creative, technical and production talent with incredible game, XR, and esports studios. Onward Play recruits talent for segments like PC, Console, Mobile, VR, AR, XR, esports, toys, casino and tabletop....

THE JACOBSON FIRM, P.C.

THE JACOBSON FIRM

Strives To Provide Industry Leading Legal Services For The Entertainment, Esports And Video Gaming Industries That Are Both Cost Efficient And Highly Effective

The Jacobson Firm, P.C. is an intellectual property, entertainment and esports business law firm located in New York City. The Firm handles all domestic and international trademarks, copyrights, and licensing matters for companies and entertainment influencers. They provide services to the esports, video game, music, and entertainment industries, as well...

LIVEWIRE

LIVEWIRE-Is Focused On Being The Global Leader In Gaming Marketing And Gametech That Works Horizontally Across All Gaming Verticals

Is Focused On Being The Global Leader In Gaming Marketing And Gametech That Works Horizontally Across All Gaming Verticals

Livewire is a global gaming marketing and gametech company that leads major brands and agencies into the gaming ecosystem. We create bespoke gaming strategies based on proprietary research and knowledge that build authentic and culturally relevant brand positions within the gaming audience and deliver results that build brands fame and...

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...

ESPOSURE

THE GOAL FOR ALL OF OUR PROGRAMS IS TO EDUCATE, ENTERTAIN, ENGAGE AND EMPOWER

“Esposure is connecting esports and education to create opportunities. We are committed to doing our part in building the esports talent pipeline through our Education to Entertainment ecosystem.” — Danny R. Martin Danny R. Martin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Esposure, Inc., a global esports technology company with an...

BEAMABLE

BEAMABLE-WE FREE THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF GAME MAKERS TO FOCUS ON WHAT THEY LOVE MOST: CREATIVITY

WE FREE THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF GAME MAKERS TO FOCUS ON WHAT THEY LOVE MOST: CREATIVITY

Trapper, Ali and I had lived through building and operating live games like Star Trek Timelines, investing millions to build up the infrastructure to enable it. We didn’t think anyone should have to do all of that again. Our team has a unique background that includes not only making games—but...

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....

GTR

GTR-ACCELERATE YOUR GAME DEVELOPMENT We Are Dedicated To Finding Talented Game Startups Around The World

ACCELERATE YOUR GAME DEVELOPMENT- We Are Dedicated To Finding Talented Game Startups Around The World

CREATIVE, SUSTAINABLE FUTURESGTR is an interactive accelerator program dedicated to supporting independent studios from all over the world. With the development, publishing and fundraising expertise they need to take their content global and towards a more sustainable business.     The interactive era is upon us. Independent developers all over...

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...

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...

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...

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