Forschung und Projekte

Gaming & Esports Summit

Economics & Business Conference
Oct. 10/11, 2024

Call for Papers

The conference will take place at ESCP in Berlin.

The conference will provide a platform for exchanging innovative thoughts and creating cooperation between researchers in the fields of business & economics related to gaming and esports.

We are inviting proposals for paper presentations as well as complete sessions consisting out of three papers/presenters.

This conference provides researchers with an opportunity to present theoretical, empirical, and policy-oriented research on:

Music in games
Games and health care
Serious games and gamification
Soft skills education
Sports analytics
Tournament design
Virtual economies
Intellectual Property and Copyright Issues
Marketing and Intelligent Advertisement
Business, Economy, and Entrepreneurship
Social and Ethical Issues
Games and human behavior
Investment activity in the digital media and video game industry
Loot boxes, dark patterns and truth in advertising
Free-to-Play: Mobile Video Games, Bias, and Norms
Real Games: What’s Legitimate and What’s Not in Contemporary Video Games
The ecosystem of esports
The dark side of gaming & esports
Sport, Esports, and gaming: Definitions and deliminations
Esports in Europe, Asia, and the US
Free to play versus premium
In-game-shops
Doping: Legalize it?
Governance in esports
Major events
International esports policy
Betting market efficiency and anomalies
Forecasting match & league outcomes
Uncertainty in match and league outcome: Does it matter?
Changes of the rules of the game and its impact on the attractiveness of the sport
Demand for tickets
Demand for talents: esports and the labor market
Game publisher
Market entry strategies
Riot, Valve, Blizzard, LoL, CSGO, Dota2, R6, Fortnite, PUBG, Starcraft, Warcraft

Organizing Committee 2024

Prof. Dr. Georg Stadtmann

European University Viadrina

Gonçalo Pina

ESCP Business School

Program Committee

Prof. Dr. Dennis Coates

UMBC

Prof. Dr. Jens Junge

Institute for Ludology – SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences

Prof. Dr. Sonja Klose

HWR Berlin

Dr. Peter Kreutter

WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management

Dr. Timo Schöber

European University Viadrina and lvlup!HR

Manouchehr Shamsrizi

Humboldt University – gamelab.berlin

For submission, please send your full paper or an extended abstract (cover page + 2 pages executive summary) as a PDF or Word document to videogaming@europa-uni.de
Only electronic submissions will be considered.
Submission deadline: June 30th, 2024.
All presenters receive a final decision until July 15th, 2024.

Conference fee

The conference fee has to be paid within two weeks after acceptance of the paper to qualify for the early bird rate (200 €). The normal rate for a payment within one month after acceptance is 250 €, the fee for a late registration is 300 €.

Payments can be made by bank transfeer. Details will follow.

An early registration and payment facilitate the organization of the conference as well as the planning process tremendously.

The final payment deadline is Aug. 15th, 2024.

Refund policy: See FAQs.

Attending the conference without paper presentation

Everybody is invited to attend the conference without presenting a paper. The fee for a non-presenter is 150€.
Please send an email to videogaming@europa-uni.de until end of July 2024 in order to register as a non-presenter.

Final program

The final program will be available in the end of August 2024.

Refund

Cancellation and request for a refund earlier than 90 days prior to the conference: The refund is 60% of the registration fee. Cancellation and request for a refund between 90 and 60 days prior to the conference: The refund is 40% of the registration fee.
Cancellation and request for a refund less than 60 days prior to the conference: No refund.
No exception for registrants unable to obtain a travel visa. Obtaining a travel visa is the responsibility of the registrant. We will assist by providing an invitation letter for paid registrants, but we are not an authority on visa issues. We cannot help with speeding up the visa process. No exception will be made to the cancellation/refund policy for registrants due to travel related issues or natural disasters, etc.

Viadrina GründerInnen meet @ Kelso Institute Europe

The longer you think about Kelso, the more interesting his ideas become. What other book author has managed to be on the NOT_WANTED_LIST with both the Americans and the Russians. With the Americans he was considered a communist, with the Russians a capitalist. What more do you want?

All in all very nice evening, thanks to colleague Lowitzsch for the hospitality.

Three start-ups were on site:

Antonia Zock from Aivitex: AIVITEX is the all-in-one solution for better customer support. Their video-based tool combines multiple features to help you remotely support customers from diagnosis to successful resolution.

What is it about? For example, insurance claim. Insurance staff would need to drive out, look at the damage, and then hire tradespeople. But this initial damage assessment can just as easily be done via video to see if a home visit is necessary, or what preparations need to be made for the visit. Customers are housing cooperatives, insurance companies, student unions, etc. Anyone in DACH who has good contacts can contact Antonia.

Thomas Jürgeleit & colleagues have developed a mini camera that can be powered by battery for a very long time. Athletes can be equipped with this camera to generate video footage from the athlete's perspective. Streaming is possible. Yesterday, an application took place at ViaRunning. Customers are companies that record sporting events. An add-on to traditional camera work! Customers: Worldwide.

Salih Paksoy, Rosemann Textilien GmbH Berlin sells textiles under his own labels via AMAZON. These are especially socks and basic t-shirts. The quality is really good, the thermal socks for the black patent leather shoes are suuuper warm. Who wants to try: For example black Herzberg socks!

To conclude: I thought it was great. All participants were also enthusiastic!

Linkedin:

Zock: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoniazock/
Jürgeleit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-j%C3%BCrgeleit-15372b247/?originalSubdomain=de
Paksoy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/salihpaksoy/

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