Screen Shift: The Future of Entertainment, Creators, and Gaming
Session Overview
Screen Shift: The Future of Entertainment, Creators, and Gaming
Entertainment is fragmenting and expanding simultaneously. Documentaries move markets and shape public opinion. Creators with phones outperform studios with budgets. Gaming isn't a niche—it's a $200 billion industry where esports athletes fill stadiums and streamers command audiences larger than cable networks. The gatekeepers are gone; distribution is direct; and the line between player, viewer, and creator keeps blurring. This session examines who's building the next generation of entertainment, where capital is flowing, and what "mainstream" even means anymore.
Entertainment Rewired: How We Watch, Learn, and Scroll
Entertainment is everywhere—and it's doing more than ever. A 60-second TikTok teaches global economics. A Netflix documentary sparks a movement. Podcasters build audiences bigger than cable networks. Creators bypass studios entirely and thrive. Gaming communities gather millions to watch, learn, and connect. The best content now entertains, educates, and informs all at once—and audiences are more engaged than ever. This panel explores how social media, streaming, and emerging formats are reshaping storytelling, influence, and culture. We bring together creators, platforms, and investors to examine who's winning attention, what formats are working, and where entertainment goes next.
Host / Speakers
Carlo Rizzo — Founder CinemaO - The Black Cube
Danar Worya — Creative Director Bright Winter Studio
Niklas Schwab — Content Creator & Founder Hedgefonds Henning & HYPER Magazine
Kevin Matossian — CEO / Producer SilverCrest Entertainment
Sarthak Ahuja — Director Niamh Ventures
Gaming at the Frontline of Human Connection: Trust, Wellbeing and Healthy Play in a Changing Tech Landscape
Gaming at the Frontline of Human Connection: Trust, Wellbeing and Healthy Play in a Changing Tech Landscape
Gaming has become one of the most important social spaces of our time, a place where young people learn, connect, collaborate and build identity. As technology continues to evolve, games increasingly shape how people build skills, experience wellbeing and form meaningful connections. At the same time, gaming environments are exposed to a wide spectrum of cyber threats—from account compromise, fraud and AI-enabled manipulation to cyberbullying, harassment, grooming and other forms of online predation—each with direct implications for mental health and healthy participation.
This panel explores how gaming can be intentionally designed as a positive force for human development, focusing on healthy gameplay, trust and wellbeing. While new technologies play a growing role in how games are built and moderated, the discussion centres on the human outcomes that matter most: learning, resilience, belonging and responsible engagement.
Bringing together perspectives from across industry, education and advocacy, the session will examine how collaboration and shared responsibility can help ensure gaming environments remain safe, enriching and future-ready, while preserving the joy, creativity and community at the heart of play.
Host / Speakers
Ignat Bobrovich — CEO Valvur.AI
Lucy Chow — Investor & Author Women in Games (Ambassador)
Jude Ower — Chief Strategy Officer PlanetPlay
Susanna Pollack — President Games for Change
Emma Richards — Head of Communications Americas & EMEA Tencent
Mathias Gredal Noervig — CEO SYBO
Future of X
Industries in Transition
Industries are changing faster than incumbents can adapt. This program examines four sectors in transition—education and work, media and news, boards and leadership, entertainment and gaming—looking one year out and three years out.
The audience is deliberately mixed: investors looking for opportunities, startups building new models, scaleups proving what works, service providers enabling change, think tanks researching what comes next, and policymakers trying to keep pace.
The goal isn't just understanding what's changing. It's finding solutions that fit, identifying investable opportunities, and connecting people who can actually move things forward. Each session covers what's deployable now, what's emerging, and where the gaps are between what exists and what's needed.
Come to learn. Come to explore. Come to connect with people building what's next.