The B2B Event
Since 2012, it has been the largest business hub for the gaming industry in Latin America. It is also the largest independent games festival in the region, one of the largest in the world.
It is the best-known Brazilian event abroad, attended by the main gaming companies in the world.
In 2022, BIG Festival became part of the Omelete Company, the main entertainment company in Brazil, which includes CCXP (the largest pop culture festival in the world), Omelete (a pioneering portal in pop culture and geek content), The Enemy (a portal specializing in games and technology), Gaules (most watched streamer on Twitch), among other brands.
In 2024, it became gamescom latam, becoming part of the family of existing gamescom formats – the original, in Cologne, Germany (the largest B2B and B2C games event in the world), and gamescom asia, which takes place in Singapore.
How it works
Efficient B2B meetings
The ticket to the Business Area gives you access to our meeting platform:
- Find the best companies and manage your meetings
- Create a page with your products
- Access the platform all year-round after the event for online meetings!
- Choose whether people can invite you to meetings or not
- For online meetings, choose your favorite calling tool
- For face-to-face meetings, the system indicates the table where you will meet (access to the tables comes with the ticket)
Speaking sessions
More than 200 hours of talks about games divided into several tracks, including:
- Audio in games
- Art and design
- Careers in games
- Education and games
- Game design
- Investments
- Mobile, PC, console and Virtual Reality
- Monetization
- Technologies and tools
About a quarter of the sessions will be streamed live online.
Games festival
Each year, the best games in the world are selected to participate in different areas of the festival:
- BIG Festival: A competitive showcase of the best indie games from around the world competing for awards
- Brazil Panorama: a non-competitive showcase of Brazilian games also selected by the Festival’s Selection Committee
- World Panorama: space for the major and medium sized publishers to release new games
In 2024, more than 80 unreleased games were released at the event!
Check out the highlights
gamescom latam BIG Festival
2024 Winners