Pocket Gamer Connects London 2027

Pocket Gamer Connects London is the January flagship of the Pocket Gamer Connects conference series, run by Steel Media, the company behind Pocket Gamer. The 2027 edition takes place on 18 and 19 January in central London. The series began in 2014 as a conference about smartphone games; the organiser says the London show now spans mobile, PC, console, AI, cross-media and the wider app economy. The event is split between two sites roughly 180 metres apart. The Brewery on Chiswell Street has hosted the conference since 2016, and the Barbican Centre on Silk Street joined for the 2026 edition. For the event as a whole, the organiser cites 3,000 attendees from 1,600 companies and 70 countries, around 300 speakers and more than 60 hours of content. The programme runs across more than 30 conference tracks alongside an expo floor. Meetings are arranged through MeetToMatch, and every ticket has to be registered to its holder's own email address for the meeting tool to work. Fringe formats include Investor Connector, where investors choose the studios they want to meet, and Publisher SpeedMatch. Independent developers get the Big Indie Pitch in mobile and PC/console editions, the Big Indie Zone and an Audience Choice award. A Careers Zone, a Journalist Bar and two parties, one before the conference and one after the first day, round out the schedule. A single ticket also covers the partner summits; in 2026 these were the Apps Business Summit and Beyond Games: Transmedia Summit. The 2027 agenda and speaker list have not been published yet. Ticket prices are not given in the text of the official pages, so buyers need to check the registration form itself. UK VAT at 20% is added for every attendee. There is a student ticket, and press representatives can apply for complimentary passes. For affiliates the fit is indirect. This is a games industry event, and gambling, crypto and other affiliate verticals are not named among its content areas. The closest link is the app economy: media buyers who run app-install campaigns or sell traffic to mobile publishers may find useful contacts among the developers, publishers, platforms and service providers in attendance, and the matchmaking tool helps set up those meetings. For casino, betting or crypto affiliates without a games or apps business, little on the published programme is aimed at them.