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Premier esports business conference Esports Bar has announced a rebranding and next event. The newly dubbed Esports Conex will hold its debut conference in Paris on May 23-24, 2023.
Esports Conex projects that the event will attract more than 600 industry leaders from more than 45 different countries to the conference. One of the unique added value of the event is the emphasis on networking. Esports Conex will match participants for “highly curated one-on-one meetings” through a unique AI-powered matchmaking program. These networking capabilities are intended to complement more traditional conference programming.
Major industry players have already been announced as participants in Esports Conex. This includes top executives from Mastercard, Tencent, Microsoft, ESL, Team Liquid, G2, and Hiro Capital.
Parent company RX Global chose to move the event from Cannes to Paris. They pointed to Paris’ accessibility for international travel and the capital’s entrepreneurial community. Notably, RX Global is also the parent company of ReedPop, the event production company behind PAX, Comic Con, and E3.
In addition, the highest levels of the French government have noticed esports and its potential in the run-up to the 2024 Olympics. French President Emmanuel Macron recently advocated for the country to host major esports events. In addition to Esports Conex, Paris will host the BLAST Paris 2023 Major for Counter-Strike and the first-ever TrackMania Games in 2024.
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