Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco 2025

Any fan of classic merge games will know, two things combined are always better than one. Which means games industry professionals in San Francisco for GDC 2025 should delight in the fact they can maximize their networking and business opportunities due to Pocket Gamer Connects' return to this incredible city in March.
PG Connects events are about connecting the games industry together – the clue's in the name – and that principle guides our mission. Which is why delegates to PG Connects San Francisco get to join the great and the good of the mobile games industry at our two-day conference, but get an extended five-day access to our MeetToMatch meeting platform included in their ticket* to assist their week-long networking.

PG Connects San Francisco will feature talks, panels and roundtables with experts from the mobile games space, plus networking, fringe events, a showcase expo, indie pitching competition, party and more.

Conveniently located mid-Market at the glorious Hibernia hotel, less than 20 minutes' walk from Moscone, the conference will welcome 750 people from across the mobile games ecosystem.

As well as mobile games, you can expect the event to cover cutting edge topics like AI, web 3, VR/AR and more. Our speakers and panellists will share their expert insight into design and development, monetization and growth, life as an indie, new technologies, company culture and loads more. There'll also be roundtable sessions where you can pose questions and share your views.

*Anyone already in possession of MeetToMatch access, please contact [email protected] for a link to a specific 'non-MTM ticket'

For sponsorships or other business development opportunities, please contact Lisa at [email protected] or to discuss your requirements.

You can expect a schedule of insightful talks and panels taking place on the main stage. The Pocket Gamer format keeps sessions short and sharp so that you can cover a lot of ground.

You can expect 50 speakers from the biggest companies in the mobile games, web3, AI and XR sectors. Topics will include investment, monetization, game development, data, company culture and more.

Speakers at recent events hosted by Pocket Gamer include senior experts from the leading companies, including Supercell, Mainframe Industries, Housemarque, GameAnalytics, Netflix, Hiro Capital, Space Ape, ustwo, King and more.

If you are interested in speaking at this – or any of the conferences hosted by Pocket Gamer – please apply using .

The event is designed to help you connect with the mobile gaming industry, from new indie studios to AAA businesses, local media, and international investors.

There’s a well-stuffed expo to explore featuring representatives from the cream of international mobile companies.

We are working with MeetToMatch to be an official MeetToMatch San Francisco meeting point (see below) so you can find that perfect contact and arrange to meet them in person.

MeetToMatch provides an opportunity to search attendees and connect. But we know it can be hard to find the perfect person to meet with if you’re looking for a publisher or investor. So we will also be running Publisher SpeedMatch and Investor Connector sessions at the event. These curated sessions pair developers in rapid succession with publishers and investors in a series of speed-dating style meetings. With match-making provided by the Pocket Gamer team, these encounters enable first contact for you to follow up with a more extended meeting if you find a potential partner. They are a shop window for devs to display their wares and a pipeline of prospects for anyone looking to sign up-and-coming talent.

Our events connect the whole industry.

Over 52,000 industry professionals – indies, developers, publishers, media, investors, recruitment, ad networks, data&analytics, tools, service providers, hardware platforms, app stores, recruitment, marketing/PR, and monetization companies – have attended the PG Connects international conference series since 2014. Since then, the roadshow has landed in the UK, Canada, USA, Finland, Hong Kong, Jordan, UAE and India with a genuinely international client base; on average, delegates from more than 45 countries attend each event. We know that over 70% of our audience works in game creation/publishing.

PG Connects San Francisco will be drawn from the same diverse, international, expert crowd. And we'd love for you to be part of it!

And because Steel Media owns and operates the leading media in this space too, including PocketGamer.com, PocketGamer.biz, BeyondGames.biz and PCGamesInsider.biz, our events benefit from unrivalled press coverage.

MeetToMatch will run all week while people are in town for PGC and GDC. It's the platform for business in the games industry (and has been since 2017), operating all over the city during the week's conference activities. Trusted by hundreds of publishers, investors, and developers, the MeetToMatch messaging and matchmaking platform enables you to get in contact with the right people from game companies around the world.

And because it's operating all week, a standard ticket to PG Connects San Francisco enables you to use it all week (note this service is provided on an add-on basis for certain ticket types).

We've partnered with MeetToMatch to ensure that all PGC San Francisco signed up to MeetToMatch can network beyond our conference and use the platform to make meetings all week at locations around the city.

Note: if you decide not to join us for PGC San Francisco but would still like to use MeetToMatch alongside other conferences in the region, you can find more information and .

Indie devs are the lifeblood of the mobile games industry. PG Connects San Francisco will continue the mission of PocketGamer.biz and PG Connects in championing the work of indies on the international stage.

The conference floor will have a dedicated Big Indie Zone for known names and newcomers to display their latest projects. This is a vibrant and varied expo area for publishers looking to sign promising titles.

And, of course, the hugely popular Very Big Indie Pitch pitching competition will be part of it, with indie devs competing to impress a panel of expert judges. The winners walk away with instant feedback, online promotion, and a prize.

Keep the networking going! For many years, PG Connects has been renowned for its San Francisco parties, and 2025 will see the return of the Monday night shindig.

Day 1 of the conference will close with our legendary Pocket Gamer Party – free to PGC San Francisco delegates! That’s where the networking goes on into the night, and you might just make lifelong friends, fortunes and memories.

Please note you need to be over 21 to attend the party.

Host or Publisher Steel Media (Publishers of Pocket Gamer, PC Games Insider, Blockchain Gamer)