Does Esports Live Up to the Hype?

What once used to be an activity embraced by a small community of people, is now a multi-billion industry that attracts businesses from all around the world. As Esports is gaining attention from basketball stars to top 10 stock companies you can’t help yourself wondering: Will Esports live up to the hype? Your questions will be answered by our top-notch speakers including Jens Hilgers, founder of BITKRAFT Esports Ventures and Eunice Chen, VP of Marketing at Cloud9, the world’s most valuable gaming organization. Jens and Eunice are being interviewed by Heini Vesander, CMO of Matchmade. -- In 2018, Slush brought together 20,000 attendees, including 3,100 startups, 1,800 investors and 650 journalists from over 130 countries. The cold and dark Helsinki welcomed these tech-heads to celebrate on Dec 3-5, 2018 with hundreds of side-events and activities around the city. Slush 2018 in pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/slushmedia/albums Website: http://www.slush.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/slushHQ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/slushHQ Instagram: http://instagram.com/SlushHQ Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/company/slush Slush Tokyo: http://tokyo.slush.org Slush Shanghai: http://shanghai.slush.org Slush Singapore: http://singapore.slush.org Intro videos by: VAU (http://vau.company) VELI.fx / Veli Creative (http://velicreative.fi) Slush is a non-profit event organized by a community of entrepreneurs, investors, students and festival organizers. Slush has grown from a 300-person event to become the leading event of its kind in the world. The philosophy behind it has remained the same: to help the next generation of great, world-conquering companies forward.