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Ukie Hub Crawl 2021 - It's a wrap

Each year Ukie embarks on an annual hub crawl pilgrimage across the UK, educating local people and games businesses on a specific topic, asked for by our members. This year, however, due to restrictions, the 12 date tour was conducted entirely online through Zoom and YouTube live streams. 

The events took place each Wednesday, January through to March, and consisted of up to four short talks followed by a panel on that week's respective theme. Each event was followed by a period of networking. The 12 dates collectively registered over 1,000 attendees, making this tour our largest to date. 

Running the series entirely online allowed us to reshape the tour and indeed content to cover a multitude of topics, spanning the entire lifecycle of a games business; from incorporation, growing a team, middleware, running the studio, pitching to funders, getting PR exposure – right through to eventually exiting a business. It also meant that we were able to record all of the talks and upload them to both the Ukie website and YouTube channel, free for anyone to view. 

Ukie would like to thank Hub Crawl partners BarclaysAmazonSugarMenziesWiggin & Intorqa for helping to support this year's tour. We would also like to thank the speakers and panelists for taking part and for providing their incredible insight and knowledge.

Catch up on all of the videos from this years Ukie Hub Crawl by accessing the links below: 

- Starting Up & Business Basics Link to videos

- Building Your Brand Link to videos

- Talent & Recruitment Link to videos

- Essential Tech Link to videos

- Managing Workloads Link to videos

- Building For Your Players Link to videos

- Getting Investment Ready Link to videos

- Raising Your Profile Link to videos

- Going Global Link to videos

- The Policy of Games Link to videos

- Looking After Your Workforce Link to videos

- Selling Your Business Link to videos

Lead Partner

At Barclays, we’re playing our part to help the UK Games Industry grow and develop.

We see the positive impact that games can have in bringing communities together, inspiring creativity and building an environment to learn.

That’s why we…

• Offer innovative products designed for developers including our tax credit loan

• Support businesses to connect, innovate and grow with our Eagle Labs network

• Partner with games and esports industry leaders

• Help games developers at all levels from grassroots up

Website https://labs.uk.barclays/gamestech

Other Partners

Sugar is a financing platform for the digital economy, created to provide capital to game studios with exciting growth ambitions. Our range of flexible loans and products can significantly boost a studio's growth without taking any equity away from the founders. If you are looking for ways to finance your business and scale up quickly, then just add Sugar. 

Check out our website

Amazon Game Tech brings together solutions from across Amazon, for every stage in your game's lifecycle. Whether you're building a game, deploying servers, or trying to reach more customers, we’re here to help you succeed.

Whether you're looking for compute power, database storage, content delivery, or other functionality, AWS has the services to help you build sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability and reliability.

Check out our website.

Our specialists predict the legal challenges that arise from the wealth of new ideas and technologies that the digital world is constantly creating.

From Hollywood studios to early-stage tech businesses, games developers to leading brands, we understand our clients’ needs and give informed advice. We don’t just tell you the risks – we give our opinion in a jargon-free, real-world context, so you have the freedom to do what you do best, creatively and commercially.

Check out our website.

Menzies LLP is an accountancy firm delivering traditional accounting services combined with strategic commercial thinking. Our services include tax, audit, business recovery as well as business & financial advisory services proven to add value and help your business to grow.

Specialising in eight core UK and international business sectors, Menzies’ local accountancy and business advisory offices in London, Surrey, Hampshire and Cardiff, all offer our #BrighterThinking approach. 

Check out our website.

Introducing Intorqa. A new way to beat cheating in video gaming. 

Through automated 24/7 monitoring of the web, dark web, and social media, we uncover, analyse, and evaluate hacking and fraud activity at the source as early as possible. This foresight means activity is stopped before impacting the game.

Check out our website.