The Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, will give ample space to video games this year, with Three days entirely dedicated to the video game sector and its relationship with the local area and artificial intelligence.
IVIPRO DAYS, the annual Italian event dedicated to Video games as a resource for telling the story of the territory and its cultural heritage promoted by the IVIPRO Association and the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, which returns to Trieste for the second consecutive year. During the days of October 27th and 28th lectures and round tables will follow one another, with the aim of raising awareness, disseminating and sharing experiences and best practices.
The 2023 edition will be held at the conference hall of the DoubleTree by Hilton Trieste, in Piazza della Repubblica 1. The event, with free admission upon registration While places last, it is aimed at anyone interested in learning more about the educational opportunities offered by video games.
Sunday, October 29, as part of the Fantastic Film Forum, will be held instead Press Start to Play, one round table on the video game industry, aimed at professional operators and focused on status and prospects of the sector at local level (Friuli and Triveneto more generally). The event aims to take stock of a local audiovisual sector that is still quite hidden, highlighting its characteristics, critical issues, and needs, and comparing it with the sector's leading bodies at the regional and national levels. In addition to a group of video game developers and local companies operating in the sector, the event will see the participation of the FVG Audiovisual Fund, from the Film Commission of Veneto and Friuli and of IIDEA – Italian Interactive Digital Entertainment Association, the trade association of the video game industry in Italy.
