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Ukie Hub Crawl returns in-person and online for 2023 across four major cities

The Ukie Hub Crawl, a free-to-attend networking event series is taking place across the country and online in January 2023.

The Hub Crawl, which is once again sponsored by Barclays Games & Esports, returns to a hybrid format with a mixture of online webinars and live-streamed in person events in Belfast, Brighton, Glasgow and Newcastle. We are also welcoming AWS as our co-partner for the virtual sessions of the Hub Crawl.

The theme of this year’s event series is ‘Developers Unite', with every session of the offering opportunities for developers and games businesses to come together, share knowledge and network.

Each event will also benefit from a brand new ‘Hub Crawl Hero’ session. A Hub Crawl Hero will deliver a talk or fireside chat at each event, drawing upon their extensive experience and expertise to give developers the exclusive opportunity to hear directly from local and national success stories.

Dr Jo Twist OBE, CEO of Ukie said: “As ever, the Ukie Hub Crawl provides a dedicated space for game developers to come together and learn from each other. This year’s theme ‘Developers Unite’ will showcase the uniquely community aspect of game development in the UK that helps make our industry strong.”

Elaine Dowman, Head of Games & Esports Strategy at Barclays said: “We are delighted to continue our support of the Ukie Hub Crawl series in 2023. Through the years we have seen the growing value of the Hub Crawls to UK Indie studios, and we are happy to see these events now expanding into both Scotland and Northern Ireland.”


Sign up now to book your place and find out who will be coming to a city near you! New details are being annouced weekly and the best way to keep up-to-date is to sign up to an event and get involved. The schedule of events are as followed:


In-Person all starting 5:30pm at Barclays Eagle Lab locations - Click the link for more information


Brighton (19th January)


Newcastle (2nd February)


Glasgow (16th February)


Belfast (9th March)


Online all starting at 4:00pm via Zoom


Virtual 1 - 26th January - Developing Games for Mobile in 2023


Virtual 2 - 9th February  - Remote working in UK Games Industry


Virtual 3 - 22nd February - Making Games Sustainably


Virtual 4 - 2nd March - Developing Games With Cloud Software


Find out more and register for all events over on the Ukie website:https://ukie.org.uk/ukie-hub-crawl-2023-developers-unite