Il National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci in Milan will host the first edition of PRESS START – Video Game Student Conferenceappointment of IDEA. A moment to tell boys and girls about the video game industry. And find out if that’s a way for them.
IIDEA organizes Press Start together with the Leonardo da Vinci Museum in Milan
PRESS START – Video Game Student Conference sees the collaboration of several important companies in the world of videogames. Let’s talk about 34BigThings, Milestone, Nacon Studio Milan, Reply Game Studios, Ubisoft Milan e Unreal Engine.
All companies that, according to the latest Census of Italian Game Developers carried out by IIDEA in 2021, work in a sector that it employs in Italy over 1600 people. 35% of these companies have hired staff in the past two years. And 59% plan to do so in the next two years. A young environment, with 79% of employees under the age of 36.
But how to start working in this world? The event will respond in three different macro-activities: talk, matchmaking and award. So space a conferences held by professionals from the Italian industry, dating 1: 1 aimed at orientation and recruiting through the platform MeetToMatch, matchmaking partner by Press Start.
Video Game Student Awards
Also arrive the Video Game Student Awards, a competition open to all students. There will be several awards Fresco Award (for the artistic aspect, mechanical), Luna Award (for commercial potential) and Strano Award (something strange and totally different).
“PRESS START is an event that was missing in the Italian panorama and which we feel the need as a sector. On the one hand, to respond to the growing interest on the part of students in professional prospects in the world of gaming. On the other hand, to cope with the growth of the local industry which is experiencing a phase of great ferment and consolidation, offering concrete job opportunities in our country to young people who leave universities and specialized courses in video games “he declared. Luisa Bixio, Vice President of IIDEA.
Luca Roncella, Responsabile Gaming & Digital Interactivity del Museo, he explains: “PRESS START, with its various training initiatives aimed at young people, promotes this change in which the Science Museum participates as a cultural partner. The aim of the Museum has in fact always been to offer experiences capable of taking the cultural story to a higher level, reaffirming the values symbolized by the figure of Leonardo da Vinci – to whom the museum is named -, an icon of continuity and synthesis between artistic culture. and scientific-technological, different but complementary manifestations of human inventiveness that find full expression in video games, works of artistic creativity and technological ingenuity ”.
The first edition of PRESS START will have a hybrid format in presence at the Museum and online. To apply for the Student Award, you need to go to this page.