Speakers

NILS-HOLGER HENNING

NILS-HOLGER HENNING
Chief Communications Officer
Bigpoint
Germany

Nils-Holger Henning joined Bigpoint GmbH as Chief Communications Officer (CCO) in 2005 to establish the finance department and the company's vast network of media partners. In addition, he is active as a company spokesperson, and regularly gives keynote addresses at major international industry conferences, such as the Games Convention Asia in Singapore, the European Game Developer Summit in Mallorca, the MIPCOM in Cannes, the Casual Connect in Kiev and in Hamburg, and the Browser Game Forum in Frankfurt.

Before joining Bigpoint, Henning worked for a number of well-known companies, including AOL, Whirlpool, and Sport Voswinkel – a sporting good company based in Germany.

With 800 employees and 270 million registered users, Bigpoint is one of the largest online game developers worldwide. The company´s latest release is the multiplayer online role-playing game based on the same-titled HBO TV series, which again was inspired by George R. R. Martin´s fantasy book series "A Song of Ice and Fire".