presentation
Meet & Build was created in 2015 to coincide with the opening of the Quai 10 gaming space, a cultural center offering four cinemas, a brasserie and a space unique in Belgium offering a curation of video games, mostly indie, every month.
The desire of the City of Charleroi and its mayor Paul Magnette to promote this medium, as well as its creators and the local, Walloon and Belgian ecosystems, has contributed to the birth of Belgium’s first B2B conference.
This year, France will be the guest of honor, and the WALGA team will be the sole organizers of the three days of meetings and conferences, with the aim of supporting the work carried out by the association throughout the year and making it the high point of international relations between Walloon and Belgian stakeholders and those from other European countries and beyond.
previous editions
2022 AfterMovie
2021 AfterMovie
From 2021, WALGA became a co-organizer of the event, with financial support from the Walloon Region, a partner from the beginning via Digital Wallonia. This pure Belgian edition was online-only, due to health regulations.
2019 AfterMovie
The Czech Republic was the guest of honor of the 5th edition which was a great success with almost 500 participants in one day of conferences. Some great talks such as ‘The History of Beat Saber’ by Michaela Dvorak from Beat Games, ‘The Surreal world of Amanita Design’ by Lukáš Kunce, ‘Mafia III Cinematics : Telling visual stories’ by Valentin Wirth from 2K Czech, ‘Laws of Virtual War in Arma 3’ by Bohemian Interactive and many others.
2018 AfterMovie
About 13 Talks and their 20 speakers including Hannah Fogelberg (Landfall), Lisa Schaeffer, Pia-Victoria Jacqmart (Cyanid Studio), Leigh Alexander, Cécile « Maria Kalash » Fléchon and many other.