07/04/2026
🤩One week to go! Proud to sponsor the IGDA Helsinki April Meetup together with Nextcon.
Great QA discussions, community vibes, no pre‑registration needed. Join us and be part of the conversation! 🎮
🕹️One more week until the IGDA Helsinki April meetup! Woohoo!✨
This month join us for a special Finnish Game Industry QA panel sponsored by Nextcon and Game Makers of Finland. Plus an update on the IGDA Finland Grant for 2026 and a second session of Café Lingua.
Mark the calendar and come celebrate this great community with us!
📣 Note: No pre-registration is required to join our Meetup.
WHAT:
IGDA Helsinki April Meetup with Nextcon and Game Makers of Finland
WHEN:
Tuesday 14.04
Doors open at 17
Program starts at 17:45
WHERE:
Maxine, Kamppi shopping center, 6th floor (Elevators can be found on the E-floor, between Jungle Juice Bar and Rax). Note that Maxine is a 18+ venue, hence you must be 18+ years of age to attend.
PROGRAM:
This panel brings together QA professionals from across the Finnish games industry to unpack the evolving role of quality assurance in modern game development. The discussion will explore what QA really means beyond testing, who truly owns quality across a team, and how YOU can build strong quality practices.
Karol Truchan - Senior QA Lead at Moonloot, a Netflix game studio. Karol is a leader specializing in Quality engineering, reliability, and AI‑enabled automation across large‑scale platforms and game studios. With two decades of experience, he helps organizations make quality a built‑in strength through better tooling, practices, and people‑first leadership.
Henry Lunabba - QA Lead at Metacore Engineer, tester, manager, developer, thinker, philosopher, gamer, reader, writer, wanderer, dreamer, human. Henkka has close to 30 years of experience different different domains of Tech and QA, - including Telecom, Banking, Fintech, Health and now mobile games.
Riku Salpakari - Senior QA Specialist Riku is a humanist who made the jump to gaming QA 8 years ago and never looked back. He has worked on a variety of platforms from mobile to PC.
🕹️ Wanna showcase your game at our Demo Corner and get some valuable feedback? Sign up here: https://forms.gle/Ys1VSfT83cKsJbPH9
Deadline for signups is April 11th at 23:59. Note, you will need to submit a 10 - 30s gameplay video!
🗣️Café Lingua - Let’s speak in Finnish/Swedish
Interested in practicing and improving your Finnish or Swedish language skills by chatting with native-speaking game industry professionals?
At Maxine between 17-17.45.
Sign up here: https://forms.gle/X9STnCTKLyhtMbeZ8
💬 Our Chat Corner will be open and ready for chatting!
AMA Session: Ari Arnbjörnsson Ari Arnbjörnsson is a Senior Software Engineer for Developer Relations at Epic Games. He has over 18 years of games industry experience working on titles such as Angry Birds and Housemarque’s BAFTA-winning Returnal for PlayStation 5 as a lead programmer.
Topics: Game Industry (getting into it or about it in general), Game Engines, Studio Workflows, Games' Performance (profiling & optimizing), Programming, Knowledge Sharing.
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ACCESSIBILITY:
At IGDA Helsinki we strive for making our events accessible for everyone. We kindly ask all attendees to stay away from using strong perfumes or similar fragrances. The Meetups can be crowded at times, meaning that the sound volume can also become rather loud.
Maxine is wheelchair accessible. There's a few steps at the entrance, for that please ask security at the cloakroom for a ramp if the ramp is already not in place. Accessible toilet can be found at the back of the space.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding any type of accessibility of our Meetups, then please contact [email protected] and we will do our best to assist you. We also have an accessibility contact present at the Meetup until 19:00. They can be found near the entrance and are ready to assist with any accessibility-related matters!
TL;DR:
- IGDA Helsinki April Meetup with Nextcon and Game Makers of Finland
- Tuesday 14.04
- Doors open at 17, program starts at 17:45
- Finnish Game Industry QA panel
- IGDA Finland Grant information
- Demo Corner and Chat Corner are Open!
- AMA Session: Ari Arnbjörnsson
Reminder that IGDA Meetups use the THE FINNISH GAME INDUSTRY Code of Conduct!
