This year, the ESCONF brings renowned persons, teams, associations, businesses and the media of eSports together. Such a high international amount of important and crucial representatives of eSports has never been on an event.

Representatives of national eSport associations such as Jelle Ketelbuters (Belgian eSports Federa-tion), Jens Christian Ringdal (eSport Denmark), Frank Pinter (German eSports Association), Mario Stettler (Swiss eSports Federation), Stefan Baloh (Austrian eSports Association) and Noha Park (Korean eSports Federation) will report on their experiences of their respective countries and discuss the future of eSports in several workshops.

South-Korea will be represented by a delegation at the ESCONF to get an overview of the development of eSports in Europe. The delegation will be led by Min-ah Kang (Deputy Director, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Cultural Content Industry Office, Game Industry Division) and will hold background conversations during these two days. Noha Park from the Korean eSports Federation is going to present the potential developments of eSports in Korea and Asia in his keynote.

Besides the national eSport associations and the South-Korean delegation, all internationally important and successful teams, such as SK Gaming, Fnatic, Meet Your Makers, Mousesports, n!faculty or Gamevibes will be present to participate in the ESCONF and eSports Connection. Furthermore, Alexander T. Müller, as the representative of the G7, takes part in the final panel discussion to define the positions of the eSport teams.

The global players of the host of eSports tournaments like Turtle Entertainment, AC Entertainment, the World Cyber Games, the Electronic Sports League and the Electronic Sports World Cup are present as well as the european-wide leading eSport portals Readmore.de and Fragster.de.