Ampverse is a gaming and eSports entertainment company that was founded by senior Twitch and Media executives in Asia. Ampverse aims to engage and develop top gaming talent to create meaningful partnership opportunities with brands, game publishers and agencies. The business will operate across three distinct units, designed to galvanize and nurture a powerful community of gaming and esports influencers and then create attention-grabbing, entertainment formats with brands: Ampverse Influence: An extensive portfolio of top esports influencers with tens of millions of followers, generating over 500 million monthly views. Currently operating in Thailand and Singapore. Ampverse has plans to rapidly roll out across Southeast Asia in the coming months having recently closed their seed fundraise from strategic gaming and entertainment investors across Southeast Asia. How? Ampverse Talent represents the commercial interests of top-tier gaming and esports talent, offering talent management and development in order to help them realize their full potential. While Ampverse Publishing is a creative studio focused on building unique creative formats and co-branded intellectual properties with brands. Charlie Baillie, Co-founder at Ampverse joins me on the Tech Talks Daily podcast to talk about the future of the gaming industry and what makes Asia so attractive to the gaming and eSports industries. We also discuss the hurdles that lie ahead for eSports industries and the intersection of gaming and emerging tech.