Organizer
NCC, founded in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, by Maarten Noyons, has been involved in the Mobile Entertainment Industry since the early days of the launch of WAP 1.0. (Wireless Application Protocol) in 1998. Since 2003 NCC is based in Marseille, France.
NCC provides marketing and consultancy services to the Mobile Entertainment industry.
IMGA
In 2004 NCC launched the International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA) to recognize and award the most talented mobile game developers in the world. Now, 5 years later, IMGA has judged over 1,000 games originating from over 50 countries including the USA, Ukraine, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, China, the Czech Republic, Brazil and Belgium. Participants include PhD students, researchers, artists, individual developers and the top 10 leading mobile games publishers and developers in the world. Over the last five years we have given away over US$ 140,000 in cash prizes.
Sponsors of the IMGA include Nokia, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Adobe, ARM, AMD, Euroméditerranée, Auchan Télécom, Orange Partner, Vivendi Universal Games, Movida, Texas Instruments and Buongiorno.
As well as presenting a highly respected award for mobile games, the IMGA is also a worldwide talent scout in mobile games development via a network of developers, publishers, operators and handset manufacturers and technology providers. Maarten Noyons is invited to speak at leading conferences worldwide on a variety of subjects related to the mobile entertainment industry.