Vince Thompson to host panel discussion at major eSports Summit in Atlanta today!
ATLANTA, GA - November 15, 2019 - MELT (www.meltatl.com), the award-winning sports, entertainment, and culinary marketing agency announced today that its Founder, Chairman, and CEO Vince Thompson will host a panel discussion at today's 2019 esports Summit Presented by Skillshot at The Georgia World Congress Center. The panel discussion is titled "The Great Collide: Exploring The Intersection of Sports & Esports." The panel will also feature an all-star cast of participants including the World Poker Tour Founder and Gamers.Vote; Managing Director Steve Lipscomb; Director of Corporate Partnerships for The Atlanta Hawks Talon Stewart Tanner; Chief Performance Engineer of Statespace Taylor Johnson and Moritz Maurer, and the CEO Co-founder of GRID esports.
Other participants in this two-day event include Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, Major League Gaming co-founder Sundance Digiavanni, Turner Sports Vice President of esports Jennifer Dill and Bart Koenigsberg of Google.
Esports has exploded on the scene globally and in the United States over the past decade. Alpharetta-based Hi-Rez and Skillshot have been a big driver of this phenomenon. Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises also recently purchased an Overwatch League franchise and Turner Sports formed their eLeague several years ago, so Atlanta is certainly becoming a hot-bed for esports.
