Hauts-de-Seine Digital Games 2025 Festival at La Seine Musicale

Attention gamers and other video game fans! The Département des Hauts-de-Seine invites you to discover the new edition of the Hauts-de-Seine Digital Games Festival at La Seine Musicale on April 4 and 5, 2024. The festival, combining video games, manga, cosplay, digital, innovation and trades, offers visitors a host of interactive activities, as well as the chance to talk with professionals, attend conferences and take part in tournaments. A total of 100 players will be present, including schools, companies and associations, and 130 workshops will be offered.

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The program includes workshops onartificial intelligence, virtual reality, drones, robotics, coding and the media, as well as discussions with associations and institutions to mark theEuropean Year of Education for Digital Citizenship, job and internship dating with video game and digital offers, school dating, conferences and round tables, and of course 150 gaming stations, 25 retrogaming terminals and HDS Pro League esport competitions.

Guests include Norman "Genius" Chartier, Kayane, Conkerax, Julien Tellouck, Jean Zeid, Siphano and Charline Cherry's. The idea: to share their experience and vision of the digital world.

The complete program:

Friday, April 4, 2025

Morning - Inauguration and competition

• 9:00 a.m.: Festival gates open (schools and youth facilities welcome).

• 9:30am: Launch of competitions:

  • Rob'Hauts-de-Seine competition (robotics) - Grande Seine and Foyer.

  • Video game design competition - Grand Salon (exchanges with juries).

• 10h00:

  • Ô Lab ceremony in the auditorium.

  • Speech by Nathalie Léandri, Vice-President of the Département.

  • Grand final of the CTF Challenge (ethical cybersecurity) organized by Campus Cyber & Root Me Pro - with 10 finalist teams.

  • Awareness-raising workshops led by cybersecurity experts.

• 12:15pm - 1:15pm: End of competition rounds and deliberations.

• 12:30 pm: End of the Ô Lab ceremony.

Afternoon - General public & conferences

• 13h00 :

  • Opening to the general public.

  • Round table: "The making of the digital citizen" (online hate, fake news, cyberbullying).

• 2:15pm: Speech by Georges Siffredi, President of the Hauts-de-Seine département.

• Awards ceremony for competition winners.

• 4:00 pm: Round-table discussion: "Digital challenges: the jobs of tomorrow".

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Party - DJ contest

• 5pm: DJ Battle with 4 selected artists (in partnership with FG DJ Radio, Tutomix and AlphaTheta).

  • Performances judged by the public, who will vote for their favorite.

  • DJ names to be revealed.

Throughout the festival

• Live DJ performances: regular sets throughout the event.

• Grande Seine: exclusive performances on stage.

• DJ workshops at the Tutomix and AlphaTheta booths:

  • Introduction to mixing.

  • Professional DJs present.

The Hauts-de-Seine Digital Games Festival is also an opportunity to meet prestigious figures from the industry (whose names have not yet been announced). It's an opportunity for all digital and video game enthusiasts to discover the beating heart of gaming! And although the festival is free, don't forget to reserve your place... To your controllers!