SPiCE Southeast Asia 2026 will take place from 5 – 7 August at The Landmark Bangkok, Thailand, bringing together regulatory experts, operators, technology providers and investors from across the region.
Day One will kick off with the region's signature SP‘iCE’ Breaker Welcoming Evening, leading into the highly anticipated SPiCE Southeast Asia Eventus Awards Ceremony, honouring the industry’s standout achievers. Day Two will focus on regulation, compliance, and operational infrastructure, while Day Three will look at strategy, AI, and the future of talent across the region.
It's a valuable combination: world-class insight, senior-level networking, and Bangkok as the backdrop – making SPiCE Southeast Asia 2026 an unmissable fixture on the regional calendar.
It is with great pleasure to announce QTech Games as a valued sponsor of SPiCE Southeast Asia 2026:
QTech Games is the leading game aggregator for emerging markets. With a combined 50 years of experience, vetting the best games on the market, the senior management team has purpose-built and established QTech Games as an indispensable industry leader in game discovery. This is combined with an ever-expanding reach, proprietary gaming tools and services, 24/7 support, and advanced AI technology to bolster partner offerings and elevate customer experience.
Learn more about QTech Games: www.qtechgames.com
Offering a preview of the conversations set to take place at SPiCE Southeast Asia 2026, QTech Games shared insights on shifting player behaviour, portfolio innovation, platform engineering, and its strategic priorities across the region.
Reflecting on the most significant shift in player behaviour across its core emerging markets over the past decade, the team explained:
Without question, the move from desktop to mobile-only. Ten years ago, we optimised for mobile; today, in most of our core markets, the player has never known anything else. That reality moved everything downstream – session lengths shortened, content had to load instantly on mid-range devices and patchy networks, and payments moved to local wallets.
Community and shared play are increasingly shaping engagement, and QTech Games explained how its portfolio is responding:
We're seeing engagement increasingly driven by shared experiences – live formats, crash games with visible communal play, tournaments, and leaderboards. Our aggregation strategy reflects that: we've prioritised suppliers with strong live, multiplayer, and social mechanics, and QTech Play's recommendation engine surfaces that content to the players most likely to engage with it. The direction of travel is clear: entertainment in our markets is something players do together, not alone.
Asked how the platform handles network constraints and device fragmentation, QTech Games shared its approach:
We engineer for the worst connection, not the best. That means lightweight clients, aggressive caching, adaptive asset delivery, and regional infrastructure that keeps latency low at a global level. Device fragmentation is handled through rigorous testing across the low- and mid-tier Android devices that dominate these markets. A game that performs beautifully on fibre in Europe but stutters on 3G in a secondary city has failed our players. So, that's the benchmark we hold every integration to.
Discussing the commercial and technical model behind cross-border scalability, the team said:
One integration, every market. That remains our mantra. Our platform abstracts the local complexity – whether that’s currencies, payment methods, regulatory content requirements, or language – behind a single API, so an operator certified in one region can switch on the next without rebuilding. Combined with our respective regional teams' market knowledge, and a commercial model designed to reduce operator overhead, we effectively become the operator's localisation layer. That's the difference between a six-month market entry and a six-week one.
Looking ahead to the rest of the year, QTech Games outlined its primary strategic goals for the region:
Southeast Asia is where QTech was born, and it remains central to our growth. For the remainder of the year, our priorities are deepening operator partnerships in the region, expanding the rollout of QTech Hybrid (which bridges the gap between retail and digital, and also earned us Innovation of the Year at SPiCE South Asia*) and scaling* QTech Play's personalisation across our network. Of course, QTech is already established and has deep knowledge of these markets. More specifically, we are now looking forward to receiving the final accreditation from the regulator for the licensed market in the Philippines, which will contribute to significant growth.
QTech Games will be present at The Landmark Bangkok for the duration of the event, giving attendees direct access to the insight and expertise behind the business – a conversation worth prioritising for anyone with growth on the agenda.
The SPiCE Southeast Asia Eventus Awards, taking place during the opening evening on 5 August, will honour the operators, providers and individuals driving progress across the region's entertainment and gaming industry.
Nominations are closing soon and can be submitted here: https://www.spiceseries.com/spice-southeast-asia-awards-form
With three weeks to go, a limited number of sponsorship and exhibition packages remain available, offering direct access to senior decision-makers across the region's regulated entertainment industry.
For more information, contact:
Lou-Mari Burnett, Chief Operating Officer, Eventus International
loumari@eventus-international.com
With SPiCE Southeast Asia 2026 on the horizon, those hoping to attend are advised to register early to guarantee their seat.
Secure a place: https://www.spiceseries.com/ssea
5 – 7 August 2026 | The Landmark Bangkok, Thailand
