PRESS RELEASE
18 August 2025
Corsair for Business Becomes an Official Sponsor of the Esports Research Network Conference 2025
The Esports Research Network (ERN) is pleased to announce Corsair for Business as an official sponsor of the ERN Conference 2025. Taking place online from November 12–14, 2025, the conference is a pioneering 72-hour, around-the-clock academic production that connects esports and gaming researchers, practitioners, and students across continents.
This year’s theme, Future Realities: Esports as a Global Lab, highlights the growing significance of esports in understanding digital transformation across education, media, industry, and society. The 2025 ERN Conference is not just another academic event. It is a continuous live broadcast, with each global regional hub acting as a production team and research node host:
- Americas: Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania & Michigan State University
- Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA): University of Staffordshire
- Asia-Pacific: UNSW Sydney
Elgato, a brand of Corsair for Business that specializes in hardware and software for content creators and gamers, will play a central role in making this ambitious global live online format possible. By providing state-of-the-art livestreaming technology to all three hubs, Corsair for Business and Elgato equipment will facilitate a high-quality broadcast for worldwide participants throughout the event. This support strengthens ERN’s commitment to delivering professional-level productions with cutting-edge technology while fostering open, global collaboration in esports research.
“The 2025 ERN Conference is designed to match the energy and innovation of the esports ecosystem itself,” said Dr. Seth Jenny, Conference Chair and Associate Professor at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. “With Corsair for Business’ support, we can elevate the worldwide production quality of our event while reinforcing ERN’s mission of fostering interdisciplinary research by uniting scholars and industry leaders to explore the global, digital, and innovative impact of esports.”
The conference’s call for proposals (CFPs) is currently open, with submissions due by 1 August 2025. While proposals are open to most any esports-related topics, presentation areas commonly relate to esports education, diversity and inclusion, digital labor, streaming and fan cultures, health and performance science, or governance and policy in the esports ecosystem.
About Corsair for Business and Elgato
Elgato delivers professional-grade audiovisual technology for the rapidly evolving workspace. By combining broadcast-quality video, sound, and lighting with intuitive control systems and streamlined workflows, Elgato empowers businesses to achieve limitless productivity while elevating their visual presence across virtual and physical spaces. From education and hospitality to government, broadcasting, and entertainment sectors, Elgato brings the same engineering excellence, product quality, and performance that has established Corsair’s reputation for precision-built solutions with professional content creators worldwide.
