Meggan Scavio, former head of the GDC.
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Longtime GDC boss Meggan Scavio says so long

Meggan Scavio, the general manager of the Game Developers Conference, said in a blog post that she has resigned from her job.

Scavio has worked in various capacities on the GDC, the big game industry event that draws 26,000 people to San Francisco each spring, for about 18 years. She was one of the most visible women in the vide game industry, but she rarely stepped into the spotlight.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.