Tickets are now on sale for VentureBeat’s GamesBeat 2009, our first annual conference for executives, entrepreneurs and investors in the gaming, media, hardware and entertainment industries. Today, tickets are officially on sale.
The day-long event, which takes place on March 24 from 8:30am-8:00pm at the Mission Bay Conference Center (1675 Owen St.) in San Francisco, aims to fufill the need for business-oriented discussion about the future of gaming.
The conference theme and tagline, “All The World’s A Game,” highlights the notion that even in these dark economic times — and perhaps in part because of them — gaming is on its way to becoming the go-to form of digital entertainment around the world. In the process, games are beginning to reshape the landscape in the media, advertising and software design worlds.
At GamesBeat 2009, you can expect to network with 400 high-level executives from games, platform technology and entertainment companies, founders from the most innovative startups, digital marketing experts from big brands and agencies, top investors and an exclusive list of industry jounalists.
Our partial and growing list of speakers includes:
- Graham Hopper, EVP/GM, Disney Interactive Studios
- Bing Gordon, Partner, Kleiner Perkins and Fmr. Chief Creative Officer, EA
- Brett Close, CEO, 38 Studios
- Lars Butler, CEO, Trion World Network
- Phil McKinney, Hewlett Packard VP and CTO, Personal Systems Group
- N’Gai Croal, Senior Technology Writer, Newsweek
- Mitch Lasky, partner at Benchmark Capital
- Bernie Stolar, entrepreneur and former head of Sony and Sega’s U.S. game businesses
- Geoff Keighley, executive in charge of game publisher relations, Spike TV
- Sean Fanning, head of Electronic Arts’ EA Rupture
- Alex St. John, chairman of Wild Tangent
Tickets are $595 and can be purchased online at Eventbrite.
We also encourage your input and feedback on our evolving agenda.