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GamesBeat speaker spotlight: ESA’s Mike Gallagher on changing games and gamers

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Mike Gallagher, president and chief executive of the Entertainment Software Association, runs an organization that has represented game publishers over decades. But the ESA isn’t just the lobbying group for console game companies or the entity that stages the E3 show. It is in the midst of change as games and gaming audiences evolve themselves.

mike gallagherGallagher, one of the best-known leaders of the video game industry, is the latest speaker we’re highlighting at GamesBeat 2013, and I’ll be very pleased to interview him in a fireside chat at our event on Oct. 29-30 at the Sofitel Hotel in Redwood City, Calif.

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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.