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Amazon’s Rich Hilleman and Star Citizen maker Chris Roberts to speak at GamesBeat Summit

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Our next speakers for our upcoming GamesBeat Summit event are Rich Hilleman of Amazon Game Studios and Chris Roberts, the CEO of Roberts Space Industries and maker of the upcoming Star Citizen and Squadron 42 games.

They will talk about our theme of technology and games at our event entitled GamesBeat Summit 2017: How games, sci-fi, and tech create real-world magic. GamesBeat Summit 2017 will take place on May 1 and May 2 at the historic Claremont resort hotel in Berkeley, California, just a short distance from San Francisco. You can secure your seat here. Use “VB6” at checkout for 10 percent off.

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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.