Rand Miller, CEO of Cyan, won GamesBeat's first Visionary Award at the GamesBeat Summit 2018.

Announcing our judges for GamesBeat Visionary Awards

It’s an honor to announce our sixth annual GamesBeat Visionary Awards and the team of judges we’ve selected to help pick the winners of this year’s awards.

Judging for the Visionary Awards for GamesBeat Summit 2023 (May 22-23 in Marina del Rey, California, and May 24 online) is now underway. You can submit your own suggestions to me via email or my Twitter DMs. And if you’d like to check out our outstanding event and networking opportunity, please use this discount code for 25% off: GBSDEANWEB25. Our early bird deadline expires on April 5. Facebook Gaming is a headline sponsor of the whole event.

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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.