Be Your Own Hero conference will celebrate women entrepreneurs (exclusive)

Entrepreneur Sana Choudary wants women to learn the strategies they need to thrive as entrepreneurs in tech and gaming. So she’s starting a new conference dubbed Be Your Own Hero, and she’s raising money via an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to pull it together.

Be Your Own Hero is a conference for women who want to create business on their own terms, said Choudary, who is chief executive and cofounder of game industry accelerator YetiZen in San Francisco. Choudary, YetiZen and Girls in Tech are putting the event together.

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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.