Chris Heatherly, head of Disney Interactive’s mobile and social games business as well as Disney Club Penguin, is our newest speaker at GamesBeat 2015. He is the latest among the who’s who of gaming who will join our event at the Grand Hyatt Union Square on October 12 and October 13 in San Francisco. You can sign up for it now.
Chris Heatherly, head of social and mobile games at Disney Interactive.
Heatherly is the latest among the royalty of gaming to speak at our event. Disney Interactive, with access to one of the most extensive intellectual property portfolios in entertainment, also has one of the enviable dilemmas in games publishing: choosing the right opportunities from across an unprecedented collection of brands to serve the most vocal fan bases in the world. Heatherly will discuss how the company is making development and publishing decisions for a slate of games that spans the casual, kids and mid-core categories and includes the Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars brands. He’ll offer insight into Disney’s approach to balancing in-house and licensed development, and share his thoughts on platforms beyond mobile.
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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.
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