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Finding game jobs and other emotional sessions from GamesBeat Next | The DeanBeat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 11 min

We had 31 sessions and 96 speakers at our GamesBeat Next event this week in San Francisco. We had 555 people come out for the day-and-half-long event. Thank you for doing that, as we had just 29 people signed up four weeks ago. I’m so happy we have such a supportive community.

I appreciated the wonderful feedback for the event and my opening speech. It’s so hard to not say something about each of the great talks, but I’ll focus on just three of the ones that took place on the first day. They stood out to me for their insights and emotion. I’ll be writing about more of the talks in the coming days, and I’ll be sprinkling in videos as we get them uploaded. I’ll have to watch videos of the ones I missed. And please fill out our survey if you attended the 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.