GamesBeat 2014 mainstage agenda is best ever: With 101 speakers, 27 CEOs, 7 game VCs, and dozens of press

We’ve booked them. GamesBeat 2014 will have 101 speakers who comprise our strongest line-up in the event’s six-year history. It takes place Sept. 15 and Sept. 16 at the Parc 55 Wyndham Hotel in San Francisco. We’ve assembled a who’s who of games in one event that game industry followers won’t want to miss.

Mike Gallagher, president of the Entertainment Software Association.
Mike Gallagher, the president of the Entertainment Software Association.

Our aim is to get the movers and shakers together and talking about our theme on “Total World Domination,” or global gaming.

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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.