We are excited to announce five more new speakers at GamesBeat 2014, our game industry conference that takes place Sept. 15 and Sept. 16 at the Parc 55 Wyndham Hotel in San Francisco. Yesterday, we announced a panel about moving games from West to East. Now we’re doing the opposite.
Jeff Hilbert of Digital Development Management
The speakers are part of the “Taking games into the West” panel. Jeff Hilbert, the co-CEO and chief strategy officer at agency Digital Development Management, heads the panel. Hilbert can sense your presence in a room. In Shanghai, I walked up to him. He was typing a text on his smartphone. Without looking up, he said, “Hi Dean.” As a story about Hilbert in Businessweek noted, “Agents go where there’s money.” And Hilbert was in Shanghai pursuing deals.
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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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