GamesBeat 2017’s newest speakers features execs from Telltale, Twitch, and SuperData

GamesBeat 2017 is at San Francisco’s beautiful Fort Mason on October 5 and October 6, and we’re delighted to announce our next three speakers: Dan Connors, the CEO and cofounder of Telltale Games; Joost van Dreunen, the CEO of SuperData Research; and Matt McCloskey, the vice president of commerce at Amazon’s Twitch livestreaming business.

If you’d like to go, you can save 40 percent on registration with our early bird discount code. These leaders have been around for a while, and they fit nicely with our retro theme, which enables us to extract the lessons of the past for the game leaders of today.

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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.