We wanted to let all game startups know about an upcoming deadline for GamesBeat 2014, our game-industry conference that takes place Sept. 15 and Sept. 16 at the Parc 55 Wyndham Hotel in San Francisco. The deadline for the Innovation Showdown contest for the best game startup is coming up on Monday, Aug. 25, at 11:59 p.m. So get your application in for the startup with the freshest ideas and most disruptive technologies in gaming.
Michael Chang of Mavent Partners
Our judges so far include Michael Chang, the managing director at Mavent Partners, and Eric Goldberg, managing director of Crossover Technologies. They’ll help select seven finalists to go up onstage at GamesBeat 2014 in a presentation battle. This is your chance to showcase your product in front of 600 business and gaming execs, leaders, venture capitalists, investors, and press. We’ll add more judges shortly.
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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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