Our GamesBeat Next 2024 will be on October 28-29 in SF.
Our GamesBeat Next 2024 will be on October 28-29 in SF.
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GamesBeat Next 2024’s all-star agenda (Oct. 28-29) | The DeanBeat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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I am proud of the collection of voices, personalities and perspectives that we have gathered for GamesBeat Next 2024. You can see them below in the tentative agenda I’m revealing today for our conference coming October 28-29 in San Francisco.

We’re holding the event at the beautiful Convene event space near Union Square. You can use this code, gbn24dean, for a 25% discount for registration. We have 97 speakers, with almost 65% of them from diverse backgrounds, compared to 47% a year ago. This year, 41% are women. We have 42 sessions.

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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.