GamesBeat speaker highlight: Kevin Chou on game industry Darwinism

Kevin Chou, the chief executive of social and mobile gaming firm Kabam, is one of our spotlight speakers at our upcoming GamesBeat 2013 conference on Oct. 29-Oct. 30 at the Hotel Sofitel in Redwood City, Calif.

He’ll be talking about the need for game companies to evolve quickly in a session moderated by Chris Kohler, the editor of Wired Game Life. Chou, who co-founded Kabam in 2007, has evolved his company as a leader in the free-to-play hardcore social-gaming market. He started with an exclusive focus on Facebook but adapted to changes in the market by spreading out to other social networks, the web, and to mobile platforms. Chou will talk about “industry Darwinism” — on how to grow rapidly on new platforms, migrate to new ones, and allocate the right resources to make the change happen. Thanks to Kabam’s shift to mobile games, the company expects to generate more than $300 million in revenue this year.