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GamesBeat speaker spotlight: Facebook’s Sean Ryan on evolving social games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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We’re pleased to announce that Sean Ryan, the head of game partnerships at Facebook, will describe the state of the Facebook game ecosystem in a fireside chat at our GamesBeat 2013 conference on Oct. 29-Oct. 30 in Redwood City, Calif. Zynga hasn’t had the easiest year as social gamers move to other platforms, but other players have moved into the gap on Facebook.

I will moderate the talk, “Facebook’s evolving role in the game ecosystem.” We’ll discuss how things have changed as Facebook has adapted to mobile and its game developers have done so as well. We’ll talk about the desktop’s future, where the next big hits will come from, how developers can engage with Facebook, and the latest on Facebook’s own mobile-game publishing business.

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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.