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GamesBeat 2013 spotlight: Meet our all-star moderators

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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To go with our all-star speakers, we’ll also have some all-star moderators for our big game conference this week, GamesBeat 2013. Dan “Shoe” Hsu, editor in chief of GamesBeat, and I will moderate a bunch of our talks. But we’ve also got a number of seasoned game journalists, mainstream tech writers, and other domain experts to moderate our 34 sessions at the conference on Tuesday Oct. 29 and Wednesday Oct. 30. Here’s the full agenda.

I’ll kick off the event with a fireside chat with Brendan Iribe, chief executive of Oculus VR, the maker of the Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset. Geoff Keighley, host of Spike TV’s GameTrailers TV program, will interview John Smedley, president of Sony Online Entertainment, developer of the upcoming Everquest Next. Ian Sherr of the Wall Street Journal is interviewing Owen Mahoney, chief financial officer of Nexon, on Asia’s growing influence in games.

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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.