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GamesBeat Summit 2018 speakers — Star Wars: Battlefront II’s Janina Gavankar, Brianna Wu, and Tencent’s Dan Brody

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There’s just one event where you can find Star Wars: Battlefront II’s star, the games industry’s first major congressional candidate, and one of the chief scouts for China’s biggest gaming company.
We’ve got three new speakers for GamesBeat Summit 2018, which will take place at the beautiful Claremont Resort in Berkeley, California, on April 9 and April 10. Our conference is all about making games better and improving the business, and these speakers will help us realize that vision.

Our speakers include Janina Gavankar, the actress who had the starring role as Iden Versio in Electronic Arts’ blockbuster game Star Wars: Battlefront II. She will be joined by Brianna Wu, a game developer who is running as a tech and game savvy candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Massachusetts. And our third new speaker is Dan Brody, vice president of business development at Tencent, the world’s largest game company. We also have two new moderators: Veronica Belmont of Disco and Mike Vorhaus of Magid Advisors.

You can get your tickets here at 30 percent off our rate using the code DEAN.

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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.