Lightning round speaker Nick Fortugno talks about Hello Team Solar's
Lightning round speaker Nick Fortugno talks about Hello TeamSolar's AR game.
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GamesBeat Summit 2019: 7 lightning talks in 39 minutes

Lightning round talks have been a staple at our GamesBeat Summit events for years. And at GamesBeat Summit 2019, we featured seven more talks with interesting speakers in the game business.

The speakers included Niko Vuori, CEO of Drivetime; Ned Lerner, CEO of Hearo.Live; Randy Saaf, cofounder and CEO of Lucid Sight; Mike Wann, CEO of Mobcrush; Nick Fortugno, cofounder of Playmatics and Hello TeamSolar; Dave Durnil, head of advanced gaming and content at Qualcomm; and Juan Castañeda, CEO and creative director at StudioBando. Patrick Shanley of the Hollywood Reporter moderated the session.

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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.