GamesBeat Summit 2021 will feature our 2nd annual virtual Women in Gaming Breakfast

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 24, 2021
Updated June 19, 2025
12 min

GamesBeat Summit 2021 will feature our second annual online-only Women in Gaming Breakfast as part of a celebration of diversity.

The event will take place on the morning of day two of our April 28-April 29 Summit, which is our third virtual conference in a year. The breakfast will feature a panel moderated by Andrea Rene of What’s Good Games. The panelists include Samantha Ryan, senior vice president at Electronic Arts; Brenda Romero, game director at Romero Games, and Emily Greer, cofounder of Double Loop 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.