GamesBeat Summit 2025 takes place May 19-20 in Los Angeles.
GamesBeat Summit 2025 takes place May 19-20 in Los Angeles.
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GamesBeat Summit 2023 opening speech: The Next Level

Here’s the speech that I gave at the opening of GamesBeat Summit 2023.

Thank you to our attendees as your energy makes me feel like a video game character. That said, I’m here in the flesh to show I am not an NPC. I am not a robot. I’m not a chatbot. I’m not Dean the Machine Learning.

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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.