GamesBeat Summit: 37 speakers, 39 CEOs and founders, and lots of networking

We’re about to hold our second annual GamesBeat Summit event on May 3-4 at the Cavallo Point. I’m very excited to say that we’re going to have a lot of very interesting people in the room. We’re still signing up people to attend, and we hope to have about 180 guests overall.

Right now, the roster includes 39 CEOs and company founders among the attendees. We’ve also got a lot of CMOs, senior vice presidents, chief operating officers — and then there’s me. Our theme is focused on the narrative of underdogs in the game business and the strategies they use to win. We’re trying to get the right people in the room, including executives from the platform companies. Right now, we have attendees from Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Unity, Epic, and a big company in the vicinity of Cupertino, Calif.

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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.