GamesBeat Summit is reaching out to get more women speakers

I want to thank people for the criticism last week on social media. People weren’t happy when they saw our first picture of our speakers for our GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2 event, which is taking place on January 26 and January 27 on the heels of our GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming Summit on January 25.

Our picture showed nine speakers and they were all men. Those who saw it thought it was just a single panel with nine men on it, all talking about their views of the metaverse. The criticism spread around enough for a lot of women in the industry to either think we made a mistake or we were Neanderthals. I appreciate those who knew our history and gave us the benefit of the doubt that this was a mistake. In fact, this was only a partial list of an event that will have many women speakers.