The second annual Women in Gaming Breakfast at GamesBeat Summit 2021.

GamesBeat Summit metaverse event will feature Women in Gaming virtual breakfast

Our GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2 event will feature our third Women in Gaming virtual breakfast on January 27.

Women can sign up for the event here for the virtual event. It will take place on day three of our second annual GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 2 event.

Our emcee for this private women’s event will be Andrea Rene, cofounder of What’s Good Games.

Andrea Rene
Andrea Rene of What’s Good Games

She will moderate a panel with Debbie Bestwick, CEO of Team17; Tiffany Xingyu Wang, chief strategy officer of Spectrum Labs and founder and CEO of Oasis Consortium; and Laura Sturr, head of business operations and player experience at Amazon.

Debbie Bestwick, CEO of Team17.
Debbie Bestwick, CEO of Team17.

During their one and a half hour session, these trailblazing women will discuss what inspires them. Join us as we celebrate women in gaming and sign up for this exclusive event.

The session won’t be recorded and it will feature a panel as well as breakouts into interest groups. Swatee Surve will run a subroom on careers/leadership. Serena Robar will run a subroom on the metaverse, and Joanie Kraut will run a subroom on Women In Gaming International (WIGI).

The session will take place from 8 a.m. Pacific time to 9:30 a.m. on January 27, just before the proceedings begin on day three of our metaverse event.

Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. 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.