Neal Stephenson is cofounder of Lamina1 and author of Snow Crash.
Neal Stephenson is cofounder of Lamina1 and author of Snow Crash.
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The DeanBeat: GamesBeat Summit Next 2022’s packed agenda — 103 speakers and a troublemaker

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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We’ve got an action-packed agenda for the GamesBeat Summit Next 2022 event on October 25-26, with great speakers like Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson. We’ve still got seats available for now at our in-person/online event website, and you can use the code Dean50 for 50% off.

We’ve amassed 104 speakers, including one troublemaker, for our in-person event, which will be broadcast. Or perhaps more. Who’s the troublemaker? I’ll let you figure that out. More than half of our speakers come from diverse backgrounds, helping us once again fulfill our pledge to have diverse, inclusive, and equitable events.

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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.