Gordon Bellamy, visiting scholar at the University of Southern California, has kindly agreed to emcee our GamesBeat University talks at GamesBeat 2016. Bellamy, who did the same for us last year, will host the university talks during the breaks in the mainstage action at GamesBeat 2016 on Tuesday. The university talks are livestream-only educational sessions that will take place while the physical conference on our mainstage is on breaks or in breakout sessions. Check the livestream post on Monday for the link or head to twitch.tv/gamesbeat. Here’s our schedule of talks.
Brandon Laatsch, founder of Stress Level Zero.
12:45 pm August 2 Tuesday
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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.
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