A scene from the Fortnite/Epic booth at GDC 2019.
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GDC chief Katie Stern interview — What keeps game developers up at night?

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 11 min

Katie Stern took over as general manager of GDC Events in August 2017. Since then, she has learned more about what keeps game developers up at night.

We talked to Stern last week as final preparations were underway for the Game Developers Conference 2019, which starts on Monday, March 18 and runs through Friday, March 22. The event will draw well over 20,000 people to San Francisco, if all goes as expected, Stern told us in an interview.

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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.