Here’s our final roster of 116 speakers for GamesBeat 2015

It’s just about here. Our GamesBeat 2015 conference takes place on Monday and Tuesday.

We’ve lined up the royalty of the game industry for our event, which carries the theme of “A Game of Thrones.” These are the conquerors who will dominate territories, such as mobile, console, PC online, virtual reality, augmented reality, and beyond. I’ve spent the past six months recruiting the lords and ladies of the great houses of gaming. We hope you’ll agree it’s a stellar lineup. We’ve got about 43 CEOs, a bunch of top game journalists and analysts, and even two mystery speakers. Our GamesBeat Online speakers, who will be speaking online during the breaks, are here.

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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.