Akshay Khanna, vice president of strategy at the Philadelphia 76ers.
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The 76ers to explain blending of traditional sports and esports at GamesBeat Summit

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Our next speakers for our upcoming GamesBeat Summit event are Akshay Khanna, vice president of strategy at the Philadelphia 76ers and Greg Richardson, an investor and chairman of Team Dignitas, an esports team acquired by the 76ers.

They will talk about the blending of traditional sports and esports at our event entitled GamesBeat Summit 2017: How games, sci-fi, and tech create real-world magic. Richardson also serves as the chairman of Rumble Entertainment. He is an investor, advisor, and entrepreneur in digital media. Prior to Rumble, he was a partner at Elevation Partners, and served in key roles with game companies including BioWare/Pandemic, Electronic Arts, Eidos Interactive, and the 3DO Company.

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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.