The DeanBeat: Telling stories at GamesBeat Summit 2019

We’ve got 97 luminaries speaking at our GamesBeat Summit 2019 event on April 23-24 in Los Angeles. I’ve spent the better part of six months recruiting speakers for the event, but I have also spent decades covering the game industry and writing stories about many of our speakers.

They’re newsmakers and personalities, and while many of them have spoken before, two-thirds have never spoken at a GamesBeat event, which we have been doing for the past decade. They’re going to tell great stories. I have a few behind-the-scenes stories about these people, and I thought I would share some of them. I won’t talk about every speaker, but please indulge me as I retell some stories that come to mind about them. I feel like there is some magic at work that makes me run into these people over and over. I thought I would tell you about why they are memorable to me.