Lighting talk speakers: (left to right) Dima Veryovka, David Levitt, Jay Mattis, Omar Siddiqui, Brendan Wilson, and Stewart Rogers.
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The DeanBeat: What we learned from GamesBeat 2016

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 5 min

Episode 9 of our GamesBeat series of conferences is over. We heard the Yoda-like wisdom of 105 speakers at our ninth annual GamesBeat event at the beautiful Terranea resort in Los Angeles.

Sadly, we had way too many talks for me to summarize in a single column. (You can see all of them here). I’ll focus, for a change, on what we heard last on day three of the conference, and I’ll explore some of the other talks in future columns. I’m so thankful we had great attendees and speakers, and they found so many ways to inspire us.

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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.