James Hursthouse (middle left) and Christina Heller (middle right) show off Metastage.

The DeanBeat: Women in Gaming breakfast kicks off diverse lineup at GamesBeat Summit 2022

I’m glad that we’re done with recruiting our 124 speakers for our 55 sessions at the GamesBeat Summit 2022 event on April 26-28. And I’m even more pleased that our fourth Women in Gaming breakfast will feature an actual breakfast. That’s because this is the first time we’ve done this in a physical location — at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. (You can sign up here with a 50% off discount code Dean.)

Andrea Rene of What’s Good Games will emcee the day, and she will moderate an off-the-record session at the breakfast about “Engineering Inclusivity.” It will take place from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. on April 26. The session is about how to turn inclusivity into an advantage and to propagate it across an entire workplace.

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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.