We’re delighted to announce a trio of speakers for GamesBeat 2016 to address the subject of creativity and diversity, which has been an ongoing subject for us at our GamesBeat events.
Michael Condrey, cofounder of Sledgehammer Games.
[Update: The moderator for the panel is Nicole Lazzaro. She is the founder of XEODesign and a world-renowned game developer/designer who pioneered measuring emotions on players’ faces. She designed the first iPhone game and is now the lead engineer for Follow the White Rabbit, a VR mystery adventure. Additionally, she uses XEODesign’s “4 Keys to Fun” to increase emotion from player’s favorite actions in games. One of the ‘Top 20′ women working in video games Nicole has consulted on bestsellers such as The Sims, Myst, and Star Wars. Her clients include EA, Ubisoft, Disney, Kabam, and the White House.]
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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.
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