Under Meggan Scavio, DICE Summit refocuses on game developer creativity

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 26, 2017
Updated June 20, 2025
2 min

Changes are afoot for the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. Meggan Scavio, former head of the Game Developers Conference, became president of the academy this summer, and she has begun talking about her efforts to raise the profile of the game industry’s professional trade organization.

The AIAS puts on events such as the DICE Summit in Las Vegas and the DICE Europe show. It has a charitable foundation that has helped advance the cause of diversity in the game industry. And it has services for members. In an interview with GamesBeat, Scavio talked about what’s coming.

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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.