GamesBeat 2009 Speakers Announced
VentureBeat today announced the speaker line-up for this year’s GamesBeat Conference. GamesBeat 2009 is the inaugural year for the conference and is the only gathering focused entirely on the business of games. Top speakers on this year’s schedule include Sony Online Entertainment’s President, John Smedley, 38 Studios founder and Major League Baseball All-Star Pitcher Curt Schilling, Creative Artists Agency game head Seamus Blakely, Bing Gordon of leading venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Crispy Gamer co-founder John Keefer. The conference takes place on March 24, 2009 at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. A full list of speakers can be found after the break.
- Seamus Blackey, Creative Artists Agency
- Susan Bonds, 42 Entertainment
- Joel Brodie, Gamezebo
- Lars Buttler, Trion World Network
- Tim Chang, Norwest Venture Partners
- Susan Choe, Outspark
- Brett Close, 38 Studios
- N’Gai Croal, Newsweek
- Gareth Davis, Facebook
- David Edery, Author “Changing the Game”
- Jay Eum, Translink Capital
- Dennis Fong, Raptr
- Nick Fortugno, Rebel Monkey
- Mark Friedler, Worlds and Games
- Bing Gordon, Kleiner Perkins
- Graham Hopper, Disney Interactive Studios
- Jameson Hsu, Mochi Media
- Richard Huddy, Advanced Micro Devices
- Geoff Keighley, Spike TV
- John Keefer, Crispy Gamer
- Amy Jo Kim, Shufflebrain
- Mitch Lasky, Benchmark Capital
- Jeremy Liew, Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Jamil Moledina, Electronic Arts Partners
- Jason Oberfest, MySpace
- Michael Pachter, Wedbush Morgan Securities
- Rajat Paharia, Bunchball
- Mark Pincus, Zynga
- Shervin Pishevar, Social Gaming Network
- Janice Roberts, Mayfield Fund
- John Rizzo, Zeebo
- Curt Schilling, 38 Studios
- Colin Sebastian, Lazard Capital Markets
- John Smedley, Sony Online Entertainment
- Rahul Sood, HP’s VoodooPC Division
- Alex St.John, Wild Tangent
- Bernard Stolar, Sony and Sega (Former Head of the Games Business)
- Randy Stude, PC Gaming Alliance
- Gus Tai, Trinity Ventures
- Tony Tamasi, Nvidia
- Alex Terry, NeoEdge Networks
- Michel Tombroff, Softkinetic
- Neil Young, ngmoco
- Gabe Zichermann, rmbrME
