Attend GamesBeat in San Francisco on March 24th!

VentureBeat’s inaugural conference for the gaming industry’s top players will be held on March 24, 2009, at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. GamesBeat will feature some of the biggest names in the gaming industry representing the multiple ways gaming will shape our experience with the world. Headliners include:

  • John Smedley, president of Sony Online Entertainment
  • Seamus Blackley, head of the games department at Creative Artists Agency and co-creator of the Xbox
  • Curt Schilling, founder and chairman of 38 Studios and World Series winning pitcher from the Boston Red Sox.

Over the course of the day, industry heavy hitters and rookies will shoot it out over the industry’s next big ideas. Gregg Sauter of Nokia N-Gage and Sony Playstation Network U.S. head Susan Panico will discuss platform wars with MySpace, Facebook and ngmoco. Media and entertainment players get in the game, as Graham Hopper, head of Disney Interactive Studios; Ira Rubenstein, vice president of interactive for Marvel; and Dave Williams, senior vice president of Nickelodeon Kids and Family Games Group, look at mass market opportunities for video games. The complete line-up can be found on the speaker list and agenda.

Tickets are $595, but GigaOm readers can get a 15 percent discount with the code “GBOM.” Register now!

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