Finding game jobs and other emotional sessions from GamesBeat Next | The DeanBeat

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We had 31 sessions and 96 speakers at our GamesBeat Next event this week in San Francisco. We had 555 people come out for the day-and-half-long event. Thank you for doing that, as we had just 29 people signed up four weeks ago. I’m so happy we have such a supportive community.

I appreciated the wonderful feedback for the event and my opening speech. It’s so hard to not say something about each of the great talks, but I’ll focus on just three of the ones that took place on the first day. They stood out to me for their insights and emotion. I’ll be writing about more of the talks in the coming days, and I’ll be sprinkling in videos as we get them uploaded. I’ll have to watch videos of the ones I missed. And please fill out our survey if you attended the event.

And it was awesome to see that our Game Changers list of the top 25 startups went live on Nasdaq’s tower in Times Square. That was an amazing surprise to see GamesBeat, Lightspeed and all the startups on the Nasdaq big screen.

One of the new things we did this year, in light of all of the thousands of layoffs in gaming, was a session about finding jobs. For that, we tapped Ninel Gryuner Anderson, CEO of Devoted Studios and a podcaster about game jobs; and Amir Satvat, a business development director at Tencent who created a side gig.

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Satvat is a bit of a quant and he used his skills to scrape the web for game job postings and organized them into a Game Jobs Workbook on LinkedIn. Doing this for no financial reward, Satvat managed to become a Top Voice in Video