Chris Baker – Senior Editor, Wired magazine
Chris Baker writes and edits stories for Wired. He has also contributed to Slate, Entertainment Weekly, Spin, Maxim, Giant Robot, Film Threat, EGM, Kill Screen, and the 1-Up zine.

Jeff Scott – Founder & Chief Editor, 148apps.com
Jeff Scott is the founder of the 148Apps network of sites covering mobile applications and the business surrounding the development of apps. Launched in 2008, 148Apps is an innovator in the mobile apps space, being one of the first sites to publish statistics and metrics on the app marketplaces it covers. Based in San Francisco, his background is in web and mobile application development, having worked for a variety of startups large and small before starting his own web publishing company.

Dean Takahashi – GamesBeat
Dean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.

Sam Kennedy – IGN.com
Sam Kennedy has been a pioneer in the videogame media since the mid-90s. He started his career by launching Gaming-Age.com and then went on to work at such publications as GameFan, GameSpot, EGM, and the Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine. In 2003 he launched 1UP.com, the first community and content destination for gamers, and later its two associated sites GameVideos.com and MyCheats.com. He oversaw the 1UP Network until its acquisition by IGN in 2011, after which he took on a broader role of Audience Generation Director for IGN, building audiences and communities for IGN.com, 1UP.com, and GameSpy.com.

AJ Glasser – Lead Writer, Inside Network
AJ Glasser is lead writer for Inside Network. Inside Network covers Inside Social Games, Inside Mobile Apps, Inside Facebook and App Data. AJ is a prolific lead writer on games, apps, and social networks. Previously, she served as News Editor at GamePro Media and as San Francisco Correspondent for Gawker Media games blog, Kotaku. Her work can also be found in Future US Inc. publications like GamesRadar.com and the Official PlayStation and Xbox magazines. AJ earned her Masters of Journalism from Stanford University, and her undergraduate degree in International Relations from Mills College..

Lightning Talks:

Philo Northrup – Co-Founder Envie Interactive
has been gamifying art and artifying games spanning three decades with over 50 titles published and countless awards garnered including Best Downloadable Game of the Year and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant. His lifelong passion for the arts and the desire to play while he works will be on display as he lets us in on how his newest project, VIE: Virtual Island of Entertainment, is taking a slice out of a billion person pie.

Ben Savage – CEO Sibblingz
Facebook, Apple, and Google are all fighting over the emerging 14 Billion dollar mobile games market, with each party trying to attract developers into creating content for their respective platform. Sibblingz developed Spaceport so that developers don't have to choose one over another. Welcome to Platform independence.