GamesBeat 09 preview: an interview with Facebook’s top gaming dude

Venturebeat: Our GamesBeat 09 conference on March 24 will explore the frontiers of gaming such as emerging gaming platforms. Facebook certainly qualifies as one of the hottest game platforms, now that it has 5,000 games. When the social network opened its platform up in 2007, it had no idea that games were going to become a big part of it.

But now it’s up to Gareth Davis, the program manager for games in Facebook’s platform marketing division, to keep it going. The top gaming dude at the fast-growing Palo Alto, Calif.-based social network will be one of our panelists at GamesBeat, and I talked to him recently about what’s on his mind.