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Trainings, symposiums and conferences on gambling to be held in July 2020

Some countries have moved to the next phase of quarantine relaxation, but the format of virtual events remains popular with forum and conference organizers. Read about July events in the sphere of gambling and iGaming in the announcement.

Games Gathering Odessa 2020

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The sixth annual event will be held on July 4 in the Ukrainian city of Odessa. The organizers position the event as the largest international B2B conference on game content development and creation in Eastern Europe. Participants will be able to improve their skills, professional level and get acquainted with promising business partners in person. Investors, service providers, publishers and developers are invited to the exhibition. Young developers will also have an opportunity to demonstrate their indie projects and compete for the Indie Blast Awards.

Conference speakers: head of design department in EA DICE Fouzi Mezmar will talk about the peculiarities of idea generation; creative director of Wargaming and member of the board of World of Tanks Andrey Biletsky will talk about how Viable differs from Valuable; director of “Animagrad” Oleg Malamuzh will reveal the differences in animation schools, how to create memorable animation and find your own style, and others. There will also be a panel discussion about how sound brings money with representatives of Universe Music, VP Production and Digilaw.

iGB Live! Online

iGB Live! Online

Virtual version of iGB Live! Will be held on the Web from 14 to 16 July. The main theme – the industry of gambling and okologiming business. The organizers announce dynamic and fresh content for business managers, marketers, students and other users, which they will be able to adapt to their needs. The main topics will be as follows:

  • Google Wars: how to win the ongoing battle to take a good place and stay in it.
  • Advanced GSC Search Effectiveness Analysis: how to define templates for effective ideas.
  • Post COVID-19: attract new audiences.
  • Sports Player Profile: Hold a new audience.
  • Protecting partner sector growth.
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The speakers are Neil Patel Digital and Ubersuggest, Izzy Smith, SEO analyst at Ryte SaaS, Alexander Martin, CEO of SKS365 and founder of PlanetWin365 brand.

The conference is planned for September and will be held in Amsterdam in ground format. In the online version, the number of participants is not limited. Spectators will have the opportunity to personally ask a question to the speaker and interact with other participants in a common chat.

Online conference SBC Digital Summit North America 2020

SBC Digital Summit North America

The largest virtual event in North America is scheduled to be broadcast from 14-16 July. The speakers will raise problematic issues of the betting industry and gambling in the United States. The organizers have brought together senior industry executives to exchange views and ideas on how to cope with the unprecedented market conditions in 2020 and get out of them ready to take advantage of many emerging opportunities.

The speakers will include Penn National Gaming CEO Jay Snowden, NCPG Legislative Director Brianna Dora, ESPN reporter David Purdum and Football Media CEO Dean Akinjobi and others.

On the website, listeners have access to a full virtual space for events: with projections of exhibitions, halls and other attributes of offline conferences.

There will also be reviews of many online casinos, which will then be posted separately on the site, as in the example of dr bet casino review.

Training on casino operations from the University of Nevada

Training on Casino

The University of Nevada’s Advanced Research Project provides three training sessions at once on how to organize casinos, control and properly distribute finances to generate more profits:

  • July 20 – Casino Accounting: Audit and Control;
  • July 21 – the casino budget: forecasting and planning of profits;
  • July 22 – analytics of casino data.
  • These are independent courses, which will be of interest to managers of companies, managers of all links, analysts, accountants and security staff.

Conference on gambling addiction and responsible gambling

Conference on Gambling

The 34th annual event will be held online from July 20 to 23. Leading PhDs, psychologists and representatives of U.S. defense organizations will address the audience. Among the topics planned for lectures on the introduction of spirituality in the treatment of ludomania, the use of artificial intelligence in the prevention of gambling addiction, government condescension and mild measures to limit gambling, as well as current statistics on the participation of adolescents in gambling.

Prohibition of iGaming during COVID-19

Decisions taken by authorities

It is known that the head of the country Egils Levits agreed with the bill to close casinos, including those working in the Internet. After signing the document on March 22, all casinos, betting shops and bingo halls were closed in the country. However, the ban did not apply to the lottery market. The decision was taken as part of an emergency situation, as well as to preserve the financial situation of citizens, who, according to some lawmakers, could fall under the excessive influence of gambling during quarantine.

The problem of gambling and iGaming – is it that serious?

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Since January 1 of this year, the country has had a self-exclusion register, the dynamics of which can also show how much the theme of ludomania is exacerbated here and whether the decision of legislators was justified. For example, CalvinAyre.com states that from January to March, 5400 people registered in the program. Previously, the Latvian Ministry of Health specified that there are about 16 thousand people in Latvia who are at risk of forming dependence on gambling. It is stressed that this level of coverage is impressive.

Also, according to the results of last year’s report of the Lottery and Gambling Supervision Inspectorate (IAUI), it is known that revenue from online gambling has increased by 132.8%. The total revenue of 14 licensed operators amounted to 54.7 million euros, which is 32.8% higher than in 2018. It is noted that the most popular among players has become the online casino vertical. It is known that revenues from online gaming and roulette rose to 39.3 million euros, an increase of 142.5%. Demand for sports betting increased by 116.8% (€3.2 million). Due to the above data it should not be excluded that the decision of the legislators was taken against the background of the growing popularity of the iGaming industry among the local population.

In other words, the initiator of the online segment restriction was a number of lawmakers who, according to the Managing Director of Enlabs in Central and Eastern Europe, Dainis Niedra, wanted to protect the population from problem gaming during the period of self-isolation. The temporary ban on iGaming was preceded by an increase in the popularity of the direction in 2019, reports on potentially dependent population groups and participants in the self-exclusion program, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Operators on their part, in particular, Enlabs CEO Georgy Ustinov, believe that the banned actions violate the law on foreign investment protection and provoke shadow business. It is also known that during the quarantine period the company focused on improving technologies to increase competitiveness in the Belarusian market.