The three equal and critical legs of the digital gaming stool are KYC, GeoLocation, and Payments... without which, there is no digital gaming. After more than a decade of rapid growth in America, we are on shaky ground with an urgent and immediate need to be better, as Operators, Suppliers, and Regulators. The risks of not being better are grave; there are threats from every direction. From the black market to pervasive fraud to entirely new models upending the space. The time to act is now, hear what is needed, what is missing, and how we stay relevant for the next decade.

Omer Sattar, Co-Founder & CEO, Sightline Payments

The continuing expansion of both ilottery and igaming has created similar opportunities and challenges for casinos and lotteries: Does this advancement create opportunities to reach a broader and younger demographic? Does it bring these two gaming verticals into each other’s orbit, and if so, is that yet another challenge? How can these two industries, whose historic views of each other have ranged from indifference to suspicion, work together in a digital world? For example, can the clear similarities between digital slot machines and digital scratch-off lottery games be reconciled so both can participate? How can a future in which both verticals thrive be assured?

Moderator: James Carey, Executive Director, New Jersey Lottery

• Khalid Reede Jones, Executive Director, Virginia Lottery
• Helene Keely, Executive Director, Delaware Lottery
• May Scheve Reardon, Vice President – Government Relations, Pollard Banknote
• James Schultz, Executive Vice President – Global Legal & Public Policy, Scientific Games
• Michael Shillan, Chief Executive Officer, WOW Lottery Ventures LLC
• Frank Suarez, Executive Director, Connecticut Lottery

Since the founding of the East Coast Gaming Congress in 1996, Wall Street has played a critical role in our program, and that role is more important now than at any time in the history of this industry. Who will be the winners and losers, and what opportunities are investors eyeing? Our panel of leading investment experts will chart that future.

Moderator: Joe Weinert, Executive Vice President, Spectrum Gaming Group

• Jacques Cornet, Partner, ICR
• Rob Heller, Chief Executive Officer, Spectrum Gaming Capital
• Cameron McKnight, Managing Director, Head of Investments - Gaming, Lodging & Leisure, Capital One Securities, Inc.
• Michael Wagman, President & Managing Driector, Clairvest Group

Regulators, operators and suppliers to the gaming industry are forced to confront changes that will roil everything from licensing to market share and beyond. Changes in technology and the political landscape range from the expansion of unregulated slot machines to sweepstakes to the expansion of igaming, ilottery
and beyond. Who will be the winners and losers in this rapidly changing battlefield? How can the existing operators in all sectors respond, and what are the opportunities for new entrants?

Moderator: Lynne Kaufman, Partner & Gaming Group Co-Chair, Cooper Levenson, Attorneys at Law

• David Brace, Principal – Innovation & Technology, Continent8
• Mary Jo Flaherty, Interim Director, New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement
• Shawn Fluharty, Pres. – NCLGS; Head of Gov’t Affairs, Play’n GO
• Chris Grove, Co-Founding Partner, Acies Investments and EKG Ventures
• Yael Harel Hertz, CEO, TheLotter Group
• Andrew Winchell, Head of Government Affairs, Betr

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James Allen, Chief Executive Officer, Hard Rock International & Seminole Gaming

Keynote Speaker: Phil Murphy, Governor, State of New Jersey

How will the prospect of destination resorts in the New York City market impact other gaming markets in the eastern United States? What can other states and existing operators do in anticipation of that extraordinary challenge? How will the process in Downstate New York continue to unfold, and how are the potential licensees responding and planning?

Moderator: Patrick Brown, Lobbyist and Founding Partner, Brown & Weinraub

• Senator Joseph Addabbo, Jr., Chairman, NY State Senate Committee on Racing, Gaming and Wagering
• Jane Bokunewicz, PhD., Faculty Director, Lloyd D. Levenson Institute of Gaming Hospitality and Tourism (LIGHT), Stockton University
• Jeffrey Gural, Chairman, GFP Real Estate; Owner, The Meadowlands, Tioga Downs and Vernon Downs
• Adam Rosenberg, Senior Advisor, Blackstone
• Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner, Chair, NY State Assembly Committee on Racing & Wagering

ECGC Concludes