Social & Mobile Gambling Conference

Results of the second Social & Mobile Gambling Conference

Published

10 years ago

March 18, 2015

On the 12th of March at Moscow ECC “Sokolniki” the second industry conference dedicated to development and promotion of social and mobile gambling – Social & Mobile Gambling Conference 2015 was hosted with great success

The conference was attended by many experts and industry leaders, as well as journalists and representatives of the marketing, IT and many other areas of business and for all of them, SMGC 2015 became a unique platform for live communication and sharing contacts.

SMGC 2015 hosted the following speakers, who shared their unique reports and presentations:

• Gary A. Fowler, co-founder and Managing Director of GVA LaunchGurus, spoke about the future of investments in gambling;
• Raf Keustermans, CO-Founder/CEO Plumbee, presented a report on: “Social casino: how to survive the gold rush”;
• Aleksandr Zholobov, APPS Group, spoke about the major mistakes when creating the original gambling projects;
• Vitaliy Makarov, founder of Poker Moscow, made a presentation on: “Poker in social networks”;
• Viktor Kravchenko, Socialist Media, told how advertising integrations affect users interest in applications;
• Eugeniy Fateev, leading developer of “Snegoff” presented a report on: “Socialcore – Quick launch technology of web applications in social networks”;
• Eugeniy Nevgen, CEO Split Metrics, shared knowledge about new tools and strategies for users attraction;
• Kirill Stepanenko, CEO GLOBULL, spoke about the problem of user trust;
• Jonathan Sverdlov, founder and CEO of Gamy Tech, talked about marketing and partnership through social and mobile gaming.
• Vyacheslav Fedorov, managing partner of e-Money News, made a presentation on: “How not to overpay for customers attraction and simplify receipt of money from customers”;
• Maxim Ternovykh, ABBYY Language Services, talked about optimization of costs for games localization;
• Maria Lepschikova, lawyer of LLC “Legal Line”, presented a report on “Features of legal regulation of gambling in social networks and on mobile devices”;

SMGC 2015 was a truly unique event in development and promotion of social and mobile gambling. Positive feedback from participants of the event can be surely considered the proof of this:

RAF KEUSTERMANS, Co-Founder/CEO Plumbee

“SMGC was a very interesting conference, a good opportunity to meet key people from the industry and learn more about the growing Russian market. The event was well-organized, a good selection of speakers and content, and set in a good location. For anyone looking to network and do business in the social/mobile gaming space in Russia, this conference is definitely strongly recommended.”

Dan Segev, ExtractNet

“It is a conference for searchers like me and it works for me. I enjoyed meeting very interesting new contacts and that’s what I am looking for. I will hopefully succeed to work with the Russian market and come back in June. Thank you”

Jonathan Sverdlov, GamyTech

“The Social & Mobile Gambling conference is an event full of opportunity for game developers and online gambling operators. This is one of the fastest growing segment of the online gambling industry and this event is the perfect education for forward thinking gambling operators”.

Kirill Stepanenko, GLOBULL

“The organizers have worked to make very high quality event, it was very interesting. As a participant of ICE 2015 in London, I can say that Russian gambling community has room to grow, and I hope that together we will overcome all the barriers.
Thank you and I hope to participate in future conferences”

At SMGC 2015 only the most relevant industry topics were discussed: mechanisms of promotion and popularization of online games, peculiarities of creation of multi platform gaming software, conversion of players, monetization of mobile apps, current trends in the field of investment in online gambling, future prospect, etc.

Here’s a short gallery of the event, you can view more on our Facebook page.

The organizers of Social & Mobile Gambling Conference are grateful to all the speakers, participants and partners of the conference for attending the event, as each of them became its important part.
Follow the news on event website somogamconf.ru.

Zoltan "Hawkie" Tundik

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Romania

Casino Life&Business Magazine Awards

Published

8 years ago

November 14, 2016

George Miller

The 10^th edition of “Casino Life&Business Magazine Awards” is approaching fast. Also known as the “Gambling Industry Awards” as it was called by the press ever since it’s first edition, and so, as in every year, it is now time for all the readers to nominate their favorites for each Winning Category.

The changes that took place in the industry, made the number of categories to change. Here are the final categories:

Romanian producer of the year

a)Slots

b)AWP’s

Foreign producer of the year
Year’s Opening
Game Room of the year

a) Bucharest

b) In the Country

5. Sportsbetting House of the year

6. Poker Club of the year

7. Live Casino of the year

8. Best monitoring system of the year

9. Online Gambling Games

a) Best Sportsbetting Web Site

b) Best Poker Web Site

c) Best Casino Web Site

d) Best Customer Service Web Site

e) Fastest paying Web Site

f) Best online content Web Site

10. Best Poker Tournament Organiser

11. Poker Player of the year

a) Online

b) Live

12. Award for biggest implication in gambling

13. Man of the year in Gambling Industry

Category of special awards:

Man of the year 2016

At the “ Poker Player of the Year” the “Live” award will be received based on the Global Poker Index (GPI) Rank, and for the “Online” area , the ranks will be established based on the Holdem.ro direct voting-system in the forum.

We await for YOUR nominations until 24:00 18^th November at the address [email protected]

For your answer to be considered, you must nominate a winner for every category EXCEPT “Poker player of the Year” Category.

If you have any suggestions regarding the listed award-categories, please send them on the same address as the nominees.

WE REMIND YOU THAT only ONE list of nominees will be accepted per IP address.

The 10^th Anniversary of Casino Life&Business Award Magazine Show, the only event of this type organized by the gambling industry in our country, will take place on the 7^th of December and it will be Hosted by The Palace of Parliament.

Casino Life&Business Magazine, the first and most popular gambling magazine in Romania, with over 11.000 fans on Facebook , will keep you updated with the most fresh news from the world of gambling.

Conferences

UAE based representatives from IBM Middle East and Flat6labs Abu Dhabi have joined our speakers’ panel

Published

8 years ago

November 10, 2016

George Miller

We are pleased to introduce to you the UAE based representatives,

who have joined our speakers’ panel to appear on December 8

at Blockchain Conference Abu Dhabi.

They know everything about Blockchain and start-ups in the UAE.

Saqr Ereiqat, a Senior Managing Consultant and Blockchain Evangelist, will provide you with the best ever introduction to Blockchain technology.Saqr is a Dubai based Blockchain Evangelist and Program Manager, who has lead large strategic business changes and implementation programs in 23 countries specializing in turning around complex projects.

Victor Kiriakos, a Managing director of Flat6labs Abu Dhabi, knows everything about start-ups on the UAE map. Victor holds a position of the managing director at Flat6labs Abu Dhabi, a leading start-up accelerator in the MENA region. His role involves investing in start-ups and supporting them in growing their businesses.

Don’t miss the chance to strengthen your knowledge! Join us now!

-> Register to attend

Events in Europe

SiGMA Startup Pitch – MEET THE INVESTORS

Published

8 years ago

November 8, 2016

George Miller

For the first time in Malta, the heart of igaming, the SiGMA Startup Pitch is bringing together investors worth millions and eight startups. Eight finalists with bright ideas with a solid proof of concept.

Short interview with Eman Pulis –

“With so many mergers, acquisitions and new investors flocking into gaming, this was the ideal time to launch in Malta and bring the two sides together”

Meet the self-made entrepreneurs who are willing to mentor, invest in startups and who understand what it takes to build a successful igaming business.

Nikolai Livori, a young, successful entrepreneur himself, is start-up romantic from Math Epic, brings to the pitch a wealth of experience in early stage and seed funding.

Carla Marie Vella, CEO of Optimizer Invest, manages one of the most diverse and successful portfolios in igaming, featuring Betit, iGaming Cloud, Casino Heroes, Catena Media, Easy Payment Gateway and many more.

With the Japanese Government’s backing, Mitsuya Fujimoto from Ganapati is on a mission to promote Japanese culture globally. With his experience and connections, Mitsuya can help these start-ups reach far outside Europe.

Morten Klein, a property mogul from the Klein Group, has vested interest in e-commerce & igaming companies throughout Europe, including Yggdrasil, Cherry and Comeon.

Ory Weihs, co-founder and CEO of XLMedia, runs the largest public listed affiliate company for igaming worldwide.

With a solid presence in Switzerland, EU and the US, Jean Paul Barthet represents a conglomerate of business angels, under the umbrella Go Beyond Early Stage Investment.

Finally, David Sargeant brings with him fifteen years experience in sports betting and technology. iGaming Ideas helps start-ups get from idea to revenue generating leanly.

Friday 18^th November, hungry investors and eight promising start-ups meet in Malta under one roof for the SiGMA Startup Pitch, paving the way for millions to be made and dreams to be accomplished in the nearby future.