140 industry leaders join SBC Digital Summit speaker lineup

April 2, 2020 6:55 PM
  • CDC Gaming Reports
April 2, 2020 6:55 PM
  • CDC Gaming Reports

Set to be the gaming industry’s biggest-ever online conference, the SBC Digital Summit will present a comprehensive agenda focused on the challenges and opportunities the industry faces in light of the disruption caused to business and wider society by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The SBC Digital Summit will feature a lineup of 140 big names from the global betting and gaming sector, with speakers including Carsten Koerl (CEO & Founder, Sportradar), Jesper Svensson (CEO, Betsson Group) and Paris Smith (CEO, Pinnacle).

It also includes expert panels covering sports betting, online casino games, opportunities in Latin American, lotteries, payments, developments in the U.S. market, and digital marketing, spread over five days from April 27 to May 1, 2020.

Thousands of delegates logging on to the SBC Digital Summit from their remote offices around the world can look forward to invaluable insights from a host of CEOs from major players in the industry.

Andrew McCarron, Managing Director of SBC, said: “Never has it been more important for the industry to work together and share ideas, and that is why we decided to launch the SBC Digital Summit.

European-based operator leaders set to offer their perspectives include George Daskalakis (CEO & Founder, Stoiximan / Betano), Per Widerstrom (Group CEO, Fortuna Entertainment Group), Johnny Hartnett (CEO, Superbet), Sergey Portnov, (CEO, Parimatch), Dominik Beier (CEO, Interwetten), Alexander Stevendahl (CEO, Videoslots), Giovanni Garisi (CEO & Founder, Stanleybet), Ariel Reem (CEO, Genesis Group), and Tim Heath (CEO & Founder, Coingaming Group).

The speaker roster is further enhanced by a number of influential figures from online betting and gaming companies operating outside Europe, such as Adam Greenblatt (CEO, Roar Digital), JD Duarte (CEO, Betcris), Julio Cesar Tamayo (CEO, Wplay), Andre Gelfi (CEO, Suaposta), and Gonzalo Perez (CEO, Apuesta Total).

They will be joined on the conference panels by a selection of subject experts, including Stuart Simms (CEO, XL Media), Marcos Oliveira (Chief Affiliate Officer, Clever Advertising Group), Martin Lycka (Director of Regulatory Affairs, GVC Group), Jens Nielsen (Sportsbook Director, Danske Spil), Jesper Karrbrink (Chairman, Green Jade Games), Steven Armstrong (Group Director of AML, William Hill), Isabelle Delisle (Head of Payments, Pinnacle), Mickael Marceau (Head of Payments, Kindred Group) and Eitan Gorodetsky (Director of Acquisition, Betsson Group).