Moderator: Rebecca Hargrove,President and CEO, Tennessee Education Lottery Panelists:Torbjørn Almlid,CEO, Norsk Tipping AS, the Norwegian lottery and gaming operator; Kevin Gass, Vice President of Lottery Gaming, BCLC in British Columbia, Canada; Jean Jorgensen, Executive Director of the World Lottery Association, Basel, Switzerland; Gordon Medenica, Director, New York Lottery |
Panel Discussion Not for the Faint of Heart The Execution Session: What can the operator and its commercial partners do to ensure that our retail channel partners benefit by lottery expansion into new media and distribution channels like internet? How can the internet be integrated into existing lottery operations to deliver optimum results? Moderator: Gardner Gurney, Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer, New York Lottery Panelists: Nigel Beaney, Director of Interactive Services, Camelot Global Services; John Pittman, Vice President Marketing, INTRALOT; Doug Pollard, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Pollard Banknote; Mike Veverka, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, JUMBO Interactive |
Panel Discussion: Not for the Faint of Heart The Imagineering Session What will the multi-jurisdictional games of the future look like? How can the traditional lottery games be updated or redesigned to deliver new and exciting gaming experience to the i-lottery player? (Let your imagination run wild.) Moderator: May Scheve Reardon, Executive Director, Missouri Lottery Panelists: Michelle Carney, Vice President Marketing, GTECH; Amy Hill, Senior Vice President, MDI Interactive; Barak Matalon, Chief Executive Officer, NEOGAMES; Brendan McCarthy, Senior Account Executive, Aristocrat Technologies |
Management Structures and Operational Effectiveness: How does the management model (state-agency, quasi-corporation, "PMA", etc.) affect the ability of the Lottery to invest in the innovation, progressive, and forward-looking strategies that are required of all industry leaders? How can Lottery leaders adapt their state-agency model to a world that demands rapid change and entrepreneurial ingenuity? How can state lottery directors do for their businesses what Steve Jobs did for Apple? Moderated by Rebecca Hargrove, CEO Tennessee Lottery Corp.; Panelists: May Scheve Reardon, Executive Director Missouri Lottery; Gary Grief , Executive Director Texas lottery; Jim Kennedy, Chief Marketing Officer, Scientific Games; Connie Laverty O’Connor, CEO of NorthStar Lottery Group |
Moderated by Terry Rich, CEO Iowa Lottery Panelists: Jim Haynes, Executive Director, Nebraska Lottery; Alan Yandow, Executive Director, Vermont Lottery; Kevin Gass, Vice President of Lottery Games, BCLC; Chuck Strutt, Executive Director, Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) |