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Tim Yahya Country Manager, Canada & U.S.A Abacus Solutions International
Tim Yahya
Country Manager, Canada & U.S.A
Abacus Solutions International
Click here to watch this video recorded LIVE at NASPL2018 in Cleveland, OH
Rebecca Hargrove at 'Industry Days' in Prague June 5, 2018
The Mentor/Mentee program was launched in the U.S. in April. Now, watch Rebecca Hargrove, Chair of Women's Initiative in Lottery Leadership (WILL), CEO of the Tennessee Lottery, Sr. Vice President of the WLA, as she announces the Mentor Training Program Launch for European Lottery executives. This event was held Tuesday June 5th in Prague during 'Industry Days' and sponsored by the European Lottery Association.Visit the Women's Initiative in Lottery Leadership website at womeninlotteryleadership.com
Richard Bateson, Camelot Group UK -Betting on the outcome and reselling of lottery products– a global trend that threatens our industry
Presentation:
Betting on the outcome and reselling of lottery products–
a global trend that threatens our industry
Richard Bateson
Commercial Director, Camelot Group UK
Joni Hovi Executive Director, State Lottery Business, KAMBI
Sports Betting for Government-Sponsored Operators
Joni Hovi Executive Director, State Lottery Business
Darrell Smith Vice President, Sales & Marketing, SMARTPLAY
Turning the Draw into a Social Media and Marketing Event
Darrell Smith Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Driving strategic transformation through product innovation, retailer distribution and player diversification Mark Smith Chief Marketing Officer, Linq3
Driving strategic transformation through product innovation, retailer distribution and player diversification
Mark Smith Chief Marketing Officer, Linq3
Women's Initiative in Lottery Leadership Invitation to become a MENTEE by Rebecca Hargrove, CEO, Tennessee Lottery
Please click here Rebecca Hargrove, CEO, Tennessee Lottery invites lottery directors and CEOs to encourage the women in the industry to sign up as Mentees to participate in the upcoming WILL Web-based Training Sessions. Please click to download the MENTEE Form here and save to your desk top. After filling out your form please save the form under your name and email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Make Your Retailer Partnerships Work Mark Castellana Senior Vice President, Partner Development, Lazlo326
Make Your Retailer Partnerships Work
Mark Castellana Senior Vice President, Partner Development, Lazlo326
Invitation to World Lottery Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Invitation to World Lottery Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Rebecca Hargrove President & CEO, Tennessee Education Lottery Corp., Executive Vice President, World Lottery Association (WLA)
Panel Discussion: Creating the next generation of Instant and Draw-Game Products
Panel Discussion: Creating the next generation of Instant and Draw-Game Products How are Lotteries integrating the new play styles of the modern consumer into the traditional lottery games? How can the product be modernized to put the impulse back into draw games, excite the core players, and attract new consumer groups? How can Product Life-cycle Management drive sales? How about integrating social networking into lottery gaming? Is optimization of current portfolio taking a back to basics approach?
Moderator: Rebecca Hargrove, President & CEO, Tennessee Education Lottery Corp., Executive Vice President, World Lottery Association (WLA)
Panelists:
Bill Breslo, President, Diamond Game
Michelle Carney, Vice President, Strategic Customer Initiatives, IGT
Bret Toyne, Executive Director, MUSL
The Role of Content for Long Term Lottery Success Michelle Carney, Vice President, Strategic Customer Initiatives, IGT Kevin Gass, Vice President Lottery Gaming, BCLC Lottery
The Role of Content for Long Term Lottery Success
Michelle Carney, Vice President, Strategic Customer Initiatives, IGT
Kevin Gass, Vice President Lottery Gaming, BCLC Lottery
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The NASPL API as the Foundation for Future Lottery Sales and Expanding Lottery Distribution Tony Fontaine, Vice President, Business Development Lottery, INCOMM
The NASPL API as the Foundation for Future Lottery Sales and Expanding Lottery Distribution
Tony Fontaine
Vice President, Business Development Lottery, INCOMM
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Panel Discussion What are the implications for Lottery and the broader games-of-chance industry if the federal prohibition of Sports-Betting is lifted?
Panel Discussion What are the implications for Lottery and the broader games-of-chance industry if the federal prohibition of Sports-Betting is lifted?
Moderator: Paul Jason, Chief Executive Officer PGRI Public Gaming
Panelists:
Mark Hichar, Partner, Hinkley, Allen Law Firm, Chair of Gaming Law Practice
Vernon Kirk, Executive Director, Delaware Lottery
Gary Gonder, Chief Branding Officer, Missouri Lottery - PGRI Lifetime Achievement Award
PGRI Lifetime Achievement Award for Decades of Distinguished Public Service:
Gary Gonder, Chief Branding Officer, Missouri Lottery
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Andy Davis, Chief Financial & Information Systems Officer, Tennessee Lottery Corp. - PGRI Lifetime Achievement Award
PGRI Lifetime Achievement Award for Decades of Distinguished Public Service:
Andy Davis, Chief Financial & Information Systems Officer, Tennessee Lottery Corp
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Panel Discussion: Multi-State Collaboration Moderator: Tom Delacenserie, President and CEO, Kentucky Lottery Corporation
Panel Discussion: Multi-State Collaboration: A cornerstone to modernization is to work together to standardize business process, procedure, and technologies across jurisdictional boundaries. Significant progress has been made, and the industry is on the cusp of important breakthroughs. How are costs, responsibilities, and authority allocated when the costs and benefits vary by jurisdiction? What are the governance issues that need to be addressed? How are these being applied to implementation of API and to further meet the needs of multi-state retailers? How might the community of lotteries share resources for nation-wide (or at least multi-jurisdictional) branding, messaging, advertising, and promotion, and capture and organization of data for NASPL Matrix, etc.?
Moderator: Tom Delacenserie, President and CEO, Kentucky Lottery Corporation
Panelists:
Andy Davis, Chief Financial & Information Systems Officer, Tennessee Lottery Corp.
Jim Poppell, Secretary, Florida Lottery
Paul Riley, Vice President, Innovation & Transformation, IGT
Terry Rich, President & Chief Executive Officer, Iowa Lottery
Innovations Driving Results Teresa Immel, Director Sales & Marketing, Schafer Systems
Innovations Driving Results
Teresa Immel, Director Sales & Marketing, Schafer Systems
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Beyond the Dollars: Maximizing Impact for our Beneficiaries Gregg Edgar, Executive Director Arizona Lottery
Beyond the Dollars: Maximizing Impact for our Beneficiaries
Gregg Edgar, Executive Director Arizona Lottery
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Panel Discussion: Forging the Digital Connection with Consumers
Panel Discussion: Forging the Digital Connection with Consumers Progressive U.S. lotteries are leveraging the massive traffic they have on their websites to build the digital relationship with the players that is the foundation for long-term success. Consumers now expect seamless hand-offs between technology and in-store visits. Heightened expectations for enhanced shopping experiences are driving the need for lotteries to leverage all consumer touch-points in unprecedented ways. Building digital relationships with players through website traffic, loyalty programs, and second chance promotions is part of the process. Integrating that with in-store digital vehicles like Branded Gift Cards and Player Payment and awards solutions and further digitizing the retail shopping experience is another part. What is being done to optimize the potential of these efforts? What are the measures of success? How can lotteries’ digital connection be used to drive retail foot traffic, and how can that be leveraged to further drive retailer commitment and increase lottery sales?
Moderator: Paul Jason, CEO, PGRI
Panelists:
Jamie Davison, Vice President, Digital Gaming and Innovation, Atlantic Lottery
Shannon DeHaven, Deputy Director of Digital Operations, Michigan Lottery
Jessica DiOrio Dunn, Senior Director, Business Planning and Customer Engagement, Scientific Games Corporation
Andrew Leeper, Creative and Brand Strategy Coordinator, Texas Lottery
Fivi Rondiri, Corporate Marketing Manager, Intralot USA
Driving Retail Growth with Internet Sales Shannon DeHaven, Deputy Director of Digital Operations, Michigan Lottery
Driving Retail Growth with Internet Sales
Shannon DeHaven, Deputy Director of Digital Operations, Michigan Lottery
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Panel Discussion: Retail Marketing, Merchandising, and Optimization
Panel Discussion: Retail Marketing, Merchandising, and Optimization. Retailers are modernizing Signage and Touchpoints both inside and outside of the store; and modernizing the physical retail environment in many other ways: Digital Menu Board; Digital Play-Stations, Mobile Apps, Social apps, Digitizing the POS, inlane sales. Lotteries are meeting the expectations of the modern consumer for digital tools that personalize the messaging and enhance the shopping experience. How can Lottery apply these Point-of-Sale tools to “up-sell” and otherwise get the attention of, and engage the shopper in the store? How can technology and POS tools be used to make it easier for the consumer to understand the portfolio of different products and make their selection? What else are progressive Lotteries doing to modernize, support their retail partners, and engage their players?
Moderator: Kevin Gass, Vice President, Lottery Gaming, BCLC Canada
Panelists:
Jarrod Cummins, Head of Gift Services, the Kroger Company
Alice Garland, Executive Director, North Carolina Education Lottery
Terry Presta, Executive Director, Kansas Lottery
Mike Purcell, Deputy Director Sales, Florida Lottery
Nat Worley, Vice President, Marketing & Retail Execution, IGT
Keno Revolutionizes the Games-of-Chance Market-Place in New Hampshire Fivi Rondiri, Corporate Marketing Manager, INTRALOT USA
Keno Revolutionizes the Games-of-Chance Market-Place in New Hampshire
Fivi Rondiri, Corporate Marketing Manager, INTRALOT USA
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Retail Disruption & Stability Jennifer Westbury, Executive Vice President, Sales & Customer Development, Pollard Banknote
Retail Disruption & Stability
Jennifer Westbury Executive Vice President, Sales & Customer Development Pollard Banknote
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Jon-Paul Bussoli Vice President Product development Carmanah Signs - Real Time Audience Measurement at Retail Jon-Paul Bussoli, Vice President Product development, Carmanah Signs
Real Time Audience Measurement at Retail
Jon-Paul Bussoli Vice President Product development Carmanah Signs
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Bright Futures: Welcome to the Sunshine State! Jim Poppell, Secretary, Florida Lottery
Bright Futures: Welcome to the Sunshine State!
Jim Poppell
Secretary, Florida Lottery
Jay Gendron, Chief Operating Officer, Lottery, IGT SMART-TECH 2018 Keynote Speech: IGT Update: Commitment to Customer First
Keynote Speech
IGT Update: Commitment to Customer First
Jay Gendron
Chief Operating Officer, Lottery, IGT
John Heinen, Senior Vice President COAM (Coin Operated Amusement Machines), Georgia Lottery
Expanding the Lottery footprint by capturing the "gray" gaming markets
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PGRI's Lottery Industry Hall of Fame 1st Induction Ceremony 2017 at NASPL September 15th
2017 International Lottery Industry Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies
Lottery Industry Hall of Fame Inductions took place in two ceremonies this year. The first induction was held at 3:10 pm on Friday September 15; Oregon Convention Center, C123/124 NASPL. The second induction took place during LOTTERY EXPO 2017 in Buckhead, Atlanta October 26, 2017. Current members of the Hall of Fame on hand to congratulate the new inductees L-R Backrow: Doug Pollard, Gary Grief, Rose Hudson, Jay Gendron, Jim Kennedy, Tom Shaheen, Middle Row: Jennifer Westbury, Rebecca Hargrove, Margaret DeFrancisco, Donald Sweitzer. Front Row: Inductees Tom Delacenserie, Paula Otto, Alice Garland, Charles McIntyre (Marzia Mastrogiacomo was inducted on October 26th in Buckhead, Atlanta during Lottery Expo 2017 stay tuned for her induction ceremony video coming soon.) WATCH the first induction Ceremony here
Tracey Cohen Interim Executive Director of the DC Lottery, Innovative Games And Marketing Campaigns That Stretch The Budget
Featuring the Community-Focused “Neighborhoods” and “You Decide” games and the outside the box marketing tactics of the DC Lottery
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Panel Discussion: · Getting Real about Initiatives that Require Multi-Jurisdictional Collaboration - Moderator Wendy Montgomery
Panel Discussion:
· Getting Real about Initiatives that Require Multi-Jurisdictional Collaboration
Many of the most exciting opportunities for our industry to build a prosperous and sustainable future depend on our ability to forge initiatives that cross jurisdictional boundaries. What can be done to build consensus and galvanize earlier, faster, and more decisive action? How are costs, responsibilities, and authority allocated when the costs and benefits vary by jurisdiction? What are the governance issues that need to be addressed?
Moderator: Wendy Montgomery, Vice President, Marketing & Sales, OLG
(Ontario Lottery & Gaming Corporation)
Panelists:
Gerry Aubin, Executive Director, Rhode Island Lottery
Kevin Gass, Vice President, Lottery Gaming, BCLC
Jim Kennedy, Executive Vice President, Group Chief Executive, Lottery, Scientific Games
Sue van der Merwe, Chief Operating Officer, Tatts Lotteries, Australia
Jean-Luc Moner-Banet, CEO of Loterie Suisse Romande and President of the World Lottery Association
Jay Gendron, Senior Vice President North America Lottery, IGT
This video presentation is brought to you by Public Gaming Research Institute and was recorded at SMART-TECH 2017 in New York City, March 2017.
