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<\/a><\/p>\nSBC Summit Americas\u00a0recently announced representatives from Bet365\u00a0and\u00a0DraftKings Predictions, and former U.S. Representative\u00a0Patrick Kennedy from Rhode Island, will appear on the\u00a0Leaders Stage\u00a0for discussions on the evolving future of gaming and sports betting in the Americas.<\/p>\n
The Leaders stage forms part of SBC Summit Americas\u2019 six-stage\u00a0conference program, covering\u00a0sports betting and casino,\u00a0affiliation,\u00a0leadership,\u00a0player protection, and\u00a0regulation, with each stage alternating between North and Latin American market focus across the conference.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlayer expectations have evolved in ways I don\u2019t think anyone in the industry truly expected. A great product is no longer enough,\u201d SBC Founder and CEO Rasmus Sojmark said in a statement. \u201cYou have to be an entertainment platform, a media brand, even a financial service, all at once.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe range of conversations happening across the Leaders Stage shows just how broad the industry has become,\u201d Sojmark added. \u201cThat gives us the opportunity to bring together voices from both inside and outside gaming, and this year\u2019s lineup includes everyone from executives at some of the region\u2019s biggest operators to an actual Kennedy.\u201d<\/p>\n
One new element at this year\u2019s conference is the Podcast Zone, an area set aside for SBC iGaming Daily, where speakers will be interviewed.<\/p>\n
Another new element is the Prediction Markets Forum. The session\u00a0The Current State of Prediction Markets in the U.S. will examine how prediction markets are blurring the lines between financial trading and sports betting, and what their rapid rise means for future U.S. regulation. Experts\u00a0Jeanine Hightower Sellitto, Draft Kings Senior Vice President & General Manager; Sporttrade CEO Alex Kane; and Joshua B. Sterling, Partner, Milbank, will debate whether prediction markets represent an evolution in gaming or a direct challenge to existing regulatory frameworks.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the last year-and-a-half, prediction markets have just been the number one buzzword in the U.S.,\u201d Brain said. \u201cPeople get passionate about it because people have very different opinions on it. We\u2019re neither pro or against prediction markets, but we knew this was something that we needed to give a platform to discussions about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a lot of lawyers talking about this on stage because I know this is legally a complex phenomenon, and I myself struggle to understand a lot of the debate around it. It\u2019s really helpful that we have these academics and legal folks to kind of break that down for people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other speakers of note include Kennedy, who is involved in the player protection and harm reduction space; keynote speaker David Edelman, formerly the Chief Marketing Officer of Aetna and the author of Personalized: Customer Strategy in the Age of AI; and Stephanie De Flora, Bet365 Chief Marketing Officer, who will participate in a fireside chat, Winning is Everything, about her company\u2019s expansion across North America.<\/p>\n
Other executives scheduled to appear are Andrew Cochrane, Soft2Bet Chief Operating Officer; Fanatics Betting & Gaming Chief Technology Officer Ian Botts; Geocomply CEO Kip Levin; Manuel Stan, Catena Media CEO; Marco Emilio Hincapie, Coljuegos President; Seminole Hard Rock Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer Macario Gallegos; and Stuart Simms, FairPlay Sports Media Group CEO.<\/p>\n
Brain admits it\u2019s a challenge to stay abreast of the latest developments in the gaming industry.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do a lot of research all the time,\u201d Brain said. \u201cThe conference team always has its finger on the pulse of what is happening, because we\u2019re always talking to the industry. We have amazing media on SBC, and so they have a wealth of knowledge. And if we\u2019re not today on something, you can pretty much guarantee at least they will be, and they\u2019ll make sure they know about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SBC Summit Americas returns to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for its second year after combining SBC Summit North America…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,29414,121451],"class_list":["post-286516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-personnel","tag-sbc-summit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}