Italy is one of the online gaming industry's most promising markets in Europe, which is one of the main reasons why the European iGaming Congress and Expo is moving to Milan from Copenhagen in September next year.
Talking about this year’s show in Copenhagen, Ewa Bakun, event director of EiG, commented: “We had over 350 MDs, CEOs and board-level attendees and over 450 director-level delegates, out of approximately 1450 EiG 2010 visitors, which included 35 of the Power50 operators.
“We also had powerful new entrants to the online gaming space in attendance,” she continueD, “including many land-based casinos and lotteries from Austria, Germany, Sweden Finland, Latvia, Croatia, Lebanon, Belgium, Denmark, Canada and many other countries from Europe and beyond.”
Bakun continued: “As we anticipated, the most attended sessions were the two CEO debates on day two and three, where CEOs of the biggest and medium-sized companies discussed strategies to enter the new markets, consolidate, develop new revenue streams and innovate.”
As always, government regulatory developments were closely watched and discussed, and France, Italy, social gaming and social media were at the centre of the CEO discussions. “The regulatory track of the EiG conference programme was packed with discussions by both regulators and business leaders on market entry strategies and the impact of regulations on their businesses,” said Bakun.
