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Executive Summaries of Pgri Lottery Expo and Post-Covid19 Lottery: the Movie NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2020 www.PublicGaming.com EXECUTIVE SUMMARIES OF PGRI LOTTERY EXPO AND POST-COVID19 LOTTERY: THE MOVIE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS • SWOT Applied to the Lottery Industry • What are the key drivers for success in the world of online lottery? • Digitization of the in-store shopping and player experience • Maximizing the Potential of Instant Scratch-offs to Continue to Drive Growth NAVIGATING THE FUTURE of progressive new products. Whether you’re a supplier creating new inventions, a regulator approving new technologies, or an operator who wants new experiences for your players, GLI can help. Land-based, lottery, online, sports betting, and more, we’re navigating the future gaminglabs.com OF2 PUBLIC GAMING INTERNATIONAL GAMING. • NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2020 Every Day Is Training Day When you go to market with IGT’s PlaySports platform, you get much more than the market- leading sports solution. You get continual training through IGT’s Sports Betting Academy so your whole team is at the top of their game, every day. Over scored online training modules, plus webinars and downloadable manuals are available to meet the needs of everyone from front-of-house teams through to auditors and compliance. Managers have constant access to progress reports and test scores for each user. Step confidently onto the field of play - contact your IGT representative today. www.igt.com/playsports © 2020 IGT Global Solutions Corporation. The trademarks used herein are owned by IGT or its aliates, may not be used without permission, and where indicated with a ®, are registered in the U.S. IGT is committed to socially responsible gaming. Our business solutions empower customers to choose parameters and practices that become the foundation of their Responsible Gaming programs. NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2020 CONTENTS Publisher & FEATURED INTERVIEWS Chief Executive Offi cer Paul Jason [email protected] 10 22 President Susan Jason [email protected] Brand and Design Dan Eggers Design Honored Founders Doris & Duane Burke Contact Information T: +425.449.3000 F: +206.374.2600 For email address changes, 22 The future of Digital: Looking into the Post-COVID19 World subscription requests and Sharon Anderson, Head of Digital – Lotteries (The Lott) Tabcorp requests to be placed on our e-Newsletter distribution list, contact: FE ATU R E D A R TIC LES [email protected] PGRI, Inc. 9 The Reviews Are In! Lottery Expo: 14 Strengths, Weaknesses, 218 Main Street, #203 Transformed and POST-COVID19 Opportunities, Threats Roundtable Kirkland, WA 98033 PublicGaming.com Lottery: The Movie Executive Summary of SWOT 10 What are the key drivers for Roundtable Subscriptions Annual Public Gaming success in the world of online May Scheve Reardon, Executive International magazine lottery? 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All Rights Reserved. From the Publisher One of the big themes to emerge from the recreational venues? We know that iLottery e executive summary of the Instants terrible ravages of pandemic is that trends sales sky-rocketed during the shut-down Roundtable discussion was led by Beth are accelerating. Consumer are adopting period. I would think we can expect that Bresnahan who was joined by four other new behaviours (like online ordering, self- at least some of those players who were new industry leaders with special insight into the service vending, enjoying local recreational to iLottery as a result of the pandemic will underlying dynamics of what drives Instant gaming options instead of travelling to resort continue to play online. But how many? Scratch-o sales. gaming destinations, playing the lottery And what can we do to retain the player-ship Gary Grief led the Digitization of the online) much more quickly. Technologies of these iLottery newcomers? in-store shopping and playing experience like video-conferencing are skipping the Likewise Instant Scratch-o s. Sales Roundtable. e exec summary re ects the whole “early-adopter” stage and moving increased in this category as well. We do not con dence that industry leaders have in the right into mass-market acceptance. With have data to explain exactly why Scratch- momentum going forward to invest in the positive expectations for a fast deployment requisite technologies that will drive retail of vaccines, maybe we can hope for a return modernization. to some semblance of “normalcy” in six “I would think we can or seven months – just in time for the EL expect that at least some And then there is the over-arching theme Congress in the ancient city of Šibenik of how we begin to analyze the e ects Croatia on the Adriatic coast the end of of those players who of the major disruptions of the past nine May. Certainly we will be more than were new to iLottery as a months, and what do we do about it. May ready to convene at the annual NASPL big result of the pandemic will Scheve and panel of experts applied the trade-show and conference event the end “SWOT” methodology
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