Key Areas 2025

 Sustainability, Accountability & Culture 
 Now that many companies have begun reporting on ESG using the CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive), our conference looks to move beyond the confines of each reporting protocol and into more intuitive actions. From workplace culture to staff recruitment, duty of care to collaboration, we look at a broad range of ethical and responsible measures which operators can adopt in 2025.

After our critically-acclaimed 2024 conference on the Sunborn and our expansion into new markets, the EGF looks to welcome our valued attendees from around Europe and in Gibraltar itself.

Come and learn, discuss and network with a brilliant range of top speakers and experts in their field as we traverse a wide range of topics.
 
This year we focus on:
 

• Why sustainability is paramount
• How to be an ethical operator
• Collaboration is key – why the services must work together
• Lived Experience in Gambling
• Education, Education, Education
• Why good governance matters – AML, SARs and Immigration!

* Agenda and speakers subject to change depending on availability

DAY ONE  

9.00 - Introduction – Adrian Sladdin
 
9.05 - Nigel Feetham MP, Minister for Technology & Gaming
 
9.15 - Panel One – Why sustainability is paramount; identifying your office culture, recognising accountability and delivering long-term solutions – Moderator – Adrian Sladdin, Floris Assies, Stephen Murchie, Norma Campbell, Christina Giuffre
 
10.00 – Presentation – AI for All – How big tech is going to save us (or not)! 
 
10.30 – Panel Two  – Regulatory Panel. We compare International  jurisdictions and what the main challenges are across the continent – Ben Cove, Portia Diteko, James Mpiirwe, John Tabone,  Fisayo Oke
 
11.15 – Coffee
 
11.35 - Panel Three - Lived Experience in Gambling – Is the voice of problem gamblers still being heard by the industry and the wider gambling community in 2025?  Moderator Jo Abergel, Ian Semel, Dan Spencer.

12.20 – Presentation – Jody Bechtold - The Reality of the Bet: An Ethical Perspective

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Jody Bechtold's presentation will offer a unique perspective, bridging the gap between clinical practice and the gambling industry. Drawing from extensive experience as a counselor, advocate, and CEO of a group practice, Bechtold will provide a front-line perspective on the current state of gambling and its impact on clients, highlighting critical issues such as financial literacy, increased access through online platforms, and the co-occurrence of impulsivity and mental health/substance use disorders. This talk emphasizes the ethical imperative for collaboration within the gambling industry. Bechtold will urge gambling operators to enhance accountability by integrating subject matter experts into their advisory teams and supporting prevention and treatment efforts through strategic partnerships and sponsorships. Ultimately, the presentation calls for a shift towards a sustainable collaboration among regulators, industry operators, and gambling disorder experts to foster a culture of responsibility and minimize gambling-related harm.

12.50– Lunch and Networking
 
13.50 – Panel Four  - Collaboration is key – why the services must work together; how operators can work with charities, treatment services, safer gambling initiatives and support networks to best effect – Moderator Steve Hoare Monica Shafiq, Katie Reynolds-Jones, Matthew Hickey

14:35 - Breakout sessions - please choose one of the following:

1. Careers in Gambling – Diversity, Tech and Business Culture – Values-based recruitment, colleague satisfaction and staff retention 
Moderator Jo Abergel, Leah Carnegie, Tina Thakor-Rankin, Andrew Gonzales

 2. Environmental – Don’t Take This For Granted 
​Moderator Adrian Sladdin, Suzanne Winterstein-Smith, Claudia de Martins

3. AI in 2025: A renewed perspective on the latest technology developments and the role AI plays in combatting fraud and money-laundering 
Moderator Neil, Tyson,  Scott Burrows, Carlos Martins Dr Vincent Vella, Paula Murphy​

15.20 – Tea
 
15.40 – Round Table Sessions – Scenario-based Learning – Each table gets the opportunity to discuss a gambling-related problem around reputational risk. Which is the best way forward?
 
16.25 – Day One Conclusions
 
16.30 – Close

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DAY TWO

9.00– Introduction 
 
9.15 – Panel One – Why good governance matters – AML, SARs and the rise of gambling-related crime. How do we minimise risk? Neil Tyson, Andrea Lazenby, Paula Murphy, Shelley Langan-Newton
 
10.00 – Panel Two – Education, Education, Education – how learning can inform safer gambling from the cradle to the grave Adrian Sladdin, Stephen Murchie, Jo Abergel, Gemma Podesta Briggs, Pedro Romero
 
10.45 – Coffee
 
11.05 – Panel Three – C-Suite discussion of why data drives decisions and how ESG must fight to inhabit this space –Jo Abergel, Nakeeta Janse van Rensburg (Ellipse Entertainment),  Sarafina Wolde Gabriel (Rightlander)
 
11.50– Panel Four - The Business Imperatives of Implementing ESG for the Gambling Industry – Tina Thakor Rankin Moderator, Liesbeth Oost, Floris Assies, David Postlethwaite
 
12.35 - ESG Overview – Andrew Lyman Gibraltar Government
 
13.05 – Lunch 
 
14.05 – Break Out Sessions - please choose one of the following:

1. Audits, fines & learning – how we can benefit from regulatory failures to increase our own learning 
 Neil Tyson, Andrew Montegriffo

2. DEIB Reimagined as High Value
Tina Thakor-Rankin, Kelly Higson, Sophie Wood, Danielle Wood

 3. International Markets – What are this year’s trends?
Adrian Sladdin, Scott Burrows, Andrea Lazenby, Ben Cove​

14.50 – Tea
 
15.10 – Round Table Discussions – Each table has the chance to debate the big issues affecting the industry in 2025 from technology, expansion into new markets, new products and big finance.
 
15.55  – Day Two Conclusions
 
16.00 – Conference Close

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