The Summit took place at COMIS Mount Murray and once again offered a lively and thought-leading programme.
20 September 2018, 9:00AM - 5:00PM, GMT
Our programme covered the following areas, with the core theme on ‘Raising Standards Together’;
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Time | Topic | Speaker |
08:30 | Sign-on & Wake-up Breakfast | Kindly sponsored by Manx Telecom |
09:00 | Welcome Address | Hon Howard Quayle MHK, Chief Minister |
09:15 | Panel Session: Isle of Man - A Digital Destination for Gaming
Kindly sponsored by Newfield |
Moderator: Lydia Barbara (DfE: Digital Panellists: Lisa Karran (XELA), |
10:00 | Raising Standards Together | Chris Rogers, UKGC |
10:20 | #WeAllWantToPlay: Raising Standards in Diversity | Micky Swindale, KPMG |
10:40 | Coffee | Kindly sponsored by SMP |
11:10 | Raising Standards: Innovation & Customer Experience |
Nathan Beaver, KPMG |
11:35 | Regulated Gambling - Do we really put the customer at its heart? |
Dan Waugh, Regulus Partners |
12:00 | Panel Session: Consumer Protection: Enforcement & Actions
Kindly sponsored by Newfield |
Moderator: Richard Williams (Joelson) Panellists: Dan Waugh (Regulus Partners), Anna Soilleux-Mills (CMS), Jason Chess, (Wiggin), Adam Rivers (KPMG), Richard Bayliss (Playtech) |
12:45 | Lunch | Kindly sponsored by Boston Link |
13:45 |
Protecting Customers: GambleAware |
Marc Etches, GambleAware |
13:55 | Protecting Customers: Senet |
Gillian Wilmot, Senet |
14:15 | Panel Session: Working Together to Protect Our Customers
Kindly sponsored by Newfield |
Moderator: Gillian Wilmot (Senet Group) Panellists: John Hagan (Harris Hagan), Marc Etches (GambleAware), Anna Hemmings, (Gamcare), Lawrence Hanlin (GVC), Alex Ktorides (Gordon Dadds) |
15:00 | Coffee | Kindly sponsored by Boston Link |
15:30 | Panel Session: Continuing Consolidation - M&A Activity and Trends
Kindly sponsored by Newfield |
Moderator: Kristan King (KPMG) Panellists: Ivor Jones (Peel Hunt), Nigel Hinchliffe (KPMG), Simon Bernholdt (Wiggin) |
16:15 | Panel Session: The Industry View
Kindly sponsored by Newfield |
Moderator: Russell Kelly (KPMG) Panellists: John Coleman (Microgaming), Guy Templer (Stars), Magnus Grinneback (Mayfly Entertainment), John Spellman (Annexio) |
17:00 | Closing Words |
Hon Laurence Skelly, MHK, Minister for Enterprise |
17:10 | Drinks | Kindly Ssponsored by Manx Technology Group |
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Finding the right people, with the right skills, for the right roles. With offices in the Isle of Man, Malta and the United Kingdom, our team connects employers to an international talent pool, attracting, and headhunting talent from across Europe and further afield. Enjoy the professionalism of our experienced group of consultants, the prompt and personal service of a locally based team, and the understanding that comes from our specialist market knowledge. Boston Link helps clients realise their full potential and promotes candidates’ talents and careers, making the most of every opportunity. The advice and guidance offered to candidates is honest, reliable, and based on first-hand knowledge of the niche markets in which Boston Link operates. It includes CV and social media profile preparation, tailored searches, bespoke interview coaching, negotiation, and aftercare.
Continent 8 Technologies provides highly reliable co-location, managed services and network solutions for today’s online business-critical service platforms. Our customers benefit from our continued investment in advanced data centres, high quality networks and online technologies.
Continent 8 delivers its services over a private redundant highly secure global backbone, and offers services in over 30 connected locations across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Continent 8 provides a truly global service capability to its clients, regardless of geography.
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Providing complex reliable and innovative services to customers in highly regulated markets for over 20 years, Continent 8 can deliver fully managed and integrated solutions and services to meet your organisation’s needs now and into the future.
Founded in 1977, Cyberscience is one of the world's leading business intelligence solution providers, with operations in North America, Europe and Australasia. Cyberquery is the result of more than forty years experience delivering business intelligence excellence.
Cyberscience consultants have worked with major organisations in finance, manufacturing, eGaming, petrochemical, and distribution, together with pharmaceutical, utilities and Government departments.
Cyberscience has established an impressive track record of innovative product development, providing customers with products that deliver powerful data insights in real-time. Its ongoing commitment to research and development, software support services and training ensures that Cyberscience will continue to help customers realise the true value of their data.
e-Gaming Isle of Man’s role is to support new, growing and relocating businesses, offering strategic counsel, practical support and a high quality service delivered in a timely manner. e-Gaming Isle of Man can support and guide you through the process of applying for a gambling licence and help you to establish and grow your business in the Isle of Man.
The Isle of Man has established itself as the world-class jurisdiction of choice when it comes to the location, regulation and administration of online gaming companies. As home to some of the most influential operators in the industry and a number of online gaming licence holders, our 6 tier 3 datacentres have further strengthened the Isle of Man’s gaming credentials and helped to achieve the overall goal of developing a long term sustainable sector.
e-Gaming Isle of Man is a pillar of the Department for Enterprise Executive Agency, Digital Isle of Man who work closely with the Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission, to ensure new and existing companies are given a world class experience.
The Gambling Supervision’s core principles are to keep the gambling industry crime free, to protect the young and vulnerable and to ensure that the facilities offered by licensed operators are fair and that players receive their true winnings.
Joelson is a London based commercial law firm providing its UK and international clients with an award-winning range of legal services from its central London and City offices. Joelson’s specialist gambling, licensing and regulatory team is headed up by Richard Williams and Niall McCann and the firm advises both land based and remote gambling operators nationally and internationally.
MTG is a complete-services technology organisation specialising in the provision of IT support, technology, consultancy, network and voice solutions, software development and information security services with an increasing focus on solutions using emergent technologies such as AI and IoT and specific expertise in virtual sports, eGaming games development and outsourced gaming CTO functions. The Group’s experience in IT service provision dates back 20 years and over that time, hundreds of organisations throughout the Isle of Man, UK and Europe have depended on MTG to support their IT and communications infrastructure on a round the clock basis.
Manx Telecom provides a world class telecommunications and IT infrastructure which helps set the Isle of Man apart from other jurisdictions. We offer the Island’s only purpose-built twin Tier 3 designed data centres with 100% up time, PCI DSS compliance, ISO 27001 and disaster recovery facilities and fully managed services. These are complemented by our 10 Gbps off-Island network and £25 million on-Island Next Generation Network - the first in Europe that converges mobile, fixed and broadband services to a resilient IP network.
Our customers include the world’s largest poker sites including PokerStars, sportsbooks, e-Money providers, online payment providers, software developers, e-Music platforms and leading high street financial institutions. When it comes to complete hosting, data analytics, communications and managed services, Manx Telecom is the only Isle of Man provider of its kind.
Microgaming developed the first true online casino software in 1994 and the first mobile casino software in 2004. Providing 700+ global gaming brands with access to the industry’s leading portfolio of cross-platform games, including branded blockbusters such as Game of Thrones™, Jurassic World™ and Playboy™ Gold Microgaming is home to award-winning Casino, Bingo, Poker, Live Dealer, Land-based, Sportsbook and Quickfire products. Its progressive jackpot network is the largest in the world, having paid out more than €903 million to date. A leading supporter of player protection and responsible gaming, the company gives plenty back through its CSR initiative, Microgaming PlayItForward.
An international racing and sporting events company situated in Douglas, Isle of Man. Our environment is increasingly competitive and dynamic, we are unrivalled in our IT expertise and provide one of the islands most competitive benefits packages. This places us neatly 'at the post' of the energetic racing world. Our diverse, vibrant and outstandingly talented team are continuously challenging themselves to reach higher standards. Not only do we pride ourselves with 85% Isle of Man workers, it’s also where we love to live. Everyone at Newfield is committed to giving back to the community, supporting local charities and good causes, we currently sponsor the IOM Sport Aid Academy and regularly attend their workshops. The Neonatal Unit (also known as SCBU) is our chosen charity of the year and we were lucky to be one of David Johnson’s sponsors in this year’s TT. We also love to take part in sporting events and most recently took part in the Parish Walk, Children’s Centre Rounder’s Tournament and KPMG relay for the Lisa Lowe Centre. We are continuously on the look out to recruit new individuals that want to flourish into Island life with us.
Quanta is an innovative blockchain-oriented company, utilizing smart contracts in order to ensure fully automated and transparent background to the Lotteries. With the implementation of its blockchain-powered Random Number Generation, which is patented and certified, Quanta minimizes the opportunity of cheating and manipulation in gambling. Quanta with its blockchain-powered solutions leverages the credibility and the transparency of the Lotteries and increase the confidence amongst the players. The lottery under Quanta is not only fully safe and reliable, but also provides a great customer experience easily accessible worldwide.
SMP eGaming is a specialist eGaming consultancy providing objective and unbiased, advisory services, multi-jurisdictional licensing, regulatory compliance and operational support to established and early stage operators, software providers and those operating on the periphery of this dynamic and fast moving international sector.
SMP eGaming has helped its clients establish international operations over the last 9 years that maximise global market opportunities through the design and implementation of an effective licensing strategy and, through the on-going provision of a suite of associated operational and regulatory consulting and outsourced services, ensures they remain compliant.
Having successfully advised and guided over seventy-five gaming operators and software providers – established and early stage - through the licensing process across multiple jurisdictions, the team has built an unrivalled understanding of the major onshore and offshore gaming jurisdictions and the markets they serve. This understanding, together with the specialist direct and indirect tax consulting services provided by its group companies, creates the expertise clients need tobuild and implement a coherent licensing strategy that delivers optimum tax/duty treatment and through regulation, secures access to chosen markets.
The services SMP eGaming can provide to an eGaming business looking to establish operations include:
Through the professional corporate management of a varied portfolio of international gaming operators and platform providers, the SMP eGaming team has been immersed in the operational and strategic management and regulatory affairs of gaming companies for almost the last decade. As PML holders, Directors, MLROs and qualified Data Protection Officers, its experts are applying best in class regulatory and compliance frameworks and controls needed to meet today’s ever changing regulatory environment.
SMP eGaming are proud to have designed and developed the SMP Compliance Academy, an online training platform in collaboration with established industry operators to meet the significant gaps that exist in remote compliance training. This product development was a natural progression for the SMP eGaming team, given their years of experience in this dynamic sector, which has culminated in high quality multi-jurisdictional content delivered on a robust communication and management platform that is accessible to all; all of the time. The SMP Compliance Academy is your training partner; providing up to date content delivered on a leading edge platform, giving CEO’s, Compliance and HR professionals the peace of mind that their organisations’ regulatory obligations are being met and importantly, that their teams are being engaged efficiently in up to date content that is informative and relevant.
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GamblingCompliance is the leading provider of independent legal, regulatory and business intelligence to the global gambling industry. Trusted by leading names all over the world, our independent analysis of legal and policy developments helps power more informed understanding and effective decision making. Find out more at gamblingcompliance.com
Gambling Insider is the go-to resource for both the land-based and digital gaming industries. Famed for the quality of its editorial, the magazine is read by key decision makers and C-level executives around the world. Gambling Insider is available in print, online and on tablet. For more details about Gambling Insider, GI Friday and Trafficology, visit GamblingInsider.com
iGaming Business has been the leading specialist iGaming publisher and information provider to the iGaming sector through magazines, events, websites and intelligence for over 12 years. With over 16,000 operators, vendors and affiliates regularly reading their information off-line and 75,000 online, iGaming Business is leading publisher in the sector. Please visit www.iGamingBusiness.com for further information.
Protecting Customers: GambleAware |
Hon Howard Quayle MHK, Chief Minister |
Hon Howard Quayle MHK, Chief Minister |
Raising Standards Together |
Raising Standards Together |
Raising Standards Together |
Raising Standards Together |
Raising Standards Together |
Raising Standards Together |
Isle of Man eGaming Summit App
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Venue
Comis at Mount Murray Golf Club, Mount Murray Road, Santon, Isle of Man, IM4 2HT, +44 (0) 1624 695330
Accomodation
Comis at Mount Murray
Classic Rooms
Relax in comfort and style
Our Classic rooms allow you to relax and enjoy the ambiance of a modern hotel set in the picturesque Mount Murray countryside. These tastefully decorated rooms have a King Size double bed or twin beds with en-suite facilities including separate showers and baths.
Room amenities include:
Room Rate: £125.00 Bed & Breakfast
Executive Rooms
Unwind in luxury and style
Whether you’re travelling on business or leisure you’ll enjoy the important extras which our Executive rooms offer. These spacious well-appointed double or twin rooms offer the extra luxury of a King Size or Four Poster bed with en-suite facilities including separate showers and baths.
Room amenities include:
Room Rate: £155.00 Bed & Breakfast
To book your choice of accommodation please contact the Reception Manager at the hotel on:
Tel: + 44 01624 695302
Email: receptionmanager@comismountmurray.co.uk