International Gambling Conference 2018
The 49th International Simulation and Gaming Association (ISAGA) Annual Conference ISAGA 49th annual conference Event Date: 2018-07-09 - 2018-07-13 Submission Deadline: 2017-12-20. Researcher Stephanie Bramley from the Social Care Workforce Research Unit at the Policy Institute at King’s College London attended the 2018 International Gambling Conference held from 12 February to 14 February. This is the second of three posts Stephanie is filing from the conference.
International Gambling Conference 2018 Calendar
12 September 2018 - Conference day 2
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08.00 - 09.30 Welcome and official opening
- Graham White, chairman of the European Association for the Study of Gambling, the Netherlands
- Heathcliff Farrugia, CEO Malta Gaming Authority, Malta
- Silvio Schembri, Minister, Malta (Video Message)
The International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking brings together a diverse array of researchers and industry professionals from across the globe to discuss wide-ranging topics in gambling studies. 2020 NYCPG ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON PROBLEM GAMBLING Thank you to everyone who helped make this year’s event a huge success! Find 2020 Conference Materials HERE. Please stay tuned for details on our 2021 conference, which are TBD.
09.30 - 11.00 What’s new? What position has the Industry? And the regulator?
The 2018 Responsible Gaming Association of New Mexico’s 22nd annual problem gambling conference will be held on Thursday and Friday, August 9-10, 2018 from 8:00am to 4:30pm each day. The event will be at Isleta Resort and Casino in Albuquerque. This year’s conference title is “Empowering Treatment with New Research Findings”.
Moderator: Graham White, chairman of the European Association for the study of Gambling, the Netherlands
- Graham White, chairman of the European Association for the Study of Gambling, the Netherlands
- Birgitte Sand, IAGR Trustee & Patron, Denmark
11.30 - 12.30 InBrief: What’s new in the research arena? Who has a Vision?
Moderator: Pieter Remmers, Assissa Consultancy Europe, the Netherlands
- Got game? Taking stock of 50 years of research in product-related risk and looking ahead beyond 2020
Jonathan Parke, Sophro Ltd, United Kingdom - Artificial Intelligence and gambling research: Progressing from tracking behaviour today to designing safety into the product in the future
Christian Percy and Simo Dragicevic United Kingdom
13.45 - 15.25 Parallel Sessions
Session 1 - Responsible Gaming Strategy and Politics
- Beyond Reno II: Who cares for vulnerable gamblers?
Gerhard Bühringer, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany - Considering co-occurring disorders in gambling disorder: Implications for prevention, treatment and responsible gambling
Marc N. Potenza, Yale University, School of Medicine, USA - Improving strategies in Responsible Gaming Programs: its complete implementation in the Province of Neuquén, Argentina
Julio Ángel Brizuela and Propuesta Cia-Brizuela, APAL Section of Pathological - The recent evolution of the Belgian gambling landscape
Roland Louski, Loterie Nationale, Belgium - Responsible Gambling Strategy Board - overview of research programme
Tim Livesley, Responsible Gambling Strategy Board, United Kingdom
Session 2 - Focus on Research, Gambling and Harm
- A new instrument for measuring gambling participation
Rachel Volberg, University of Massachusetts, USA - A comparative analysis of Canadian University policies towards alcohol, drugs and gambling use
Loredana Marchica, McGill University, Canada - “It never rally ends” - A qualitative study of everyday life and living conditions in families of problem gamblers
Trude Klevan, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway and Vibeke Krane, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway and Bente Weimand, Akerhus University Hospital, Norway - The future need for harm minimisation and gambling counselling for the Arabic-speaking community in Sydney, Australia: An exploration of Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) from Australian Census 2016
Keis Ohtsuka, Victoria University, Australia - Advances in Quebec public health & gambling studies: naming harms, measuring impacts, targeting environments
Elisabeth Papineau, Instituté national de santé publique du Québec, Canada
Session 3 - Regulators and Economics
- Ideas from Behavioural Economics for Responsible Gambling
Douglas Walker, College of Charleston, USA - Regulation of cross border gambling
Václav Ulrich and Jan Řehola, Faculty of Law of Charles University, Czech Republic - How should gambling machines be taxed?
Leighton Vaughan Williams, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom - The Licenses of the Gaming Industry in Macao: Overview and Improvement
Changbin Wang, Macao Polytechnic Institute, China Tax incidence of gambling: Evidence from the Finnish gambling market
Tomi Roukka, National Institute for Health and Welfare/University of Turku, Finland
Session 4 - Automated Identification: Self-exclusion and what’s next? The industry involved
- Automated identification of possible problem behaviour in online gambling matching expert assessment
Elisabeth Crone Linding, Danske Spil and Kim Mouridsen, Midway AI, Denmark - Raising Standards in compliance: Can Artificial Intelligence help industry stay one step ahead of criminal spenders in online gambling?
Simo Dragicevic, Playtech, United Kingdom - The long-term effects of a real-time loss-limit reminder at Norsk Tipping
Michael Auer, Neccton, Austria - Responsible gambling in practice: a case study of views and practices of Swedish oriented gambling companies
David Forsström, Department of Public Health Sciences, Sweden - Collaborative Innovation Identifying good practice and inspiring change
Jenny Holland, GambleAware, United Kingdom
Session 5 - (Preventing) Gambling Harm
- From the Slots to the Bottle: A Mixed-Method Study of Addiction Substitution among Recovered Gamblers
Hyoun Kim, University of Calgary, Canada - Gambling-related harm
Alexander Blaszczynski, University of Sydney, Australia - GAME-BLING: When gaming meets gambling
Mina Hazar and Adela Colhon, YMCA of Greater Toronto, Canada 'The law itself doesn't change things'. The local prevention of gambling-related harms after the Act on organizing alcohol, tobacco, drugs and gambling prevention
Jani Selin, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland
Session 6 - (Socio-)economic costs
- Gambling expenditure in Finland - who contributes the most to the profits of the gambling industry?
Anne Salonen, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland - Social costs of Gambling in Italy
Fabio Lucchini, FeDerSerD (Italian Federation of Workers of the Addiction Departments and Services), Italy - Venezuelan Socio-Economic crisis and its impact on Gambling
César A. Sanchez Bello, Seccion Juego Patologico (APAL), Venezuela - Is slot machine density highest in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas in Finland?
Susanna Raisamo, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland Two Disasters and the Future of Las Vegas Gaming: Shootings at the Mandalay and the Fall of Steve Wynn
William Thompson, University Nevada, USA
15.55 - 17.15 Parallel Sessions
Session 1 -State of the Art in the Practices of Responsible Gaming
- Experiences from proactive responsible gambling communication
Judith Torstensson, Svenska Spel, Sweden - Effects of wagering advertisements and inducements on betting behaviour
Nerilee Hing, CQUniversity, Australia - Bring Responsible Gaming to Retail
Jesse Saccoccio, IGT, Italy - The Relationship between Exclusions from Gambling Arcades and Accessibility: Evidence from a newly introduced exclusion program in Hesse, Germany
Tanja Strohäker, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Session 2 - The Netherlands Gaming Authority
Seminar: The Tulips are Growing
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Session 3 - Focus on Women
- Never too old, never old enough… Gambling-related problems among older adults: risk factors and experimental treatment with focus on Women
Fulvia Prever, SUN(N)COOP & ALEA, Italy - Identifying help-seeking behaviours among women gamblers: a cross-sectional population survey from Quebec, Canada
Adѐle Morvannou, Concordia University, Canada - Exploring experiences of violence amongst women with gambling disorder
Fulvia Prever, SUN(N)COOP & ALEA, Italy - Mixed model of care and gender differences
Adele Duncan, Gordon Moody Association, United Kingdom
Session 4 - Treatment of Problem Gaming
- Developing an on online treatment program for problem gambling
Nigel Turner, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada - The impact of therapeutic contract and CBT treatment in gambling disorder: A pilot study
Pedro Hubert, IAJ - Instituto Apoio Jagador, Portugal - Problem gambling, craving and hypnosis
Stephanie Lienard, Private practise / Addiction Treatment Center, France - Pharmacological Treatment of Pathological Gambling with Oxcarbazepine (Trileptal)
Viorel Lupu, Luliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj Napoca, Romania - ORTHOS intensive residential treatment for pathological gamblers: Outcomes after 10 years of the experimental project
Riccardo Zerbetto, Orthos, Italy
Session 5 - Gambling Regulations
- The Italian Gaming Machines and Gambling Regulated Market 15 years later: keynotes for further market implementation towards the players safety
Emmanuele Cangianelli, MAG, Italy - New Malta Gaming Regulatory Framework
Olga Finkel, WH Partners, Malta - Casino Anti-money laundering Rules and Procedures in Macao
Carlos Siu Lam, Macao Polytechnic Institute, China - Illegal online sports betting machines in the Netherlands
Toine Spapens, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Session 6 - What’s in games and Solutions?
- Merging game design features and player behaviour risk markers: What can we learn?
Christian Percy, Playtech, United Kingdom - Daily Fantasy Sports, Social Casino Games, and Ethnic Differences in Gambling Behaviours: Results from a State-wide Prevalence Study
Lia Nower and Devin Mills, Rutgers University, USA - In-play sports betting a scoping study
Elizabeth A. Killick, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom The game of Kinzo: gamblers reported perceptions, paths and behaviours
Serge Sevigny, Université Laval, Canada
International Gambling Conference 2018 Schedule
Nevada State Conference on Problem Gambling – May 3-4, 2018
Nevada State Conference on Problem Gambling
May 3-4, 2018 Las Vegas, Nevada
12th Annual Nevada Stat Conference on Problem Gambling
The Nevada Council on Problem Gambling never disappoints when it comes to offering great speakers, interesting programing and unique topics related to gambling addiction.
This year is no exception! Topics at the 12th Annual Nevada State Conference on Problem Gambling include a focused presentation on “Gambling Addiction and the Drug Court Programs”, “My Journey from Convict to Conviction” by Maureen “Mo” Michael and Keynote Speaker Bo Bernhard, Ph.D., Executive Director of the UNLV International Gaming Institute.
The registration fee is just $60! Professionals can earn up to 12 CEUs for continuing education. The programming is so valuable and informative that, anyone interesting in understanding current trends in understanding and treating gambling addiction should attend! Those in recovery from gambling addiction will benefit from the programs offered as will community healthcare providers, educators and treatment professionals.
International Gambling Conference 2018 Conference
According to the event website, “the conference promotes awareness, education and professional networking, and attracts addiction and mental health professionals and interested stakeholder groups including Prevention, Education, Research, Government, Gaming Industry and the Recovery Community.”
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