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Business Program WLS 2014
Friday, October 31
00:01 – 08:00
08:00 – 24:00
19:30 – 22:30
Decorator preparations
Exhibitor build – Trade show
For contributors only
Volunteers’ welcome reception
Saturday, November 1
08:00 – 24:00
Exhibitor build – Trade show
08:00 – 10:00
Volunteers’ briefing
13:00 – 17:30
Imperial Rome tour (Delegates / Partners)
Registration desk open
14:00 – 17:00
Garden Lobby
15:00 – 18:00
Evening
Networking activity for Executive Committees and Contributors
(By invitation only)
Free evening
Sunday, November 2
Registration desk open
09:00 – 20:00
Garden Lobby
09:00 – 13:30
Capitoline Hill and Roman Forum tour (Delegates / Partners)
09:00 – 13:30
Baroque Rome tour (Delegates / Partners)
WLA Executive Committee meeting
10:30 – 13:00
Room Sala Ellisse
Master of Ceremonies: Ms. Juliet Linley Vinci
Welcome addresses
17:00 – 18:00
Keynote 1
Mr. Bertrand Piccard
Adventurer, initiator, chairman, and pilot of Solar Impulse
Room Salone dei Cavalieri
18:00 – 19:30
Trade show opening
Opening dinner
20:00 – 24:00
(Hosted by Lottomatica)
Villa Miani
Monday, November 3
Registration desk open
08:00 – 16:30
Garden Lobby
WLS 2014 official opening
Mr. Marco Sala, CEO GTECH S.p.A.
Mr. Jean-Luc Moner-Banet, WLA President
09:00 – 10:00
Mr. Pier Paolo Baretta, Undersecretary, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Italy
Room Salone dei Cavalieri
Keynote 2
Mr. Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
10:00 – 11:00
Room Salone dei Cavalieri
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break
Keynote 3
Ms. Erin Lyon
11:30 – 12:30
Executive Director, CSR Asia
Room Salone dei Cavalieri
12.30 – 14:30
Trade show and lunch
Parallel 1
Parallel 2
Parallel 3
The Internet:
Staying relevant in the world
Regulating authorities:
The future for lotteries
of social media
Towards global convergence
Moderator: David Loeb
Moderator: Tim Copper
CEO
Digital Director
Moderator: Fernando Paes
WCLC
Camelot U.K. Lotteries
Afonso
Limited
Santa Casa de
or not?
14:30 – 15:30
Peter Zäll
Misericórdia da Lisboa
Sr. V.P. Product & Marketing
Wayne Pickup
Svenska Spel
CEO
Charles Coppolani
Lotto New Zealand
President
Gunnar Ewald
ARJEL
Senior Vice President
Jan Peder Strømslid
LOTTO Hamburg GmbH &
E.V.P. Communication and
(Regulator, France)
WLA SRMC representative
Strategy
Luigi Magistro
Norsk Tipping
Director
Matteo Monteverdi
Senior Vice President of
Interactive
GTECH S.p.A.
ADM
Susan Dolinski
Communications
Robert Chappell
BCLC
Director
Room Salone dei
Cavalieri
(Regulator, Italy)
VP Social Responsibility and
South Australian
Room Sala Ellisse
Independent Gambling
Authority
Room Terrazza Monte
Mario
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break
Parallel 4
Parallel 5
Parallel 6
The lottery in your pocket:
Driving sustainable
Electronic gaming machines
Apps for smart phones and
advertising
Moderator: Buddy Roogow
tablets
Moderator: Sandra Harrison
Executive Director
Moderator and speaker:
Tribe Communication
D.C. Lottery and Charitable
Seah Chin Siong
advertising and web agency
Games Control Board
Sally Cowdry
Jean-Luc Moner-Banet
Marketing Director
CEO, Loterie Romande &
Camelot U.K. Lotteries
WLA President
Deputy Chief Executive
Officer
Singapore Pools
Albert Lee
16:00 – 17:00
Limited
Brent Scrimshaw
Football Content and
Planning Manager
Hong Kong Jockey Club
Zenita Strandänger
President and CEO
Head of Corporate Social
Atlantic Lottery
Responsibility
Clement Aubin
Svenska Spel
Chief Operating Officer
Manager Internet Lottery
Loto-Quebec
Frank Cecchini
Sue van der Merwe
Playtech PLC
Chief Operating Officer
(WLA Gold Contributor)
Tatts Lotteries
Room Terazza Monte Mario
Chief Commercial Officer
Novomatic Lottery Solutions
Shay Segev
Room Sala Ellisse
(WLA Gold Contributor)
Room Salone dei Cavalieri
17:00 – 18:30
Trade show
Evening
Contributors’ event
Tuesday, November 4
Keynote 4
“The future of gaming”
09:00 – 9:45
Dr. Jane McGonigal
Game designer and author of “Reality is broken”
Room Salone dei Cavalieri
Keynote 5
Mr. Giovanni Malagò
09:45 – 10:15
Chairman of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI)
Room Salone dei Cavalieri
10:15 – 10:45
Coffee break
Panel
Preserving the integrity of sports: Global status
Moderator: Jean-Luc Moner-Banet, CEO, Loterie Romande
Friedrich Stickler, EL President
10:45 – 11:30
Soo Nan Tan, CEO of Singapore Pools & Chairman of APLA
Kristóf Szűcs, Integrity Unit representative, SportAccord
Pâquerette Girard-Zappelli, Secretary of the Ethics Committee, IOC
Room Salone dei Cavalieri
Platinum Contributor session
Moderator: Rebecca Paul Hargrove, CEO, Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation
Gavin Isaacs, President & CEO, Scientific Games Corporation
11:30 – 13:00
George Zenzefilis, Chief Products & Services Officer, INTRALOT Group
Jaymin Patel, President & CEO, GTECH Americas
Mike Veverka, CEO and Founder, Jumbo Interactive Limited
Room Salone dei Cavalieri
13:00 – 15:00
Trade show and lunch
Keynote 6
15:00 – 16:00
Ms. Gillian Hughes
EMEA Manager, Real Money Gaming and Social Casino
Facebook
Room Salone dei Cavalieri
Parallel 7
Parallel 8
Parallel 9
Draw based games:
Sustainability of instant
Debate:
How to make them grow?
tickets in an online world
“Do governments benefit
Moderator: Gary Grief
Moderator: June Roache
Executive Director
CEO
Texas Lottery Commission
S.A. Lotteries
Rodrigo Cigliuti
Jennifer Westbury
Federal Delegate
Executive Vice President,
Tierra del Fuego Lottery.
Sales & Customer
more from a monopoly-
Development
Ken Schulzke
based sports betting
environment?”
Moderator: Dudu Ndendwa
Corporate Executive,
Commercial
Gidani (Pty) Ltd
Pollard Banknote
Vice President, Marketing
For the proposition:
WCLC
Dr. Ioannis Katakis
Executive CEO
Giovanni Tammaro
16:00 – 17:00
based or a competitive-
MALTCO LOTTERIES
Marketing Director
Limited
Loterie Romande
Avi Levy
Room Salone dei Cavalieri
Instant Tickets Marketing
Director
Mifal Hapais
Room Sala Ellisse
Younes El Mechrafi
Director General
Marocaine des Jeux et des
Sports
Jim Yu
Vice President
500.com Ltd.
(WLA Gold Contributor)
Against the proposition:
Ludovico Calvi
Head of Betting
Lottomatica Scommese
Niels Erik Folmann
CEO
Danske Licens Spil
Room Terrazza Monte
Mario
PGRI's Lottery Industry Hall of Fame
17:00 – 17.30
Room Sala Ellisse
Evening
Free evening
(Includes optional tour of the Palazzo Barberini, hosted by Lottomatica)
Wednesday, November 5
Keynote 7
“Google innovations and how to build your brand on YouTube?”
09:00 – 10:00
Ms. Caroline de Fontenay
Google, Head of Brand Activation for France, Italy, and Spain
Room Salone dei Cavalieri
WLA Advertising Awards
10:00 – 10:45
Interactive awards sessions
Room Salone dei Cavalieri
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee break
Lotteries Summit and Pep-Talk
“Lotteries 20/20… for a clearer vision of the future”
Moderator: Ray Bates, EL Honorary President
Michelle Carinci, CEO, Lottotech Ltd.
Richard Cheung, Executive Director, Customer and Marketing, Hong Kong Jockey Club
11:15 – 12:30
Inmaculada Garcìa, President, SELAE
Theo Gossner, CEO, Westdeutsche Lotterie GmbH & Co. OHG
Gary Grief, Executive Director, Texas Lottery Commission
Luis Gama, Director, Dirección de Loterías y Quinielas
Room Salone dei Cavalieri
12:30 – 14:00
14:00 – 14.30
Trade show and lunch
Official closing of trade show
Distribution of documents for the WLA General Meeting
WLA General Meeting
14:30 – 17.00
(Including regional associations’ reports and presentation of the WLA RG Award)
Room Salone dei Cavalieri
First meeting of the new WLA Executive Committee
17:00 – 18:00
Room Sala Ellisse
19:30 – 02:00
Closing dinner, Grand Global Gaming Award, and party
Cinecittà Studios
Thursday, November 6
9:30 – 15:00
Optional networking day
Italian cooking lesson, lunch, and shopping at EATALY