Alexandre Manoel (Undersecretary for SEFEL), Joseph Levy, (CEO, PMU Brasil), Roberto Brasil Fernandes (Partner, Brasil Fernandes Advogados / Gaming Consulting and member of ABLE), Pedro Trengrouse (Professor, FGV/RJ), Percy Wilman (Special Counsel Latam, Genius Sports)
Alexandre Manoel (Undersecretary for SEFEL), Joseph Levy, (CEO, PMU Brasil), Roberto Brasil Fernandes (Partner, Brasil Fernandes Advogados / Gaming Consulting and member of ABLE), Pedro Trengrouse (Professor, FGV/RJ), Percy Wilman (Special Counsel Latam, Genius Sports)
First Day - December 03, 2018 - Monday
09:45 to 11:00
Panel I - Online Gambling and Sports Betting: are these the ways for Brazil to enter this market of opportunities?
- What possible shortcuts besides the Regulatory Framework of the Games?
- Regulation by stages? Examples of countries that have followed this option.
- What is the legacy we have so far from the "all or nothing" argument?
- How other game-playing modes have benefitted from the "in-the-game" experience of Online Gambling
11:30 to 12:45
Panel II – How were the pro Gaming political forces line up after the Brazilian elections
- What is the position of the future president?
- What are the effects of the degree of turnover in the House and Senate?
- Brazil does not enjoy the benefits of legalization and suffers the consequences of illegal gambling: what strategies are there to reduce resistance and turn this game around?
- Gaming is serious business: prevention of money laundering and responsible gambling
14:00 to 15:15
Panel III – Since you cannot do a “copy + paste,” what to do and not do, based on the experiences in other countries
- Peru's difficulties in approving the Online Game
- Colombia: regulatory challenges
- Malta: What can the Online Game Paradise teach for Brazil?
-US and its patchwork of state regulations. Is this the way?
- What is the potential in the Brazilian market for affiliates
15:45 to 16:45
Panel IV – A world of advantages: what is online gambling and sports betting doing for the economies of regulated markets?
- The examples of Portugal and Spain
- The example of Italy
- The example of Mexico
- The example of Malta
- The example of the United States
16:45 to 18:00
Panel V – What already works in Brazil that can indicate the way forward?
- Caixa Econômica Federal: How much of the experience with lotteries can serve as a legacy for online gambling and sports betting? How was the process of certification of online lotteries?
- Poker "com.br": why even in the grey market bets in this model are already half way home?
- What can the Brazilian Turf teach about sports betting and other online game?
- Social Gaming and E-commerce: what social games and online shopping say about the relationship of Brazilians with online and mobile platforms?
- "Inmetro" or "ABNT of the Games": what parallels can be used to exemplify the importance of testing labs?
Second Day - December 04, 2018 - Tuesday
9h30 às 10h30
Panel VI – What regulatory challenges can encourage a regulated market?
- How should the maintenance of existing products be continued?
- What should be the minimum structure to ensure local operation?
- What legal mechanisms will be adopted to protect the regulated market and investors?
- How should enforcement against illegal gambling work? Is criminalizing illegal activity a plan?
- The balance between market development and responsible gaming
- Role and interaction of the testing lab with the regulatory agency
10:30 to 11:30
Panel VII – What tax and financial challenges are there to encouraging a regulated market?
- What is the ideal tax scenario? How would taxation work with the operation based in another country?
- Tax the Operation or the Activity? Taxes on revenues or profits?
- Taxing the Player: taxing the bet or the prize?
- How to ensure competitiveness with other markets?
- The importance of means of payment
- What are the advantages of Brazil having one of the most sophisticated banking and collection systems?
12:00 to 13:15
Panel VIII – What other legislation and legal frameworks can influence the creation and regulation of the online gambling and sports betting market?
- This new market in the light of the private internet framework
- This new market and the Data Protection Act
- This new market and the Advertising Rules
- This new market and the regulation of Cryptocurrencies
- This new market and the “Pelé Law”. The draft of the Brazilian General Sports Law
14:30 to 16:00
Panel IX – The endless possibilities of the sports betting market
- The enormous potential of advertising investment.
- Beyond football: the possible impact on the promotion and professionalization of other modalities
- The focus on the integrity of the results and importance for the credibility and sustainability of this new market
- Beyond Loteca: Bets online only or also in the lottery? How would it work? Is this the breath of fresh air that the lotteries need?
- What do state lotteries look like?
16:45 to 18:00
Panel X – Latest trends and "Playing and Thinking Outside the Box"
- eSports and the sports betting market
- Fantasy Games and the betting market
- Loot boxes in games: undercover gaming?
- Blockchain for the gaming market
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: state-of-the-art technology for forecasting
Source: GMB
