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December 3-4 in Sao Paulo

Online Gaming Summit Brazil already has its preliminary agenda

Clarion Gaming Brasil announced the preliminary agenda of the Online Gaming Summit Brasil, an event that will discuss the prospects for sports betting and online gaming in the country next December 3-4 in the traditional Pacaembu stadium, in Sao Paulo. The agenda has panels that deal with topics such as: the possibilities of the modality in Brazil, experiences of activities already working, international examples and a guided tour to the Football Museum that is inside the stadium.

First Day - December 03, 2018 - Monday

09:00 to 09:30 - Reception, Registration, Welcome Coffee and Visits to the Exhibition Area

09:30 to 09:45 - Welcome Message from the Organisers Sergio Jardim, Managing Director General, Clarion Events Brasil

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

11:00 to 11:30 - Networking Coffee Break and Visit to the Exhibition Area

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

12:45 to 14:00 - Networking Lunch and Visit to the Exhibition Area

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?

15:15 to 15:45 - Networking Coffee Break and Visit to the Exhibition Area

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 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?

• 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?

18:00 to 18:30 - Private Guided Tour of the Football Museum - Group 1

18:30 to 19:00 - Private Guided Tour of the Football Museum - Group 2

19:00 to 19:30 - Private Guided Tour of the Football Museum - Group 3

19:30 to 20:00 - Private Guided Tour of the Football Museum - Group 4

18:00 to 22:00 - Online Gaming Summit Brazil Official Cocktail Reception

Second Day - December 04, 2018 - Tuesday

09:00 to 09:30 - Reception, Registration, Welcome Coffee and Visit to the Exhibition Area

09:30 to 10:30 - Panel VI – From the "grey" market to a regulated market: what regulatory challenges can encourage migration?

• 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

10:30 to 11:30 - Panel VII – From the "grey" market to a regulated market: what tax and financial challenges are there to encouraging migration?

• 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?

11:30 to 12:00 - Networking Coffee Break and Visit to the Exhibition Area

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

13:15 to 14:30 -Networking Lunch and Visit to the Exhibition Area

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?

16:00 to 16:30  - Networking Coffee Break and Visit to the Exhibition Area

16:30 to 16:45 - Especial Clarion Gaming

• ICE Sports Betting USA: What is the evaluation of the first year?

• ICE London 2019: What are the highlights of the lineup for vertical online gambling and sports betting?

• BgC and OGS 2019: what are the horizons for the coming editions of events?

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

18:00 - Closing of Gaming Summit Brazil

Source: GMB