Events

Maxymiser leader in customer experience optimisation is holding its bi-annual Customer Success Symposium on Thursday 18th September at The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), in central London. More than a hundred organisations will be in attendance including Forrester, Paddy Power, House of Fraser and Orange, who will be presenting about how they have improved their online business …

The Barcelona Affiliate Conference (BAC) will be returning once again to the Catalan city on the 23rd – 26th October 2014. Conference organisers, iGB Affiliate, have announced that the conference will be moving to a new venue for 2014, the Barcelona International Convention Centre (CCIB). “We are extremely excited that the show has grown to the extent that we have to move …

Innovation of igaming’s products lines, value chains and services will be key theme at this year’s EIG Berlin Expo.  Team SBC & EIG caught up with Smarkets Founder & CEO Jason Trost to discuss the values of producing technology in-house, product independence and innovation blocks and factors. Smarkets is an online betting exchange platform challenging the bigger exchanges in the …

Eilon Arad of BetcoinTech, one of the sponsors of the SBC Asia/Asia Gaming Brief Monsoon Meetup in Manilla on 4 September, explains what bitcoin can do for gambling operators. Why should operators consider adding bitcoin? Bitcoin is the perfect solution for the online gambling industry. Bitcoin is the biggest and most popular cryptocurrency which is best described as an encrypted …

The next Sports Betting Community Asia and Asia Gambling Brief iGaming Industry Networking Evening will be held on Thursday the 4th of September at the exclusive 71 Gramercy lounge and nightclub in Makati. Dubbed our ‘Monsoon Meetup’, the best networking event in Asia is as always free to attend and made possible by our generous sponsors. The SBC Asia and …

Horse Racing Ireland has announced the appointment of Charles O’Neill to the position of Chief Executive of Irish Thoroughbred Marketing (ITM). Charles is from a well-known equine family and joins ITM from the financial services sector, most recently a senior position at Ulster Bank. The Kildare native has previous experience working in the racing and breeding industries in France, and …

Colossus Bets, home of the £10,000,000 Colossus and the world’s biggest football and sports jackpots, has been shortlisted in the category of Digital Gaming Innovation at the Global Gaming Awards 2014. Bernard Marantelli, founder and CEO of Colossus Bets, said: “This is a great testament to our continued growth strategy for the Colossus Bets brand.  We are convinced that offering players lottery-sized …

GamCrowd.com, the gambling specific crowdsourcing platform, and Clarion Events, organisers of EIG, are looking for 5 start-ups to take part in the Launch Pad and to take a stand at the GamCrowd sponsored start-up village. EIG runs from the 21-23 Oct in Berlin. This year the format has been substantially revamped and it now has a specific focus on start-ups and fundraising, …

The Malta iGaming Seminar partners announced that they have recruited Canadian Investigative Journalist and Academic, Declan Hill, as a Keynote speaker for MIGS 14, the International iGaming Seminar, that will be held this year between the 11th and 12th  November 2014 in Malta.  Mr. Hill is one of the world’s foremost experts on match-fixing and corruption in international sports. He …

Top National Hunt and Flat Jockeys Barry Geraghty, Andrew McNamara, Niall ‘Slippers’ Madden, Pat Smullen, Fran Berry, and Shane Foley are just some of the names who have signed up for the Jog for Jockeys 5km & 10km races at the Curragh on Sunday 24th August. All monies raised will be donated to the Irish Injured Jockeys Fund. Grand National and Gold Cup winning Jockey, Barry Geraghty said: “I ran the 10km race last …