SBC Digital Summit to Feature Industry Leaders

Carsten Koerl (l.), CEO of Sportradar, will speak at the SBC Digital Summit, April 27-May 1. Koerl will join 140 industry leaders in separate panels and presentations to help sports betting operators survive the Covid-19 shutdown.

SBC Digital Summit to Feature Industry Leaders

The SBC Digital Summit, slated

for April 27 through May 1, is set to be the industry’s largest-ever online conference.
The event will present a comprehensive agenda focused on the challenges and opportunities the industry faces in light of the disruption caused to business and wider society by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The SBC Digital Summit will feature a lineup of 140 big names from the global betting and gaming sector, with speakers including Carsten Koerl (CEO and founder, Sportradar), Jesper Svensson (CEO, Betsson Group) and Paris Smith (CEO, Pinnacle).

It also includes expert panels covering sports betting, online casino games, opportunities in Latin American, lotteries, payments, developments in the U.S. market, and digital marketing, spread over five days.

Thousands of delegates logging on to the SBC Digital Summit from their remote offices around the world can look forward to insights from a host of CEOs from major players in the industry.

“Never has it been more important for the industry to work together and share ideas, and that is why we decided to launch the SBC Digital Summit,” said Andrew McCarron, managing director of SBC.

European-based operator leaders set to offer their perspectives include George Daskalakis (CEO and founder, Stoiximan/Betano), Per Widerstrom (group CEO, Fortuna Entertainment Group), Johnny Hartnett (CEO, Superbet), Sergey Portnov, (CEO, Parimatch), Dominik Beier (CEO, Interwetten), Alexander Stevendahl (CEO, Videoslots), Giovanni Garisi (CEO and founder, Stanleybet), Ariel Reem (CEO, Genesis Group), and Tim Heath (CEO and founder, Coingaming Group).

The speaker roster is further enhanced by a number of influential figures from online betting and gaming companies operating outside Europe, such as Adam Greenblatt (CEO, Roar Digital), JD Duarte (CEO, Betcris), Julio Cesar Tamayo (CEO, Wplay), Andre Gelfi (CEO, Suaposta), and Gonzalo Perez (CEO, Apuesta Total).

They will be joined on the conference panels by a selection of subject experts, including Stuart Simms (CEO, XL Media), Marcos Oliveira (chief affiliate officer, Clever Advertising Group), Martin Lycka (director of regulatory affairs, GVC Group), Jens Nielsen (sportsbook director, Danske Spil), Jesper Karrbrink (chairman, Green Jade Games), Steven Armstrong (group director of AML, William Hill), Isabelle Delisle (head of payments, Pinnacle), Mickael Marceau (head of payments, Kindred Group) and Eitan Gorodetsky (director of acquisition, Betsson Group).