The 2020 World Game Protection Conference will convene March 23-26 at the Tropicana Las Vegas. The event will connect people responsible for observing, detecting, reporting, investigating and acting on undesirable activity. Speakers include top-level casino security, surveillance and public-safety experts.
Conference founder Willy Allison said the show will probe “the dark side of the casino industry that aren’t written in the marketing manuals. We have 24 speakers, and more than 50 percent of them are in the industry, and not consultants and vendors.
“We keep it real, and these are people on the ground floor,” he continued. “We will have sessions on issues that have become a bigger threat to casinos, such as money laundering, slot scams and the digitization of our games that brings in hackers. We will have panel discussions to talk about how we can resolve these things. Instead of taking a gun to a knife fight, we talk about how we stay up with the bad guys as cyber-threats and digital threats have become more of an issue.”
Except for slot technicians, he said, “No one in the casino is watching electronic games. Casinos have been exposed for their complacency, lack of controls and surveillance blind spots when it comes to protecting slots from high-tech cheating gangs.”
Among the speakers will be:
- Darren Henderson, asset protection and responsible gambling manager, Christchurch Casino in New Zealand
- Tracy Tye, director of surveillance technical compliance and regulations, Baha Mar resort in the Bahamas
- Catherine Clark, vice president of game protection and integrity, Galaxy Entertainment Group
For more information, go to worldgameprotection.com.
