Trade Shows and Conferences News

Atronic will show why they are "More Than Just a Game" at this year's Global Gaming Expo Show.

Gambling heavyweights from around the world will make the annual pilgrimage to their industry Mecca for G2E, gaming's biggest insider conference and trade show, with nearly 30,000 participants expected from Nov. 13-16.

Gaming professionals who attend the G2E Conference this year can request a certificate of completion from G2E organizers via the G2E Web site once the event is over.

"The biggest threat to this industry is not the United States government," said an obviously annoyed Marc Lesnick, organizer of the Fourth Annual Casino Affiliate Convention during the opening remarks of his program last week. "The biggest threat to this industry is the little boys who were afraid to come here today."

Global Gaming Expo has acquired the Asian Gaming Expo from the Australasian Gaming Machine Manufacturers Association.

Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc. announces the Casino Affiliate Convention and Gaming Marketing Conference will be held on September 14-15, 2006 in Las Vegas at the Stardust Resort and Casino.

Garnering significant interest from all sectors of the industry since it was announced in December, Global Gaming Expo has announced the inaugural G2E Institute has sold out its sponsor display area two full months before the event.

Global Gaming Expo has created the G2E Institute, the gaming industry's first focused, educational conference to offer interactive, workshop-style sessions.

At the recent Global Gaming Expo, slot makers previewed the technology that will let casino operators quickly and easily update content on banks of slot machines.

News Brief: Health officials are offering preventative shots to the estimated 650 people from Northern Nevada who attended a conference in Las Vegas where they might have been exposed to hepatitis-A.

Mississippi Gaming Commission Executive Director Larry Gregory says that meeting with the casino industry’s biggest players helped reassure him that the Gulf Coast’s gaming industry will be restored.

A panel at the Global Gaming Expo noted that gaming will be a part of the landscape or expand substantially across Florida, in various locations in Great Britain, in Costa Rica, Chile, Panama, Mexico, Cambodia and Vietnam.

Las Vegas is no longer the city where entertainers go to die, a panel of Strip headliners told the keynote session of the Global Gaming Expo on Tuesday.

While gaming expansion into new North American markets may be slow to develop over the next 18 months, opportunities internationally could arise more quickly, panelists told an audience at the opening session of the annual Global Gaming Expo.

The conference runs through Thursday and more than 27,000 people are expected to visit the giant trade show, which opens tomorrow and will feature 700 exhibitors inside a 290,000-square-foot exhibit hall.