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g2E Asia 2019
Twelve years of success Global Gaming Expo Asia (G2E Asia) returns to the Venetian Macao on 21-23 May, 2019, offering a one-stop platform to industry professionals to network, forge new connections, source new products and solutions, and gain insight into the latest global industry trends.
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he show claims to attract more than 96 percent of casino operators from Asia, who come to look for the latest cutting-edge products and solutions. This year’s exhibition will spotlight a number of key industry segments, namely Digital Content & Technology, a combined exhibitor showcase and fullday forum for Asia’s gaming technology community; Parts and Components Pavilion, Asia’s first and only trade platform dedicated to the showcase of parts and components of the electronic gaming machine manufacturing industry; Integrated Resort Technology & Business Solutions, the region’s first-ever event to centralize sourcing of new IR products, technologies and services that drive revenue and value from nongaming sources; and the Asia Lottery Expo and Forum, a threefold business, learning and networking platform exclusively designed for lottery professionals. The latest addition to the expo’s events schedule is Financial Technology Asia, jointly organized by G2E Asia and Blockchain Labs Co., Limited. Financial Technology Asia will spotlight AsiaPacific’s skyrocketing FinTech industry, and provide
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a unique opportunity for financial technology and solution providers to showcase the latest solutions and services, including cloud financial solutions, blockchain technology, cybersecurity, FinTech, and payment solutions. “We are pleased to be partnering with Blockchain Labs to organize the Financial Technology Asia exhibit segment and high-level forum,” said Josephine Lee, chief operating officer of Reed Exhibitions Greater China. “G2E Asia’s new coverage of the financial aspects of cybersecurity directly responds to market needs, while providing financial technology and business solutions for the whole of the gaming and entertainment industry. Our partners and the team have good reason to be confident in the success of this new segment.” Just earlier this month, the organizers also announced a new segment, ArtBiz Asia, which also debuts in 2019. ArtBiz Asia is co-organized by G2E Asia and Macao International Culture and Sports Industries Association (MICSIA). In line with local government’s strategy of promoting a diversified economy, ArtBiz Asia creates a platform that connects the arts and culture circle with integrated resorts in Asia and drives opportunities between art industry professionals and Asian elites. The event will also bring notable industry executives to the stage as part of its conference program. Keynote speakers include Daisy Ho, chairman, and executive director, SJM Holdings, Paulo Martins Chan, Director of the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, Zane Moi, Deputy General Manager, Head of Partner Ecosystems, Amazon Web Services, and Nadine Grinblat, CEO of the Australasian Gaming Council. “Our twelve-year success in Macau demonstrates the extent to which ambitious businesses in the world of global gaming and entertainment trust G2E Asia to help them connect to new opportunities, explore fresh innovations, and conduct peer-to-peer exchange. The show continues to evolve, according to the changing rhythms of the industry, which is why it remains so relevant, and why the gaming and entertainment industry, throughout Asia, trusts G2E Asia as the right exhibition platform via which to drive business forward,” said Josephine Lee.
