OIGA
NO TURNING BACK In his first interview with Gaming America this year, Matthew Morgan, chairman of the Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association, gets us up to speed on progress made and optimism building for the future, especially with sights set on the Conference and Trade Show this summer.
OMNI OKLAHOMA CITY
To start off, the most exciting Tribal gaming news from Oklahoma, right here in the middle of Indian Country, is that we are gearing up for our 2021 Conference and Trade Show. We’ll be in Oklahoma City 26-28 July at the beautiful new Oklahoma City Convention Center and Omni Hotel. The two facilities are adjacent to one another, which will allow us to hold all of our events related to the event in a safer, contained space. Our attendees won’t have to use public transportation to get from 32 GAMINGAMERICA
one part of the event to another, it will all be right there. As the COVID-19 pandemic spread last year, OIGA, like so many other organizations, made the wise decision to cancel our 2020 Conference and Trade Show. We made that decision before the mandatory shut-down because it was important to us to act as quickly as possible, in the best interest of our vendors and attendees. We immediately offered to refund fees to those who had planned to attend so that they could
