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Tebogo is a Gaming Industry veteran with 22 years of experience. His career started with Sun International, followed by 12 years in the South African Bureau of Standards as a Gaming Lab Manager. Tebogo is vastly informed in the regulatory and compliance space of the industry. He served as Vice President for BMM Testlabs in both Africa and Europe. Later, Tebogo worked on the Mpumalanga Gambling Board and headed the compliance department in the Gauteng Gambling Board. Today, he pursues his role as CEO of CDP Gaming Technologies.

Dmitry has over 20 years of Business Management experience, coupled with his passion for technology and innovation. He founded Sintez Technologies in 2004, an IT company with offices in South Africa and Ukraine – retaining over 200 developers. Sintez Technologies has assisted several companies, from various industries, in achieving their goal – which is to deliver quality products to their market. Over the years, Dmitry has mastered business processes and the software development pipeline.

Alex is an accomplished software engineer and visionary with 32-years of technical experience. His innovative approach to system’s design allowed him to execute a number of successful projects, some of which were implemented back in 1994. The projects’ robust architecture and 24/7 availability allowed for them to be used to this day. In 2012, Alex shifted his focus from the Financial and Banking sector to Gambling and Betting. From 2015, he has been actively involved with the Blockchain projects.

Peter successfully launched YesPlay in 2015 operating 2 licensed sports betting shops in South Africa. Having noticed the demand for online and mobile betting services his team set about developing and launching the YesPlay.bet website bringing sport betting and lucky numbers to the web. Apart from operating and managing YesPlay, Peter's interests lie in AI and blockchain technologies and their application in the business context.

Wendy has over 30 years operational and business experience – 20 of which are specific to high level Strategic Marketing Management, Communications and Brand specialist experience. She has thorough knowledge and understanding of all aspects of marketing and has specialised her focus in the digital landscape. Wendy’s experience in the gaming industry began in 1991 with Sun International, Tsogo Sun in 1999, and moved to the online gambling industry with Casino Enterprises in 2003. Wendy utilises data driven insights into marketing and business challenges to achieve optimal results and create sustainable solutions.

Sean has over 10 years of experience in professional software development. His career began in technology consulting and research, but he soon discovered that his passion was in software engineering and product development. Sean has applied his technical expertise in multiple domains including fintech, telecommunications and robotics and has led software teams in Africa, Europe and Silicon Valley.

Louis is a Blockchain evangelist. He has been in the Fintech space for the last 5 years – developing and implementing systems that are widely used within the industry. His passion for software development has lead to his devotion to R&D of Blockchain based applications. Louis’s skills form an integral part of the ERC-20 based projects. He is particularly proficient with platforms such as Ubin, Quorum and Ripple Net.

André is the Executive Director of International Centre for Gaming Regulation at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He worked for the University of Pretoria, Africa Institute of South Africa, Development Bank of Southern Africa, Ernst & Young and the South African Government prior to a longstanding career in gaming. He was appointed to a Commission, aimed at advising the Government on legalisation of gaming in South Africa. He fulfilled his role as CEO of one of the South African provincial gaming boards, whilst serving on the National Gambling Board of South Africa. Later, he was appointed CEO of ZMS. André was then appointed Executive Director of the Alderney Gambling Control Commission. He was the keynote speaker at the first international eGambling Summit held in the United Kingdom in 2006. He gave testimony to the Financial Services Committee of the US House of Representatives concerning the Internet Gambling Regulations Enforcement Act. André was a significant speaker at the American Gaming Association’s 2008 Global Gaming Summit in Las Vegas, and in 2012 gave testimony to the UK Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee regarding their new regulatory framework. André is a former President of the International Association of Gaming Regulators and is an active member of the International Masters of Gaming Law and the International Association of Gaming Advisors.

Walter is a seasoned South African Chartered Accountant with more than two decades experience in executive financial management, investment banking, and advisory services. He completed articles at Ernst and Young in Johannesburg in 1994. Since then he has held many senior positions in the private and public sectors. Notably he was a founding director and CFO at Rand Merchant Bank in Mauritius and Chief Executive Officer of Metalmin Metals and Minerals, a global commodity trading business. Walter has originated, appraised and implemented over fifty project and structured finance transactions in a variety of instruments, sectors and across the African continent with an aggregate asset quantum in excess of US$ 1 billion. He also has considerable experience in private equity, managing an equity portfolio valued at over ZAR 5 billion as well as representing the Development Bank of Southern Africa on a number of Advisory Boards. Walter is an expert in deal structuring, capital raising and financial modelling. He has an extensive history in development finance including early stage feasibility funding and bankability assessments, assurance and compliance. He enjoys contributing to an inter-disciplinary and dynamic team in which evolution and growth are emphasized.

Lucien has been active as an operator and advisor to land-based and online Casino for over 30 years. During this period, he has advised Operators in many countries in Europe, Russia, Latin America, the African Continent and Asia on how to maximize the revenues of the Slots Floor and/or the online Casino. Lucien has also advised many of the leading Suppliers of Electronic Gaming Devices and providers of Gaming Technologies and Games in other Channels, on areas of Game Concepts tailored to different categories of Players. Lucien is probably best known as the founder of The Slot Academy, now called the Totally Gaming. Academy, through which hundreds of Slot Managers and Representatives of Supplying Companies of every continent have been familiarized with the Marketing Strategies and TQM Principles behind running successful Slot Floors and Mathematical Concepts of Games. A speaker for the likes of the University of Reno, Nevada and the Sigmund Freud University, Vienna and a public speaker at many exhibitions at events, Lucien Wijsman is known as an expert in the field of operating Games of Chance both in the brick and mortar and online environments.

As the founder and CEO of Nexus Gaming Intelligence, Igor is a veteran of the gaming industry and has held positions with some of the largest providers of gaming products today. In 2013, he was the recipient of the iGaming Representative of the Year award. A specialist in gaming systems, start-up, operation and efficiency of Online Gaming and E-commerce business models, by expanding product verticals in new and existing businesses. His experience incorporates AMLO, Bonus Abuse, Advantage Play and Affiliate partnerships from both in-depth function perspective as well as management of resource and KPI’s with focus on Customer Service & Operations resource management. His key specialty has been the development of “multi-product” Gaming Platform SaaS solutions for Regulated Markets and individual market requirement; gambling solutions focusing on both online and land-based environments. Igor founded Big Data BI analytic software (and logic models) with key focus on CRM, Churn Management and Customer Reactivation, Macro/Micro Segmentation models and in-depth player management. Igor is a seasoned panelist and speaker, and is regularly seen at EiG, ICE, Slot Summit and GiGSE conferences and seminars. Igor also runs the comprehensive, hands-on Online Master classes organized by Totally Gaming Academy.

Alpheus is a business and technology leader. He has earned recognition for his contributions to regulatory compliance, gaming software development, and management of start-up operations. He played a major role in the development of server-based technical standards. Alpheus excelled in his role as Technical Compliance Manager, where he established South African operations for BMM Test Labs. As a Compliance Product Manager for Bally technologies, he worked with the sales team and clients to develop products for their gaming needs ensuring regulatory requirements at the same time. He has designed and implemented an Internet gambling testing strategy for BMM in various international jurisdictions. Alpheus has managed product compliance of a casino system for Sun International and Peermont groups. Alpheus is currently pursuing his career on the Gauteng Gambling Board. He continues to approach problems from an analytical perspective: as he collaborates with others to design and implement strategies that create revenue for business partners in several sectors.

Rossouw is a founding member of the South African gaming law and compliance consultancy, AG Consulting. Having qualified with a B.A (Hons) in public administration, Rossouw commenced his professional career with the Provincial Administration of the Western Cape Government. He rose rapidly to the position of Chief Director, and in 1997 resigned this position to take up the post of Chief Executive Officer of the Western Cape Gambling & Racing Board, a position that he held for 10 years. As Chief Executive Officer, Rossouw spearheaded the development of the Western Cape Gambling and Racing Board from its inception, into an organisation which was widely respected as being among the best-managed public entities in the country. Under his leadership, application processes for the full allocation of the Province’s five casinos were successfully conducted without legal challenges, together with a plethora of other industry sectors and functions which had not hitherto been licensed or regulated, either in the Western Cape or in South Africa as a whole. He also served as a member of the National Gambling Board of South Africa, and, subsequent to his resignation from the Board in 2007, served as a Director on Boards of various licensed gaming companies, before establishing AG Consulting, in partnership with Alicia Gibson, in 2008.

Alicia is a founding member of AG Consulting, a South African gaming law and compliance consultancy, which was established in 2007 to provide a full suite of custom-made consultancy services to governments, regulatory agencies and private gaming industry stakeholders. She holds the degrees of B.A (Hons) and LL. B from the University of Cape Town and is a former District Court Prosecutor and State Advocate of many years’ standing. She was also the first woman to have been appointed to the district court criminal bench as an additional magistrate in Cape Town in 1990. She is an admitted Advocate of the High Court of South Africa. Alicia was the Manager: Legal Services of the Western Cape Gambling & Racing Board since its inception in 1997, when provision was made for the licensing and regulation of gambling (other than betting on horseracing) for the first time. She held this position for ten years, and during this period played a key role in steering the focused and effective development of gaming legislation, both in the Western Cape Province and in South Africa as a whole. During this period, she also served as Secretary to the International Association of Gaming Regulators (“IAGR”), until her resignation from the Board in 2007. Immediately prior to this, Alicia served as the Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Western Cape Gambling and Racing Board, before resigning to form AG Consulting.