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Schedule of
Events
Wednesday,
November 29
5:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.
Welcome
Reception
Riverbend Terrace
Thursday,
November 30
7:30 a.m.-5:00
p.m.
Registration
Open
7:30 a.m.-9:00
a.m.
Continental
Breakfast
8:30 a.m.-9:00
a.m.
Opening
Keynote Session
Featuring Jerry St Pe’, Chairman, Mississippi Gaming
Commission
Welcome by Dr. Rick A. Marksbury,
Dean, School of Continued Studies, Tulane University
9:00 a.m.-10:00
a.m.
CEO Roundtable: Recovering
from Disaster
In this freewheeling
roundtable discussion, leaders from several Gulf Coast gaming
operations discuss the hurricane, its effect on the local psyche and
efforts to rebuild the region stronger and better than
ever.
Moderator: Britt Singletary, Singletary &
Thrash
Panelists: Joseph Billhimer, President/COO, Hard
Rock Hotel and Casino Biloxi
Keith Crosby, General Manager,
Palace Casino Biloxi
Jon Lucas, President & General Manager,
Imperial Palace Biloxi
Larry Gregory, Executive Director,
Mississippi Gaming Commission
10:00 a.m.-10:15
a.m.
Networking Break
10:15 a.m.-11:15
a.m.
Licensing &
Compliance: The Right
Way
This panel will cover
the initial licensing process, ways to be proactive, what impresses
regulators during licensing, and maintaining the license in good
standing through the implementation of a comprehensive
compliance program.
Moderator: John Maloney, Partner,
Maloney & Tabor, Inc., P.C.
Panelists: Gordon Dickie, Sr.
V.P. of Business Development & Government Affairs, Cadillac
Jack
Sgt. Leland Falcon, Bureau of Investigation, Gaming
Enforcement Division, Louisiana State Police
Michael Ficaro,
Ungaretti & Harris
Thomas A. Jingoli, Director of Compliance,
Konami Gaming, Inc.
Samuel G. Weaver, Director, Corporate
Securities Division, Mississippi Gaming Commission
11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
The Real World of Gaming
Technology
The incorporation of
sophisticated computerized technology into game systems is
occurring at breakneck speed. The reliance of an increasing
number of jurisdictions on jurisdiction-specific gaming laboratories
presents significant challenges. This panel will address the
realities of dealing with state gaming labs and getting new
technology to market in a reasonable time.
Moderator:
Robert W. Stocker II, Partner, Dickinson Wright PLLC
Panelists:
Pat Crawford, Vice President of Gaming Technology and Services, BMM
Testlabs
Kevin Mullally,
General Counsel and Director of Government Affairs, Gaming
Laboratories International
12:15 p.m.-1:45
p.m.
Keynote
Luncheon
Honoring W. Owen Nitz and Jeffrey M Cooper,
Co-Trustees, Imperial Palace Biloxi and co-recipients of IMGL’s
Gaming Executive of the Year award; and featuring a keynote address by W. Owen
Nitz.
1:45 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
Internet Gaming in North
America & Europe
Internet gaming
continues its rapid growth around the world, despite the effort of
U.S. lawmakers. This session will cover current laws impacting
Internet gaming and recent developments in Europe and North America
including proposed legislation in recent
cases.
Moderator: Anthony Cabot, Partner, Lewis &
Roca
Panelists: Anthony Coles, Jeffrey Green Russell,
London
Michael Lipton, Q.C., Elkind & Lipton, LLP
Sue
Schneider, CEO, River City Group
Larry Walters, Weston, Garrou,
DeWitt & Walters
2:45 p.m.-3:45
p.m.
What’s Next
for Indian Gaming?
Since the passage of the
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act in 1988, tribal gaming in the United
States has exploded into a $23 billion a year business. This
session will feature a lively panel discussion addressing hot issues
such as Class II vs. Class III, ongoing attempts to amend the IGRA,
"reservation shopping", tribal-state compacts, and state vs.
tribal jurisdiction in the context of regulating tribal
casinos.
Moderator: Heidi McNeil Staudenmaier, Partner
& Chair of Gaming Practice Group, Snell & Wilmer
Panelists: D. Michael McBride III, Partner & Chair of Gaming
Practice Group, Sneed Lang P.C.
Judith Shapiro, Judith A. Shapiro
Esq.
3:45 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Networking Break
4:00 p.m.-5:00
p.m.
Taxation
Panel:
The Looming
Battles
Taxation represents the
greatest burden government can place on the casino
industry. This examines the effects that taxation rates and
governmental policies have had on industry growth (Nevada), and
recovery prospects (Mississippi and Louisiana) and the 2006
New Jersey experience of closing down governmental services to
casinos to avert a short term budget crisis with a program of long
run budget losses.
Moderator: William Thompson,
Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Panelists: Jeff
Cooper, Co-Trustee, Imperial Palace Biloxi
Peter
Ellsorth, Dickinson Wright, PLLC
Britt Singletary, Singletary
& Thrash
6:00 p.m.-9:00
p.m.
Dinner
Event
New Orleans Aquarium of the Americas
Friday,
December 1
8:00 a.m.–1:00
p.m.
Registration
Open
8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m.-9:15 a.m.
European
&
Asian
Update
Several leading experts
will review developments in Europe, including the latest in Germany,
Italy, Switzerland and the UK, as well as elsewhere within the
EU. The relationship between gaming regulation in Europe and
worldwide, including Asia, will be
discussed.
Moderator: Anthony Coles, Jeffrey Green
Russell, London
Panelists: Joerg Hofmann, Melchers –
Germany
William Thompson, Professor, University of Las Vegas
9:15 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
An Educators View:
Training Casino and Legal People
Formerly, casino executives
and legal professionals had little formal education in gaming
regulatory and security issues. Today a higher education is
essential. This session brings together college and university
educators to discuss how legal, regulatory and security courses
benefit the gaming industry and the curious methods used in the
learning process.
Moderator: Alan Silver, Director of
Casino Resort Studies, Tulane University, School of Continuing
Studies
Panelists: Leonard A. Blackwell II, Blackwell’s Lawyers
& Counselors & Adjunct Professor, Tulane University, School
of Continuing Studies
David Duhe, Attorney at Law, Dukes, Keating
& Faneca
Sandra Edwards, Owner, Clearview Consulting
Bill
Fishman, Director of Slot Operations, Palace Casino
Ronald
Rychlak, Professor and Associate Dean, University of Mississippi Law
School
10:15 a.m.-10:30
a.m.
Networking Break
10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
Advertising Panel: Understanding TV’s Standards and
Practices
The primary driver in global interactive gambling
is television. Broadcast standards and practices shape the direction
and content of television programming and marketing. Television
programming is subject to broadcast standards and practices of each
network, but ultimately is the result of the networks’
interpretation of national regulatory efforts. This session will
address the relationship between global interactive gambling and
television standards and practices.
Moderator: Sandford
Millar, Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel, Ultimate
Blackjack Tour
Michael Lipton, Q.C., Elkind & Lipton
Nick
Nocton, Jeffrey Green Russell, London
12:00 p.m.-1:00
p.m.
Tales From Katrina:
Keynote Address and special IMAX Screening
For those who were on
the front lines, the hurricane was just the beginning. Audubon Nature Institute President and CEO L. Ronald
Forman, who oversees the world-famous New Orleans zoo and
the Aquarium of the
Americas, will provide a very special keynote address in
the Entergy IMAX Theater, part of the Aquarium complex, adjacent to
our headquarters hotel. We'll also be treated to a viewing of the
new, critically acclaimed IMAX movie, "Hurricane on the Bayou."
Keynote
Speaker: L. Ronald Forman, President & CEO, Audubon Nature Institute,
Inc.
Moderator: J.
Kelly Duncan, Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere &
Denegre
1:15 p.m.–2:30
p.m.
Member Luncheon
Riverbend
Terrace
2:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Member Business
Meeting
Salon Room |
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Very Special Dinner Event
Announced
Tales From
Katrina
The final session of the
Conference, Tales from Katrina, now features a special
keynote address from Audubon Nature Institute President and CEO L. Ronald
Forman, who oversees the world-famous New Orleans zoo and
the Aquarium of the
Americas, and a special screening of the acclaimed IMAX
movie, "Hurricane on the Bayou."
Very Special Dinner Event
Announced
IMGL’s Winter Conference
gala dinner event will be staged at the magnificent Audubon
Aquarium of the
Americas, adjacent to our
headquarters hotel, on Thursday, Nov. 30. A cocktail reception
begins at 6 p.m., followed by dinner at 7. The cocktail reception
will be held in the Aquarium’s Caribbean Exhibit, followed by dinner
in the Gulf of Mexico Exhibit.
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