CONFERENCE AGENDA
Four days. Global perspectives.
Practical Insights.
From keynotes to hands-on workshops, explore the themes shaping the future of gambling regulation across the globe.
13:00-13:15
15 mins
The conference will open by setting out the regulatory context for the week ahead. The remarks will frame the conference around the realities of increasingly connected markets, the importance of cross-border cooperation, and the growing need for modern regulatory capability as regulators respond to illegal operators, product convergence, integrity risks, and broader market change. The session is intended to establish the conference's practical, international, and regulator-led focus from the outset.
Objective: Examine gambling products posing as something that is outside the scope of regulation and discuss
solutions to stop and reverse this trend.
13:15-13:45
30 mins
This keynote will open the conference with a timely look at Peru's evolving regulatory agenda and the wider significance of Latin America in the global gaming market. It will highlight how Peru is approaching market formalization, bettor protection, responsible gambling, integrity, and effective oversight of remote gaming and sports betting, while also pointing to Lima's growing importance as a venue for stronger regional and international cooperation. For delegates, the address should combine local relevance with wider significance, underscoring that Latin America is not merely part of the global regulatory conversation, but is becoming one of the regions helping to lead it.
Objective: Examine gambling products posing as something that is outside the scope of regulation and discuss
solutions to stop and reverse this trend.
13:45-14:30
45 mins
This panel of veteran regulators and subject-matter experts will examine how significantly the global regulatory environment has evolved over the past year: illegal ecosystem growth, market convergence, AI-enabled change, rising expectations for data-led supervision, and the increasing need for a common language, common intelligence pathways, and practical technological support. This is the agenda-setting discussion for the week.
14:30-15:00
30 mins
15:00-15:45
45 mins
Prediction Markets have rapidly emerged without the basic consumer protections mandated in every jurisdiction that has legalized gaming. In addition, these markets have expanded into jurisdictions that have considered legalizing gaming on many occasions but have chosen to keep it illegal. This session will examine consumer protection, sports integrity, jurisdictional arbitrage, advertising, and the increasing variety of ways in which gambling-like products seek to fall outside gambling regulation
Objective: Examine gambling products posing as something that is outside the scope of regulation and discuss
solutions to stop and reverse this trend.
15:45-16:30
45 mins
Financial crime controls are now central to gambling regulation, market integrity, and the fight against illegal supply. This session will examine how typologies, beneficial ownership data, payment flows, digital wallets, suspicious transaction reporting, and technology-driven monitoring can help regulators and operators detect criminal risk earlier, strengthen AML/CFT compliance, and support more effective enforcement. It will also explore how these tools can contribute to suspicious betting detection, integrity monitoring, and the identification of match-fixing and other organized criminal threats.
Objective: Reframe AML/CFT as an intelligence infrastructure rather than compliance paperwork.
16:30-17:00
30 mins
A new feature of the IAGR Annual Conference, this brief, curated segment will introduce delegates to the purpose of IAGR's inaugural Emerging Technology Showcase and its place in the Lima program. It will highlight why emerging technology matters to modern regulation, how practical innovation can support stronger supervision, better data use, and more effective cross-border cooperation, and how new technology may also shape player entertainment, gameplay, and the next generation of regulated gaming products
Objective: Enlighten delegates about the importance of understanding technology trends and benefits without
turning the main stage into a sales platform.
18:00-19:30
08:30-09:15
45 mins
As gambling markets become more connected, regulators face growing pressure to improve consistency and cooperation across borders. This panel will examine where greater harmonization can lower administrative burden, improve regulatory efficiency, strengthen compliance, and deliver better consumer protection, while preserving local policy autonomy. Areas of practical common ground include technology approval, self-exclusion, reporting requirements, licensing, information-sharing, and outcome measurement.
09:15-10:00
45 mins
New products are increasingly testing the limits of regulatory frameworks built for more conventional games and channels. This panel will examine how regulators can assess novelty without losing control, including which product characteristics matter most, where existing standards remain effective, where new tools or processes may be needed, and how technology-enabled supervision can support faster, more consistent decision-making. It will also address the extent to which rigid legacy technical standards can inhibit innovation and unintentionally push new concepts into non-regulated verticals or the black market, rather than creating a credible pathway for safe consideration within regulated markets.
10:15-10:45
30 mins
Speaker: Mike Dreitzer, Chairman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board
The conference will open by setting out the regulatory context for the week ahead. The remarks will frame the
conference around the realities of increasingly connected markets, the importance of cross-border cooperation,
and the growing need for modern regulatory capability as regulators respond to illegal operators, product
convergence, integrity risks, and broader market change. The session is intended to establish the conference's
practical, international, and regulator-led focus from the outset.
10:45-11:15
30 mins
11:15-12:00
45 mins
Regulators need technology that improves oversight, not just process. This session will highlight practical, regulator-led examples of tools and approaches that strengthen reporting, improve data quality, and provide clearer supervisory visibility. It will examine how better use of technology can support faster decision-making, earlier risk identification, and more consistent, effective oversight, while avoiding unnecessary complexity and lowvalue reporting burdens.
12:00-13:15
13:45-14:30
45 mins
Speaker: Sarah Gardner, Acting CEO, UK Gambling Commission
Great Britain remains one of the most closely watched gambling jurisdictions in the world, and recent
developments there continue to influence regulatory thinking well beyond its borders. This keynote will examine
the most consequential current changes in Great Britain, including what they reveal about shifting regulatory
expectations and how they may shape policy, compliance, product oversight, and market conduct in other
jurisdictions. It will also highlight the significance of additional government funding for the Gambling
Commission's illegal gambling work and the importance of continued international collaboration, including
through IAGR's Illegal Gambling Working Group, in strengthening collective action against illegal operators.
13:45-14:30
45 mins
Self-exclusion is becoming a more complex protective tool to administer as gambling expands across more verticals, channels, and increasingly globalized markets. This panel will focus on the practical challenges of making self-exclusion more effective, including interoperability between systems, layered protections, privacy, and the risk that excluded players may migrate to illegal or unregulated markets. It will also examine the longer-term case for greater cross-border cooperation and what more workable models could look like in practice.
13:45-14:30
45 mins
This workshop will focus on practical ways regulators and operators can use data to identify criminal risk earlier and respond more effectively. The discussion will cover transaction monitoring, case management, typologies, and improved coordination among AML, intelligence, and enforcement teams. It should emphasize operational tools, real-world use cases, and more effective use of data to improve risk detection, sharpen triage, and support earlier intervention.
14:30-15:-15
45 mins
As gambling markets become more digital, the path between licensed supply, illegal operators, affiliates, search, social media, and platform distribution is becoming harder to police and more important to get right. This panel will examine how regulators are approaching gambling advertising, affiliate conduct, platform responsibility, and the wider question of who should bear accountability when unlawful or harmful gambling content reaches consumers. The discussion will focus on practical regulatory boundaries, consumer protection, enforcement challenges, and the extent to which stronger standards for advertising, promotion, and digital gatekeepers can support safer, more credible, and more effectively regulated markets
14:30-15:-15
45 mins
Illegal-market enforcement varies widely across jurisdictions, shaped by differences in legal authority, market structure, intelligence capacity, payment controls, and public communication tools. This session will bring together case studies from Latin America, Africa, and Europe to highlight how different regulators are addressing disruption in practice, the constraints they face, and the strategies proving most effective. It will add geographic range to the agenda while setting up the deeper illegal-market discussions that follow
15:15-15:45
30 mins
15:45-16:45
45 mins
This comparative forum will shift the conversation from day-to-day regulation to the broader policy choices that shape gambling markets. Bringing together legislators or senior legislative staff from multiple regions, it will examine how governments are responding to illegal markets, sports integrity, consumer protection, advertising, tax policy, and market design, and where existing frameworks may require modernization. The discussion should offer a high-level, cross-jurisdictional perspective on how policymakers can balance growth, oversight, and public interest in a fast-changing global market.
18:00-19:30
An exclusive reception featuring panelists from the Gaming Policymakers Forum for IAGR members and sponsors.
08:30-09:15
45 mins
Illegal gambling operates as an ecosystem, sustained by affiliates, hosting, app stores, ISPs, payment providers, search, social acquisition, domain rotation, and weaknesses in cross-border coordination. This panel will examine how regulators can more effectively map, disrupt, and shrink that ecosystem by strengthening intelligence architecture, improving referrals and data sharing, and focusing greater attention on intermediary and supplier responsibility. It will also explore how technology can help identify illegal sites carrying content from licensed providers and how shared verification tools could make it easier for platforms and digital gatekeepers to distinguish licensed from unlicensed operators
09:15-10:00
45 mins
Government lottery organizations and gaming regulators often operate under different mandates, but many of today's challenges cut across those boundaries. Digital distribution, responsible gambling, product innovation, illegal market competition, advertising standards, data use, and public trust are increasingly relevant to both sectors. This session will examine shared risks, differing approaches, and practical opportunities for cooperation. Panelists will consider how lotteries and regulators can coordinate on consumer protection, intelligence sharing, emerging technologies, enforcement partn
10:00-10:30
30 mins
10:30-11:15
45 mins
As sports wagering markets expand and new event-based products gain traction, integrity risks are becoming more complex and more international. This session will examine how regulators, operators, integrity bodies, and sports organizations are responding to suspicious betting, match-fixing concerns, offshore activity, and the growing overlap between traditional sports betting and event-market products. It will focus on practical issues such as alert systems, data-sharing, escalation protocols, and cross-border coordination, with particular attention to the most pressing current challenges, including faster-moving betting signals, more fragmented product ecosystems, and the increasing need for coordinated responses across regulatory, sports, and lawenforcement stakeholders.
10:30-11:15
45 mins
As expectations around consumer protection continue to rise, regulators are under increasing pressure to distinguish between interventions that are well-intentioned and those that are genuinely effective. This session will examine how regulators can make more defensible policy choices by looking closely at what appears to produce measurable results, which protections can be expanded across different market settings without losing effectiveness, and what level of evidence should be expected before a player protection tool is adopted, refined, or retired. The discussion will focus on practical questions of evaluation, proportionality, and implementation, with the aim of helping regulators build safer gambling frameworks that are credible, evidence-led, and capable of improving outcomes.
11:15-12:00
45 mins
Latin America remains one of the most important regions in global gaming, with jurisdictions moving at different speeds on legalization, enforcement, market design, consumer protection, and public policy. This session will examine the most significant regulatory and market developments across key LATAM jurisdictions, compare the different models now taking shape, and draw practical lessons for regulators, policymakers, and industry stakeholders. It will also highlight IAGR's commitment to strengthening meaningful cross-border collaboration, including more workable approaches to overcoming language barriers that have too often limited regulatory exchange.
12:00-13:15
13:00-13:45
45 mins
For regulators building or reshaping markets with limited resources, the challenge is rarely whether to regulate, but how to do so in a way that is practical, proportionate, and sustainable. This session will examine how smaller and newer jurisdictions can sequence reforms, build supervisory capability, set clear early compliance expectations, and avoid over-engineered systems that impose burdens without delivering commensurate value. The discussion will focus on realistic implementation choices, institutional capacity, and lessons that can help emerging regulators establish credible frameworks without importing unnecessary complexity.
13:00-13:45
45 mins
As regulatory systems become more data-dependent, the quality of oversight increasingly depends on the quality and usefulness of the information regulators collect. This panel will examine how to build reporting frameworks that support real supervisory value by focusing on the data that matters most, reducing low-value reporting burdens, and creating structures that are clear, usable, and scalable. It will also explore how dashboards and related tools can help regulators improve triage, prioritization, and decision-making by turning reporting into more practical and timely regulatory intelligence.
13:00-13:45
45 mins
Periods of disruption often reveal more about regulatory systems than periods of stability. This panel will bring together candid reflections from investigations, remediation programs, market openings, structural reforms, and crisis management to examine what regulators learned under pressure, where existing systems held up, and where they did not. The discussion should move beyond polished success stories and focus on practical lessons, difficult judgments, and the changes speakers would make if facing the same circumstances again.
14:30-15:00
30 mins
15:00-16:00
60 mins
The IAGR Annual General Meeting will give members an opportunity to review the Association's recent progress and consider the next phase of its development. It will include updates on new initiatives, the results of collaborations intended to strengthen engagement and communication, and early outcomes from the Sponsorship and Affiliate Membership programs. It will also allow members to reflect on how these efforts are supporting IAGR's broader strategic direction and how the Association can continue to strengthen its relevance, visibility, and value to the international regulatory community.
18:00-19:00
19:00-22:00
09:00-9:45
45 mins
As gambling markets become more connected, the case for greater regulatory harmonization continues to grow, but the practical limits are just as important as the opportunities. This workshop will focus on where harmonization is realistic now and where it is likely to remain more aspirational. Using concrete examples such as self-exclusion principles, AML typologies, enforcement terminology, and data definitions, the session will examine which areas are most suitable for near-term cooperation and which require more gradual alignment. The aim is to identify practical steps that can improve consistency, reduce friction, and strengthen collaboration without losing sight of local policy choices and regulatory realities.
09:00-9:45
45 mins
Artificial intelligence is advancing quickly across gambling markets, and regulators are increasingly under pressure to decide where it can be used responsibly and where caution is still required. This session will focus on practical, regulator-led use cases for AI, including document review, anomaly detection, triage, translation, intelligence support, and governance. The discussion will emphasize realistic tools, credible safeguards, and operational value, while avoiding speculative claims and vendor futurism.
09:45-10:00
15 mins
10:00-10:45
45 mins
As gambling markets become more connected, regulators are increasingly looking for player-protection measures that can be adapted across jurisdictions without losing effectiveness. This session will examine how safer gambling messaging, layered interventions, self-exclusion standards, and targeted protections for young adults and other higher-risk cohorts can be applied in different regulatory settings. The discussion will focus on practical approaches that strengthen consumer protection, support more consistent regulatory outcomes, and help identify where greater alignment may be both realistic and useful.
10:00-11:00
60 mins
Open only to regulators and invited guests, this closed-door forum will focus on the operational aspects of sports-wagering integrity cooperation. The discussion will examine suspicious betting alerts, informationsharing protocols, event-contract and offshore-betting risks, relationships with leagues and governing bodies, and the thresholds for escalating concerns across jurisdictions. Chatham House Rule will apply to support a candid exchange on what is working, where coordination remains difficult, and how integrity systems can respond more effectively to fast-moving cross-border risks
11:00-11:30
30 mins
The conference will close with a strategic but practical discussion of the capabilities regulators will need over the next several years as markets become more connected, technology becomes more central to oversight, and risks move more quickly across jurisdictions. The session will examine intelligence-led enforcement, cross-border cooperation, technology-enabled supervision, cyber readiness, AML/CFT coordination, and sports wagering integrity, while also considering where IAGR can help drive greater consistency in the areas most suited to alignment. The aim is to end the conference with a forward-looking conversation grounded in real regulatory needs, institutional capacity, and practical next steps.
11:30-12:30
60 mins
The Annual Conference closes with lunch and a farewell address as IAGR welcomes its next President.