In an interview with CDC Gaming at Thursday’s conference, Alan Feldman, director of Strategic Initiatives and distinguished fellow for Responsible Gaming at the UNLV International Gaming Institute, said the deal has the opportunity to be “extraordinarily beneficial” to both companies and all the markets that they serve.

The land-based casino industry has fallen behind when it comes to using artificial intelligence, but the potential is there to transform gaming and the guest experience.
 

Speaking Tuesday at the 19th Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking at Bellagio in Las Vegas, Titus, co-chair of the Congressional Gaming Caucus, said the gaming industry can no longer remain passive as new betting products and technologies expand. The University of Nevada Las Vegas' International Gaming Institute hosts the conference every three years, bringing together more than 500 researchers, regulators, academics, professional gamblers, and industry participants from more than 25 countries.

The ICE Research Institute (IRI) is fulfilling its founding mission - to promote debate, raise industry standards, inform policy and leave a lasting legacy - with two of its funded academic studies presented to international researchers, regulators and industry leaders at the 19th International Conference on Gambling & Risk, held at the Bellagio Resort and Casino, Las Vegas (May 26-28).

Christopher Ingrassia, a mathematics and computer science professor at Kingsborough Community College in New York, told attendees at the Conference on Gambling and Risk Taking at Bellagio that recreational gamblers may actually improve their chances by playing higher limit games that offer better odds rather than lower stakes tables with more unfavorable rules. The conference, organized by the UNLV International Gaming Institute, gathered more than 500 researchers, gaming executives, and academics from 25 countries to discuss trends shaping the gambling industry.

Titus made her remarks Tuesday on the opening day of the 19th Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking held at Bellagio in Las Vegas. The conference hosted by the University of Nevada Las Vegas International Gaming Institute is held every three years and brings together more than 500 researchers, academics, regulators, professional gamblers, and others in the gaming industry from more than 25 countries to discuss wide-ranging topics in gambling studies.

A New York mathematics and computer science professor says players should make the higher wagers because they have a better chance of winning over the long haul. Christopher Ingrassia, a professor at Kingsborough Community College was one of the first-day presenters at UNLV’s three-day Conference on Gambling and Risk Taking at Bellagio.

In conversations with friends and acquaintances, has the topic of AI ever elicited an “it’s scary” response? It is a feeling expressed with ever-increasing frequency given the technological phenomenon of Artificial Intelligence is holding the world spellbound because the multitudes quite simply do not understand it or its impact.

Brett Abarbanel never realized just how important gambling would become in her life. She always knew she was going to someday become a professor of gambling — she just didn’t know how that was going to happen.

Brett Abarbanel never realized just how important gambling would become in her life. She always knew she was going to someday become a professor of gambling — she just didn’t know how that was going to happen.

Brett Abarbanel never realized just how important gambling would become in her life. She always knew she was going to someday become a professor of gambling — she just didn’t know how that was going to happen.

The 19th International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking set for this month has added new keynote and panel presentations spanning sports betting, artificial intelligence, regulatory oversight and risk in the entertainment industry.