Aric Dromi is a highly respected keynote speaker, futurologist, geopolitical, environmental & social Strategist.  Aric spent years helping executives and decision makers to refine their offer and understand the potential impacts that lie along the road ahead. Aric’s strengths lie in his ability to identify patterns and challenge them, along with his ability to use this skill to define new directions and experiments that provide a pathway forward.

With a long career in choice architecture and systems design, innovation and futurology, Aric believes that our world is on the cusp of seismic changes that society, business and policymakers are not prepared for. He believes strongly in humanity’s ability to adapt and overcome, and thinks that technology has come to define, rather than serve us. He wants to change this equation, by working towards a more resilient societal model that enables a free market and a future for our children. Aric  does this by providing strategic advice to organisations and executives, policymakers, cities and governments.

His focus areas include: Automation and fast tracking, Privacy, integrity, surveillance and legislation, Social trends and economic models, Transformation, smarter innovation and monetization structures, Mobility, logistics, energy, communication and smarted data, The reciprocal relationships between policy, society and technology, The future of cities and urban structures, The next frontier of Intelligence amplification in the era of VR, AR and AI

Aric is the Founder and CEO of TEMPUS.MOUU GROUP breakthrough Advisory board as a Service platform.

Philippe Vlaemminck has a unique profile in the field of lotteries, betting & gambling, consisting of more than 40 years specialist experience and an in-depth knowledge of all gaming and gambling issues with its practice in EU law, competition & trade. He represented the Belgian government in almost all gambling cases at the Court of Justice of the EU and EFTA Court (around 70 cases). Finally, he is a visiting professor in EU Competition law at the University of Ghent.

Beata Guzik is Director EU Public Affairs at Vlaemminck. Law. She has been working on gambling questions (especially RG & CSRD/CSDD, legal aspects of lotteries, betting & gambling marketing and advertising, AML & digital policy matters & innovation) in the EU and in Africa. She does also work on issues related to the EU Green deal including the impact on lotteries, betting & gambling.

Paul Such is a Swiss cyber-security expert and the founder and director of Hacknowledge (Swiss Post)

HACKNOWLEDGE is a vendor-neutral cyber-security Swiss company delivering monitoring services and consulting.

Paul has been working in cyber-security for more than 20 years, in 2002 he founded SCRT, one of the first Swiss companies entirely dedicated to information security. He ran the company for 16 years before selling it. He created Insomni’hack, one the first cyber-security conference and ethical hacking contest in Switzerland. He also participates in the organization of Blackalps and other cybersecurity conferences.

Paul teaches in several universities and engineering schools : HEIG-VD, HES SO Sierre, University of Geneva and EPFL. He is also a board member of the Banque Cantonal de Fribourg and of a wealth and asset management software company: Evooq.

Paul holds a master degree in IT Security, he also holds several certifications related to IT Security or project management.

Simon is executive chairman and majority shareholder of Hippodrome Casino limited, the extensive leisure casino complex above Leicester Square tube station which opened in July 2012. The project started in 2005.

The investment of £45 million in the theatre building and adjacent Cranbourn Mansions, both Grade 2 listed heritage buildings, created one of the West End’s premier entertainment venues, 80,000 ft2 with three floors of casino, eight bars, an award winning steak house, two private dining rooms, a dedicated cabaret theatre, home of the famous ‘Magic Mike Live’ show, and a Pokerstars live poker deck, and adding shortly a Chinese restaurant, a café, with a secret bar to follow. It employs over 650 people, is one of the largest single-site employers in the area and entertains over 30,000 customers a week.

Laurent Lassiaz has been in the casino industry for 15 years.

He is currently the CEO of JOA a leading European casino & leisure Group operating 34 casinos on the French market and an online betting platform JOAbet.

Laurent Lassiaz is also the Vice President of “Casinos de France” the trade association of the French casino industry.

Before joining the gaming sector, Laurent have had several Management position in the leisure industry, Senior Vice President of Club Med for Europe-Middle East and Africa region, OPS General Manager at PepsiCo Restaurant International managing both Pizza Hut and KFC brands for the French market.

Petra de Ruiter joined Holland Casino as CEO on 1 September 2022. She held a series of commercial
and operational positions for 30 years at both Air France-KLM and Transavia. Her last executive
position was Chief Operations Officer at Transavia Airlines. Petra de Ruiter is member of the
Supervisory Board at GVB Amsterdam (public transport).

She has a master in Organization Science from the University of Amsterdam and a bachelor in
Marketing from Hotel School The Hague.

Petra is passionate about creating diverse teams who are able to deal with complexity and working
together towards integral goals.

Erwin van Lambaart joined Casinos Austria and Austrian Lotteries as CEO in March 2022. Erwin has a substantial experience in the media, hospitality, event, marketing and entertainment sectors. After graduating from the Hotel School in The Hague, he worked for 15 years in the international hotel industry. After this, he moved on to the global live entertainment world, where he worked for another 15 years.


Erwin van Lambaart held a series of top executive and board positions at Accor, Avis, Joop van den Ende Theatre Productions, Stage Entertainment International and Niehe Media.


In 2016, he took over as CEO of Holland Casinos NV, where he established himself as a proven casino and gaming expert. On 14 March 2022, Erwin van Lambaart moved to Austria and took up his position as CEO of Casinos Austria AG and Österreichische Lotterien GmbH.


Erwin van Lambaart’s career has always been marked by a keen focus on hospitality and conceptual development. In 2016, he was awarded a Knighthood in the Order of Orange Nassau for his services to the live entertainment industry and his efforts on behalf of numerous charitable organisations.


Erwin van Lambaart is a member of various supervisory boards and is much in demand as a speaker at conferences on subjects such as leadership, talent coaching and the use of cross media know-how, multichannel strategies and expertise across various business sectors.

Tiina Siltanen is a respected leader in the European land-based casino industry with over 20 years of experience. She currently manages Casino Helsinki and Casino Tampere, leading a team of 160 professionals. Siltanen is also a board member of the European Casino Association and is dedicated to promoting professionalism in the industry. She is a graduate of the Executive Development Program at UNLV Las Vegas.

Lucien Wijsman has been in the -international- Casino Industry for more than 30 years. Originally with Holland Casino, later with the German Gauselmann Group and since the late nineties as an independent consultant and trainer.

Known as the founder of The Slot Academy and The Slot Summit, Lucien has travelled the world (literally) training Casino Management in the Marketing aspects of Electronic Gaming Operations. His Training Program was recognized and accredited by UNR (University of Reno, Nevada), where Lucien served on the Management Board of the Gaming Management Series. Both The Slot Academy and The Slot Summit were acquired by Clarion, were it was transformed into the Totally Gaming Academy (which Clarion sadly closed down during Covid).

In addition to training and conferences Lucien has advised (and is still advising) many Casino Operators world-wide. Latin America, Caribbean Bassin, United States, Canada, various African countries, Russia and parts of Asia have seen his involvement in Casino pre-openings and/or Management advise.

Maris Catania is a gambling industry veteran, with more than fourteen years of game integrity and safer gambling experience. Prior to joining SG:certified as a Senior Safer Gaming Consultant, Maris was Head of Responsible Gaming and Research at Kindred.

At Kindred, Maris led its overall RG strategy, as well as several RG research projects and coordinated university and treatment centre collaborations. She was also instrumental in the concept of behavioural detection system at Kindred known as PS-EDS (Player Safety – Early Detection System) alongside Karim Chikh, who together later formed Integrity Analytics.

Maris is an instrumental player in the SG:certified team. She leads and develops up-to-date and effective content for SG:certified on safer gambling issues. In addition, she supports our clients with their safer gambling needs using the SG:certified platform.

Maris has a Diploma in Gambling Addiction Counselling and Psychology, Msc in Psychology and has a PhD focusing on consumer protection, markers of harm, and responsible gambling, at Nottingham Trent University under the guidance of the leading distinguished Professor Mark Griffiths.

She has also been awarded the Gambling Compliance Most Significant Contribution to Responsible Gambling Research for three consecutive years.

Ismail Vali is the inventor and founder of Yield Sec, where he leads a team of industry experts and marketplace intelligence specialists to deliver the world’s first effective platform to help monitor, police, enforce and optimize the licensed marketplace across online betting, gaming, and lottery activity. The Yield Sec mission has an anti-crime focus upon removing black-market threats to revenue, taxation, and consumer protection, working alongside all legal stakeholders to benefit the ecosystem overall. Yield Sec’s technical intelligence platform is becoming an essential tool for operators, suppliers, trade associations, regulators, government, media and ad platforms, law enforcement and other legal actors.

Ismail’s background is in product development, marketing, and operations, fuelled by commercial discipline, creative ideas, a curiosity for what makes players play, and dissatisfaction with the status quo. Throughout his professional experience, Ismail has achieved commercial and creative success in both consulting and senior management roles. These include working as Head of Development for leading operator Ladbrokes, and as Chief Marketing Officer for ParadisePoker, SportingBet and PokerStars, each of which Ismail directed to international success with the teams and initiatives he implemented during his leadership.

Ismail’s focus on tackling the insidious impact of crime is bolstered by his educational background, having graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford University with a BA and MA in Law. This detailed academic legal background, along with numerous C-level operator positions in industry, led to the invention and founding of a unique solution to restrict and remove the harm caused by what has long been an endemic online industry problem: crime and its impact upon commerce, consumers, and the community.

Anton Severin serves as Director, Research at the American Gaming Association (AGA) that represents the $261 billion U.S. casino industry. In this role, he oversees AGA research efforts in support of member companies’ strategic objectives, managing research initiatives covering the full spectrum of issues affecting the gaming industry, including responsible gaming, public perceptions, diversity and inclusion, economic impact, sports betting, and more.

Since joining the AGA in late 2018, Anton has spearheaded the creation of the Commercial Gaming Revenue Tracker, a long-term industry data tracking tool, to position the AGA as a central hub for industry data and insights.

Previously, Anton worked at Stockholm-based communications firm Gullers Grupp where he helped clients navigate policy and communications challenges related to the re-regulation of the Swedish gaming market.

Originally from Sweden, Anton holds a degree in Political Science from Uppsala University. He currently resides in Washington, D.C. with his wife and son.

Nancy Rademaker is one of the very few female international keynote speakers to cover the impact of digitization on customer and employee behaviour. She has over 20 years of experience in IT. She likes to focus on how technology influences people’s behaviour, and how it helps them to share knowledge and to create and innovate.

As a highly rated and motivating international business speaker, Nancy has energized corporate events with bold presentations on the topics of digital transformation, extreme customer centricity, employee experience, disruption, Artificial Intelligence, and leadership.

She travels the world taking business leaders to innovation hubs like Silicon Valley and China, using that first-hand inspiration to keep the keynote content and examples on the cutting edge of the latest technologies, developments, and disruptive new business models.

Nancy is also an entrepreneur; she is a senior partner with the Speakers Club and co-founder of a startup, Drawify.com.