Conventions

The Global Gaming Expo (G2E) 2011 took place at the Sands Convention and Expo Center Oct. 4-7, 2011.

G2E is the world’s premier casino-entertainment event and several thousand exhibitors and attendees participate in the event each year. The conference program with cutting-edge conference sessions led by leading-edge industry experts covers topics such as Casino Design; Compliance, Law & Regulation; Finance; Gaming Technology; Global Markets Forum; Human Resources; Indian Gaming; Marketing & Players’ Clubs; NCRG at G2E; and Retail, Dining & Entertainment.

The exhibition features hundreds of casino companies featuring their latest machines and table games as well as exhibitors from food and beverage and entertainment.

Oct. 25-27, 2011. Consumer choice in video options has grown to include multiple pay-TV options, time shifting, video on demand, internet and mobile video.  This means the competitive picture for telecom service providers has become much more complex. Yet video continues to be the cornerstone of a multiservice entertainment bundle.  TelcoTV 2011 provided a forum for frank discussion of these challenges and the current video services market. Among the topics explored were: Among the topics to be explored are: Exploring cost-effective content acquisition strategies, Adding information services/widgets to your video service and The role of home networking and customer support as a commercial play.  It’s all coming to a flat screen near you.

Sept. 6-9, 2011: Photoshop World was the ultimate  convention  for both amateur and professional photographers. The  convention featured three days of more than 100 photoshop, photography, printing, special effects, retouching and lighting. Instructors included well-known photographers such as Jeremy Cowart, Jay Maisel, Joel Grimes, Cliff Mautner, Helene Glassman and Fay Sirkis. The free  Photoshop World Expo provided a place for  photographers of all levels to mingle and check out the coolest new technology, gadgets and services available.

If you were on a TV quiz show and had to say what NACHA was, you’d guess perhaps a Russian exotic dancer? Or maybe the Miss Tex-Mex Snackfood Queen? How wrong you would be. NACHA is about Payments, and is in fact the Electronic Payments Association. The folks you’d be rubbing up against at the show would be Payments Executives, Officers, Managers, Consultants, Analysts, AAPs, CTPs, and professionals with responsibilities in things like fraud detection, risk management, payment processing, treasury and cash management, card services and the like. What would a NACHA hot topic look like? Well, “From payments convergence and next-generation solutions to P2P and alternative payments” was the topic that was on everyone’s lips, driving industry dialogue. Plus of course “Corporate Account Takeover – Impacts, Detection & Prevention”. And no, sorry, we do not cash personal checks…