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  • Conference Whispers: G2E 2025

    Conference Whispers: G2E 2025

    Conference Whispers: G2E 2025

    Las Vegas, NV October 6- October 9

    Published to clients: October 10, 2025                    ID: TBW2105

    Published to readers: October 11, 2025 am                      

    Published to Email Whispers: October 11, 2025

    Public with video edition: October 12, 2025

    Analyst(s): Dr. Doreen Galli

    Photojournalist(s): Dr. Doreen Galli

    Abstract:

    “Global Gaming Expo (G2E) 2025 brought nearly 25,000 attendees to Las Vegas for a high-energy showcase of gaming innovation, regulatory tech, and casino infrastructure. TBW Advisors captured over 75 minutes of video across 81 segments, including two livestreams and a full expo hall walkthrough. Our coverage focused on the technologies shaping the future of gaming—from multilingual communication and fraud prevention to cash automation and iGaming compliance. This edition includes four unlisted Whisper Report playlists and concludes with a video montage answering: “What’s the best part about attending G2E live in Vegas?”

    The Conference

    • Nearly 25,000 attendees gathered at the Sand’s Convention Center in Las Vegas. Every aspect of gaming was included while we focused on the technology.
    • Technologies seen include anti-fraud, anti-money laundering (AML), language translation, casino management, player engagement, data center and server technology, cybersecurity, cyber + Physical security, identity, access management

    Cautions

    • Friendly reminder: this research provides examples of what was shared with us at the event, not an evaluation, validation, or recommendation of the given technology.

    Conference Vibe

    After 15,000 steps, 81 videos, and over 75 minutes of video including 2 livestreams and over 20 fact checks, our coverage of Global Gaming Expo better known as G2E 2025 closes. Registration moved quickly as the nearly 25,000 attendees waited for expo hall to open! While we did not get clearance in writing to record any sessions or keynotes, we were able to get permission to capture Expo Hall. In fact, our favorite quote of the event described expo hall as having ‘some incredibly impressive booths’. See for yourself as you enjoy our walkabout. The usual Venetian eateries were available including the café, the food marketplace and the bistro!

    We once again live streamed from on site. On Tuesday requesting those attending to find me to answer Questions 1-3, and Wednesday to let you know about upcoming events we have scheduled and to introduce all to TBW Advisors LLC, and requesting assistance. Specifically, I requested assistance on your favorite videos for my segment on the October 10th broadcast edition of Computer Talk Radio.

    While at G2E 2025, we conducted research for three additional forthcoming Whisper Reports for our clients. The playlists are unlisted but available and will eventually fill in with the video version of the report so you may wish to bookmark these playlists.

    1. Whisper Report: What’s the next gaming tech that will change how we play?
    2. Whisper Report: What’s one casino innovation you wish existed today?
    3. Whisper Report: What’s the biggest risk in iGaming no one’s talking about? And a bonus report,
    4. Whisper Report: What’s the best part about attending G2E live in Vegas?

    Readers and viewers wishing to experience the entire event are encouraged to view the Conference Whispers: G2E 2025 Playlist in its entirety. The playlist will be sited in the end screen, description, and as a pinned comment of the video edition.

    The video edition will conclude with a montage of responses to Question 4 — “What’s the best part about attending G2E live in Vegas?” — capturing the energy and moments that made the event unforgettable.

    Exhibits

    Our favorite quote of the event was, “there are some impressive booths in Expo Hall”. From designers showing how your high roller room should really look to chairs for patrons, uniforms for staff, lawyers and accountants specializing in the Gaming ecosystem —  everyone was there. At TBW Advisors LLC we of course focused on the technology that tells the story. Commencing with agilysis, they have a solution that can run the entire resort including scheduling and handling advanced amenity types from golfing to spas. Prefer to focus on gaming data organization? CCT is ready to jump in and partner. They organization all your data from casino operations; from the cage through revenue audit.

    If you want to make sure everyone working at the resort can communicate reliable across any language barrier, Relay should be on your evaluation list. Relay offers a software cloud-based solutions that enables capabilities not normally available in traditional telecommunication solutions. If you would like to clean up the air in the casino, QleanAir’s smoke free cabin demonstrated their technologies capabilities.

    Physical Casinos mean physical payments. Those physical payments may mean your client may have to get up to go to the ATM or counter if their players card runs out. Pavillion Payments would like you to know – this inconvenience is no longer required. Introducing Apple Pay at the machine by Pavillion Payments. If your challenge is in counting the cash that comes into the casino, JCM has a solution including multiple Six-Axis Robots – enjoy the demo! If you would prefer to leverage the same cash counting technology the Federal Reserve in the US leverages, then Giesecke + Devrient were in expo hall ready to show you their highly trusted solution.

    Physical Casinos not only must count but secure the cash, chips, and machines. Regulations require very strict key and asset management. Fortunately, companies such as Traka were in expo hall to share their solution which not only manages keys but ensures compliance. Those seeking additional information on physical cyber security are directed to our ISC West Coverage. Druvstar provides cybersecurity and data security for your gaming needs solution created by actual former CIOs and CTOs in the gaming industry. Those seeking additional information on cybersecurity are directed toward our coverage of Black Hat. Speaking of data, Seon leverages over 909 first party data sources to help you stop fraud. Clients may recall when we first covered Seon during our coverage of Fintech Meetup 2024.

    iGaming regulations frequently require one to keep the data in country to be compliant. If your expansion plans are hindered by finding data centers in remote locations, Continent 8 Technologies should be on your radar. Trying to maintain compliance in all those exotic iGaming locations? eCOGRA operates anywhere in the world iGaming is allowed – over 50 territories. If however, you are seeking durable, rugged hardware that can be custom created to your needs, Radeus labs was in expo hall looking to meet you. For anyone seeking to understand the ‘why’ behind a player’s actions, fullstory has a solution for you. But if maintaining a player’s engagement during play within the app and you don’t want to build out a new team. Perhaps you are seeking player engagement out of the box? Plotline has an intelligent tool ready for you to leverage. Seeking a platform to build and entire game? Want that game to be equally available for iGaming as it is on land for Casinos? Perhaps with the same exact play as well? Then incisor brought the exact development platform you have been seeking to G2E this year!

    Next Year’s Conference  

    Global Gaming Expo 2026 will once again return to Las Vegas and will be held at Sands’ Convention center at the Venetian on September 28 through October 1, 2026. G2E also shared that G2E 2027 will be held September 27 September 30 with G2E 2028 being held October 9-12.

    Related playlists and Publication

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    *When vendors’ names are shared as examples in this document, it is to provide a concrete example of what was on display at the conference, not an evaluation or recommendation. Evaluation and recommendation of these vendors are beyond the scope of this specific research document. Other examples products in the same category may have also been on display.

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  • Conference Whispers: Fintech Meet Up US 2024

    Conference Whispers: Fintech Meet Up US 2024

    Analyst: Dr. Doreen Galli

    Photojournalist: Dr. Doreen Galli

    ABSTRACT

    Fintech Meetup 2024 allowed over 4,000 attendees to not only meet up, but see an extensive collection of exhibitors and extended formal interviews as keynotes. Attendees and exhibitors agree the word that best described the event was “different”. The conference featured technologies that are specific to Fintech, those that benefit regulated industries such as fintech and healthcare and interesting technologies for enterprises including those in Fintech and in general.

    The Conference

    • Fintech MeetUp 2024 was held in Las Vegas, Nevada and had just over 4,000 registered attendees, with large collection of exhibiting companies.
    • Attendees at CES 2024 hold titles such as CEO, Founder, Investor, VP, Director, Chief Marketing Officer, VP of Engineering, VP of Product Development, data scientists, Chief Risk Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, and lead engineer.  

    Highlights

    • Fintech Meetup would have to be the meetups that resulted from the preparation for the event and neat matching technology in the background.

    Cautions

    • It is critical you keep up to date with the deadlines as the Meetup approaches to get the maximum networking from the MeetUp.
    •  Its  much bigger than you would think by the name.

    Conference Vibe

    As a Meetup I had no idea what to expect as I approached the entrance. The informal font on the conference title makes it seem quite small. In reality, there were over 4,000 people there and the meeting space was literally buzzing! Did the conference meet our expectations? Well it was larger than thought but managed to maintain the quaintness you would expect from the name. I really do think everyone was so much friendlier than I ever experienced at a conference as observed in the walkabouts! There was food galore albeit I heard a lot about the heavy curry on Monday’s lunch!

    In Depth Sessions

    Much to our surprise there were in fact keynotes sessions. Unlike most conferences, all keynotes were interviews. TBW Advisors LLC was able to catch a few of these. Specifically, Kevin O’Leary on behalf of Beanstalk*. Interestingly, Kevin has a few quotable moments. He reported he only gives start-ups 3 years to make it. He also stated that Shark Tank investments are expected to recoup their investment within 48 hours of airing on television. Finally, he also will not invest in a company that cannot handle its own social media!

    Attendees were also treated to an in depth interview of Angela Strong, a long-time venture capitalist. Angela was decidedly giddy about the quality of the current group of start-up entrepreneurs. She further delved into the depth of their experience on the exact niche of a problem they are solving.

    MasterCard’s CTO, Ed McLaughlin also provided an in-depth interview to attendees. His advice is to not push new technology aside just because you have something that can do something the new technology can do. Rather, he strongly urged all to explore what the new technology can do that other technology cannot – for that is where the magic of innovation will occur. Max Neukirchen from JP Morgan also shared the passion his organization has for innovation.  

    Purely Fintech Plays

    For banks seeking mobile image capture, UrbanFT was there to meet your needs. Likewise if you are trying internally to get data from such captures, a new startup Docsumo was there trying to get your attention. If you bank is attempting to stop fraud from skimmers, Aries Anti-fraud solution with separate numbers on the front and back of cards caught a lot of attention! If however, your organization is seeking ultimate personalization based on user data, Finalytica.ai offered an option. If your bank is in a state with legal Cannabis industry, Shieldbanking’s solution offers a method to meet AML compliance requirements.

    Preventing risk, as well as the identification and removal of fraud is quite critical for those in financial services. To that end, Engima offers the ability to evaluate SMB credit decisions based on transaction history data. Seon monitors digital signals to prevent fraud. While Op-insights is offering an AI copilot for all your compliance neds. Oscilar.ai was present sharing their risk decisioning solution for financial services. In particular, they touted their purported strength in interacting with 3rd party data to offer a customer 360. Likewise, Datavisor offers end-to-end data orchestration fraud and compliance tool with full reporting and regulatory filing. What was interesting about Datavisor is that it provides a generative AI solution co-pilot to its customers; therefore, removing the need for custom services. If your organization sought a solution to monitor transactions to identify fraud, Unit21 was the booth for you.

    One key to success in Fintech is successful integration. To that end, Rutter API shared their unified API. Likewise, IgniteConnect offers many prebuilt connections for Fintech in their solution that offers data and application integration.

    Interesting Technology in General

    As you might expect some tech was not specific to Fintech but applied to regulated industries in general. For example, Skyflow offers data privacy for regulated industries and is equally at home in healthcare. While not unusual for VCs to require this tech of their investments, Zeni provides accounting and bookings for startups regardless of what sector they serve with their customers.

    There were two interesting vendors that leveraged behavioral science. Symend leverages customer behavior to increase sales as well as detect fraud. For example, some customers cannot resist a FOMO type of advertisement while others never respond. Likewise. NeuroID leverages typing patterns and copy and paste detection to identify fraud. As you might guess, most people don’t have to copy and paste their own addresses into fields, but cyber criminals do.

    If you would like to regularly verify the email used to sign up is not belonging to a crime ring or fraudster, Atdata might be someone to look into. Eltropy was on display with their unified conversation platform spanning voice, text and email.

    Call centers are a popular topic in Fintech. To that end, Datamatics was present with their capability to depoy as many generative AI agents as you need. Likewise, Versa.ai that specializes in conversational AI for call centers was on hand. Finally, if your product has APIs but not a developer kit and you need one to truly enable your business to take off – then check out Speakeasy.

    Next Year’s Conference

    Next year’s event will be March 10-13, 2025 in Las Vegas.

    *When vendors’ names are shared as examples in this document, it is to provide a concrete example of what was on display at the conference, not an evaluation or recommendation. Evaluation and recommendation of these vendors are beyond the scope of this specific research document. Other examples products in the same category may have also been on display.

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