SiGMA Central Europe, in Rome, officially begins this Tuesday (4), with a wide program and a structure of more than 100 thousand square meters at Fiera Roma. The event on Italian soil extends until Thursday (6).
One of the main highlights of the first day is the panel dedicated to the Brazilian market. Titled “Battle for Control: Who Rules Brazil’s Billion-Dollar Market?”, the debate will bring together Tamas Kusztos (CCO of Playson), Alexandre Tomic (founder of Alea), Stepan Dobrovolskiy (CEO of BetBoom LATAM), Plínio Lemos Jorge (president of the National Association of Games and Lotteries of Brazil) and Pavel Dergachev (co-founder of 4H Agency).
Another highlight of this Tuesday is the SiGMA Awards B2C ceremony, which celebrates the big names and brands in the industry.
Thus, the organizers expect to receive more than 30,000 participants over the three days of SiGMA Central Europe, promoting intense networking among professionals from various parts of the world.
What is the schedule for this Tuesday (4) at SiGMA Central Europe?
Regulatory Briefing Stage
- Panel – License to Launch: Winning Strategies for Entering Regulated Markets with Quirino Mancini, Ray Lee, Dario Evangelista, Marcus Hanna, and Revaz Chkuaseli
- Panel – Media, Technology and Gaming: Inside the New Wave of Mergers and Acquisitions with Andrea Marchetti, Demos Katsis, Luís Poterla de Carvalho and Dmity Belianin
- Panel: The role of industry in the regulatory debate with Cosmina Maria Simion, Charles Mizzi, Geanina Oprita, Simon Planzer and Patricia Lalanda Ordonez
- Official opening ceremony with Roberta Metsola (President of the European Parliament), Eman Pulis (founder of the SiGMA Group), Antonio Tajani (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy)
- Panel – Regulation of the Gaming Sector in North America in Focus: Legal and Cross-Border Perspectives with Robert Zammit, David Hay, Ron Segev, and Roberto Graf
- Lecture – Tailor-Made for Tomorrow: The AI Revolution in iGaming with Leonid Kirakosyan
- Panel – Voices of Authority: Inside the European Regulatory Roundtable with Maarten Haijer, Janis Ungurs, Alexsandar Popov, Antonio Giuliani and Panagiotis Trisokkas
- Panel – Battle for Control: Who Rules Brazil’s Billion-Dollar Market? with Tomas Kusztos, Alexandre Tomic, Plínios Lemos Jorge, Pavel Dergachev, and Stepan Dobrovolskiy
- Panel: The Great Reform of Games in Italy – Where Are We? with Geronimo Cardia, Moreno Marasmo, Emilio Zamparelli, Francesco Gatti, Giuseppe Volpe and Andrea de Bertoldi
Affiliate Leaders Stage
- Announcement: Welcome to SiGMA Europe in Rome! With Mark Anthony Borg
- Lecture – Why Online Casinos Close: Insights into Revenue Losses and Data with John Wright
- Lecture: The Future at Stake: A Data-Driven Perspective on Gaming and iGaming Apps in 2025 with Mariusz Gasiewski
- Panel – SEO and the AI Revolution in iGaming with Mark Martin, Sean Bianco, Kurt Rapinett, John Wright, and Staffan Engstrom
Stage 3: Affiliate Leaders
- Panel: Media Power: PR, the Press, and the Engines Behind the Headlines with Liga Tarasova, Joe Mab, Shirley Xerxen, and Giampiero Moncada
- Panel: The Battle for Results: Does Product or Marketing Drive Growth? with Armin Aganovic, Josefin Uppeke, Pavel Dergachev, Andrew Sudakov, and Yaroslav Soloshenko
People, Partners & PerformanceStage
- Panel: Culture Begins at the Top: When Leadership is the Risk Factor with Cordelia Cooper, Danylo Diachenko, Rosi Bremec, Alastair Cleland, and Cindy Macintos
- Lecture: Well-being at Work: The True Transformer of Corporate Culture with Alexandre Tomic
- Panel: The Pioneers of Online Gaming with Jillian Dingwall, Flaviano Fogli, Ian Sherrington, and Stephen Crystal
- Panel: The Spirit of iGaming in a Regulated World with Jilian Dingwall, Simon Westbury, Jessica Maier, and Wojciech Trzaska
AIBC Stage
- Panel: Crypto, Games and AML: Beyond MICA with Torben Friis, Sofia Cucciniello, Joseph Borg, Lara Barbuto, Giuseppe Marino
- Panel: From SWIFT to Stablecoins: Reinventing Cross-Border Payments with Nathalie Oestmann, Dmity Lazarichev, Mark Berkovich, Xavier Gomez, and Meryem Habibi
- Panel: Payment Strategy and Its Importance for Operator Growth with Julian Goffin, Bob Reid, Karolis Dula, Gil Tal, and Laia Mena.
- Panel: Navigating Scalability: Optimizing Crypto Payment Platforms for High-Volume Gaming Transactions with Torben Friis, Alex Konewko, Fiorentina D’Amore, Ana Schulz, and Christopher Wilson
Stage 4 – Frontier Tech & Payment Expert
- Panel – Innovated Italy: Redefining Possibilities through the Digital Renaissance with Emanuele Canegrati, Renato Loiero, Emilio Colombo and Stefano Menghinello
- Panel: New Rules in Online iGaming in Italy with Innovation in Payments with Francesco Crudo, Antonio Giuliani, Marco Zechini and Israel Rosenthal
SiGMA Awards B2C